Rimfire and Air-Rifle Benchrest The Portishead ‘Brass Monkey’ Open by Carl Boswell


The all-important range crew


A few names have really started to pop up as new shooters to watch - like Tony Male, who stormed to take both the Light Varmint (Hunter) and Heavy Varmint air rifle matches with extremely good scores. Thea Bradley is also a new junior


Keenan wind-flag


who shot extremely good scores and another name to watch out for in the future. Being a proud father, my own son Achille shot extremely well in his first match after just three and a half months of shooting the sport. Not quite medal winning but his scores were comparable to a lot of adults - so chuffed for him! He has got a lot of time to develop!


Ken dishing out the medals


To be honest, you are likely to come across some extremely good shooters at an event like this, plus a few surprises when they get beaten by a new face. It happens in all sports and so the likelihood of learning something from your own and others shooting during a match is highly probable.


Ron Harding


Head-to-head matches are the key to this learning process, as this is where shooters share ideas, thoughts, new designs, show new rifles, etc. It is also where you start to make your own mind up about the direction you may take in the sport - what new piece of equipment you might buy or how you may train to be that little bit better next time.


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The scores represent some intense shooting, with some that were very close. It was nice to see Ron Harding picking up a silver medal in the air rifle events and Colin Renwick getting another gold in the air-rifle event.


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