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Weekly Review 02/03/2019
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Mar 03, 2019
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 2nd March 2019. 900yds. J. Wilde Memorial Trophy & K. Redding 8/900yds.
Saturday saw the final round and completion of both these trophy competitions. At the start of the days shooting the flags showed little of the trouble that was to hamper shooters hoping to get in a good score at our longest range. The heat was back again for the afternoon although at times it felt a little humid while wondering if there may be some rain. The flags were seen to change from westerly to easterly and then back again but unfortunately they did not show what the accompanying mirage was doing. Shortly after competition started, one by one the shooters had their turn at trying to make sense of the quickly turning mirage that seemed to have strength beyond its appearance.
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Weekly Review 23/02/2019
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Feb 24, 2019
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 23rd February 2019. 800yds. J. Wilde Memorial Trophy & K. Redding 8/900yds.
Bathurst Rifle Club conducted the second round of the J. Wilde Memorial Trophy and the first stage of the K. Redding over 800/900 yards last Saturday. There was some relief from the hot sun but from before the start of shooting the wind was showing moderate strength mostly from the east to south easterly direction with gusting. This is not the preferred direction as the wind swirls down over the treetops on the east of the range. The drops in strength or sudden change in direction were to be hard to keep up with throughout the afternoon with only brief periods of steadiness to the condition.
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Weekly Review 16/02/2019
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Feb 18, 2019
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc, 16th February 2019, J.Wilde Memorial Trophy, 700yards.
Bathurst Rifle Club commenced the J.Wilde Memorial Trophy last Saturday from 700yds in what appeared to be quite benign conditions. However on closer inspection, the light wind resulted in a heavy mirage regularly switching either side of wind zero and at times showing against the direction of the flags. There would be very little improvement in club championship scores happening in these conditions.
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Weekly Review 09/02/2019
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Feb 11, 2019
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc, 9th February 2019, Hon. R L Gilmour Cup, 600yards.
We missed the rain on Saturday but not the wind. A gusty westerly which swung intermittently in the arc from south-west to north-west raked the open range and created a little havoc with sudden drop-offs catching everyone off guard.
The scores were not disastrous but most were not keepers in terms of the Club Championship. Ben Wright was one who improved his Championship status and in doing so took out the Cock of the Walk in the F-class division relegating the last weeks Festival of Sydney winners to yesterdays heroes.
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Bathurst Quinella at FoS 2019
Posted in General Shooting News on Jan 27, 2019
News just in. Festival of Sydney, Sunday 27th January 2019.
The Bathurst Rifle Club pair of Jeff Eppleston and Geoff Willis have quinella’d the FTR division of the Festival of Sydney (FOS) in spectacular fashion finishing just one point and 3 super bulls eyes apart in the 10 match competition. Both were very consistent finishing first or second in almost every match, Eppleston compiling 464.34/480 just ahead of Willis who scored 463.31
The pair continue a brilliant 4 years of competitions where they have won several Queens Prize competitions between them at various State Championships, represented Australia Internationally in Canada, New Zealand and within Australia, and represented the local Blue Mountains District Rifle Association in winning State teams matches.
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