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Weekly Review 21/05/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on May 22, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 21st May 2016 Secretary's Trophy, 900yards
Saturday signalled the last range of the Club Championship and the new Club Champions have been crowned. With Gordon Shepherd unable to attend due to family commitments the door was thrown open for Graeme Bright to snatch the title and snatch it he did in great style. With the mild weather conditions in his favour Bright had however to contend with the hazard reduction burns in the Blue Mountains producing a smoke haze adding to the insipid light later in the day.
Bright fresh off a win at the Cootamundra R C open prize meeting last weekend produced two superb stage possibles to finish the season with a flourish. Bright’s 100.09 would certainly have required Shepherd to shoot up to his best had he been able to compete. The B grade championship was already decided after Dennis Lavelle outshot all of his rivals in the earlier stages of the competition.
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Weekly Review 14/05/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on May 15, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 14th May 2016 Secretary's Trophy, 800yards
Saturdays shoot was held in conditions which were as close to ideal conditions for shooting as could be imagined. With next to no breeze and just the whisper of a mirage, the sun shining brightly and the mound freshly mown, the only distraction was the abundance of small biting black ants. The ants aside, scoring was heavy and almost all shooters shot at or above their handicaps.
Jeff Eppleston was the only competitor to take full advantage of the perfect day, at one stage taking the centre out of the target which required a full reconstruction. His subsequent scores of 60.7 and 60.6 emphasized his claim to represent Australia at the World F class Championships in Canada next year.
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Weekly Review 07/05/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on May 08, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 30th April / 7th May 2016 L Williams Cup 600yards. I Hughes / J Porter Trophies 700 yards
The past two weeks have seen the final 600 yard and 700 yard ranges of the 2016 Championship season completed with just one 900 yard range (21st May) left to decide the Champions for this year. Competition has been tight but qualifying has become a difficult proposition for many with intra and interstate competitions including State Championships packed into the Club Championship season.
Gordon Shepherd who last won the Club’s premier trophy in the 1990-91 season is in the box seat with Bright needing to beat him by 5 points or 4 points and a lot of centre bull’s eyes at the final range. Shepherd gave Steve Williams a run for his money last year and 2016 could see him win his third Championship over a 35 year period, his first being in the 1982-3 season; a perennial giant at the Club. At this stage there are no F class shooters qualified for the Champions Cup.
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Weekly Review 23/04/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Apr 24, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 23th April 2016 L Williams Cup, 500yards
With the return of some of the travelers from interstate competitions, numbers were greatly increased at the local shoot on Saturday. The weather was a little cooler and the breeze and mirage were a lot tamer than in recent weeks. This did not correspond to a big boost in scores and the target rifle group were quite disappointing with not one possible attained, although Graeme Bright did go close with a last shot inner four spoiling his second effort.
Bright took out the Cock of the Walk with that final 49.03 after Gordon Shepherd matched him all the way in both stages. Shepherd was not quite able to clinch the win when he dropped a late shot to finish one point in arrears. The B grade contest was not as tight, as Ron Gibson led from start to finish. Gibson shot a 48.02 to keep pace with the A grade competitors in the first stage and finished off with a 47.01 to stay ahead of Dennis Lavelle who was battling a bad case of the flu. Darren Crimston, who dropped in for one of his rare shoots after arriving from the Hunter earlier in the day, shot a pair of 46.01’s.
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Weekly Review 16/04/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Apr 17, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 16th April 2016 Captains Trophy, 900yards
While the Bathurst pair of Graeme Bright and Steve Williams battle out the Victorian State Championships in Bendigo, another local pair, Geoff Willis and Jeff Eppleston, tried out with twelve other NSW hopefuls for a position in the Australian team to compete in the 2017 F-class World Championships in Canada. The trial was a chance to impress the selectors and gave the local shooters an opportunity to do so on their home range. They should not have been disappointed as the weather conditions threw up a familiar set of testing conditions.
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