The 2024 Phoenix Meeting Something for everybody at the Phoenix. The 2024 Phoenix meeting is its 27th anniversary The meeting will be held across its traditional long weekend slot, 23th – 26th May. Entry forms [...]
The 143rd Aberdeen Wapinschaw General Meeting Details and Full details of match specific Rules & Regulations are now available Please be invited to the Wapinschaw competition which is following the same format as previous[...]
The 2024 Derby Open 1500 and Shorts Entry Forms here and via the Derby Website Entry Form Please find the entry form for the 2024 Derby Open Share this:Click to email a link to[...]
The 2024 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 2024 Scottish Gallery Rifle and Pistol Championship will be held on the 5-7th July at JSPC Ranges near Galashiels where a series of short events will be held. The[...]
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 Thursday 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. 2th – 4th August 2024 This year we’re happy to get back to hosting a[...]
The Cottesloe Practical Shotgun Challenge The Cottesloe Heath Challenge (Bisley) will also be a round of the 2024 NRA Shotgun League. This match can be shot on either Saturday or Sunday with some places on[...]
The Derby Handgun Challenge The Club is pleased to announce that for 2024 the DERBY HANDGUN CHALLENGE will be held on Saturday and Sunday August 17/18. This Open event will be for LBPs and LBRs[...]
The 2024 Gallery Rifle National OPEN Championships A weekend to compete and be crowned a National Champion. This event is predominantly for Gallery Rifles, (Centrefire and Smallbore) and Long Barrelled Revolvers and Pistols. Competitions available[...]
The 2024 Police Meeting @ Bisley A plethora of shooting events on offer for this meeting. To include On Melville Ranges – Advancing Target, T&P1, Multi target for both GRCF, GRSB, LBP and LBR Black[...]
JSPC 2024 Autumn 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 available Details and[...]
The SLG Bisley 1500 and Shorts A return to Melville in late September for some 1500 and shorts matches organized by SLG Bisley. Just a one day event but cheap accommodation should be easily available[...]
Budleigh Farm Rimfire Festival 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 challenging it[...]
Gallery Rifle & Pistol Intro Course This course will introduce you to specific techniques needed for Gallery Rifle and Pistol shooting at a Club level, as well as providing guidance to those wishing to progress[...]
The 2024 Cornish Open New for 2024: The Duchy Shooting Association is proud to present the Cornish Open. This is a classified open meeting and follows the rules in the NRA Gallery Rifle & Pistol[...]
The 2024 Autumn Target Shotgun Festival @ Bisley The format for this increasingly popular weekend competition is: Saturday morning – T&P1 and Multi-Target (all classes), NRA Embassy Cup. Sunday, all day – Practical Shotgun. To[...]
The 2024 Trafalgar Meeting Shooters with a historical inclination will turn towards the Trafalgar Meeting as memories of the Imperial fade. “Spirit of the Original” is the ethos of the meeting so don’t be fooled[...]
The 2024 Autumn Action Weekend This is the last of the years main Gallery Rifle Action Weekends that encourages Gallery Rifle shooting for the Gallery Rifle community who visit Bisley. This meeting includes competitions for[...]
The IGRF Gallery Rifle Championships (and 2024 German Open) Held at the Leitmar Range Complex in Germany. Also including Shorts and 1500 matches. Share this:Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click[...]
The IGRF World Championships Germany 8-10 November 2024 Share this:Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on Twitter (Opens in[...]
The Bishop Auckland Open New for 2024: At Bishop Auckland Gun Club More details to follow The team look forward to seeing you all Enter on-lineShare this:Click to email a link to a friend (Opens[...]
** Provisional** The FDPC Smallbore Challenge An end of season Smallbore match for GRSBs and LBPs held at FDPC’s Shepton Mallet range complex. Five matches – T&P1, Multi-Target, 1020, Multi-Target 3, Phoenix A and a[...]
Joint Services Pistol Club 2025 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[...]
Scottish open Gallery Rifle Championships The 2025 Scottish Gallery Rifle and Pistol Championship will be held on the 4-6th July at JSPC Ranges near Galashiels where a series of short events will be held. The[...]
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Somebody pointed out the other week (and apparently last year) that the Phoenix Booklet did not contain any record scores for the Timed and Precision 3 match.
For those unfamiliar, T&P3 tends only to be run at the Spring and Autumn meetings at Bisley – although Derby have also offered the event at their open meeting over the last couple of seasons.
T&P3 is an LBP and LBR only event. The full course of fire can be found in the GR&P handbook.
Trawling through the stats going back to 2008 the record scores for the T&P2 are below.
It has been proposed that event organisers and match directors should have the option of running the Multi-Target match as a ‘walkdown’. This meaning each of the four 6 shot practices should be shot back to back and the whole match scored just once at the end of the process.
