The Welsh Gallery Rifle Championships

**Still Places Left – Still Time to Enter**

Don’t forget all – the next Classified Open meeting in the calendar is the Welsh Open.

The Welsh Open: Held at Pembrokeshire’s finest shooting ground, – at Haverfordwest.

After a modest but very enjoyable inaugural event in 2012 the Welsh Gallery Rifle Club, Haverfordwest Target Shooting Club and the Welsh RA invite all competitive Gallery Rifle shooters back to this beautiful corner of South West Wales to cement this event into the calendar.

According to our man in the know and all knowing Match Director, Dave Meaby, slots are filling up quite quickly at the moment, if you wish to shoot at a particular time please advise soonest or he advises he will have to slot you in as best as he can.

Entry forms available to download now

GALLERY RIFLE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

24th and 25th August 2013

*-* On-line entry now available *-*

The online entry form for this meeting has been delayed.  As we are running behind schedule this year, the downloadable form is available now.  I anticipate the online facility will be available early next week so please check the NRA website regularly.  (Please don’t swamp Shooting Division with enquiries about when it will be ready.)

As we are running late, the late entry penalty will not apply for this meeting.

In case you don’t know already, Sally Philcox has left the NRA so the biscuit/chocolate surcharge will be suspended.  I will certainly miss the 100% support Sally has given me and the meetings over the years.  A very hard act to follow.

Please still use the usual email, gallerysquadding@nra.org.uk, (not the one sending the email) for enquiries as it will be monitored by Shooting Division.
Many British championships are fought over this weekend and this is your chance to either repeat the successes of previous years or to come to the front for the first time.

On Melville on the Saturday afternoon, the national teams from England, Scotland and Wales will fight it out shoulder to shoulder in a short events aggregate in the Gallery Rifle Home Countries National Match.  Please do come along and support your team – Scotland seem on top form this year and will be hard to beat.  The first shot down range will be at 16:30.

Finally, a request for volunteers to make the whole thing possible.  If you have done it before, you know what to expect, but if you have not, food and accommodation are provided as well as an opportunity to shoot your events on the Thursday and Friday preceding.  You do not have to be an NRA RCO or event experienced – it’s a great way to get involved and you will learn a lot about what it’s like to be just behind the firing point instead of on it.

If you are able to help out, please  fill in the online form which only takes a couple of minutes.

I want to volunteer for the National Championships

I hope to see lots of you there in the sun in a few weeks.

Good shooting!

Chris Farr

Meeting Director

The Derby 2013 Open

Another excellent weekend of competitive shooting marking the 2013 Derby Open as a firmly cemented waypoint into the calendar of the competitive oriented Gallery Rifle shooter.

What more can be offered – outstanding range facilities, an excellent clubhouse, (truly second to none!) plenty of events and plenty of people to compete against – on or off the range.

The event count, prize table,  excellent administration and RO-ing which the Derby crew put inordinate amounts of effort into is well appreciated. The beer festival keeps getting bigger, better and more varied and the weather never fails to astound.

There were more tents on the 200m range than Glastonbury. Making a weekend of Derby in high Summer is highly recommended.

Results and Photos

…….in the usual places……