We had a fantastic week end. The Welsh Gallery Rifle Club ran the three day shoot from Friday 9th August, when range staff shot, to Sunday 11th.   About forty competitors took part in eighteen different types of competition in three classes, X, A and B. Some competitors had travelled considerable distances.   HTSC had a good number of medal winners . Full results and slide show on the WGRC web site at galleryrifle.com. Richard and...

Wednesday 22nd May 2013: We all had a great day. The weather was fine but windy. We shot at 300 yards in the morning and at 500 yards in the afternoon. To some of us this was a big first. These longer ranges are usually reserved for visits to Bisley. To shoot a muzzle loader at these distances and score well, was an added bonus. Both Pete Biebrach and Paul James used muzzle loaders and managed good scores. The rest of us were using the like of...

Following on from last week’s full bore Bianchi, here are the results from the small bore. The individual section scores were:   Stage 1 – Los Alamitos .22: 1st Peter Biebrach 413 2nd John Munt 409 3rd Alun Lloyd 403 4th Ann Marie James 390 5th Richard James 376 6th Tim Ward 372 7th Mark Otten 365   Stage 1 – Los Alamitos .22 LBP: 1st Richard James 450 2nd Ann Marie James 399   Stage 2 – Plates .22: 1st...

This competition was shot in two phases: a combination of the two giving an overall score. The first stage was speed shooting, called “Los Alamitos”. Six shots fired at each of six targets in various times. The closest at 10m – six shots in six seconds, then back through two more distances to six in 12 seconds at 20m. 48 rounds fired altogether. The second was simulated plate shooting. Each shooter firing strings of six at...

Club hosted the Welsh Black Powder Championships over the weekend of 6th and 7th April. Spread over two days gave plenty of time for shooters who entered a number of different events to compete. The number of entrants was not high. Cost of travel, accommodation etc being negative factors. However, Tom and Shonagh Clark travelled from the west of Scotland to compete, almost a thousand mile round trip. Well done! Others came from Cardiff and...