The
Cairns Prize Meeting was held over 21st
and
22nd
June
2014 at the Cairns Rifle Range, Wangetti Beach. A good turn up of
around 41 shooters (13 from Ravenshoe) enjoyed warm weather, if
often- times a fickle wind prevailed. The first day was 300, 500 and
700 metres and Sunday’s matches comprised 700, 800 and 600 metres.
There were some great scores recorded with Peter
Burg, Kevin
and Kate Chatfield achieving 2 possibles and Betta Gianasi, Mick Wood
and Chris Allman with one each.
On
Day 1 Yvonne Burg won 300m in FA and Peter Burg won 300m in FO. For
500m Kevin Chatfield won FA and Betta won FB. At 700m Mick Wood took
out FA and Chris Allman FB. The Day 1 Aggregate was taken out by 1st
Kevin
Chatfield, 2nd
Mick
Wood, 3rd
John
Lorimer (Townsville) in FA. In FB Chris Allman scooped the pool with
John Farmer (Townsville) 2nd
and
Arthur Simpson (Mareeba) 3rd.
In F-Open Peter Smith, Dave Stewart (Herberton)and Peter Carter
(Cairns) excelled.
On
Day 2 at 700m Kate Chatfield came 1st
in
FA; Chris Allman in FB. At 800m Chris Allman took out FB. At 600m
Jason Kuchel was 1st
in
TR1 and our adopted Mareeba shooter, Steve Durham, was 1st
in
TR2.
Yvonne
Burg was 1s
in
FA and Kevin Randolph in FB.
The
Daily Aggregates were:
Jason
Kuchel
3rd
in
TR1; Steve Durham
1st
in
TR2; Kevin Chatfield 3rd
in
FA; Chris Allman 1st,
Kevin Randolph 2nd
in
FB and Peter Burg 3rd
in
F-Open.
Grand
Aggregate winners:
Jason
Kuchel 2nd
TR1,
Steve Durham 1st
TR2,
Kevin Chatfield 2nd
and
Mick Wood 3rd
FA
and Chris Allman 1st
and
Paul Paged 3rd
in
FB.
A great effort by our Ravenshoe
shooters – hopefully to be repeated at the Mossman shoot.
Grand Aggregate winners (left to right): Chris Allman, Peter Smith,
Steve Durham, Elliot Ross and John Lorimer