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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 18 Mar 2018, 3:40 pm

sungazer wrote:aradoar234 you are correct that in general it is more expensive membership wise. This is not the local club membership fee which is often very minimal. The larger part goes to the State body and National body. There are moves underway and motions have been made to reduce these fees and introduce other categories at much lower prices.There is a new Board in Vic that is much more responsive to modern thinking and the wishes of the membership. We will have to wait and see if these changes can take place. In vic we are trying to make it a more user pays system rather than all members pitching in to sponsor a state team ect. So those that want to compete at the elite level will pay more but the general grass roots member will pay less. I believe this is a wider approach being looked at by all the states and those states taking a similar motion to the national level.


And this is exactly our thinking as well. :thumbsup: :clap: :friends:
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 19 Mar 2018, 8:06 pm

Oldbloke wrote:
Gwion wrote:
Oldbloke wrote:Hey, Gwion,
Do you blokes have a web site? Googled and couldn't find one.


Not at this stage but it's something we need to look at getting up. :thumbsup:


Try. https://www.weebly.com/

It's free and easy peasy


Check it out.
Basic but a starting point. Any feed back welcome.

http://www.sheffieldrifleclubinc.com
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by sungazer » 19 Mar 2018, 8:18 pm

Looks really good, you have a very artistic touch.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 19 Mar 2018, 8:42 pm

Thanks SG.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Oldbloke » 20 Mar 2018, 6:37 am

Looks good to me. Didn't take you long.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 21 Mar 2018, 11:26 am

Our ANZAC DAY SHOOT is rapidly approaching!

Details and registration here:

http://www.sheffieldrifleclubinc.com/an ... -2018.html

We put on a great feed between the 200 & 300 details and the day is generally a lot of fun.

It would be great to see all you Tassie Shooters there on the mound!
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 21 Mar 2018, 11:40 am

Oldbloke wrote:Looks good to me. Didn't take you long.


Thanks mate. I prefer getting stuff done than waiting for it to do itself! :lol:
Still a lot of work to do and Weebly really isn't the ideal editor but cheap and relatively quick to use so it is a good starting place for sure.

Thanks for the nudge because I had been stewing on it for a while.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Oldbloke » 21 Mar 2018, 4:39 pm

Gwion wrote:
Oldbloke wrote:Looks good to me. Didn't take you long.


Thanks mate. I prefer getting stuff done than waiting for it to do itself! :lol:
Still a lot of work to do and Weebly really isn't the ideal editor but cheap and relatively quick to use so it is a good starting place for sure.

Thanks for the nudge because I had been stewing on it for a while.


Weekly doesn't take long to get used to. WordPress is another well known free one I work on. But it's much clunkier.

Looks nice and clean and gets it out there.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by sungazer » 22 Mar 2018, 9:53 am

Just make sure you do a weekly backup as there are so many hackers out there that for whatever reason want to stuff you up. I use Joomla for our club again free other than the hosting has all the bells and whistles but a bit harder to learn. I wish i had more artistic skill. These doesn't even seem to be anyone in the club with it either.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 22 Mar 2018, 10:00 am

Nothing artistic about picking a theme to use that you think looks good. :thumbsup:
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Oldbloke » 22 Mar 2018, 2:39 pm

Gwion wrote:Nothing artistic about picking a theme to use that you think looks good. :thumbsup:


:lol: That's it. Then it's just copy paste what you already have.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 01 Apr 2018, 10:34 am

Small contingent for an Easter Saturday shoot out at 600 yards. We had a guest shooter from Sydney area who was a great bloke. He shot ok as well; considering he had to put up with my dodgy rifle and the tricky Sheffield wind, all while shooting F-class when he is a Target Rifle shooter.

