Weekly Roundup
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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Weekly Review 09/04/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Apr 10, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 9th April 2016 L Williams Cup, 300yards
The wind arrived on schedule just prior to the commencement of shooting. The brisk west-north westerly breeze as well as buffeting the shooters on the mound, produced just enough variation in strength to test their wind reading ability. Although several of the competitors went close to getting the ultimate only Graeme Bright who after a less than impressive first stage 46.01 finished with a high centre count 50.07 second stage.
This was however, too little, too late, as both Nick Cock and Gordon Shepherd fought out the Cock of the Walk, both shooting 98’s (pair of 49’s each), Cock securing the win with a centre tally of 10 to Shepherd’s 7. Shepherd had a chance to take the COW but a last shot inner four brought about his demise. Dennis Lavelle putting last weeks’ second stage debacle down to a rear sight malfunction laid on a pair of 46.01’s to take B grade from John Coghill who is still deep in a heavy slump.
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Weekly Review 02/04/2016
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Apr 03, 2016
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc 2nd April 2016 Captains Trophy, 800yards
The breeze as is usual sprung up just before the first shooters hit the mound for the first of two days of competition for the Captains Trophy. The early shooters did not fair too well as the breeze coming in from the south west changed strength quickly and constantly. Gusts up to 3 or 4 windage points above the average caught out many, with magpie threes becoming a common occurrence.
Only the experienced duo of Nick Cock and Graeme Bright were able to master the changes both dropping just one point each but neither was able to make much impact on the centre bulls eye ring; Cock shooting just one centre and Bright two centre bulls eyes.
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