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Gallery Rifle News – Home Countries National Championships by Alan Whittle
The Gallery Rifle National Championships were held over the Bank Holiday weekend 27th/28th August 2011 and the Meeting hosts the Home International Gallery Rifle Match. The match is shot shoulder to shoulder on Bisley’s Melville Range on the Saturday afternoon of the Meeting.
Currently three of the four home countries, Scotland, Wales and England, field teams of five shooters in both small bore (GRSB) and centre fire (GRCF) classes. Team scores are the calculated by aggregating the best four scores in each class and adding the two class scores together to arrive at the overall team score.
The Timed and Precision One and Multi-target Matches are the chosen format for Home International encounters rather than the longer format of the 1500 Match usual for the European Internationals. One effect of using the short events is that mistakes at any stage cannot be easily recovered as they might over a longer course of fire, so the tension is heightened adding an air of suspense to the prize giving. The format also promotes access to international shooting by newcomers to gallery rifle as most of us started with the shorts events before trying out their long game.
On overall ability there was little between the contestants with just 84 points (out of a possible maximum 3360) seperating the three countries. On the day England came out on top by just 31 points over Scotland:
Election of NRA Gallery Rifle Sub-Committee Chairman
Neil Francis should also be congratulated for his selection (by ballot of members of the NRA with GR as their declared primary discipline) as Chairman of the NRA Gallery Rifle Sub-Committee. The GR Sub-Committee has the essential function of being the governing body for Gallery Rifle in the UK and maintaining the rule book under which all nationally classified GR events are shot. The Chairman of the GR Sub-Committee also has the responsibility for chairing the panel of selector for the GB Gallery Rifle Team.
Neil tells me he was inspired to take up shooting after watching the ‘Superstars’ television programme some 25 years ago. Now 45 years old, he lives in the West Country and shoots with Frome Club.
In addition to captaining and shooting with the England GR Team, Neil has also shot with the UK GR Team in 2009 and the GB GR Team in 2010. He is also in the 2011 GB Squad. Enjoying most GR events, Neil is also keen on the historic and classics and does some sporting clays shooting.
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Congratulations to the Neil Francis, Captain of England and his Team on their success.
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