Results Sunday 29 December 2013

RAVENSHOE HARDWARE kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 500 yards. A sunny and hot morning with heavy mirage challenged the shooters in Ravenshoe today. Results for double 500, 10 shots comp. Target Rifle – K Randolph 63. F Open – P Burg 118.8. FTR – M Wood 111.2, J Anderson 107.3. F Standard – B O’Reilly 118.11, K Randolph 112.7, B Gianasi 112.4, M Wood 112.4, P Padgett 111.6.
Sunday, January 5: Double 600, 8.30am start.

Results Sunday 22 December 2013

RAVENSHOE TYRERIGHT kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 400 yards. A sunny day with rapidly changing winds challenged the shooters in Ravenshoe today. Results for double 400, 10 shots comp. Target Rifle – S Durham (Mareeba) 90.6. FTR – J Anderson 107.6. F Open – P Burg 118.13, G Venables 114.6. F Standard – K Randolph 117.10, C Allman 115.7, P Burg 114.6, M Wood 110.6, B Gianasi 108.5, P Padgett 107.4 

Sunday, December 29: Double 500, 8.30am start. 

Sunday, January 5: Double 600, 8.30am start. 

2013 Championship

SERVICE RIFLE
JOHN ANDERSON 82.50% (8 shoots)

TARGET RIFLE
KEVIN RANDOLPH 63.17% (8 shoots)
Other shooters: John Anderson (3 shoots) and Jason Kuchel (3 shoots)

FTR
JOHN ANDERSON 95.84%
Mick Wood 94.07%
Jason Kuchel         93.87%
Incomplete shoots: Murray Wilson (6 shoots)


F OPEN
PETER BURG 99.52%
Garry Venables 92.06%
Incomplete shoots: Yvonne Burg (4 shoots)

F STANDARD
KEVIN CHATFIELD 98.38%
Peter Burg 97.80%
Mick Wood 97.53%
Kath Chatfield         97.31%
Chris Allman         95.91%
Betta Gianasi         95.11%
Kevin Randolph 94.89%
Yvonne Burg         93.31%
Liz Wilson 92.87%
Murray Wilson         92.73%
Paul Padgett 88.63%
Jacqui Hazlett         85.60%
Incomplete shoots: Julie de Haas (9 shoots), Brenton O’Reilly (7 shoots), John Pavils (3 shoots) and Garry Venables (1 shoot)

John Anderson  

Kevin Randolph 

Peter Burg 

Kevin Chatfield

Results Sunday 15 December 2013

CHATFIELD BUS TRANSPORTERS kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 300 yards. An overcast day with changing winds challenged the shooters in Ravenshoe today. Results for double 300, 10 shots comp. F Open – G Venables 113.10. FTR – J Anderson 102. F Standard – C Allman 119.11, P Burg 117.8, K Randolph 114.6, P Padgett 113.10, B Gianasi 111.5, M Wood 106.1.
Sunday, December 22: Double 400, 8.30am start.
Sunday, December 29: Double 500, 8.30am start.
Sunday, January 5: Double 600, 8.30am start

Results Sunday 8 December 2013

BERTOLDO ELECTRICAL kindly SPONSORED today’s Christmas shoot at 600 yards. Results for double 600, 15 shots comp. F Open – P Burg 170.10, G Venables 159.6. FTR – J Anderson 149.5. F Standard – C Allman 169.8, M Wood 167.9, K Randolph 167.5, Kath Chatfield 165.7, Kev Chatfield 165.5, P Padgett 156.6, J Hazlett 151.6, J de Haas 146.1 E Langley 143.2.
Sunday, December 15: Double 300, 8.30am start.

Results Sunday 1 December 2013

RAVENSHOE TYRERIGHT kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 400 yards. A sunny and hot day with light winds changing at times and mirage challenged the shooters in Ravenshoe today. Results for double 400, 10 shots comp. F Open – P Burg 119.14, G Venables 104.4. FTR – J Anderson 112.8, M Wood 106.4. F Standard – P Burg 117.12, C Allman 115.7,  M Wood 114.10, Kath Chatfield 114.5, P Padgett 113.8, Kev Chatfield 112.5, B Gianasi 109.4, K Randolph 100.1.
Congratulation to Liz Wilson, bronze at the 800m at the Canberra Queens.
Sunday, December 8: Christmas shoot - Double 600, 15 shots comp. + Fly, 5 shots comp. 8.30am start.

