The Mudgee team once again had done the set up work well, the range, target frames and camping areas were in shape for Friday 08.30.

Despite the threat of rain on Thursday, not a drop fell during the weekend. The 89 competitors over three days were able to enjoy the Windamere Regional Shooting Complex with fine & sunny conditions for three days of shooting.

After scrutineering & sign-in, all competitors were welcomed & briefed for a safe and enjoyable weekend.

Pistol competition began on Friday with 15 competitors, to shoot in four events across two classes of pistol. All Class 1 was completed before Class 2 took the line.

Andrew Prowse's “wheels fell off” at 7m what happend andy 275.06?

Robert Irving (this is not a misprint, “claims” shooting arm “damaged” due to RSI) 321.06.

Top Gun Pistol
This year Top Gun for Pistol was done on Class 1 as it is the main reason for the competition, across all pistol events, the medals awarded were:

Cadet / Training Rifle Match 18

After the pistol competition & lunch, sausage sandos (including onion & coleslaw) served up by Nicko, we got on with the combined .310 Cadet & .22 Trainer event.

27 competitors shot under light variable wind conditions, from 100m in to 50m, most scores were in keeping with the conditions but some were outstanding. The only separation in the top three was V bulls. Those who cross fired on to the wrong target lost some points but we know who you are!

Those who had other commitments packed up & moved on. The remainder moved back to the camping grounds to organise food & a selection of beverages, followed by “what if” stories.

08.00 saw the opening of scrutineering & sign-in, followed at around 09.15 by the briefing for Saturdays proceedings & 32 competitors welcomed for a safe and enjoyable weekend.

Standard Rifle

300m Deliberate event competition began, this shows who was sighted in & there was little wind so competition was very close across all grades.

Next was the 3P Core event, contested in the following grades;

A Graade Paul Wilkinson with a screamer 144.10, keep this up & your in Master grade (got to watch these older blokes) & Dave Toovey with 140.13 – still trying to stay in A grade.

Master Grade Rick Gleeson with 138.10 after a countback at 200m from Andy Prowse.

The NSW AGM got under way at 1630, once we got Kerry out of the shower,. See other report for discussion & meeting contents.

1900 Dinner on Saturday night was extremely well catered, with Lamb and Beef on the spit,  Jacket spuds & vegies, apple slice & custard, a selection of wines, etc. from Tom & Jan “The Presidents” and Dave. Mudgee serves up “good tucker” again.

Sniper & Tactical rifle day, shot on the mini core targets at 300m with certain cross winds, 15 shooters lined up for the competition. It helps if you watch the trees on the right side of the range.

F1 Class  Shot with original sniper rifles or faithful copies.

44.01 John Lewis (.303 Sniper)
44.00 Andrew Prowse (replica 6.5x55 sniper) very close Andy .01
38.01 Dick Antcliffe (.303).

F2 Class

This was a Mudgee clean up with:

54.04 Mick Toovey
52.01 Don Mackay
31.00 Darren Pearce, best part is it was Mick's rifle.
Nnormally if you share, the owner gets done by the others.

Tactical/J Class

60.08 Robert Irving
60.07 Craig Mahoney
58.06 Mick Toovey

Very good shooting for the equipment utilised on the day.

Tactical Challenge – the “fun match”

Mini core target at 300m, unlimited rounds on the bench behind the shooter, only one round at a time to be picked up, last 30 seconds to hit the balloon, no hit = no score!

43.03 Don Mackay
40.00 Craig Mahoney
38.00 Simon Ross 

Conclusion

My thanks must go to the Mudgee members who put on another great shoot and all those competitors who attended to make it all worthwhile.

Special mentions must be made for a dedicated crew who set up & ran State 2009.

In the weeks leading up to the shoot & over the three days of competition:

Mick (range clean up & general help, etc.)

Dasher (fire wood, even though we didn't use it, RO at tactical, etc.)

Nicko ( cooking the BBQ snags for lunches, etc.)

Ben (scrutineering firearms all three days, etc.)

Jeanette (putting up with Ben & me on the days of the shoot)

Tim (score board, etc.)

Don (range set up, RO & target scoring events, etc.)

Dave (range set up, toilets, targets, planning, etc.)

Rob P (chief scorer, range set up, etc.)

Tom & Jan (all the food & a superb dinner on Saturday night, etc.)

You might note a lot of “etc.” this includes (amongst other things) reminders, verbal abuse, thinking clearly, RO duties, scoring targets, checking paperwork, rubbish bin & ranges clean up after event & just being there to help.

If I have missed anyone, I apologise for the omission & hope you will remind me.

A big thank you to Lawrance Ordnance for once again sponsoring the Shoot patches.

Lastly but not least Highland Sports for supplying an enormous amount of prizes which were raffled at the presentation, there will be a lot of very clean firearms in a week or two.

Our next event is the National Championships to be held at CASINO in the deep north of NSW over October 16th-18th . See our web site for details, or click on the PDF link.

Regards,

Andy Prowse

CSD Mudgee & District Branch