Scores were:

JM: 96.3
ES: 110.4
JCS: 104.4
IS: 86
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Heckler303 » 04 Apr 2018, 10:46 am

Four whole members, and one of them recent? That's a great growth in membership you've received.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by sungazer » 04 Apr 2018, 5:04 pm

As a % of Tas not counting every person that has two heads its pretty good.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 08 Apr 2018, 6:40 pm

Well. A few members have been having trouble making the range due to work commitments on a Saturday so we moved this week's shoot to Sunday. There was 6 of us down there today and one of our regular guests signed up to join the club. After a bit of discussion within the club, we have decided to alternate shooting days between Saturday and Sunday each week so as to accomodate more people's various commitments.

We had a bit of a practice session for the up coming Anzac Shoot so people chould dial in a rough zero for the 200 and I had a bit of a practice shooting off hand standing at the 200yd mound... it wasn't a pretty thing from where I was standing, I can tell you! :lol:
Got lucky with the first two shots but then it went pair shaped. Everyone else just zeroed in from prone and didn't have a crack standing.

One of our range officers then took out his old French musket and gave us a little demo from about 70yd. Lots of fire, lots of noise!
Who knew there is a Precision Black Powder classification in the NRAA rule book!!! Anyway, it was pretty fun to watch and chat about.

We then moved back to 300yd and shot an F-class Hunter/Varmint round. Only two shooters completed both details because others balked a bit at the rain and packed their rifles away to watch us get wet! :lol:
The wind played as nice as it ever will at the range today so both of us who completed the shoot managed some very nice scores for F-H/V, which is scored like TR with a high score of 50 (5ring bull and anything in the 6 ring is 5.1). I shot 49.7 (f-STD would have scored 57.4) and a 49.5 (54.3). TL shot a 49.4 and a 48.4. He changed ammo on the second detail to waste some old stuff he had lying around; had he stuck with his first batch he may have out shot me on that second detail.

Anyway. We all had fun and dialled in for the upcoming ANZAC Shoot, so looking forward to out shooting the Secretary on the day! :lol: (the Secretary has won it the last 2 years)

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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Diesel » 12 Apr 2018, 11:09 pm

Gwion wrote:Well. A few members have been having trouble making the range due to work commitments on a Saturday so we moved this week's shoot to Sunday. There was 6 of us down there today and one of our regular guests signed up to join the club. After a bit of discussion within the club, we have decided to alternate shooting days between Saturday and Sunday each week so as to accomodate more people's various commitments.

We had a bit of a practice session for the up coming Anzac Shoot so people chould dial in a rough zero for the 200 and I had a bit of a practice shooting off hand standing at the 200yd mound... it wasn't a pretty thing from where I was standing, I can tell you! :lol:
Got lucky with the first two shots but then it went pair shaped. Everyone else just zeroed in from prone and didn't have a crack standing.

One of our range officers then took out his old French musket and gave us a little demo from about 70yd. Lots of fire, lots of noise!
Who knew there is a Precision Black Powder classification in the NRAA rule book!!! Anyway, it was pretty fun to watch and chat about.

We then moved back to 300yd and shot an F-class Hunter/Varmint round. Only two shooters completed both details because others balked a bit at the rain and packed their rifles away to watch us get wet! :lol:
The wind played as nice as it ever will at the range today so both of us who completed the shoot managed some very nice scores for F-H/V, which is scored like TR with a high score of 50 (5ring bull and anything in the 6 ring is 5.1). I shot 49.7 (f-STD would have scored 57.4) and a 49.5 (54.3). TL shot a 49.4 and a 48.4. He changed ammo on the second detail to waste some old stuff he had lying around; had he stuck with his first batch he may have out shot me on that second detail.

Anyway. We all had fun and dialled in for the upcoming ANZAC Shoot, so looking forward to out shooting the Secretary on the day! :lol: (the Secretary has won it the last 2 years)

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Yep, if it is still it is a perfect range for zeroing but when Sheffield is windy it is a bitch, going one way at 600 then changing direction totally by the 300 mound. I reckon it has been 7(?) years since I stopped shooting there.

I would like to support the club and shoot on ANZAC day but my daughter is playing Last Post for both dawn and midday services in Devonport for the last time, so I had better go and watch. I may turn up later in the afternoon to s**t stir but that is all.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 13 Apr 2018, 2:11 pm

Would be good to see you there, Diesel. Too bad you can't shoot on the day but maybe some other time.

