Two of Wingham’s junior shooters, Bronte Thurtell and Bill Blackmore, helped Wingham No 1 team win by two points from Port Macquarie and five from Kempsey.

Due to the unavailability of club champion Steve Southwell and recent Queens winner Tony Moon, Wingham had to promote two of their up and coming shooters to fill the gap. Their solid performances helped Wingham to take out the off rifle section of the competition.

Peter Thurtell continued his brilliant domination with a perfect score of 150.18/150 closely followed by Ray Nash from Port Macquarie of 150.12 and coming in third was Mike Chad also from Port Macquarie with 149.16.

In the F class standard event Kempsey were two strong for the Wingham pair of Phil Costa and Keven Haytack winning comfortably by 42 points. However Phil and Keven are very new to the sport and will improve from this experience under competition pressure.

DRA scores: Wingham No 1 team; Peter Thurtell 150.18, Wendy Moon 148.19, Jim Blackmore 148.12, Bronte Thurtell 146.13, Bill Blackmore 145.12, Total 592.

Port Macquarie No 1: Ray Nash 150-12, Mike Chad 149.16, Ian Moss 146.12, John Hart 145.11, Neil Drain 144.07, Total 590.

Kempsey: Ron Whalen 159.12, Ian Parkins 147-10, Brendan Parkins 146.13, Les Neilsen 145-08, Brett Moore 143-11. Total 587.

Port Macquarie No 2: John Melton 146-15, Clive Simpson 139-06, Greg Murrels 137-07, Bryce Drain 130-04, Mal McKenzie 1222-07, Total 552.

Wingham No 2: Brian Mavin 146-09, Nathan Eagles 144-08, Barry White 133-03, Damien Croft 129-06, Keith Gleeson 128-09, Frank Alcott 115-01, Total 551.

Handicap Port Macquarie No 1 team

F Class: Kempsey - Bill Low 168-09/ 180, Peter Nicoll 166-08, Total 334.

Wingham - Keven Haytack 149-03, Phil Costa 143-03, Total 292.