Rifle Shooting

Grey River Argus, 16 November 1948, Page 8

Rifle Shooting

A special handicap competition shoot was held by the Westport Rifle Club on the pakahi range at the week-end when two sighters and seven shots to count were fired at ranges of 300, 500 and 600 yards. Conditions were fairly tricky at times, the fresh easterly wind at 300 yards changing to moderate to fresh from the south-west at the longer ranges. At 600 yards some details fired in heavy rain, and a poor light. Don Marr shot well to record the best score off the rifle, 99, including, an excellent 34 at 600 yards. Next Sunday a bus will leave the Army Drill Hall at 7 a.m. for Murchison, where a friendly match will be held with the Defence Rifle Club there. Leading scores in the weekly shoot

were: — 300 500 600 yds yds yds Hp. Tl. Don Marr 31 34 34 1 100 J. R. Keoghan 33 34 31 1 99 L. Hutchison 33 32 31 2 98 N. Palmei' 33 34 28 3 98 B. H. Flynn 30 31 27 8 96 J. J. Rossiter 28 32 27 13 100 W; Edge 29 27 29 15 100 L. Edge 27 28 29 16 100 G. White 26 28 29 7 90 D. Turner 27 26 28 15 96 F. Kingston 21 31 20 27 99 E. Russell 28 28 16 14 86 F. Carruthers 21 25 10 30 86 W. Gibbs 20 25 19 30 94 K. Cooper 16 24 15 30 85