RIFLE-SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 48, 20 November 1928, Page 17

RIFLE-SHOOTING

WELLINGTON SUBURBS CLUB The Wellington .Suburbs Defence Rifle Club fired their second shoot of the second series at Trenthani on Saturday, the ranges being 800 and 900 yards. The weather was perfect, but a troublesome rear wind at periods gave the competitors that keenness that make the returns very interesting. Rflmn. 1- Goo , t ‘ all put on an excellent shoot at 800yds. with a 49, and was followed by Rflmn. L. Hare with 47. At 900yds., where the wind caught many, the scoring was not so good, but some excellent shooting was registered. Rflmn. A. Stewart tund® a great score of 47, followed closely by Rflmn. 11. T. Peat with 46 and S. r • McLean with 45. Rflmn. A. Stewart, a voting marksman, topped the score off the rifle for the day with 92. The ranges for the third shoot of the series will be 300 and GOO yards next Saturday. Detailed scores are as follow: —

UPPER HUTT CLUB The Upper Hutt club fired the second match of the second series on Saturday at 800 and 900 yards. At 800yds. Rflmn. C. Whiteman narrowly missed the possible, his eighth and tenth shots being 4’s. The best scores nt 800yds. were: Rflmn. C. Whiteman 48, Rflmn. S. Braid and Rflmn. F. Wilkie 46 each, and Rflmn. F. O’Riley 44. At 900yds. the best scores were: Den.-Pres. T. Whiteman 44. Rflmn. 0. Whiteman 43, and Rflmn. F. A. Whiteman and Sec. N. Kitchen 42 each. Rflmn. S. Braid and Rflmn. W. Braid secured legs-in for A and B class respectively. The following are the scores: —

Next Saturday the club will fire the third match of the first scries at 300 and 600 yards. PETONE v. FEATHERSTON The Petone Rifle Club visited Featherston on Saturday, and fired a teams’ match against the country team. A large party were able to make the trip, and were most hospitably entertained. The weather conditions were very good. The match was fired over the 500 and 600 yards ranges, ten shots at each range. Unfortunately, Featherston hnd several of their members away, and this, no doubt, affected the result somewhat. At 500 yards, with a fairly steady right wind blowing, both teams fired very consistently, and good average scores were recorded. At this range the teams were so evenly matched that the scores were equal—443 points each. For Petone, A. O’Donnell scored 47, E. Ballinger. W. Mclver, and F. Kershaw, 46 each, the top scorers for Featherston being H. Hodder 47, AV. Johnson. F. Hood, and P. Wilton. 46 each. At 600 yards, the wind was easier, but the light fairly difficult, and the Petone team “collared” the conditions better than Featherston, and registered brilliant scores, excelling their total at the shorter range. The team points here were Petone 447, and Featherston, 418. E. Ballinger was top scorer at the longer range, with 48. followed by H. Dickson 47, and A. O’Donnell and W. Mclver, 45 each. For Featherston. T. Taylor made 46, followed by W. Johnson, C. Nix, and Q. Donald, with 45 each. The highest individual scorers for Petone for the day were E. Ballinger. 94, A O'Donnell, 92, W. Mclver 91, and H. Dickson 90. and for Featherston. W. Johnson 91, Q. Donald 90, F, Hood and C. Nix. 87 each. A return match will be fired at Trentham later on during the season. The following were the scores:— PETONE CLUB.

Totals 443 447 890 Counted out: W. Johnson, 42, 41 —S 3; T. Chapman, 41, 40—81; • W. Jackson, 42, 27—69. _ T Also fired: E. Fuge, 47, 40—87: J. Hunter, 43, 43 —SG: L. Wales, 43, 41 84; A. Scott, 42, 40, 82; G. Skippage, 41, 39—80; C. Lusty, 41, 39—80.

(♦Did not complete.) The ranges next Saturday will probably be on the short ranges, the match being the opening shoot for the A, “B,” and “C,” grade championships, the short range series, Flaws Cup, and Longfield aggregate.

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800 yds. 900 vds. Hp. Ttl. A. Stewart 45 47 0 92 T. Goodall 40 41 1 91 II. T. King 46 43 o 91 S. F. McLean ... 4»-» 45 3 91 O. K. Lewer 43 42 6 91 C. P. Ilill 45 38 7 90 II. T. Peat :;s 46 J) 89 W. Spencer 37 44 8 89 L. Hare 47 36 •3 <88 W. Fellingham ... 44 30 s 88 .1. A. Bitters .... 41 38 s S7 40 39 86 II. R. Hunt 45 38 0 83 1'3. Aston 45 33 • ’ 81 W. Potter 39 35 8 S2 R. E. Hester 43 97 0 80 W. J. Prictor ... 33 is 16 67

A CLASS. SOO 900 vds. .. 46 vds. rip. Tti. s. Braid 41 6 93 F. A. Whiteman .. 42 42 9 93 C. Whiteman .. .. 4S 43 0 91 F. Wilkie .. 46 •£>q 6 91 .. 40 42 9 91 T. Whiteman .. .. 41 44 90 W. Collett .. 30 36 15 90 A. Scott 35 12 82 B CLASS. W. Braid .. 32 30 16 78 TT. Edwards .... .. 41 33 3 77 N. Edwards ... .. 30 20 7»> F. O'Rilej’ .. 44 30 0 74 II. Whiteman .. .. 33 27 13 73

500 GOO yds. yds. Tl. E. Ballinger 46 48 04 \ ryDnnnpll .*... 47 45 92 W AfcTypr ...... 46 45 01 T-T llickson 43 47 90 A .... 45 44 89 T? KarRhaw ...... 46 43 89 0 PpdprKPTi 44 44 88 P TT Nichol! .... 43 44 87 r P .... 43 44 87 Yj, Rule •••••••• 40 43 83

FEATHERSTON CLUB. Tl. 500 GOO yds. yds. yy Johnson ...... .... 46 45 01 P Bonn! fl .... 45 45 90 JT TJoorl .... 46 41 87 P J ■ .... 42 45 87 J 1 Taylor .... 41 46 <87 S Benton •••••••• .... 44 42 86 B Boston .... 43 42 85 If Bon ton 43 41 84 IJ TTnfldpr 47 37 84 T> ' wntnn 46 34 80 Totals 443 418 861 Counted out: I>. Benton, 41. 38—79; R. F. Watson, 42, 32, 74; A. Willis, 44, * *