Archive for June 13th, 2016

Wingham Rifle Club Open Prize Meeting 2016

Gary Faulkner, Phill Hodder, Allan Humbert, Dmitri Kazakov, Tim Walter and Peter Walters attended the Wingham Rifle Club Open Prize Meeting over the weekend of 11 and 12 June 2016.

Left-to-rigth: Peter Walters, Allan Humbert, Dmitri Kazakov, Gary Faulkner, Tim Walter, Phill Hodder

Left-to-right Peter Walters, Allan Humbert, Dmitri Kazakov, Gary Faulkner, Tim Walter, Phill Hodder

All shooters except Phil shot the 2 x 15 sweepstakes match at 600 yards on the Friday afternoon. (results not known except Tim 70).

The competition commenced on Saturday morning at 600 yards, followed by 500 yards and then 400 metres.

On Sunday the shoot commenced at 500 yards, followed by 600 yards and then a 2 x 15 shot match again at 600 yards.

Results were as follows:

Match Gary Faulkner Phill Hodder Allan Humbert Dmitri Kazakov Tim Walter Peter Walters
600y 59.4 49.7 60.5 – 2nd 50.6 49.3 56.1
500y 59.5 50.6 58.3 49.5 47.5 55.2
400y 58.4 48.5 58.4 50.6 48.2 55.1
Day 1 Agg 176.13 3rd FS A 147.18 17th TR A 176.12 2nd FS B 149.17 9th TR A 144.10 25th TR A 166.4 10th FS B
500y 60.6 – 2nd 50.6 60.5 – 1st 50.6 48.7 58.1
600y 58.6 45.5 57.2 50.8 – 2nd 49.4 59.2
600y 15 shots 88.9 74.8 84.1 75.11 – 2nd 69.3 80.2
Day 2 Agg 206.21 6th FS A 169.19 22nd TR A 201.8 5th FS B 175.25 4th TR A 166.14 28th TR A 197.5 8th FS B
Grand Agg 382.34 4th FS A 316.37 19th TR A 377.20 2nd FS B 324.42 5th TR A 310.24 28th TR A 363.9 9th FS B

Congratulations to Gary Faulkner for finishing 4th in FS A, two places behind his Dad, John, who used Gary’s other rifle!

Congratulations to Allan for finishing 2nd in FS B and winning a range along the way.

Congratulations to Dmitri for finishing 5th in TR A, placing second in both the last 2 ranges to finish one place ahead of the great Duncan Davies! Entry number 13 turned out to be lucky.

Dropping just one point over the entire meeting was a great achievement, some say assisted by rocket fuel the night before, and despite being woken early in the morning by a cry from someone in the park needing some attention!

Commiserations to Phill who was disallowed a V bull at the first 600 yard match on Day 2 when it was adjudged to be a shot on the next door target, even though no extra shot was claimed by the shooter or scorers on that target, and notwithstanding that Phill did not ask for his target to be examined after firing his shot.

Clearly, Phill’s scorer and check scorer were not paying proper attention and the fact that both were scoring with binoculars instead of scopes contributed to Phill losing a shot. The range officer seemed to be relying more on information from the markers, rather than the scorers, who clearly did not know what had happened.

Dmitri 5th place on the Board

Dmitri 5th place on the Board

Allan receiving his prize

Allan receiving his prize

 

Tim managed a few centres on Day 2 but had a bad final range to take out the wooden spoon in TR A! Less red wine Tim!

Good dinner after the shoot is always good

Good dinner after the shoot is always good

Dancing after good dinner is good too...

Dancing after good dinner is good too…

Great to see our new member, Peter Walters and his wife, attending his first prize meeting with Roseville.

Complete results are available here.

Thank you to Wingham Rifle Club on a well organized and very fully catered for Prize meeting.

Tim Walter