Weekly Roundup
Weekly Review 20/01/2018
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jan 21, 2018
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 20th January 2018, R L Gilmour Esq. Cup, 300yards
Heat was the primary obstacle shooters had to overcome with the hot dry conditions accompanied by a slight easterly breeze, which together produced a quirky mirage. Nobody mastered the range although several went close.
Graeme Bright whose inconsistency has spoiled his recent form, put that behind him with a winning 98.06 toppling the form shooter of recent weeks, Nick Cock, who faltered with two inner fours in a five centre bull’s eye 48.05 second stage. Gordon Shepherd got lost in the middle of his first stage with four inners in a row and Steve Williams scattered his four inners across the stage. Shepherd looked like he had redeemed himself until a wild 8 o’clock magpie three finished off his shoot. Williams, who will be contesting the New Zealand Nationals next month, shot more inners (5), than centre’s (4), in his second stage.
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Weekly Review 13/01/2018
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jan 14, 2018
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 13th January 2018, T W Willman Trophy, 900yards
Prospects before the shoot looked rather bleak with a strong westerly wind gusting across the range but surprisingly and uncharacteristically the wind died down as shooting commenced. With a slight breeze and light gusts Nick Cock, with the advantage of an early draw, took maximum advantage setting the tone for the rest of the shoot with a 50.05 possible.
Graeme Bright dropped a magpie three between two V bulls for a 46.06 and John Coghill had eight on without dropping a point before he returned to form with an inner four, magpie three finish. Gordon Shepherd not to be outdone started with magpie/inner before matching Coghills’ 47 as did Steve Williams but with a better V bull count.
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Weekly Review 06/01/2018
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Jan 07, 2018
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 6th January 2018, Norman Rutherford Memorial Trophy, 800yards
The 800 yard mound looked like Bondi beach on a hot summers’ day as a plethora of tents, shade covers and beach umbrellas littered the area. Everything was hot before the shoot commenced with barrels, bolts, stocks even ground sheets absorbing the oppressive heat. With a hot fishtail wind gusting in mostly from the northwest, conditions were much better suited to the beach than lying out on a dried up grassy knoll.
The two days constructing and calibrating the 800 and 900 yard targets was put to good use as virtually the whole of the 8x6 foot square target faces were used, shooters unable to confine their shots to the target centre.
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Weekly Review 30/12/2017
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Dec 31, 2017
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc. 30 December 2017, W Northcott Memorial Trophy, 700yards
Wind, a target shooters mortal enemy, descended on the Bathurst Rifle Range on Saturday, with strong gusting westerly winds harassing shooters all day. There was never going to be high scoring and very little chance of attaining a score good enough to keep, in the race to the Club Championship.
The cream however rose to the top yet again showing that skill and knowledge can overcome even the most trying of conditions. Nick Cock and Jeff Eppleston shone out with scores that they normally would disregard but the buffeting wind made their efforts first class. Cock even had a rare magpie three but still managed to piece together a 47.03 and a 48.04 the seven centre count a testimony to his control.
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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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