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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Heckler303 » 15 Apr 2018, 9:51 am

Not that this may seem overly important, but it's something I want to note. I find it somewhat dubious to call this a fair event.

It's the odd few who try to fit the theme of 'historic shooting' in these events with their milsurps, maybe taking themselves just your old plain-Jane .303 SMLE, and they shoot alongside someone who's got themselves a barnard .308, 3x12-56 optically sighted, fully glass bedded, hand lapped action, bipod equipped rifle. Your skills as a marksman are essential yes, but you can only do as well as the tool at hand can do. No amount of great shooting ability is going to let you overcome something that doesn't hit the broad side of the barn at 10 meters to illustrate. Having something like the example listed does give you a pretty big advantage.

Yes, I understand not everyone has an interest in military surplus, that's fine. Not everyone appreciates or understands history either. Just pointing that this is isn't a level playing field.


That being said, I do remember destroying the opposition in the first round with a Pattern 1914, stock standard, just using my reloads. ;)
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 15 Apr 2018, 4:18 pm

Gwion wrote:If anyone is interested in joining in our Anzac Day Shoot, the rules and format are below:

ANZAC Day
First Place = Shooter with highest overall score: prize: Perpetual Trophy & Fruit Cake. GOLD Medal
1st Runner Up = Shooter with the 2nd highest overall score: prize: Tin of ANZAC Buiscuits. SILVER Medal
2nd Runner Up = Shooter with the 3rd highest overall score: prize: Bully Beef & Leaf Tea. BRONZE Medal
Cool Hand Luke = Smallest Group @ 300yd prone: prize: Hand knitted beanie and bragging rights


ANZAC Day Shoot is designed to be a level playing field for all shooters. The idea of the day is fun and comraderie. Prizes are of a novel nature in the spirit of a care trenches of WW1.
Basic Saftey Requirements

All firearms to pass a safety inspection by Range Officer (RO) prior to shooting
All shooters to attend pre-shoot safety briefing
Ear protection to be worn by all attendees
All shooters supervised by a second on the firing line to ensure safety brief is followed
All firearms to be placed in rack beside RO with bolt & magazine removed whilst not in use
All directions of the RO are to be followed immediately

Aim & Guidelines

*To create a fun, level playing field for all participants
*Have fun.
*Be safe.

Firearms and Equipment

*Military surplus or hunting (sporter/varmint) rifles only
*Any calibre from 5.56mm (.223") upto 8mm Use of military and hunting type slings allowed
*Scopes (maximum 16x mag setting) or open or peep sights allowed Hunting or field shooting type bi-pods allowed or back pack for prone rest
*No specialised "target shooting" equipment or clothing to be used
*Timed, single exposures make this shoot more about the level of equipment maintenance, familiarity and your ability to operate calmly and smoothly under pressure than it is about optics or specialised gear.
*There will be no reshoots for equipment failures or misfires within the time allowed. Combined with timed elements, this adds to the pressure of the event and levels the playing field.

Schedule for the Day

Time
Event or Activity
10:30am
Saftey briefing and firearm inspection
No Firearms to be removed from vehicles until Safety Brief completed
All firearms to be checked by RO and racked at firing line

11:00am
200yds sitting or kneeling.
1st exposure 2 mins, 2 sighters fired consecutively, both marked. Adjust sights.
2nd exposure 2 mins, 5 shots, all marked.
Adjust sights.
3rd exposure 2 mins, 5 shots, all marked. Score total recorded

12:00pm
200yds standing.
1st exposure 2 mins, 5 shots, all marked. Adjust sights.
2nd exposure 2 mins, 5 shots, all marked. Score total recorded

1:00pm
BBQ lunch: $10 all you can eat, $2 per soft drink, $1 water.

