RIFLE SHOOTING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21215, 22 December 1930, Page 13

RIFLE SHOOTING.

TIMABU DEFENCE CLUB, P ef f nce Rifle-Club'held its mnth weeldy shoot on the club range on Saturday afternoon. The conditions for l*rrf« ay j 0 ehota at 500 and 10 at 800 * fhfff * „ The 4“?, was fine overhead, but : S Th aMI hBM an d a stiff sea ,v + d ,‘ There were 36 riflemen competing inr tne days match, and some very fine w .?. re registered at both ranges, ‘ 111 ma ke some big.changes,in the aggregate competitions, lie trophies for tfce day were won by Vice-president W. E. Jones, first with 100, Rifleman L. Mur- , w M second with 100 also, being counted out by Jones. Rifleman C. Matmeson was third with 99, At 500 yards Vice-president Jones scored a very points ahead of C. Blackwood (47). . , At 900 Jones was again m the lead with 48, and C. Blackwood was again second with 47. In. the cqampionahip,- including all scores. Rifleman C. Blackwood improved his lead by an extra U points from' W. Bradshaw, ' IL- j lB -Sfi, Carmichael ia still third, while W. E. Jones came up from seventh place, to fourth. The M'Glashan aggregate is the same as last week, except that C. Blackwood has increased his load "by a further 11 points, and' Jones has come np to fourth place. In the bull s-eye competition Blackwood is still in tte lead by eight points from Bradqhaw, with Carmichael third. The Ardmore Cup competition is the saine as before. • - The following are the leading.men in the championship, all shoots counted:—C. Blackwood 374—94—468; ,W. Bradshaw. G. Carmichael, 356—87 443; Joaee - 342—97—439; W. Dun--347—90—43 7; C. Johnson,/339 —90— 429; G. Lamborn. 339—88—427; J. Hull. 3^2 —84—-426; W. Malcolm,' 345—78 423; A. Agnew, 331—90—421. The M'Glashan aggregate positions are as follows:—Or Blackwood 736, W. Bradshaw.- 715, G. Carmichael 711, W, E. Jones 707,, J. Hull 697, W. Duncan 696, G. Lamborn 692, C. Johnson 682, P. Foden 680, W. Malcolm 670, A. Agnew 666. H. ' Hopkins 655. _The following are the scores, with hanQicape, in .the day's trophy.flhoot:—

Thg following are the present positions of the bull's-eye competition:—C. Blackwood, 51—14—65; W. Bradshaw, 47 —10 —57; G. Carmichael, 44—-11—56; W. E. Jones, 30—17—47; C. Johnson, 33—12 45; A. Agnew, 32—12—44; W. Malcolm, 39—4—43; W. Duncan, 31—12—43; H. Hopkins, 36—5—41; J. Hull, 32—9—41. KIWI DEFENCE CLUB. In very boisterous weather the Kiwi Defence Rifle Club commenced the first competition of No. 3 Match on Saturday over 500 and 600 yards (10 shots and two optional sighters). Nearly 30 members were in attendance, many of whom had their first experience of a tricky fish-tail wind. Scores were not on the same high level ’as. in previous shoots, an exception being the total of 92 off the rifle hy Rifle-’ man R. K. Johnston. The following are the scores, with handicaps:— A G^ADE.

SOO 900 . ■ W. E. Jones yds. yds. Hcd. Tl. 49 48 3 —100 ■L. Murray .. .. 44 46 45 43 45 47 45 45 44 47 45 47 11—100 8 — 99 9 — 98 5 — 93 • 5 — 95 94 C. Mathieson .. .. F. Black .... .. A'. Aznew .... .. C. Johnson .. .. C. Blackwood G; Lamtorn 44 44 44 46 3 — 93 2 — 92 W. Duncan . .■ ,. G. Marrar ., •.. 42 39 44 45 11 — 92 3 — 90 5 — 90 P. Foden .. ... 43 40 F. Cbittock •.. .. P. W atkins .. .. 37 43 41 44 11 — 89 87 G. Carmichael ,. J. Dunnill .. ,. 43 35 42 41 30 9 — 87 1 — 85 4 — 85 15 — 85 J. Hull .. .. .. 42 40 40 A. Duncan . \ 1 .. J. Mundy ,. W. Bradshaw .. 47 36 1 — 84 Lea. Smith'-.. .. ’43 41 39 36 2 — 84 7 — 84 N. Dunnill .. ., .. R. Parker .'. 41 31 11 — 83 1. A. Blackwood 41 ,27 14 — 82 W. R. Grant .. \ ( 46 31 4 — 81 W. Malcolm 38 40 24 32 .30 2 — 80 15—75 1 — 74 3 — 74 36 41 H. Hopkins Len. Smith ... .. M 41 W. Finlay ;,.. .. .. 38. , 21 10 — 69 J. Finch . . .. ,, 38 24 •5 — 67 F. Elliott 26 25 15 — 66 J. Stevenson ., .. r ’ f 46 9 8 — 63 J. Tonycliffe .. 33 19 10 — 62 J. Reid .., .. 4 m 22 24 12 — 58 34 7 10 — 51 14 — 45 R. Guthrie... ,. . , 31 The highest scores off the rifle in’the Gold Rifle competition. are as follow: — 500 900 W. E. Jones .. yds yds Tl. ■ 49 48 — 97 ' U. Blackwood f ,• 47 47 - 94 C. Mathieson r , 46 45 — 91 A. Agnew 43 47 — 90 W. Duncan .. 44 46 — 90 ’ C. Johnson .. 45 45 — 90 F. Black .. t r 45 44 — 89 L. Murray .. 44 45--89 G. Lambom .. t « 44 44 — 88 G. Carmichael . T 43 44 - 87 43 44 — 87

Rflmn. R. K. Johnston 500 600 yds. yds. Hn. Tl. 48 44 92 Rflmn. N. Jones 46 40 3 — 89 Eflmn. W. Mills 48 40 88 Rflmn. .H. -Tattersfield 39 43 4 — 86 Eflmn. - Fi Clayton „ 45 40 85 Rflmn. W. Crimp .. 46 37 2 — 85 Rflmn. W. M'Keich. .. 45 39 84 Rfhnn. C. M'Keich .. 48 36 84 D.-Pres. R. Bruce .. 44 37 3 — 84 Rflmn. D. Borrie ,. 45 38 83 Rflmn. R, • Gillick .. 44 38 82 Rflmn. J. Borrie 44 35 3 — 82 Rflmn. A. Stinson .. 40 38 3 — 81 B GRADE. . 500 600 yds. yds. Hn. Tl. Rflmn. A. Warburton 43 39 7 — 89 Rflmn. L. Oaten .. 30 40 10 — 89 Rflmn, D, Marr 42 40 6 — 88 Rflmn. L. Ogg 47 35 4 — 86 Rflmn' Carroll ,, ,. 37 37 10 — 84 Rflmn. W. Fraser .. 41 33 10 — 84 Rflmn. J. Harding .. 44 38 82 Eflmn. J. M'Kinlay .. 42 34 0 — 82 Rflmn, H, Whitehead 45 35 80 Rflmn. Harper .. Rflmn, F. Webster .. 36 34 10 — 80 40 36 3 — 79 Rflmn. R. Bowie .. 45 29 4 — 78 Rflmn. J. Frew .. .. 37 33 5 — 75 Rflmn. Gosney .. 32 25 10 — 67 Rflmn. J. Dick , , 25 28 10 — 63 Rflmn, King .. 32 21 10 — 63