The Scotland Gallery Rifle squad travelled to Bisley once again under the leadership of Manager Colin Oswald and Team Captain Greg Rastall.
The attached file from gallerryrifle.com describes the competition and gives the team details.
galleryrifle.com-GalleryRifle_Home_Countries_Match
Saturday afternoon turned into a very wet one and the competitions were shot during an incessant rain shower. However, being shoulder to shoulder, all competitors were in the same boat and bravely did their duty.
It was an intense atmosphere as Scotland were on the defensive having won both centrefire and smallbore events at the Phoenix 2013 earlier in the year. We were very confident that we would repeat the performance but alas, the results proved otherwise.
WALES 1st
ENGLAND 2nd
SCOTLAND 3rd.
The team manager will provide his report as soon as he has some time, and with the publication of the official results.
Meanwhile, thanks to the photographic assistance of Mike Hibberd, here are some reminders of the occasion.
The night before “the Match”
John and Robert
Advancing Target LBP
The teams get ready
Steady
Multi Target smallbore
Multi Target smallbore
Members of Scotland and Wales teams pose together (but Wales would not let go of the trophy)
SCOTLAND GALLERY RIFLE TEAM 2013
(Chris McLean missing)
The “Wailing Wall”
Robert J at 50 metres Multi Target 3.
A long way away and the small targets are TINY!
Scott Lyon receives the Dundee “Turd Award” from previous holder Mike Hibberd
Colin 50m precision
Phil 50m Precision
Robert J and Jonnie doing Advancing Target Centrefire
Gwyn almost filled the table. Well done Gwyn. You are a hard act to follow!
Bill, Angie and Morne show their medals
The Last Supper before departure.
It went well into the night thanks to Greg’s generosity