2:00pm
300yd prone.
1st exposure 2mins, 2 sighters fired consecutively both marked. Adjust sights.
2nd exposure 2 mins, 10 shots, all marked.
Score total recorded, group size photographed and measured

3:00pm
Presentation of prizes

4:00pm
Gates close


No custom TARGET rifles or equipment allowed at the ANZAC Shoot.

This year's program remains the same other than we start the shoot at 12noon, rather than 11am to allow people to attend morning services. :thumbsup:

edit: PS. Oh yeah... BBQ is included in entry this year as well... Soft drinks $2 a pop. :thumbsup:

Edit #2: By the way. The 'theme' of this shoot is NOT historic shooting. If there is a theme it is 'the pressure of battle'. Using what you have to hit the target with in time constraints.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by sungazer » 15 Apr 2018, 4:47 pm

Thats a bit harsh Heckler. I would be very surprised if any club grouped any competition levels like that. when our club has a 303 shoot we go to the level of "As Issued" 303 rifles as with Iron sights and battle sights or Fitted with Target Peep sights. So right there there are two categories of competition for just 303 shoots. On any invitational or intended fun day there are as many fields and prizes as possible. is Veterans, super Veterans, Juniors and then Ladies in all those. With the most recent event we put on in conjunction with the Australian Deer Hunters the total profit for the day which is then split between the two clubs was $100. that includes all monies in. The days are certainly not put on for profit or to benefit any one group. I would really think most if not all Target Rifle clubs not under the SSAA banner run in the same way. if they are trying to make money for a certain piece of equipment it is normally very transparent and anominous donations are normally asked for or a separate raffle done.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Hillbilly » 16 Apr 2018, 9:20 pm

Heckler, you sound like you can really handle those old rifles and are a little on the frustrated side. Where do you shoot?
It would be great to see you blitz the competition with an old bang stick. Show those using a standard hunting rifle how to do it.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Hillbilly » 16 Apr 2018, 9:29 pm

The Sheffield Rifle Club sounds very pro active in their out look and effort to make the sport of target shooting accepted in the wider community.
I'll try and make it to the Anzac Day Shoot.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 22 Apr 2018, 1:50 pm

Finished upgrading the 200yd mound for Wednesday's Anzac Shoot.
After decades of neglect it has previouly been merely an uneven hump conered in cow pats and rabbit holes. Still a bit of work to do but we're quite happy to have it at this stage before the Anzac Shoot. Fenced, new gate, levelled and dressed with a good cover of road base to reduce the need for mowing and weeding...
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Joffa » 22 Apr 2018, 3:08 pm

Looking good!! :drinks:
I’ll have to venture up one day when I’ve got a few rifles to come up with! :D
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 25 Apr 2018, 6:39 pm

Thanks Joffa.
We had a good day for the Anzac Shoot today. 14 shooters (twice the number of last year) and a few spectators. Everyone had fun in a easy going and and safe atmosphere.
I'll put up a full report soon but time to chill after a day of organising and shooting.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 26 Apr 2018, 5:27 pm

Sheffield Rifle Club
ANZAC Day Memorial Shoot
2018


It was great to see a good number of guest shooters from various clubs join in as we opened the Sheffield Rifle Club ANZAC Shoot up for the first time in 2018. It was an overcast day and quite chilly but luckily the rain held off and the wind was quite well behaved for a day out at the Sheffield Range.

Since 2016, we have been shooting the event as an ‘in house’ comp for fun and to remember the diggers in our own way by flinging lead & copper down range at a good rate of knots. This year, we decided the format worked well enough to open it up for other TRA or SSAA shooters to join in. A total of 14 participants joined in and a number of interested spectators attended. We did have 18 registered entrants but there were a couple of no-shows and also a late withdrawal or 2. There were 5 shooters from the Sheffield Club and the rest attended as guests. For the first time, we had about 5 entrants firing various milsurp rifles with open sights and everyone else was using hunting/varmint style rifles of various makes and chamberings.

