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Weekly Review 30/07/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jul 31, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 30th July 2016 W & J Brown Shield, 700yards
One would be forgiven for believing there were two separate events being held on the Bathurst Rifle Range on Saturday afternoon, each with entirely different weather conditions. Such was the disparity between Nick Cock and the rest of the competitors even some unseen lull in conditions could not explain the dominance Cock held over the rest of the field.
With little breeze, a slight mirage and bright sunny skies conditions were ripe for the picking. But it was the conditions that did the picking as competitor after competitor threw inner fours, magpies threes and outer twos at the target. To compound matters there was even a hit on the wrong target.
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Weekly Review 23/07/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jul 24, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 23rd July 2016 J Sibera Trophy, 600yards
Shooters approached Saturdays’ 600 yard J Sibera Trophy shoot with some trepidation based on Friday night’s evil weather. The strong winds continued for most of Saturday afternoon and resulted in below average scores as the wind gusts caused the directional flags to dance wildly on the flag poles.
Nobody had mastery over the conditions until the final two shooters of the day experienced a slight lull in the wind. Some even shot in rain squalls as drenching drizzle swept across the range on several occasions. The sun ducked in and out of the clouds making changes in light conditions a further challenge.
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Weekly Review 16/07/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jul 17, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 16th July 2016 J Sibera Trophy, 500yards
Saturday saw the return of the prodigals with almost all of the club’s best lining up for a crack at the 500 yard range. The weather welcomed them back by putting on a perfect display of warm, calm and bright conditions. As was to be expected we saw a display of target rifle accuracy we have not seen for many weeks.
Nick Cock and Steve Williams set the scene with double possibles whilst Graeme Bright, after an unsteady first stage, followed with his own 2nd stage possible. Cock nonchalantly slotted a pair of 50.05’s whilst Williams down a little on centre bull’s eyes in his first stage matched Cock’s 50.05 in his second dig Not to be out done Grahame Willis returned to his best with a high score of 118.11, easily topping the F class Cock of the Walk, and putting a sealer on the number one position with a 60.6, 2nd stage possible.
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Weekly Review 09/07/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jul 10, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 9th July 2016 J Sibera Trophy, 300yards
It was an eventful day at the Bathurst Rifle Range on Saturday with maintenance on the communication towers delaying the shoot and causing the last few competitors to battle failing light. Up until then the day was calm, relatively warm and lit up in bright sunshine.
Two novice shooters and two visitors from outside the Bathurst region also attended placing added difficulty on completing the shoot in the available light. To add to the problems a large mob, upwards of 60 kangaroos, undeterred by the gunshots, invaded the range mid shoot, as they made their way from the western paddocks towards the race track.
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Weekly Review 02/07/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jul 03, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 2nd July 2016 C R Kelly Cup, 900yards
With many shooters away at the District Rifle Associations Champion of Champions, and Country versus City teams match in Sydney, local competition was again drained of much talent and the results of the final round of the C R Kelly Cup were dismal to say the least.
The weather was bitterly cold and the south south-west breeze played a similar role to last weeks’ 800 yard shoot, but the result was that much worse with the extra 100 yards accentuating the errors. The light was quite dark for the entire day and the breeze rose and fell whilst changing angles constantly.
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