Records continue to tumble

Members welcomed State MP, Steve Bromhead and his wife Sue back to the range for an excellent afternoon’s shooting.

The Bromheads, who are both club members, shot in the F standard B-grade and put in a good performance with Sue winning the day on 100 with five centres over Steve’s 92 with two centres. Quite a convincing win indeed.

However, back in the ranks of target rifle A-grade the club records continue to tumble. Mal McKenzie, fresh from competing in the NSW Champion of Champions, put in another flawless performance to finish with a double possible of 100 and 12 centres to win A-grade. McKenzie also toppled the club record for the score at 400 metres second stage with a blistering 50 with 10 centres – this is a perfect score.

Jim Blackmore and Tony Moon both finished the day on 98 however Blackmore was ahead by 2 centres.

Andrew Geary continues to shoot consistently solid scores in Target Rifle B Grade with a first stage of 50 with 4 centres and a final score of 98 with 5 centres.

In target rifle C-grade, Craig Laurie is showing improvement every week. Laurie, who recently changed from F Class to target rifle, has received some valuable coaching advice from some of the club’s best shooters and the results are starting to show in his scores with a total this week of 84 and two centres.

In the F Class divisions, Chris Barnard continues to dominate F Class A-grade to win on 117 and 10 centres.  Returning to the range this week was the club’s own ‘Travelling Wilbury,’ Robert Bartlett, who has returned from a four month 17,000km trip competing in open prize meetings from Darwin to Bendigo and all stops in between.

The ranks of F open class were boosted with week with new member Roden Lohse attending together with Ray Handsaker who has recently been away working.  However, Christina Adams took home the win in F Class open with a final score of 109 and seven centres.

Next week shooters move to the 500-yard distance.