Club championship pound 400 metres, July 21
A large group of 23 members and guests were treated to excellent shooting conditions on Saturday.
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This was the first opportunity to post a score at 400 metres in this years’ Club Championship and shooters took advantage of the spring-like weather conditions on the range.
However, 400 metres is a tricky distance and with a light left to right breeze and some mirage at the targets this was reflected in scores across the board.
In Target Rifle A Grade the contest continues in earnest between Mal McKenzie and Jim Blackmore with both posting second stage scores of 49 with McKenzie taking the lead on a centre count of seven to Blackmore’s five. By the end of day Mal McKenzie took home the win with a total score of 98 with eight centres over Jim Blackmore and closely followed by Tony Moon.
Target Rifle B Grade saw the return to the range of Max Purnell who has just returned from two months holidaying in Europe. The break did no hard to Purnell’s form as he posted a blistering second stage of 49 with three centres to finish the day on 95.5 behind the in form Barry White who took home the win with 96 and nine centres.
Once again, the club Juniors Todd Barnard and Ronan Moon are showing the seniors just how its done in both the Target Rifle and F Class divisions respectively. Todd Barnard was the standout shooter in Target Rifle C Grade with a final tally of 86.1 whilst Ronan Moon continues to blitz the field in F Standard B Grade to finish the day with an excellent score of 113.6.
Tony Galati returned to the winners’ circle to take out the day in F Standard A Grade with an outstanding second stage of 59 with three centres and a final total of 115.6. Galati was also the handicap winner of the day.
Next week’s Club Championship round moves to the 500 yard range.
Full scores for this week were:
- Target Rifle A Grade: Mal McKenzie 98.8, Jim Blackmore 97.10, Tony Moon 94.4.
- Target Rifle B Grade: Barry White 96.9, Max Purnell 95.5, Chris Barnard 89.4.
- Target Rifle C Grade: Todd Barnard 86.1, Gordon Higgins 68.1, Adrian Newbery 41.
- F Standard A Grade: Tony Galati 115.6, Phil Costa 111.6, Robert Bartlett 105.3.
- F Standard B Grade: Ronan Moon 113.6, Daryl Irvine 109.3, Mark Drury 109.3, Ean Heaney 108.3, Toby Irvine 107.4, Craig Laurie 98.2, Duncan Robinson 95.2, Michael Rogerson 89.3, Suzi Laurie 82, Bev Rogerson 30.
- F Open: Christina Adams 110.