LIZ WILSON IN BRONZE AT THE CANBERRA QUEENS

The Canberra Queens was held 13 - 17 November 2013, celebrating 100 years. Canberra itself was celebrating their 100th anniversary, so the Club has been in operation for a long time.
Conditions were extremely difficult, with 20 km/hour winds, changing 3 to 4 minutes of wind left to right and often changing through a shoot. Very hard to read - thus making low scores at times. It was a good turn up, with 207 shooters competing - 60 F Standard and 24 F Open. Liz Wilson managed a third place at the second 800m shoot and received a nice 100th anniversary glass. Murray battled hard, but no gong unfortunately. Canberra is a lovely range with good facilities and we recommend anyone to participate in this Queens in the future.

Results Sunday 24 November 2013

RAVENSHOE HARDWARE kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 500 yards. Results for double 500, 10 shots comp. F Open – P Burg 120.14, G Venables 113.11. FTR – M Wood 114.7, J Anderson 111.5. F Standard – P Burg 119.10, M Wood 118.11, C Allman 118.8, P Padgett 116.12, K Randolph 114.6.
Sunday, December 1: Double 400, 8.30am start.

Results Sunday 3 November 2013

CHATFIELD BUS TRANSPORTER kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 300 yards. Quickly changing winds challenged the shooters in Ravenshoe today. Results for double 300, 10 shot comp: FTR – J Anderson 112.5, M Wood 57.4 (half round). F Open – G Venables 116.6, P Burg 115.6. F Standard – M Wood 119.8, Kev Chatfield 117.12, Kath Chatfield 116.6, K Randolph 113.5, C Allman 112.5, B Gianasi 111.4, P Padgett 104.4.
Sunday, November 10 : Double 600.

Results Sunday 20 October 2013

RAVENSHOE HARDWARE kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 500 yards. Overcast with light rain at times was an unusual setting for the shoot in Raveshoe today. Results for double 500, 10 shot comp: FTR – J Anderson 114.6, M Wood 114.5. F Open – G Venables 115.6. F Standard - P Burg 116.9, B Gianasi 116.6, C Allman 115.8, Kev Chatfield 113.5, Kath Chatfield 109.4, K Randdolph 107.1, M Wilson 106.2, P Padgett 104.4, L Wilson 103.3, J Hazlett 100.3, M Wood 60.4 (half round).
Sunday, October 27 : Double 400. AGM postponed to 3 November.

Results Sunday 13 October 2013

BERTOLDO ELECTRICAL kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 600 yards. Sun, hot weather and heavy mirage challenged the 14 shooters competing in Ravenshoe today. Results for double 600, 10 shot comp: Service rifle – J Anderson 95.1. Target rifle – Steve Durham (Mareeba) 89.2. FTR – M Wood 107.2, J Anderson 106.2. F Standard – M Wood 115.11, P Burg 115.6, B Gianasi 114.5, K Randdolph 111.6, Kev Chatfield 110.7, C Allman 110.7, M Wilson 106.4, P Padgett 101.4, L Wilson 99.3, G Venables 95.3, J Hazlett 95, J de Haas 90.1.
Sunday, October 20 : Double 500. AGM to be held on 27 October.

Champions at the Ravenshoe/Mt Garnet Annual Prize shoot

On 5th October, the first day of the Ravenshoe/Mt Garnet Rifle Club shoot, Marty Lobert (a member of the Australian F-Open team who won the F-Class World Championships at Raton, New Mexico, USA, in August 2013), along with five other members of the Australian team were present to pay homage to Peter Smith, who was very much instrumental in the design and manufacture of the coaching/plotting system used by wind coaches David Stewart and David McNamara.  Marty presented Peter with an Australian team T-shirt signed by all members of the Australian team, an Australian team cap and a winning team gold medal presented by the American organizing committee.  Peter was also presented with a blown-up group photo of the whole Australian team.  The striking yellow colours of the team shirts really stood out and made a colourful picture with the gold medals gleaming in the sunlight.  It was a very touching ceremony expressing the team’s gratitude to their mentor.  Peter Smith was very honoured by the gesture.  Thanks Peter for an extraordinary contribution.
On Sunday 6th October, Cnr Shaaron Linwood took the opportunity to congratulate Marty Lobert, Shane Green, Steve Lazarus and Peter Smith on their great success in America.

