The FDPC Rimfire Festival A Rimfire Festival held at FDPC’s Shepton Mallet range complex. Five matches – T&P1, Multi-Target, The Granet Match, The America Match and a 1020. Appropriate matches above will be classified. Entry[...]
The 2020 Spring Action Weekend The first of three newly revamped Gallery Rifle Action weekends held at Bisley throughout 2020 to encourage Gallery Rifle action shooting to include Centrefire and Smallbore, Long Barrelled Pistol and[...]
Budleigh Farm Speed Steel Challenge Falling plate target shooting competitions held at the Budleigh Farm Shooting ground in the glorious rolling hills of the Dartmoor National park in Devon. Designed to be both fun and[...]
The Army Target Shooting Club Open Meeting The Army Target Shooting (ATSC) Club’s annual Club Championships and Open Meeting is at a mid April timeslot for 2020. The meeting contains a mixture of ISSF, Black[...]
The 2020 Basildon Open Another three days for again 2020 – however a week later over the Early May Bank Holiday weekend. Basildon put on an excellent shoot with plenty of space to camp overnight[...]
Joint Services Pistol Club 2020 Spring Open Shorts Championships Fully classified Matches for Timed & Precision 1 Multi – Target Phoenix A CentreFire and Small Bore Gallery Rifle and Long Barrelled Revolver and Pistol matches[...]
The MATTERSEY Gallery Rifle OPEN Competitions for T&P and MT for LBR, LBP, GRCF, GRSB and Target Shotgun including Classic. 1500 for LBR, LBP, GRCF and GRSB. Entry forms – Online | PDF | MS[...]
The 2020 FDPC Western Winner FDPC’s Western Winner was reintroduced in 2017 and is now being run at their new range complex in Shepton Mallet. Events in 1500, 1020, Multi-Target and T&P1 will be on offer[...]
The 2020 Phoenix Meeting Something for everybody at the Phoenix. At its usual bank holiday slot at the end of May for the 2020 season Entry forms are available via the NRA web site. NRA[...]
The 2020 International 1500 Match at the Phoenix The International head to head 1500 match between teams from Great Britain, Ireland, Germany and South Africa.Share this:Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new[...]
The 140th Aberdeen Wapinschaw To be held at: Drums Ranges and Black Dog Ranges Saturday 13th to Sunday 14th June 2019 General Meeting Details and Full details of match specific Rules & Regulations are now[...]
The 2020 Southern Counties Gallery Rifle Shorts Competition The 2020 early Summer slot for this meeting at the Shepton Mallet Target Shooting Centre. A couple of weeks after the Phoenix but worth a look if[...]
The 2020 Derby Open 1500 and Shorts At the height of the Summer – a full event list of 1500, shorts (for all gun types) the HCNM match and, of course, the excellent BBQ. Overnight[...]
The Cottesloe Practical Shotgun Challenge The Cottesloe Heath Challenge (Bisley) will also be a round of the 2020 NRA Shotgun League. This match can be shot on either Saturday or Sunday with some places on[...]
The 2020 NASRPC Irish Open and IGRF Gallery Rifle Open CF Lever Action Rifle + SB Gallery Rifle – Individual & Team events Pistol & Shotgun Events Irish Leg of the IGRF International Matches in[...]
Scottish open Gallery Rifle Championships The 2020 Scottish Gallery Rifle and Pistol Championship will be held on the 11-12th July at JSPC’s Colmsliehill range where a series of short events will be held. The Championship[...]
NRA Imperial Historic Arms Meeting. Original or spirit of the original welcome at this meeting. A plethora of events for Rifle, Pistol and Gallery Rifle. Don’t think this meeting is just for the historians and[...]
The Gallery Rifle and Pistol meeting at the Imperial. The meeting contains a mixture of squadded trophy matches and unlimited entry events. The meeting will run from Wednesday to Sunday. Unlimited entry events will run throughout the meeting with[...]
The Welsh Open 1500 and Shorts Championships To be held at Haverfordwest Target Shooting Club – Pembrokeshire’s finest shooting ground. Free camping available – make a weekend of it. Entry forms now available: PDF Entry[...]
The 2020 Gallery Rifle National OPEN Championships Continuing with the new date for the GR National Open Championships for 2020. To avoid clashing with the August Bank Holiday weekend this has been kept at the[...]
Its been proposed the classification structure be looked at for a few events next season. The popular events of T&P1, Multi-Target and Advancing Target are currently offered in 3 classes for rifles. Its proposed they may benefit from 5. Bianchi is not very popular at the moment so its proposed knocking that back to 3. Also the 1020 event is gaining traction so offering this in 2 or 3 classes is also a possibility.
Additionally we have always classed people on their complete historic record. This isn’t really sensible any more so from 2020 the classification boundaries will be bounded to the last 5 or 3 years worth of scores. Which is better?
If anyone is interested some easy to visualize stats spreadsheets are here for people to look at –
For some the season is over. Traditionally the AAW has been the last ranking competition of the season. However two more events are now offered in November. For others the chance is there to get your averages up even higher.
Here are the declared teams shooting for England, Scotland and Wales at the head to head HCNM match on Saturday 31 August 2019 – Melville ranges, Bisley:
A late entry to the calendar but a fully classified meeting on offer. The 2019 Chelmsford Winter Action Weekend will be held over the weekend of the 16th and 17th November 2019.