The milsurp shooters were all happy to join in the fun, even though they were shooting against scoped rifles. Seeing the old rifles put through their paces was quite a bit of fun in itself and we agreed on the day that if we get 3 or more milsurp iron sight entrants at future events, we will create a sub-division for them to compete against each other.

The idea for the ANZAC Shoot came about in 2015 when ANZAC Day happened to fall on a Saturday and during our regular shoot, one of the members remarked that, “we should be shooting at Turkish Helmets”. From there, we got to thinking and devised our own format for the shoot to make it as inclusive as possible and provide a change of pace for the club shooters, who are more accustomed to TR & F-Class Shooting. The event is essentially based around the NRAA “Field Rifle” rules, with a few tweaks and time limits to add to the pressure, because after all, the Diggers never had the luxury of target shooting gear and limitless time to set up each shot.

The shoot is primarily about having fun but also about knowing your rifle and your own abilities and putting them both together under mildly challenging conditions. As some shooters found out, if you just rock up and don’t know your kit, you will find it hard to get on target… luckily, these targets don’t shoot back, though! Similarly, it is about choosing an appropriate tool for the job. That is why it was designed as an open event. Competition for the Perpetual Trophy and the Cool Hand Luke have no divisions within the rules and frame work allowed. Hitting the target consistently is the name of the game; not allowing handicaps for those who choose to make it harder for themselves.

The 200yd Details

We shoot a total of 10 rounds at 200yd, plus 2 sighters. Those rounds are split between two details of 5 rounds in 3 minutes. You can use a sling or not.

First detail is your sighters and then 3 minutes to place 5 rounds on target from your choice of a sitting or a kneeling position. Rounds may be single feed or mag feed but your loading time for mag or breech feed is included in your three minutes.

Second detail is standing, with an optional post to rest on (a wobbly one, because there is no perfect rest in battle: it is ANZAC Day, after all). Again, you have 3 minutes to place 5 rounds on target, including load time.

Surprisingly, most shooters performed better standing, supported, than they did in the sitting or kneeling position; which should technically be a more accurate and stable position to shoot from. It was commented that this shows how little these positions are used these days by your average shooter, with few shooters taking full advantage of the opportunity to properly support their shot from these positions and some stating that they had never actually shot from these positions at all.

Another thing that arose during the 200yd shoot was that most shooters got all their rounds downrange in half the time allotted. We are considering reducing the time limit to 90sec for next year’s shoot: just to turn up the heat a little.

After all shooters had completed their details, one of the Milsurp shooters offered a chance for people to ‘have a go’ of his 303brit Jungle Carbine. Needless to say, there were a good number of volunteers so the Sheffield President and a couple of others went off to light the BBQ at 300yd mound while a god almighty racket broke out at the 200yd range with more than one old rifle getting a bit more of a work out.

Lunch was a relaxed and casual affair with a BBQ for all and a good chance for more of a chat and mingling amongst all present. It was great to see shooters from all over the state and from different clubs and shooting disciplines having a simple feed, a good yack and a bit of a laugh. It was also great to see a number of people making contact and keen to promote ‘cross fertilisation’ for disciplines and an attitude of camaraderie and co-operation, rather than the factional rivalry that can sadly be too common in the shooting sports.

300yd: Cool Hand Luke

The final detail of the day we call “Cool Hand Luke”. It is shot prone at 300yd off sandbags, folding bipod or elbows with no rear rest allowed. After 2 sighters, you then have 2 minutes to place 10 rounds on target, again including loading time. Magazines can only have 5 rounds loaded at a time, so you have to decide if you are going to single feed or take time to break your shooting position and load your mag/mags. The ‘Cool Hand’ also has its own prize for the smallest group of the detail, with no runners up, regardless of what that groups scores in total. You can win the Cool Hand prize, even if all 10 shots are in the 1, as long as it is the smallest group between the furthest two bullet holes.

