Castlemaine Rifle Club members contested the ‘Tom and Alby Cups’ on April 11.
This event honours two of rifle shooting’s champions.
Tom Hollinger and Alby Jackson both had great shooting careers right up to Olympic standard. When Williamstown Rifle Range was closed they joined the Castlemaine Rifle Club and introduced 300 metre shooting, which has become very popular. It is quite a unique event as it combines shooting over both imperial and metric distances.
The first range is 300 yards. In ‘Target Rifle’ Richard Ruddick started well scoring 44.2 followed by Chris Jolme with 44.1.
In ‘F Class’ Greg Brown scored 57.4 to lead Sam Swagemakers with 56.1.
The leader in ‘F Open’ was Shannon King with 59.4 from Tony Skinner with 59.3.
The next range was 300 metres. Conditions had been pretty good, but a light shower of rain made it difficult for the last shooters on the mound.
In Target Rifle Dan McColl scored 94.2 to lead Richard Ruddick with 92.1.
Greg Brown was again the leader in F Class with 99.6 followed by Sam Swagemakers with 96.4.
There were some good scores in F Open. Tony Skinner scored 100.7 to lead Shannon King with 100.5.
This event is a handicap shoot so results are decided by adding handicaps to scores.
This year Target Rifle was won by Dan McColl from Chris Jolme who won last year and third was Richard Ruddick.
The F Class trophy winner was Sam Swagemakers with Greg Brown second and Kerry Keven third.
Scores were very close and it was an excellent day’s competition.
It was a great way to honour two great marksman who did such a lot for our local club.
This Saturday a practice will be held on the local range.