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Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 1^st August 2020, 300 yards. Gilmour Cup.

         Saturday saw the club return to 300 yards again for the first round of the Gilmour Cup with the wind flags again not showing too much movement in the sunshine with only an occasional light breeze that varied from southwest to southeast during the afternoon accompanied by some light mirage.

         Graeme Bright was the last Target Rifle shooter down but he soon showed what was possible in the class starting off without losing a point and only conceding one point later in the afternoon to hold onto top score for the afternoon with a four point lead over Gordon Shepherd who lost a few points in the changing conditions. Ron Gibson started off reasonably with his first stage but lost momentum later on to finish another four points down with John Coghill finishing next down the list after also trailing in his second stage. Dennis Lavelle may have stayed middle of the pack but for a couple of sighting errors that cost the loss of ten points in total during his first stage of the day.

         The F Class group was again led by Jeff Eppleston who favours his short barrelled benchrest rifle for 300 yards and was not disappointed dropping only one point at each stage. Col Howell finished two points away after his second stage comeback not losing a point and gaining top individual stage with a one super centre advantage over Phil Mahon who was the only shooter to score above handicap for the range aggregate scores. Next came Geoff Willis trailing by three more points after claiming too many bulls’ eyes in the first stage followed by Graham Willis who was off his usual game on the day. Ben Wright struggled through an interrupted first stage losing points to a couple of wide shots early with Nick Webster not taming the size of his group until his second stage. Auskir Berryman pitted his hunting rifles against the target rifles as he gains more skills at target shooting.

         Next Saturday, 8^th August, we have a full day of shooting from 800 then 900yds for the Rutherford Memorial and T.W.Wilman Trophy.

Scores:
P Mahon 116.6 (4.25) 100,
G Bright 99.5 (0.75) 99.75,
C Howell 116.7 (3) 99.67,
G Shepherd 95.07 (4.5) 99.5,
J Eppleston 118.13 (0.75) 99.08,
G S Willis 113.5 (4) 98.17,
J Coghill 86.0 (12) 98,
R Gibson 91.5 (6) 97,
N Webster 104.2 (9.75) 96.42,
B Wright 109.1 (3) 95.83,
G P Willis 111.2 (2.5) 95,
D Lavelle 81.4 (12) 93,
A Berryman 86.

by Geoff Willis

All scores/plots can be found Here.