For the first time in a very long time, Chelmsford Rifle Club is pleased to announce that it is hosting a full weekend of action shooting. Sadly no camping but plenty of parking and lunch will be included for all. Indoor shooting and a comfortable lounge to keep out of the cold if we have an early winter.
T&P1, Multi Target, 1020, WA48, in all categories. Possibly TP3 and Phoenix A if there is a call for it. Match to be held at CHELMSFORD (1944) RIFLE CLUB, Chelmsford, Essex. For more details contact Paul Joyce
The Derby Open took place from mid day Friday 21st June to Sunday 23rd June.
2019 was not a record breaker but there were 106 competitors and over 950 events shot. It was fantastic to see 14 new faces, some completely new to the competition circuit.
With it being our 50th anniversary we increased the budget for the prize table and I think you will agree that it was excellent with numerous high value prizes to be chosen. This was also due to the extraordinary support from the ten sponsors who supported the meeting. It is worth mentioning them by name (below) as they deserve our thanks and having confidence in our sport. Please support them in return.
The Home Countries International Match was won by Wales, congratulations. England won the Pistol and Revolver matches. Winner team members were presented with Brownells medals. The scores are included at the end of the results file.
The Man v Man LBP event was won by Ryan Wiggins with Gary Bowden second. The Man v Man rifle event was won by Jake Mossom with Chris West as runner up.
The Mini McQueen was won by Jake Mossom.
THANKS
The Derby Open is a team effort and would not be possible without the 30 or so Range Crew who worked unbelievably hard over the weekend. Special thanks go to Team Smoothy, Trim, Neil and other visitors for their help and not forgetting the guys in Stats who produced the final results in record time, and most importantly Pam & Mick on the BBQ.
Photos of the weekend will be on drpc1999.com very soon
We hope you all enjoyed everything, and the weather was OK too.
The Classification methodology for GR&P is defined on the Classifications page. They have always been based on highest achieved score for a particular gun type for a specific event.
One problem we have is there is no process for demotion. Once you hit a bullet score that class is where you stay. Apart from class break point reviews which do happen from time to time cementing people into a particular class has one or two flaws which have been recognised over the years.
It has been proposed that the classification system be changed from an all time historic record into a five year seasonal rolling window. So whichever class you are in for a particular gun type and event will be directly related to your recent (5 year) performance in that event and gun type.
There is no real reason not to introduce this method. However comments and opinions from the community are sought. If this rolling 5 year window had have been implemented for the 2019 season there is a spreadsheet linked here to illustrate how it would have impacted all shooters with a classification on the GRID.
Bianchi at the Phoenix meeting will consist of the ‘standard’ four elements – Barricades, Mover, Plates and Practical however the Practical match will be modified to cater for the Butt Zero range and space availability we have available to us. The past two or three seasons had seen the USM run instead of a practical match. The USM is now to be retired and the modified practical match run in its place
The modified practical match will replace the USM and the course of fire will be as follows:
Stage 1 10 metres
3 seconds 1 shot on each target
4 seconds 2 shots on each target
8 seconds 3 shots on each target
for the 8 second stage: – LBP, LBR: weak hand freestyle. GRCF, GRSB: weak shoulder
Stage 2 15 metres
4 seconds 1 shot on each target
5 seconds 2 shots on each target
6 seconds 3 shots on each target
Stage 320 meters (formerly 25 metres)
4 seconds 1 shot on each target
5 seconds 2 shots on each target
6 seconds 3 shots on each target
Stage 4 25 meters (formerly 50 metres)
5 seconds 1 shot on each target (formerly 7 sec)
6 seconds 2 shots on each target (formerly 10 sec)
7 seconds 3 shots on each target (formerly 15 sec)
4200 cards later the final ranking table is now available. Apologies for the delay but a mix up with some grid number threw the first set of rankings. Some of the closest end of year results on record. Norman Veitch and Keith cox become the first to shoot 4 possible scores at T&P1 SB at graded matches with Norman taking top place by 4 x’s ! T&P1 was as close with only 6 x’s separating the top 5, again Norman taking it by a single x. Norman has decided to take up LBP and surprise surprise took top place in both T&P and MT, again a first for T&P1 LBP of 1200 ex 1200.
Hopefully there are no errors in the tables, if there are PM me.
Challenge deadline next Wednesday evening – 7 November 2018
The last of the Gallery Rifle Action events is nearly upon us, the Autumn Action Weekend – Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October 2018. This will be the last opportunity of the year to shoot the range of matches on offer in GR&P, full-bore rifle, target shotgun and practical pistol at Bisley.
On Butt Zero on Saturday we will have Target Shotgun and Speed Steels matches all day. Sunday includes the 11th Round of the NRA Handgun League.
Elsewhere multi-positional full-bore shooting runs side by side with the 200 yd McQueen matches on Short Siberia on Saturday, with the increasingly popular Mini McQueen throughout the weekend on Time Limit.
This Meeting offers the opportunity for fun and competitive shooting for competitors of all levels, with the usual range of discounts to encourage new shooters to Bisley, the Under 25s and those looking to shoot more matches.
