Roseville Rifle Club Australia

Gosford had something special planned for us this year – lots of wind – right from the first detail at 8:30 the flags were pretty full (3-4 minutes worth). In the morning the flags were {mostly} pointing left, at lunch time they were undecided and by afternoon they were pointing {mostly} right. The range officer had this to say “at lunch time we turned the wind machine off to recharge the batteries but they are back on now”…but some lucky people had some good patches in the middle (or was it their skill?) and their scores proved it.

Roseville Rifle Club turned up in style.

• 50% of the Target Rifle shooters were from Roseville
• 33% of the FTR shooters were from Roseville
• Roseville also fielded competitors in Sporter Hunter and F-Standard.

Unfortunately not everyone was able to stay for the Roseville picture at the end of the day – but clearly there was a good turn out.

Standout performances would have to be

1. Christian Lemoy winning back to back FTR titles and relegating Janet to second place (again) with his masterful 90-10 in the final detail.
2. “Tyro” shooter Alex Toth who managed to win her first medal (1^st place at 500m) in her very first competition (and on her birthday too!)
3. Phill Hodder (Honorary member who now lives in Tasmania, past RRC Captain) winning Target Rifle A grade with a perfect 175 out of 175.
4. The Beale’s who took home the “Lucky Bull” prize plus THREE door prizes (but they did buy $25 worth of tickets!)
5. Steve Bliim – another Roseville Tyro shooter for whom this was also his first every prize shoot. He really improved throughout the day.

Podium finishes by Rosevilleans (range prizes then grand aggregate or other prize):

• TR-A: Phill Hodder(2^nd, 1^st, 2^nd, 1^st in grand), Adam Beale (3^rd, 3^rd, 1^st, 2^nd in grand), Dmitri Kazakov (3^rd, 4^th in grand), Mark Buchanan (1^st, 5^th in grand)
• TR-B: Chris Sefton(2^nd, 3^rd in grand), Sam Houston (2^nd), Alex Toth (1^st plus Tyro prize), Rob Trodden (3^rd)
• F-Standard: Allan Humbert (1^st, 3^rd, 2^nd in grand)
• FTR: Christian Lemoy (1^st, 1^st, 1^st in grand), Janet Beale (1^st, 3^rd, 2^nd, 2^nd in grand plus top lady prize)

So now we wait for what Gosford 2026 will bring…. A cyclone?

Janet Beale