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second year running, there would have been more but unfortunately some schools got their dates and times wrong!
NRA News from Heather Webb
So much has been going on here since the Imperial, it is difficult to remember it in any clarity. Fortunately there are plenty of places to get the results from, so here goes.
We started with the Service Rifle events, which were supported by overseas teams from Australia, Canada, South Africa and Oman and some 130 competitors took part.
The winners of Her Majesty the Queens Medals were: for the Royal Navy/Royal Marines, Lt DEA Anderson; Territorial Army, Sgt David Fenwick; for the Army, Sudin Gurung; for the Royal Air Force, Sqn Ldr David Vick.
The Methuen Trophy Inter Service Team Shoot was won by the Corps of Royal Signals.
The Inter-Services Cadet Rifle Meeting was very successful; there were 677 cadets attending from 132 teams, including the Royal Canadian Army Cadet National Rifle Team. The winning team in the Team Grand Aggregate was B Coy Durham ACF with a score of 955 and 63 V bulls and Sgt S Ireson of Dorset ACF won the Bossom, the individual prize, with a score of 250 and 39 V bulls.
At the Schools Meeting there were 48 teams, from 46 schools, and there were 554 cadets. 31 of those schools participated in the Ashburton Shield which was won by Epsom College with a score of 762.40, beating Cheltenham College into second place by two points. Epsom College also won the Garry Trophy.
There were 172 competitors at the Historic Arms weekend who fired 682 match cards over 124 different competitions. Siberia 100m shooting was tried out for the first time and whilst the take up was not great it will be tried for another year.
There was, for the second year in succession, a small increase in the number of competitors shooting at the Imperial Pistol and Gallery Rifle Meeting. Team and aggregate entries remained about the same, but there were 1,400 re-entries in the medal events, a significant increase over 2010. The number of school cadets and teams competing on Melville Range was up for the
In the Match Rifle events the Hopton was won by Robert Lygoe, beating Nick Tremlett by one point on 987 with 107 V bulls.
The Elcho was won by Scotland beating England by three points for the third year in a row. This last happened from 1930 to 1932. I’m sure there were a few sore Scottish heads the following day!
Overall Target and Match Rifle has shown 1207 entries, a reduction of 119 compared to last year, and 198 of those are from overseas, 54 down on last year which is probably due to the lack of an Australia Match and the Palma and World Championships being held in Australia in October later in the year. The Grand Aggregate has had 941 entries which is down by 102 on the preceding year and we have seen teams and individuals from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Guernsey, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jersey, Kenya, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago and the USA. 368 Under 25s were present including 283 Under 21s. The oldest competitor was John Wright at 87 and the youngest was Cadet T Dowd at 14. Just goes to show how our sport spans the age ranges.
Thirty-year old Ed Compton (left) of the Sussex Rifle Association won the Queen’s Prize with 297.35 on an afternoon of tempestuous head on winds
that wrought havoc with the field on
Stickledown. Ed had only shot in the St Georges and the Queen’s Prize this meeting and apparently had been considering giving up his FAC! Bet he’s given that some more thought…… The other interesting fact was that he borrowed Glyn Barnett’s jacket to shoot in, so the jacket is now GM3 as Glyn has won the Queens prize twice. Wonder how much that would go for on eBay or if it’s worth keeping a few years and then onto Antiques Roadshow!!
The top four places of the Queen’s Prize (900 & 1000yds) were: 1st E Compton (Sussex) 297.35; 2nd R. Riley (ATSC) 297.30; 3rd P Patel (Old Epsomians) 295.41; 4th J Corbett (AUS) 295.39.
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