Roseville Rifle Club Australia

Archive for June 15th, 2009

Saturday 13th June was the date that the individual club champions from the North Shore District shot off to determine the District Champion over 300m, 500m, 700m and 800m. There were Senior, Junior, F Class Open and F Class Standard winners to be decided.

Roseville’s Mark Buchanan showed his dominance from the start, shooting a near perfect 50.9 at 300m, no one else managed to shoot a 50 in the first range.

Mark continued his good shooting to finish on top with a total of 200.37, that means that only 3 of his 40 scoring shots weren’t in the centre.

Second place went to a very unlucky Richard Jones from Manly Club who finished with 3, 50.9’s for 199.32.

The junior winner was Alec Muir from North Sydney Club with 196.13 followed by Robert Jenkins from Manly Club with 191.6.

F Class Open was won by Rex Forbes from Nth Sydney with 380.

F Class Standard was won by Dennis Smith from Gosford Club with 237,

Roseville’s Don McDonald came a credible 3rd with 231.

Andrew giving Mark advice before his final shoot at 800m	Mark showing his winning score

t was great to see so many “A” Graders bidding for the Club Championship this year. The winner was not determined until the end of the season – Mark Buchanan shot a near perfect score of 1199 out of 1200 with 183 centres from a possible 240. Mark’s accomplishments included wins in the National and QRA Queen’s and many top 10 performances in other Queen’s and Prize Meetings.

Second place was not finalized until the second last week. Last year’s champion, Phillip Hodder was very lucky to gain second place after a fast and furious finish from Andrew Martin and Ian Hutchinson.

“B” grade was won in style by Jon Marriott with 1175 closely followed by Paul Heintzberger 1172, who had a late charge of good scores but couldn’t change the deficit.	Congratulations go to Roseville’s Junior Champion, Michael Hutchinson, who finished fourth in “B” Grade with 1168, not far behind the leader.
F Class Open and Standard was won by Don McDonald. Don started the year shooting F Class Open and shot consistently well to finish a full card in six months with a wonderful score of 1398 out of 1440. He then turned his attention to F Class Standard and in the last six months beat an ever- improving Marilyn Humbert with a score of 1395	“C” grade was blitzed by Alex Marriott on 1131, Alex has worked very hard during the year and showed much improvement to become a real junior star in the making.

Text and photos – Phill Hodder