RIFLE SHOOTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1939, Page 9

RIFLE SHOOTING

MASTERTON-OPAKI CLUB.

BRILLIANT SHOOTING BY H. R. SMITH. The highlight of Saturday’s shooting was the outstandingly brilliant shooting of H. R. Smith who, continuing after scoring a possible at 600yds, compiled 15 consecutive bullseyes, his last shot being a bare whisker out of the bull. With this performance Smith now leads for the Kummer Cup and with good scores at the previous range headed the list for the day. Smith’s total score at 600yds is believed to be a record for the Fairview range, considered by all shooters as a difficult one, and the oldest members have no recollection of an equal performance. R. J. King also compiled a possible, his being at 300yds and, carrying on, added two more.

Conditions could not be considered of the easiest. drifting smoke from burnings-off made visibility somewhat obscure occasionally and at the longest range a slight mirage was in evidence. Scores: —

800yds (single) and 900yds (double). On February 12 the club will defend | possession of the Tansey Shield at Papawai range.

300 300 yards 100 Hpc. Tl. H. K. Smith .... 46 47 50 — 143 I. Sutherland .... 43 48 44 5 140 W. H. Kummer .. 44 47 44 4 139 J. Curtin 46 43 48 1 138 H. V. Donald .... 41 48 43 6 138 H. King 46 47 45 — 138 R. V. Mason .... 45 42 41 7 135 D. P. Donald .... 44 48 43 — 135 C. M. Pickering 44 46 44 — 134 H. H. Mawley .... 45 46 43 — 134 R. J. King 42 50 42 — 134 C. G. Monro .... 40 41 42 10 133 T. Oakly 44 41 42 a 132 V. E. Donald .... 43 48 41 — 132 J. Bouzaid 39 43 43 6 131 P. Russell 39 47 41 4 131 G. W. Vennell 40 45 39 7 131 D. G. McKenzie 44 39 45 — 128 Next Saturday’s ranges will be