It has been a very busy couple of weeks on the Castlemaine Rifle Range. The local club ran the first event of the Victorian Precision Rifle Series with lots of shooters competing from Victoria and interstate. The biggest for some time. Local shooters performed very well.
The next big event was ‘The Classic and Military Shoot’ run in conjunction with the Kyneton Rifle Club. Shooting was from 300 and 500 yards using old historic rifles, the most popular being S.M.L.E, .303 and Mauser rifles of many different types.
Winners on the day were Kyneton’s Peter Pearce in ‘Classic Rifle A’ from Castlemaine’s Chris Jolme. ‘Classic Rifle B’ was won by William Green from Kyneton with Adam McLennan, Kyneton second and third place to Robert Pearce also from Kyneton.
‘Military Rifle A’ was won by Andrew Deans from the Military Rifle Club with Adam Stephens second from the Military Rifle Club and in third place Castlemaine’s James Dolphin.
‘Military B’ was won by Kyneton’s Charlie Poskus with second place to Castlemaine’s Mick Goritchan and third place to Castlemaine’s David Perry.
Glenn Woodhatch, representing our major sponsor, The Bendigo RSL was on hand to present the trophies. Greg Penna from the Golden City Collectors Association and Mark Bickham from Smith’s Outdoors were also present and the clubs thank them for their support.
It was good to be able to have a “live fire” of many of the older firearms no longer seen and a great display in the clubhouse of historic guns and equipment used on the range since its beginning in 1861.
Today, Friday March 31 the Castlemaine Rifle Club is very proud to be hosting ‘The Victorian Police and Emergency Services Games’ at Castlemaine.
This is the first time the event has been held at Castlemaine and will bring many members and their families from the Victoria Police, Ambulance Services and Fire Services to Castlemaine.
It will be a busy weekend as Saturday April 1 is also the third stage of the Club’s 300 metre championship.
For more information on the sport of big bore rifle shooting, call the Captain on 5474 2552 or see Max at Castlemaine Fresh.