Recall the course of fire for the Multi-Target match – generally shot in 4 practices as below: Competitors are scored and patched after each practice.
Practice 1 25m: 6 shots LHT in 15 secs
Practice 2 20m: 3 shots on each target in 10 secs
Practice 3 15m: 3 sec exposures for 2 shots per exposure on the RHT
Practice 4 at 10m: 3 shots on each target in 8 secs
It is a fairly short course of fire – just 24 shots in all and making use of up to six target faces when using the traditional method of shooting it. The maximum number of shots on any one target is six.
Shot as a walkdown each target finishes with 12 shots and only two targets are used. Finding and scoring these shots is no problem. Ties are decided on X count as usual and then either on the LHT score (majority of shots from furthest distances) or just a simple countback of 5s, 4s, 3s etc. These parameters should be enough to determine a higher score but a further option if absolutely required would be to use outward gauging.
Some informal and smaller matches already utilise this course of fire and the German Open always shoots the match under these conditions. There were no ties or scoring problems in the recently held 2012 open.
On this basis there should be no issue with running classified Multi-Target matches using the ‘walkdown’ method. There are many advantages in fact. Less targets and patches are used, the flow of the competition is more natural, scoring is easier and quicker and the whole match can be shot in less than 15 minutes. For event organisers and match directors pushed for range time and space this method should be actively encouraged – you will get more shooters through!
Scorecards and stats packages will have to be modified slightly to cater for the change. Scorecards are easy to change – a combined one is shown below:
Stats experts will have to adjust forms and decision logic to allow for the results to be input and spat out respectively. Not too hard a job for those so naturally inclined.
Rule B6.6.1 in the Gallery Rifle & Pistol Handbook relates to the standing unsupported position.
B6.6.1 Standing with gun held by one or both hands. All portions of the shooter’s clothing, body and gun must be clear of artificial support.
It is true to say a competitor complies with the intention of this rule when they stand with both arms free of any external contact. They are truly shooting, with their arms unsupported.
It has been suggested that rule B6.1 be enhanced to explain to competitors that support configurations of the style outlined below are unacceptable.
Unacceptable support configurations :-
Locking their elbows into the body and supporting the barrel with straight fingers or clenched fist.
Locking their elbows into the body and supporting the barrel that they have added a support ‘platform’ to – similar to the facility that three positional shooters utilise.
This three positional shooters platform is about 5 inches high and bridges the gap between the ‘locked in elbow ,arm’ and the underside of the barrel. It can be argued this ‘platform’ breaches rule A3.2.3 [1]
To some this ‘locking’ the elbow of the non trigger arm into the waist / hip shelf is gaining support and an element of stability that is not in the spirit of the rule. It has been asked if we would consider an amendment to rule B6.6.1 to outlaw this practice.
[1] A3.2.3 All devices or equipment which may facilitate shooting, but which are not mentioned specifically in these rules, or which are contrary to the spirit of these rules, are forbidden. The Meeting Director, Assistant Meeting Director or any range official shall have the right to examine any competitor’s equipment.
The German Open and IGRF International 1500 matches between Great Britain and Germany took place at Leitmar ranges on Sunday the 11th November.
This year just a head to head affair as, sadly, the Ireland team could not travel to compete. The Underlever competition was a traditional head to head match whilst the the Smallbore event was a concurrent offering. In both cases teams of 5 compete with the weakest score being dropped.
Great Britain secured comfortable victories in both 1500 events
Now that the end of the season has arrived thought it would be a good idea to look at what the ranking table would have looked like.
We have been asked for a ranking table for classics, Pistols & Revolvers in shorts, see no reason why not as these are shot at matches away from Bisley so plenty of chances to improve your scores. Maybe a National badge award if you are in top 50/20/10.
The leagues show best four scores in the past 18 months.
The proposal is to run a ranking for T&P1 & MT for SB, CF, Revolvers and Pistols as well as 1500 in both SB & CF starting in March 2013 with the last shoot being AAW. We will use the scores from graded matches over an 16 month time frame, which will mean that at the end of the season it will be scores from July 2012-Oct 2013.
THE 2012 SOUTH AFRICAN GALLERY RIFLE INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONAL MATCH
Between the 5th and 6th of October 2012, South Africa hosted its first international invitational match for the discipline of Gallery Rifle Shooting. The shoot was held at the Eeufees shooting range, Voortrekkerhoogte, Pretoria. Teams came from the United Kingdom, Germany and the host country South Africa. Unfortunately, due to other commitments, the team from Ireland was unable to attend on this occasion, but we look forward to hosting them in the future.
S A Hunt Sport Shooting, the custodians of the S A Gallery Rifle Shooting Federation, presented this match with full sanctioning of the International Gallery Rifle Federation (IGRF). The competition which ran over a three day period featured individual events on the first two days with an international team match on the final day.