Ravenshoe/Mt Garnet Rifle Club Annual Prize shoot 2013

The Ravenshoe/Mt Garnet Rifle Club held their Annual 2013 Prize Meeting (in conjunction with the Ravenshoe Torimba Festival) on 5th and 6th October with 38 shooters across five different disciplines attending from various clubs ranging from Mossman to Collinsville.  Despite rather stronger wind conditions than usual (which changed at a rapid rate), the weather was pleasant and some shooters managed good scores.  This year the Club put for the first time on a two-day shoot.
Steven Durham (Mareeba) took out the Grand Aggregate for Day 1 (300, 400 and 500 yards) in Target Rifle (TR1) Div. 1 from Robert Boulter (Atherton) and Mark Beecham (Mareeba).  In TR2 Div. 2 Malcolm McKellar triumphed over Neil Attwood (both from Mossman) and Josh Cox (Cairns).  In F-Open Marty Lobert (Cairns), in true world champion style, beat local Ravenshoe shooter Peter Burg and Peter Smith (Herberton). In F Standard 1 (FS1) Shane Green (Cairns) top scored for the day, with Stephen Lazarus (Cairns) beating John Lorimer (Townsville) by 3 centre bulls.  In FS2 three relative newcomers excelled.  Paul Padgett (Ravenshoe) took out his first OPM prize over Brenton O’Reilly (Ravenshoe), also in his first prize shoot, and Darren Canute  (Townsville).
The wind gods were even less clement on Day 2 (double 600 yards) and every shooter had to expend the maximum effort for every point. In TR1, Mark Beecham prevailed over Robert Boulter and Steve Durham. Mal McKellar proved too good for Neil Attwood and Gary Moss (Atherton) in TR 2. F-Open was taken out by Marty Lobert from Peter Smith and Peter Burg.  In FS1 Ian (Mick) Wood (Ravenshoe), Kathleen Chatfield (Ravenshoe) and Jim Blomfield (Bowen) managed better scores than their other competitors. Brenton O’Reilly prevailed over Vicki Cusick (Cairns) and Liz Wilson (Ravenshoe) in FS2.
Councillor Shaaron Linwood kindly presented the Grand Aggregate prizes to: TR1 Mark Beecham, Robert Boulter and Steve Durham.  TR2 Malcolm McKellar, Neil Attwood and Josh Cox. F-Open Marty Lobert, Peter Smith and Peter Burg.   FS1 Mick Wood, Shane Green and John Lorimer (Townsville).  FS2 Brenton O’Reilly, Paul Padgett and Vicki Cusick in her first prize meeting.  Ravenshoe/Mt Garnet Rifle Club would like to thank Councillor Linwood for her generous donation towards the running of this competition.
Sandy Wood did a fantastic job with catering for all the meals provided during the shoot and the Club presented a plant as thank for all her hard work. All the participants agreed that the catering was top quality and are all hoping to enjoy it again next year.
The Club would like to thank the Tableland Regional Council for sponsoring the shade protection and all the other sponsors for their donations towards the running of the competition. In particular: Paronella Park, Atherton International Club, Cairns Tropical Zoo, Ravenshoe Hardware, Ravenshoe Tyreright, Ravenshoe Club Hotel, Bertoldo Electrical, Mt Garnet Tyres and Parts and Tolga Butchery.
Cnr Linwood and many participants congratulated the Club for hosting such a successful weekend and for the high standard that the Club has achieved in the preparation of the Ravenshoe Range, which is confirmed by the world standard shooters who attended the event.

Full aggregate results are as follow:

