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Weekly Review 07/03/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Mar 09, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 7th March 2020, 300yds. W Cutler Cup
Saturday saw shooters return to the 300 yard range for the start of the W Cutler Cup competition held over three Saturday afternoons from 300, 500 and 600 yards. A mostly overcast day helped make for a good day to be outdoors with just a light south easterly breeze fluctuating during the afternoon.
Graeme Bright used the good conditions to advantage dropping only one point at each stage to take the days honours in Target Rifle class leading Steve Williams by five points.
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Weekly Review 22/02/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Feb 24, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 22nd February 2020, 800 & 900yds. J Wilde Memorial Trophy & K Redding Trophy
With the need to shoot two rounds of competition on the one day club members had an early start Saturday morning for the second round of the J Wilde Memorial Trophy and the first round of the K Redding Trophy with the last round of each to be held at 900 yards after a break for lunch. Good cloud cover made for a pleasant day out and the sometimes steady south to south easterly breeze allowed most shooters the opportunity to score well throughout the day with the occasional swing from the south to catch those not watching the conditions.
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Weekly Review 15/02/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Feb 16, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 15th February 2020, 700yds. J Wilde Memorial Trophy.
Saturday saw the first round of the J Wilde Memorial Trophy held over 700 yards in reasonably hot weather that was occasionally relieved by passing clouds. Two electronic targets were set up for the shooters present who had to contend with a brisk westerly breeze that was to continually fluctuate in strength from approximately five to fifteen kph during the afternoon at times swinging to come from the south east briefly then slowly back again from the west.
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Weekly Review 08/02/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Feb 09, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 8th February 2020, 600yds. Gilmour Cup.
The final round of the Gilmour Cup competition from 600 yards was held on Saturday with overcast and cooler weather. Variable easterly winds at up to 20 kph kept shooters entertained and occasionally eased until bringing a storm through later in the afternoon that halted shooting briefly before clearing again.
It was a close contest amongst the top three of the Target Rifle shooters present with Graeme Bright keeping ahead of Gordon Shepherd by only two centre bulls for the day’s top honours after Shepherd started well with just one point lost in his first stage. Steve Williams finished next only one point further down but managed the best centre bull count for the day to be six points ahead of Ron Gibson who had a slow start to his second stage score.
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Weekly Review 25/01/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jan 28, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 25th. January 2020, 500yds. Gilmour Cup.
Saturday’s second round of the Gilmour Cup competition from 500 yards started with a brief delay due to rain then saw light but inconsistent and switching winds during most of the afternoon to again hamper shooters chances of an exceptional score although there were some short periods of lull that may have been capitalised on before the last few to shoot were treated to strong winds as the clouds rolled back in.
Of the Target Rifle shooters Ron Gibson had a consistent day dropping three points in each stage to be six points down for the day and take the honours over Dennis Lavelle who started off with a high group and low score for his first stage but managed to keep all but one in the middle for his second stage to finish one point behind.
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