The events featured consisted of precision bulls eye target events held at 25m and 50m for both rim fire rifles and centre fire lever action rifles. Timed & Precision 1 – a modified version of the PP1 shoot, Multi-Target and the flagship event, the “1500”, this latter being shot as the main international match.
The results of this first historical event are as follows:
Team Matches:
Multi Target
Small Bore
Centre Fire
Great Britain
446
Great Britain
463
South Africa
430
South Africa
460
Germany
416
Germany
451
Timed & Precision 1
Small Bore
Centre Fire
Great Britain
1184 (48x)
Germany
1199
South Africa
1184 (46x)
South Africa
1197 (82x)
Germany
1155
Great Britain
1197 (69x)
The International Matches:
The 1500
Small Bore
Centre Fire
South Africa
5811
South Africa
5912
Great Britain
5809
Great Britain
5808
Germany
5749
Germany
5749
A full set of individual scores can be found over in the Results section.
The match director, Nic Roets, would like to thank all participants, individuals and everybody that contributed to the success of this event. Overall, the event was an unqualified success. It further strengthened the bonds of sportsmanship and friendship between the participating nations.
The South African team will now continue training for the first formal world championship gallery rifle shoot to be held at Bisley, England in 2013, where they will be representing South Africa for the first time in full Protea colours.
Nic Roets
Secretary General of the IGRF
Manager: Training and Sport Shooting SAHGCA
Results and some photos from the Mattersey Bianchi shoot held over the weekend of the 29th and 30th September are now available. Good weather prevailed – it never rained until all the shooting had finished. Thanks to Malc, Dale and all the Mattersey guys for accommodating us.
National Shooting Centre, Bisley 27th and 28th October 2012
The online entry for the Autumn Action Weekend is now available via the link on the front page of the NRA website or available to download
Don’t forget to bring your Firearm Certificate and your competency certification card as you will be required to produce one or both before you can shoot.
Please let me know as soon as you can if you are able to help out during the Weekend.
As well as NRA qualified RCOs we also are very happy to have any other helpers, regardless of experience, to lend a hand. If you have not worked on a range crew before you will learn a lot and contribute to the success of the meeting
There will be a day or two prior to the meeting for ROs to shoot their events. Food and accommodation will be provided as well in line with the number of days you can give us.
Here is the link to the on line RO registration form. Please use it as it makes the process of collecting all the data much easier.
Eye protection
Eye protection is mandatory. Shatterproof glasses must be worn which provide adequate protection at the sides as well as the front. If they do not, you must use additional side protection in the form of slip on shields or similar. Slip on side shields will be available at reception with profits going to a charity for visually impaired shooters.
Aldershot Mini McQueen
It’s back by popular demand as we’ve managed to squeeze it in on Melville for a short period. Limited spaces are available for a pretty demanding event. All you need is a .22 rifle with or without (!) a rest and the absolute certainty of your 50m zero as the targets are a bit on the small side.
As many know we publish the Gallery Rifle and Pistol Handbook on an annual basis and for the last 4 to 5 years have incorporated the Phoenix Handbook into the same self contained volume. The plan is the same for the 2013 season and its about now the work starts.
If anyone wants to help, offer feedback, moans, groans, gripes or any sort of constructive critique of the rulebook let me know. Yes – rules are rules and we have to do this – be thankful we are not the ISSF with their rifle and pistol rule changes proposals for the 2013 to 2016 session!
The current Handbook and Phoenix booklet will be updated for the 2013 season. The 2013 drafts are on-line now for comment, critique and updates.
Anyone wanting to comment on these please contact me. You will need a Google account to add or amend content. Let me know what it is and I’ll add you to the 2013 editorial team. If you don’t have a Google account – just go get one. Takes a few minutes and its free.
Just a reminder. The last few shoots of the 2012 season for the smaller regional venues and and all well worth booking into your diary.
On the 22nd September we have the SLG Bisley 1500 + shorts. This one held on Melville ranges at Bisely and all are invited back to the Spott for drinks and a BBQ. Should be a good day’s shooting and a good relaxed social event to finish it off.
On the 23rd September the Budleigh TSC Rimfire Festival will be taking place at Budleigh Farm, Moretonhampstead. A 300 round Steel Challenge/falling plate match.
The German Open held at Leitmar in Germany over the weekend 10th – 11th November. GB and Ireland will be travelling with teams to compete against Germany in the third and final IGRF International match of the year.
The Royal Mail and the Transportation of Firearms and component parts
The Royal mail is proposing to prohibit firearms and parts, including air-sun parts, triggers, and magazines from their postal service. This could have serious implications; the returning faulty rifles, triggers for service, buying spares, need I go on. Anything posted after November will be destroyed. Time is short; submissions must be in by 17th September.
A Consultation Document has been published. Members of the public can respond to this document. Deadline for responses is: 10am Monday 17th September 2012.