Discipline             Name                     Club        Day 1  Aggr.   Day 2 Aggr.      Grand Aggr.
TR1               Mark Beecham       Mareeba              43.13           96.06           239.19
TR1               Robert Boulter       Atherton             144.17           92.07           236.24
TR1               Steve Durham       Mareeba             145.13           90.04           235.17
TR1               Lothar Ross       Cairns                                   90.01             90.01
TR2               Mal McKellar       Mossman             141.07           89.03           230.10
TR2              Neil Attwood       Mossman             135.04           87.03           222.07
TR2              Josh Cox               Cairns                     127.03            85.03           212.06
TR2              Gary Moss               Atherton             123.04            87.03           210.07
TR2              Les Binnie              Herberton                            85.02             85.02
F-OPEN      Marty Lobert      Cairns                     178.18          117.09           295.27
F-OPEN      Peter J Smith      Herberton             177.21          115.06           292.27
F-OPEN      Peter Burg              Rav/MtGarnet     178.15          114.10           292.25
F-OPEN      Michael Toohey      Atherton             176.18          113.06           289.24
F-OPEN      Howard Simpson      Ayr                     176.17          111.06           287.23
F-OPEN      Garry Venables      Rav/MtGarnet     172.09          113.22           285.31
FS1              Ian (Mick) Wood     Rav/MtGarnet     168.08          117.07           285.15
FS1              Shane Green      Cairns                     174.12          110.03           284.15
FS1              John Lorimer      TMRC             173.08          110.05           283.13
FS1              Steve Lazarus      Cairns                     173.11          110.02           283.13
FS1              Kathleen Chatfield    Rav/MtGarnet     170.12          112.05           282.17
FS1              Jim Blomfield      Bowen                     171.09          111.06           282.15
FS1              Wayne Swift      Collinsville             172.12          110.02           282.14
FS1              Kevin Chatfield      Rav/MtGarnet     170.09          111.02           281.11
FS1              Yvonne Burg      Rav/MtGarnet     166.05          105.03           271.08
FS1              Betta Gianasi      Rav/MtGarnet     162.04          107.06           269.10
FS1              Chris Allman      Rav/MtGarnet     159.06            98.04           257.10
FS1              Arthur Simpson      Mareeba             169.08                                   169.08
FS2              Brenton O'Reilly      Rav/MtGarnet     171.10          114.07           285.17
FS2              Paul Padgett      Rav/MtGarnet     172.09          109.07           281.16
FS2              Vicki Cusick      Cairns                     170.09          111.04           281.13
FS2             Elizabeth Wilson      Rav/MtGarnet     164.08          111.03           275.11
FS2             Kevin Randolph      Rav/MtGarnet     165.07          108.06           273.13
FS2             John Anderson      Rav/MtGarnet    168.07          103.01           271.08
FS2             Teresa Vermeer      Atherton            166.04          104.03           270.07
FS2             Darren Canute      TMRC            171.06            97.00           268.06
FS2             Murray Wilson      Rav/MtGarnet    158.05            98.01           256.06
FS2             Bill Glavin              TMRC            140.02            96.02           236.04
FS2             Una Glavin              TMRC            121.03            82.00           203.03

Results Sunday 29 September 2013

CHATFIELD BUS TRANSPORTERS kindly SPONSORED today’s shoot at 300 yards. A sunny hot day with light winds was perfect for the practice shoot held in Ravenshoe today Results for double 300, 10 shot comp: Target Rifle – J Anderson 61. FTR – J Anderson 115.3, M Wood 115.3. F Open – P Burg 117.11, G Venables 116.5, Y Burg 115.5. F Standard – B Gianasi 116.9, B O’Reilly 113.4, K Randolph 113.4, M Wood 112.4, J Hazlett 105.1, J de Haas 92.2.

Saturday 5 October and Sunday 6 October: Ravenshoe/Mt Garnet Rifle Club Annual Prize Shoot.

Pennants 2013

A group of our club members went to Townsville last weekend as part of the Cairns and Inland Rifle District's Pennants Team to compete in the NQRA/DRA Pennants Match for 2013. Kelly Chatfield (captain). Kev Chatfield, Kath Chatfield, Mick Wood, Murray Wilson and Liz Wilson along with Dennis Russell (Cairns) and coach Dave Stewart (Herberton) took out all 3 matches and the aggregate against strong opposition.

Pennant # 1 Bill Jonsson Match : 15 shots 300m

Pennant # 2 Charles Dempsey Match : 10 shots 300m, 2x600m, 900m

Pennant # 3 Norm Mahony Match:15 shots 900m

Lloyd Neilson Aggregate Trophy

Mareeba Rifle Club Annual Prize Shoot 2013

On 24 February 2013 the Mareeba Rifle Club’s Open Prize Shoot was held on a very hot, sunny day.  There was a good turn up, with 49 competitors attending (16 Target Rifle, 20 F Standard and 13 F Open shooters), shooting 300, 500 and 600 yards. 

Our Ravenshoe competitors, as ever, were in the mix, with Jason Kuchel 2nd at 300 yards, 1st at 500 yards and 4th overall agreggate in Target Rifle A.  Peter Burg was 1st at 300 yards in F -Open.  In F Standard A Richard Butt was 1st at 500 yards and came 4th in the Aggregate. Kevin Chatfield got most centres in F Standard. In F Standard B Kevin Randolph excelled  with a 1st at 500 yards, 1st at 600 yards and 1st aggregate – WELL DONE KEV!  Liz Wilson got 1st at 300 yards and 2nd aggregate in FS B.

Mareeba Rifle Club put on a great day and catered admirably for all shooters present. Thank you to President Mark Beecham and your hard-working team for putting on a great prize shoot, and Barry Ellis and helpers for the catering to feed the hungry hoardes.  We hope to attend many more friendly shoots at Mareeba and strongly encourage all local shooters to participate.