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Bathurst Rifle Club Inc, 16th February 2019, J.Wilde Memorial Trophy, 700yards.

          Bathurst Rifle Club commenced the J.Wilde Memorial Trophy last Saturday from 700yds in what appeared to be quite benign conditions. However on closer inspection, the light wind resulted in  a heavy mirage regularly switching either side of wind zero and at times showing against the direction of the flags. There would be very little improvement in club championship scores happening in these conditions.

         The performance of the day came from our newest and least experienced member, Luke Engles. Shooting in F Class, using the club rifle and being coached by Graham Willis, Luke scored 55.2 and 55.1 to be the only competitor capable of stringing two decent scores together and recording his first top score off rifle. This is a remarkable performance considering that this was only his fourth competition shoot ever. It certainly indicates an excellent ability and bodes well for his future in long range target shooting.

         More experienced competitors, Col Howell  (57.3) and Graham Willis (56.2) were able to fire individual stages that were quite competitive, but could not match the consistency of Luke.

         In Target Rifle, the results were mediocre, although in the first stage , Steve Williams fired 49.3, only faltering on his second last shot. Despite coming back to the field with a second stage 46.1, this was still good enough for the win in this section.

Scores F Class

L.Engles 55.2 – 55.1   110.3

G.Willis 53.2 – 56.2    109.4

C.Howell 45.0 – 57.3  102.3

N.Webster 52.1 – 50.2  102.3

A.Ogilvie  44.0 – 51.1  95.1

Scores Target Rifle

S.Williams 49.3 – 46.1  95.4

G.Bright 48.1 – 45.1  93.2

G.Shepherd 43.1 – 48.1  91.2

D.Lavelle 44.0 – 47.1  91.1

D.Crimston  46.3 – 41.3  87.6

R.Gibson  41.1 – 42.0  83.1

by Graeme Bright

    All scores/plots can be found Here.