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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.
As with other data we have on this site we currently only collect data for the classified GR&P events. Namely:
T&P1
T&P2
Multi Target
Phoenix A
Bianchi
1500
Advancing Target
The reason is historic and may well change in the future. Collecting data from shoots around the country is difficult and time consuming. We have not settled on a consistent format which every meeting organiser complies to or understands. Hopefully as time progresses and match directors become more conversant with the tools available to them this will change
At the moment we only have accurate per-meeting scores data in an appropriate format going back to the beginning of 2010. Other scores data is listed as ‘historic’. It is possible this can be tidied up and may well be in the future. In the mean time what we currently have in a structured format is available for browsing and searching on-line.
Please consider this experimental at the moment – it may well have inconsistencies and bugs.
The NRA will be holding the next Open Day where visitors will be able to try shotgun, air rifle, fullbore rifle, sporting rifle, gallery rifle, laser clays, precision snap, practical and historical rifles to name but a few, all with one-to-one coaching.
The Gallery rifle elements of the Open day take place on Melville Ranges and concentrate primarilyon lever action rifles. GRSB is already well catered for on the Steels layout over on Stickledown ranges where the newly updates Ruger 10/22s are put to good use.
However, traditionally, GRCF shooting has not been too well catered for. We could do much better in this area to aid in the overall promotion of the discipline. The main sticking point has been people willing to volunteer for coaching and general running of the bays on Melville on the day.
So if anyone is willing to volunteer a day of their time on Saturday the 8th September to help out it would be appreciated by all and will allow you to put a bit back into the future of the sport and the gallery Rifle discipline. You won’t be out of pocket. A day rate of £55 will be offered to cover out of pocket expenses such as travel etc. If people are travelling long distances overnight accommodation on the Friday/Saturday is also possible.
National Shooting Centre, Bisley 27th and 28th October 2012
