The Home Countries Challenge Match

Derby RPC;  27th June 2014

The first Home Countries challenge match to be held outside of Bisley since 2009 took take place at Derby RPC on Friday 27th June 2014.

Teams from England, Scotland and Wales competed in Timed and Precision One and Multi-Target matches in both Centrefire and Smallbore aggregates.

The Scotland Gallery Rifle Team:

Centrefire and Smallbore

• Graeme Dodds ( Capt)
• Mike Hibberd
• Norman Vietch
• Bill Pow
• Leslie Kong

 

The England Gallery Rifle Teams:

Centrefire

• Neil Francis
• Jim Smith (Capt)
• Keith Cox
• John Shine
• Peter Cooper

Smallbore

Morne Van Dalen

• Jim Smith (Capt)
• Keith Cox
• John Shine
• Neil Francis

The Welsh Gallery Rifle Team:

Centrefire and Smallbore

• Taff Wilcox (Capt)
• Jon Avetoomyan
• Andy Summers
• Bob Worthington
• Yanto Fry

The results are available on www.galleryrifle.com

 

Home Countries National Match at Derby

Teams from England, Scotland and Wales competed on Friday the 27th June at the excellent range facilities that Derby RPC has to offer for the first three way Home Countries National Match outside of Bisley.

HCNM matches consist of the Timed and Precision One event and the Multi Target event in both Centrefire and Smallbore. Teams of five shooters compete head to head in all four events with the lowest score in each event being dropped. The winners are simply the highest bullet score across all four events.

Overall Results of the competition

1st.   Wales         791.254
2nd.   England       779.233
3rd.   Scotland      735.197

Individual Results

Multi Target – Centre Fire

Wales			England			Scotland
Taff Wilcox	117.15		Jim Smith	116.15		Norman Veitch	118.16
Jon Avetoomyan	116.14		Neil Francis	114.13		Graeme Dodds	115.12
Terry Fry	116.12		Keith Cox	114.10		Mike Hibbard	114.11
Andy Summers	115.15		John Shine	113.11		Leslie Kong	114.11
Bob Worthington	86.06		Pete Cooper	110.07		Bill Pow	110.11
	464.56			457.49			461.50

 Times & Precision one – Centre Fire

Wales			England			Scotland
Terry Fry	300.24		Keith Cox	300.23		Leslie Kong	300.18
Andy Summers	300.23		John Shine	300.22		Bill Pow	299.21
Taff Wilcox	300.22		Neil Francis	300.22		Graeme Dodds	299.20
Jon Avetoomyan	299.26		Jim Smith	299.19		Mike Hibbard	299.10
Bob Worthington	279.18		Pete Cooper	298.13		Norman Veitch	299.14
	1199.95			1199.86			1197.69

Timed and Precision One – Small Bore

Wales			England			Scotland
Andy Summers	298.14		Keith Cox	300.15		Graeme Dodds	295.14
Jon Avetoomyan	298.13		John Shine	299.15		Norman Veitch	294.10
Taff Wilcox	296.16		Jim Smith	297.19		Bill Pow	292.12
Terry Fry	296.11		Neil Francis	295.9		Leslie Kong	291.09
Bob Worthington	293.07		Morné Van Dalen	227.09		Mike Hibbard	287.09
	1188.54			1192.58			1173.45

Multi Target – Small Bore

Wales			England			Scotland
Terry Fry	118.18		Morné Van Dalen	114.09		Bill Pow	107.08
Andy Summers	118.14		Keith Cox	113.13		Graeme Dodds	107.07
Jon Avetoomyan	113.07		Jim Smith	113.10		Mike Hibbard	117.06
Taff Wilcox	111.10		Neil Francis	112.07		Norman Veitch	104.12
Bob Worthington	107.05		John Shine	97.02		Leslie Kong	103.05
	460.49			452.39			435.33

Five members of the Scotland Gallery Rifle Squad travelled to Derby on Friday, not without traffic problems, with the Dundee lads struggling for eight hours to get there and arrived late while the other shooters patiently waited on the line for the historic event.

Showery rain did not succeed in putting a damper on the shooters some of whom performed in shorts. Brave men!

Derby club produced the most numerous range staff that I have seen, and the setting was really fantastic, with 16 firing points available for the 25 metre competitions.

Many thanks are due to Jim Smith, Neil Francis and the team of staff for organising a very enjoyable weekend.

Drinks, bacon rolls and burgers available all day with a very competent chef and assistant present.

Sadly, we had to return north after Saturday’s events so missed all of Sunday including the prize giving. Perhaps my lucky raffle ticket has won???

Thanks to the young lady who took charge of my camera to record photos some of which are shown below.

As usual, should anyone object to their image online, please let me know (via galleryrifle.com)