RIFLE SHOOTING

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 87, 21 March 1931, Page 5

RIFLE SHOOTING

LONG RANGE TO-DAY

Press Association.—Copyright. •; TRENTHAM, This Day. Competitors at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association moved back to long ranges this morning to Are at 800 and 900 yards, in the B series of matches, which do not count tor the Championship Belt but feive marksmen an opportunity of trying out. over championship ranges. When competitors went down at the mounds the weather was dull and overcast, with a steady left wind, but as the morning advanced visibility improved and definition became clearer. The first men down in the Wit-

combe and Caldwell match, which , for 10 rounds at 800 and at 900 jy'vyards, Struck a good patch and sev- ■ f - : pral possibles were returned. The Wbitcombe and Caldwell match *iras won by W. Mclver (Petone) with h score of 97. He scored 49 at the „'. 800 yards and 48 at the 900. Mclver also won the Imperial aggregate for the highest Imperial aggregate in the B series. The first two matches in the championship belt series are being fired this afternoon.