SHOOTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20108, 29 March 1928, Page 4

SHOOTING

ARAMOHO GUN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP FIRED. Considerable interest was taken b< visitors s well as members in the clay bird shooting contests at lhe AramobJ ; Gun Club’s grounds on Saturday. The I contests included the 1927-28 Club Championship Match. I The preliminary six bird match, nine ! competitors, each shoo!er nominating ; his own mark, found C« Kempton most accurate, securing all his clays will] first barrel breaks. Ruscoc, Dunlop, Dixon and R. E. Cuthbertson all tieing for second place, but in shooting otf 18yd.’- first barrel break only, A. Ruscoe secured the pcsition with his first extra bird. Au eight bird event off 15yds., wild nine coJqpet’.tGTS, saw Kempton again deadly with eight first barrels, whuJ Burgess and Ruscoe, witli seven io their credit, fired three extra to decide, the latter winning with the third bird. The shoot of the day was the 1927-28 • Club Champions.lip, comprised of seven, j distances, three birds oil each. Twelve I members toed the mark. While the I ma ck was in progress a drizzling rain | set in ami with a strong wind, made marksmanship somewhat difficult, particularly with birds throwa to the loft. I flic trap was manipulated by Messrs .McDonald and Kempton jun., to the satji tact ion of all. The four prizewinners turned up in R- E. Cuthbertson (eflampion), A. Kuscoc (runner-up), A. McKee (third) un<i C. Kempton (best first barrel performance). McKee and Ruscoc took seven extra birds birds u decide their position. Following is the scoring:—R. E. Cuthbertson 16, A. Ruscoc 14, IL Dixon 7, A. Hughes 8, D. Smith 12, A. McKee 14, J. Dunlop 13, B. Burgess 10IL Manguson (retired) 0, E. O’Brien 10, T. Cuthbertson 12, C. Kempton 13.