It is surprising how much pressure this detail can put you in when you are not used to it, with any rifle stoppages or failures severely hampering your overall chances for the top spots. Still, it does afford a chance for a bit of a laugh and a good ribbing when experienced shooters feel the pinch. At one stage, one shooter had a stoppage after 6 rounds, which ended his run but he ended up with 7 holes in his target and his opposite only had 9 hole in his. Let’s just say there was a good bit of stirring going on behind the line after that one… That shooter wasn’t the only one to Fail To Finish the detail due to pressure or equipment malfunction/user error.

The Cool Hand Luke has proven, each year, to be the deciding detail: with shooters either significantly rising or dropping in the placings by the end. It is those who can stay steady and cool under pressure through out the whole shoot who do best. As they say, “slow is smooth and smooth is fast”.

So Who Won?

Well, it’s good to see a new name go onto the Perpetual Trophy this year and it can’t be said that we stack the comp to favour Sheffield Shooters because a guest took the honours. This year we added medals to the prizes, as previously the prizes have been only novelty value in the theme of ‘A Care Package From Home’:

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1st prize: Perpetual Trophy, Gold Medal & Brandy Soaked Fruit Cake.
C. K.

2nd prize: Silver Medal & Commemorative tin of ANZAC Biscuits
ME :thumbsup:

3rd Prize: Bronze Medal, Billy Tea & Corned Mutton
E. S.

Cool Hand Luke: Bronze Medal & Hand Knitted Beanie
ME :drinks:

What Next?
As mentioned already, a few modifications and additions to next year’s event are on the cards. Among the changes being considered are:

Reduce time limit at 200yd
Introduce “Mil-surp Iron Sights” Division with it’s own prizes
Possibly add “Mad Minute”
Historical Paraphernalia Exhibit

All in all it was a fun and friendly day with heaps of positive feed back from all participants and plenty of smiling faces at the end of the day. Most of those in attendance have commented that they are keen for the next one and a few are also keen to come down the range for a shoot from time to time. We even made a few bucks for the club and that will go straight back into improving the range and facilities.

See you on the range!

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Very happy Chappy. Steady shooting and knowing his gear won him the day. He was always looking a chance!
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Everyone milling about over a BBQ for lunch. I've blacked out faces as I don't have permission to publish individual's images. One of the guests brought his young son along, who was a marvellous help and did a great job on the BBQ (with a little help from Dad & Yourstruly). One of the members also brought along his daughter who help out in the butts with the two ladies who kindly gave up their time to score for the day (one being the Treasurer and a damn fine shooter and the other is Mrs Gwion).
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Dressed up in my old Great Coat in the spirit of Anzac Day with prizes in hand. I was lower mid-field going into the Cool Hand. Maybe next year I'll get my name on that bloody trophy!
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Cool Hand Luke winning group.
Shot with "Mr Stumpy": Zastava left hand mini Mauser, 223rem, 18" varmint barrel, 50gn zmax, 3-9x40 Vortex DB, crappy Chinese "Atlas" knock off bi-pod with sling.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Bent Arrow » 26 Apr 2018, 5:54 pm

Sounds like an absolute hoot. If I still lived in Tasmania I'd be down there in a flash. The wife and I have been talking about coming down for a holiday, might have to line the ducks up and drop in when your shooting
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Gwion » 26 Apr 2018, 6:13 pm

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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by sungazer » 26 Apr 2018, 7:01 pm

Hey looks like you had a good time. We have a similar day that has been in the past a 303 Invitational that we may open up a bit more to include other service rifles this year and included more people or at least more invites. Really just a bit more organized and not leave it to the last minute.
One of our members is a true 303 and old military gun nut in the nicest possible way. He had made up to the original sizes and colours the targets used of the period. The Turkish hats.
Austac don't let me forget your invite and anyone else with a 303 in Vic let me know the event will probably be in July. Date yet to be confirmed as the official shooting season is just starting and dates are still being moved around pennant and other competition dates.
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Re: Sheffield Rifle Club, Tasmania

Post by Daddybang » 26 Apr 2018, 8:09 pm

I've never been a club shooter but the more I read about this one I'd love to find one similarly run up here!! Great work :thumbsup: :drinks:
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