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Weekly Review 23/12/2017
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Dec 24, 2017
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 23 December 2017, Diggers and G James Cups, 600yards
Another hot humid day, but this time mixed with a very confusing breeze which caused the directional flags to point rigidly then flop about the poles at various times through the day. Early shooters had a strong breeze to contend with coming in from the north west and varying in intensity but variation became the byword as direction and strength changed greatly through the rest if the day even to the point of swinging around from the east for a brief time.
Apart from Nick Cock, nobody looked like achieving the possible in the first stage as points were lost from the earliest shots as shooters stumbled into the difficult conditions. As evidence of the difficulty there was a dearth of centre bull’s eyes in target rifle but Grahame Willis made a mockery of that by amassing 8 super centres, only one short of the combined F class total.
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Weekly Review 16/12/2017
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Dec 17, 2017
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 16 December 2017, Diggers and G James Cups, 500yards
Heat and humidity were the major enemies of shooters as they tackled the 500 yard range on Saturday. A light breeze started in the north-north west moving along the whole 180 degrees of the western boundary from north to south, at times even jumping across the range to come in from the south east.
It was the usual culprits who showed up the rest of the contingent as Geoff Willis laid down a big double possible 120.12 in F class and Nick Cock just missed his double possible with a 99.12 in target rifle. Both performances were exceptional and underlined their national team status.
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Weekly Review 25/11/2017
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Nov 26, 2017
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 25 November 2017, Diggers and G James Cups, 500yards
Saturdays’ shoot was held in very light winds, predominantly from the south east, and fishtailing slightly, but heat was the major enemy with the strong sun combined with a high humidity draining shooters as the day progressed.
There were a couple of good performances with Graeme Bright putting his poor ACT Queens performance behind him with a solid 100.10 double possible. Nick Cock pulled an inner four at 5 o’clock to miss his double but he matched Brights’ 10 centre bull’s eyes. Ron Gibson seemed to have it all together in his first stage 48.05 but regressed a little with his second stage 46.02.
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Weekly Review 11/11/2017
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Nov 12, 2017
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 11 November 2017, Diggers and G James Cups, 300yards
The first Club competition shoot on electronic targets took place on Saturday with the first of six ranges of the Diggers and G James cups. The weather was kind with a gentle forward fishtail breeze which did just enough to keep shooters on their toes. Following on from his giant killing exploits of last season Colin Howell left the very talented F class group in his wake. Howell shot the only possible of the day, in either grade, a 60.5 second stage possible.
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Weekly Review 22/10/2017
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Oct 23, 2017
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 22nd October 2017, Annual Open Prize Meeting.
A new era for rifle shooting on Mount Panorama was born on Sunday with the first full electronic target competition held at the Bathurst Rifle Range. The Club was very grateful to David Waters from Katoomba Rifle Club for supplying and managing additional targets to allow a full gallery of six Silver Mountain Targets for the two days of shooting. The results were brilliant with the shoot completed inside seven hours without a problem and the 51 shooters left only to enjoy or lament their success or failure with natures forces the only influence on their efforts.
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