The PPC 1500 World Championships 2015

World PPC 1500Over the long weekend of the 13th to the 16th August at a shooting range in Hacksjöbanan, near Stockholm, Sweden the World PPC 1500 championships are being held.

Competed for every two years and mostly alternating between Northern and Southern hemisphere locations (the 2013 championships were held in Australia) this is an open pistol competition which attracts the world’s finest 1500 (the event) shooters.

The 1500 is a popular and challenging course of fire which is popular anyway on the GB GR circuit but one which was recently and enthusiastically advocated for revival by Ted George the current GB Tour Captain for the Sweden trip. “We are aware its difficult for many”, remarks Ted, “we can’t practice, train or even handle pistols in this country unless we restrict ourselves to the Long Barreled variants but this shouldn’t dent our enthusiasm for reviving the purer form of the discipline.”1500 PPC

With more or less 20 years passing since the last time we competed on home soil in this discipline its encouraging to see how many British pistol shooters are traveling to Sweden this week to compete. Thanks to the NRA who are fully endorsing a ‘Goodwill’ team and the English XX club who are backing an England Pistol team we will be competing and recording scores for both.

Keep an eye on the official web site for the meeting. For those interested in keeping more of a real time view of the range there are a few webcams streaming from the venue – find them here.

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