Roseville Rifle Club Australia

What a terrific Sunday for the 10 Roseville members that went to Gosford for the Open Prize Meeting. Three details at 500m (2+10, 2+10, 2+15) with plenty of prizes on offer including lucky door prizes, veteran’s prize, lady’s prize, youth prize, tyro prize, lucky bull, monetary range prizes and of course the grand aggregate prizes (money and a badge). There was something for everyone including the tasty food and beverage selections. This is one of the best run OPMs around. Roseville members took home some great memories shooting with friends (even if most of our club were all on one target) and everyone shot exceedingly well despite the wind. How can you prove this statement? Everyone from Roseville scored 92% accuracy or better.

As Roseville represented 14% of the competitors and shot so well, it would be hoped that the Gosford prize pool would be regularly handed to Roseville members… and so it was with 60% of our shooters receiving a prize of some sort:

• Adam Beale: overall 1^st in TRA plus 2 range prizes (this was his first time receiving a No 1 aggregate badge in TRA).
• Christian Le Moy: overall 1^st in FTR plus 2 range prizes (this was his first time receiving a No 1 aggregate badge in FTR).
• Janet Beale: 2^nd in FTR
• Ian Palmer: 3^rd in FTR (this was his first competition score recorded since 2019).
• Chris Sefton: 2^nd in TRB/
• Sam Houston: overall 3^rd in TRB plus 1 range prize.

It was good to see Rob Trodden back on the competition circuit in TRB – this was his first competition score recorded since 2021. Dmitri Kazakov shot very well scoring 99.42% accuracy (4^th in TRA) with 2 possibles but was just out of the money. Adrian Bonanni (98% accuracy) and Allan Humbert (96% accuracy) both had strong shoots and enjoyed the day.

Congrats to Adam and Christian on their maiden prize meeting wins.

See you in Gosford in 2025!

Janet Beale