Roseville Rifle Club Australia

Archive for October, 2018

Sunday 21 Oct was the Gosford Open Prize Meeting, comprising three details at 500m. Roseville had strong competitors with Dmitri Kazakov and Mark Buchanan competing in Target Rifle A; two of our juniors Pat Jacombs and Adam Beale in Target Rifle B; Peter Walters in F-Standard A; and Gary Faulkner, Eva Patrick and Alan Patrick in F-TR. Despite the heavy rains overnight, and the mud in the carpark, the weather held out and there was hardly a drop during the shoot. The mound was well protected with cover just in case which everyone appreciated.  Roseville had an excellent day with an excellent centre count as you will see below…

In Target Rifle:

1^st Detail: Dmitri 50-9; Mark 50-8; Pat 50-7; Adam 49-7

2^nd Detail: Dmitri 50-5; Mark 45-7 (“X” in wrong target!!!); Pat 50-10 !!! (his first probable!); Adam 50-6

3^rd Detail: Mark 75-13; Dmitri 74-10; Pat 75-12; Adam 75-11

In F-class:

1^st Detail: Peter (FS/A) 60-5; Eva (F/TR) 60-5; Gary (F/TR) 59-6; Alan (F/TR) 57-4

2^nd Detail: Peter (FS/A) 59-4; Gary (F/TR) 60-5; Alan (F/TR) 60-5; Eva (F/TR) 54-5 (shot in wrong target!!!)

3^rd Detail: Peter (FS/A) 90-9; Alan (F/TR) 89-7; Eva (F/TR) 88-6; Gary (F/TR) 88-6

Yes, you read that right 8 possibles and a probable out of 12 details in Target Rifle and 5 possibles in F Class! Really great shooting by Roseville!

From Wed Oct 3^rd to Sunday Oct 7^th the NSW Rifle Association held the 142 Open Championship comprising the McIntosh Series and the Queens. This year, RRC  had 3 “A” grade representatives (Mark Buchanan, Phill Hodder and Angus Martin); 3 “B” grade representatives (Mike Hodder, Pat Jacombs and Adam Beale),

1 FS/A shooter (Michael Cuda) and 1 FTR shooter (Gary Faulkner).  Quite a few of the Australian team representatives were there (Palma, U25 and U21) as all teams are beginning to gear up for the World Competition in Jan 2019 so the competition was a very high calibre indeed.

This year, all scoring reverted to manual targets due to issues last year with the Konsberg electronic targets. However, the conditions were challenging to say the least with high winds and rain (heavy at times) which caused issues with the manual targets (inability to read the markers at a distance and stickers falling off the paper targets). As such, the organisers reverted to a modified program of 11 details instead of the normal 16 details and one whole day of competition was cancelled due to the shocking weather.

However, the competition did complete the modified program and RRC was well represented by our competitors

In A-Grade, the most notable individual performances by the RRC shooters included:

McIntosh Series > 500m (first detail) Phill came 3^rd with 50-6, Mark came 4^th with 50-6
McIntosh Series > 500m (second detail) Mark came 3^rd with 50-8, and despite scoring 50-4 Phill came 16^th (clearly the A Grade competition was of a high calibre!!)
McIntosh Series > 600m (first detail) Mark came 1^st with 50-7, despite scoring a possible, Phill came 6^th with 50-3
McIntosh Series > 600m (second detail) Mark came 2^nd with 50-8
Queens > 700m (first detail) Angus came 8^th despite scoring a possible 50-3!
Queens > 700m (second detail) Mark came 4^th with 50-7

In B-Grade, the most notable individual performances by the RRC shooters included:

McIntosh Series > 500m (first detail) Pat came 3^rd with 50-2;
McIntosh Series > 500m (second detail) Mike came 4^th with 50-5, and despite scoring 50.5 Pat came 6^th (clearly the B Grade competition was of a high calibre!!)
McIntosh Series > 600m (first detail) Mike came 4^th with 49-5
McIntosh Series > 600m (second detail) Pat came 2^nd with 50-7
McIntosh Series > 800m (second detail) Adam came 2^nd with 47-3, Pat came 3^rd with 46-4

Queens > 700m (first detail) Pat came 4^th with 48-5
Queens > 700m (second detail) Adam came 2^nd with 50-3
Queens > 800m (day 3 first detail) Pat came 3^rd with 48.2
Queens > 800m (final detail) Pat came 1^st with 49-4, Adam came 3^rd with 49-1

In F-Class the most notable individual performances by the RRC shooters included:

Queens > 700m (first detail) Gary came 1^st (FTR) with 59-3
Queens > 700m (second detail) Gary came 2^nd (FTR) with 59-2; Michael C came 3^rd (FS/A)with 59-4
Queens > 800m (first detail) Gary came 3^rd (FTR) with 82-2
Queens > 800m (day 3 first detail) – Gary came 2^nd (FTR) with 55-0
Queens > 800m (day 3 second detail) – Gary came 1^st (FTR) with 56-2;  Michael C came 4^th with 55-0

Overall, RRC took home quite a few awards and placed within the top 5 in:

McIntosh Day 1: Mark > Aggregate A Grade 1^st place; Pat > Aggregate B Grade – 3^rd place; Mike > Aggregate B Grade – 5^th place
McIntosh Day 2: Mark > Aggregate A Grade 4^th place; Pat > Aggregate B Grade – 5^th place
McIntosh overall: Mark > Aggregate A Grade 2^nd place; Pat > Aggregate B Grade – 4^th place
Queen’s Day 2: Gary > Aggregate 1^st (FTR); Michael C > Aggregate FS/A – 4^th place;
Queen’s Day 3: Gary> Aggregate 2^nd (FTR); Angus > Aggregate A Grade 4^th place, Pat > Aggregate B Grade – 1^st place;

Overall Queens Aggregate: Pat > B Grade – 2^nd place, Michael C > FS/A – 5^th place. Gary > Aggregate 2^nd  place (FTR); (with special mention to Angus > A Grade – 7^th place)

Pat also took home the top High School Shooter prize.

In the Grand Aggregate, covering both the Queens and McIntosh series,  Mark (A Grade) came 6^th, Pat (B Grade) came 2^nd and Adam (B Grade) came 7^th

Well done to our RRC competitors in very challenging circumstance.

Janet Beale