RIFLE SHOOTING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 86, 24 November 1911, Page 5

RIFLE SHOOTING.

(By “Bislcy”.) Yesterday a team of eleven men from the Pohokura Rifle Club journeyed to meet the local Rifle Club on*the Stratford range. The morning was nob in the interests of shooting, but about twelve o’clock it cleared, and in the afternoon the match was fired. The conditions for shooting were anything but pleasant. The wind was anything from a rear right or left, and a deal in fish -tail at times. Some of the crack shots were beaten at times. The Pohokura team experienced a wind they never get on their own range. The scores nut up by both teams are exception; J I.V good, when the weather conditions are taken account of. Tire Stratford team Avon by 63 points, Stratford scoring 964 and Pohokura 901. Rifleman (lollop, of the Stratford team, topped the scores of the day with 95. The folloAving are the respective scores of both teams:—

Stratford. 200 500 GOO Tl. Rifleman II. Gollop 33 32 30 95 Ritchie 32 32 30 91 Henderson .. 32 32 29 93 C. Speck 34 31 25 90 Jackson 30 20 20 88 E. Brocklebank 31 20 28 88 A. Speck ... 31 20 28 88 Ferguson 20 28 20 80 W. Blocklebank 29 26 27 82 McMahon ... 31 28 22 81 Arden 20 2G 21 79 Total 311 322 301 961 Pohokura. 200 500 600 Tl. Rifleman McDonald 29 27 30 86 White 29 '30 27 86 Bush 31 28 27 86 Armstrong ... 31 28 20 85 Cronin 29 28 27 84 Conner 24 28 30 82 ” Rogers 30 27 25 82 Sandagger ... 31 23 23 82 Stockley 20 20 25 SO Martin 29 18 30 77 Kenna 26 25 20 71 Total 318 293 290 901