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SRA
Long Range Championship Results
The weekend was marked by very difficult wind. By Saturday
afternoon it was so troublesome that the last shoot of the
day, at 1000yds, was won with 66.6v. The exception was the
first detail on Sunday, which was shot in a dead calm at 900yds.
By the second detail at 10am it was as bad as ever.
Mike Barton shot consistently well over the weekend,
including a winning 74.8v at 1000yds in very difficult
conditions
for the Irvine, giving him a well deserved win of the
Grand Agg,
as well the Marjorie Keir (after a very close shoot-off
with John Potter) and the Saturday Agg. Tim Kidner won
the Stansfield
with a 74.8v in very difficult conditions, the Sunday
Agg and the "Long and Short".
West Atholl 'A' (Mike Barton, Kenny MacDonald, Richard
Scott and John Potter) won the Team Trophy.
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The
Spoils |
Tim
Kidner - Lots! |
Peter
Hunt Open F-Class |
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Phil
Leslie Montrose Corp. |
Paul
Crosbie TR/F |
Kenny
MacDonald Grand Master |
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Mike
Barton Grand Agg. |
Mike
Barton - again |
Miike
Barton - and again! |
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Mike
Barton-yet again! |
Some
relaxed while stats were being done.... |
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and others closed down the butts. |
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Tom
Rowantree Montrose |
Mark
Joyce looks pleased with his performance, which gained him
a free entry to the NRCofS Autumn meeting.
Putting
up the gazebos again guaranteed that it did not rain. |
Colonial
visitors:
Stan
Frost (TR, Canada, on the left) is a regular at this
event; Greg Phelan (Australia, centre) shot in F class,
and Phil Bain (MR, Australia) and his wife Sue (off picture)
just came
for the scenery. |
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Inverness-shire
Rifle Association Open Meeting
Will be held at Cawdor Rifle Range on the 8th & 9th August 2009
Entry
Form 
East
of Scotland Rifle Club
2009 Open Championship and Prize Meeting
Jubilee Range - Blair Atholl on Saturday 26th September 2009
Entry Form Note:
Contrary
to what is stated on the entry form ( "2&17 shots
@400m, etc"), West Atholl RC will have no truck with this continental
metric nonsense. We shall shoot at British Standard Yards, as determined
by the length of the monarch's arm; rather than some arbitrary measure
dreamt up abroad in a haze of garlic and olive oil.
Club shoot at 400yds on a 300m target |
Only
9 members turned out for this event. We had a dry shoot
followed by torrential rain as we packed up. There was
enough breeze to have made it interesting on a 400 yard
target, but shooting from 400 yards on a 300m (10-X) display
gives a 10 ring of four fifths of a minute, converting "interesting " to "humiliating".
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The fine weather lasted
99% of the time.
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Two thirds of the entry pose after
the prizegiving. Mike Barton won the TR trophy. Bobby
Robertson won F class by shooting against himself...
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and Jackie MacLean did likewise in
TR/F.
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Tues
23 June and Thurs 25 June
Glenalmond
College will be using Jubilee range from 2pm to about 5pm on the
above dates, probably at 5/600yds. WARC members will be
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Here
are the Results for
the Scottish Championships which were held at Jubilee Range
Blair Atholl using the electronic targets for the first
time -- the targets worked fine for all 3 days.
The
weather remained dry until the last half hour on Sunday
(although the wind was diabolical for the whole 3 days
apart from a couple of details). Just as the monitors
etc were being put away the deluge began. There are no
pictures of the prizegiving as the torrential rain meant
that it had to be held in Baithna (the green
Portacabin at 1100yds), where the crush
made it impossible for cups to be handed to winners or
for cameras to be used.
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Bob
Aitken calculating |
Caledonian
Shield Final Stage |
James
Anderson & Iain Robertson at 900yds with Target
Monitor |
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The
Club is sorry to announce that Alastair Munro's wife, Molly,
died on 27th May.
Alastair and Molly were married for 62 years.
Molly’s
funeral was held on Wednesday, 3rd June |
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| Callum
Scott of Blairgowrie, stage winner in Air Pistol and Shotgun
(with a possible) and overall runner up. |
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The victorious
Stuart team from Huntly, proud dad Alan with individual winner
Bruce (downhill) and brother Callum (uphill). |
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Course
of Fire for Club Shoots 2009 |
Following
decisions made at the last AGM we shall try the following in
2009.
Each Club shoot will be at two distances and at each distance we shall shoot
2+15 twice: 60 counting shots in total, 70 rounds needed to allow for sighters
and a couple of spares (new members, visitors etc can, of course, shoot fewer
if they wish).
The two sets of 2+15 at each distance will not be shot consecutively. One pair
per target will shoot their first 2+15, then another pair will shoot, and so
on until everyone has shot their first 2+15, after which the second 2+15 at the
same distance will be shot before moving to the second distance.
We decided to abandon the 300m firing point, so the “3/400” Club
shoot will be shot as follows: 2+15 twice from the 400yd firing point using a
400yd target display, then 2+15 twice from the same firing point on a 300yd target
display.This will be described in the programme as “400/300@400”.
The HPS for the Butter Cup, Christie Rose Bowl, Norwich Union Trophy and Murray
Cup will be 300. For the Munro Broadsword, Seann a-Bhalaith Atholl and TR/F
Cup the HPS will be 450.
The Murray Cup course of fire will be: 2 + 15 at 4, 5, 6 and 900yds in that order.
The 300m Round Robin competition will be replaced by a 60 shot standard format
shoot on a 300m metric (10X) target display at 400yds, with trophies for TR,
TR/F and F class.
Until further notice the Club rules for TR/F are |
- Max
weight of rifle, sights and bipod – 8.25 Kg
- Calibre
.308,.223 or .303
- Max.
Bullet weight in 308, 156 gr. No limit for 223 or 303
- Front
bipod allowed but no other front rest.
- No rear
bag or rest.
- Minimum
trigger pull 1.5Kg
- Shooting
on standard TR target with no white centre.
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