The West Kent Rifle League is pleased to announce the 42nd Annual Prince William of Wales national individual & Paris shoot which is a shoot is in five classes and a junior section The shoot consists of three Short Range targets (BM1989 to be used) being shot during November and December. Entry Fee £5.00. The pairs shoot will be shot concurrent. Fee £4.00 a Pair.
Kent Cup- Schools & Units only. This is for teams of 8 with the best s to count Free Entry. Concurrent with main event. The juniors to be under 18 at 1st November 2023.
The information and entry form can be found on this link:
RIFLE PATHWAY EXPRESSION OF INTEREST DATES
The window for athletes to apply for a place on the 2023/24 Rifle Pathway will open soon. As with previous years, all athletes wishing to be considered for the Rifle Pathway will need to apply. Relevant information will be gathered via an online form to get the process started. more information is available on this link.
Entry Form available here:
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The NSRA 50m Championships is due to take place on 16th – 18th June 2023.
The meeting consists of four Championships shot under NSRA and ISSF Rules for Prone and 3 Position shooting.
The main competitions are shot under NSRA Rules, but there are concurrent competitions under ISSF Rules for those whose equipment is compliant.
Shooters that normally shoot Prone under NSRA Rules can take part in the main competition for this event.
Entries now close on 5th June 2023
The entry form to this event is on the membership portal, Just Go.
Seonaid sailed through the qualifying rounds at the European Shooting Confederation’s European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, to position herself at the top of the leader boards heading into the medal matches.
She led the pack through the medal qualifier match, before an extremely tense Gold medal match saw Norway’s Jeanette Duestad claim victory by a narrow margin.
BOAG was a hugely successful event, we'll be writing up a summary of the event in the next edition of On Target, but for now, a full image gallery is available here.
Photos by: theshorey.com / @theshorey
Rich Comins from Forest Lodge Guns of Wragby Lincolnshire has presented Development Officer Dave Carter of Lincolnshire Bell Target League with two Gamo Junior Hunter.177 Air rifles. These will be used by the league and their teams to get more juniors into the sport. Rich said, “we are pleased to support bell target; it has done a lot to get people into the sport and is open to all ages and abilities and we will continue to support them in the future.”
Congratulations to New Zealand for winning all the matches; Senior, Women's, Men's, Juniors, and Veterans.
The New Zealand team shot their match on the Palmerston North range at the Manawatu Small-bore Rifle Association on 21st August 2022.
Congratulations to Daniel Lake, Essex, posting 300 in the Men's team, and New Zealand's Junior Team Captain, Shania Harrison-Lee, Horowhenua, who posted 300 in the New Zealand Junior Team. Each will receive a Home Counties Coordinating Committee medal.
Our thanks go to Roy Attenborough for scoring the Home Counties' targets.
Full results available here =>
.Seonaid McIntosh has become the first GB athlete ever to win gold in Air Rifle at an ISSF World Cup after a stunning performance in Egypt.
With a qualification score of 634.0, the Scottish shooter had secured a new personal best and a new British record before she’d even reached the final in Cairo.
The 2023 Great Britain Dewar Team will be selected from a shoulder-to-shoulder trial, held at Appleton Rifle Club in Cheshire on Saturday, 8th July 2023. The Dewar Match will be fired on the same day as the trial. Please note, invitations to the trial are restricted to individuals who are British Citizens or UK residents and are either an Individual (full) member, Junior/FTE member, or Life member of the NSRA.
More information can be found here:
This year’s Short Range Postal Benchrest Championships will be shot this spring and will take the established form of a two-stage competition. The first stage will be in classes, 40 shots at 20Y or 25Y, classes being structured according to entry and the final will again be 60 shots to decide on the champion. We have revised the prize structure and entry fee to bring Benchrest in line with other postal British Championship events.
The entry fee will be £6.00 and entries close on Wednesday 15th February. Stage 1 prizes will be an NSRA Gold Medal to each class winner. The Final prizes will be NSRA medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place with an embroidered Champion’s Badge to the champion.