Rob and Mike dominate B-Grade at the 2014 NSDRA Open Prize Meeting

Seventy nine (79) competitors took part in this year’s NSDRA Open Prize Meeting on Sunday 2nd November, with shooters coming from as far afield as the NSW North Coast and Central West. Roseville was well represented with 10 members competing in Target Rifle and F-Standard categories. Once again Roseville performed strongly, especially in B-Grade and C-Grade Target Rifle.

Mark, Phil, Dmitri, Jon, Rob, Mike, Angus, Alan, Gary and Michael all took part in this annual event on home soil.

The day started at 500m with Dmitri posting 50.5, Mark with 49.4, Jon with 49.3, Phil 48.3 in A-Grade and Rob coming second in B-Grade with 48.3, followed by Mike who took third place with 47.4. Angus Martin took second place in C-Grade posting a strong 50.1.

Mark

Mark

Rob

Rob

Alan shot very well, posting 59.5 in the first match to take out third place in F Std A-Grade.

The second match at 600m saw Mark score 50.4 narrowly missing a place. Rob and Mike dominated B-Grade with 49.2 and 46.3 respectively and Angus took out third place in C-Grade with 46.2.

Phil scored a very strong 50.7, however just missed out on 3rd place on count back in A-Grade on the last match of the day at 700m. Mike took first place with an excellent 50.5 and Rob with 49.4 to take second place in B-Grade.

Gary and Michael redeemed themselves in the last match at 700m and took first and second place in F Std A-Grade posting 60.4 and 60.3 respectively as well as winning the pairs.

Mike

Mike

Allan

Allan

The final placings for the day’s aggregate saw Mark take 5th position with 148.12 in A-Grade Target Rifle. Rob won B-Grade with 146.9 and Mike came second with 143.12, together with Angus who came in 3rd in C-Grade with 141.4.

Alan shot consistently high scores throughout the day and came 4th in F Std A- Grade with 174.10, only just missing out on 3rd place by one super centre and first place by one point.

Michael Cuda

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