October 26, 2014 - PETITCODIAC FINAL CENTERFIRE BR. CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH - RESULTS

The Match - sent by John Corbett:

The Petitcodiac Centrefire Benchrest Championship Shoot was held on Sunday, October 26, 2014 at the Petitcodiac Sportsman's Club Rifle Range. Registration time was at 9:30 am and the shoot started at 10:00 am. A good number of shooters qualified to shoot at no fee and to participate in the Championship Top 5 Awards. Other shooters were welcome to attend and shoot but with the usual shoot fee and no participation in the Top 5 Awards. Shooters who did not  place in the Top 5 Awards participated in a Prize Draw so everyone who participated in the Shoot was a winner.

Lunch was provided to all in 

attendance.

The course of fire was 3 hunter class targets with 2 shots per bull on score and unlimited sighters in a 15 minute relay. This resulted in 4 relays for the 18 shooters.

Prizes:

Prizes were donated by Hirsch Precision. We thank Peter Dobson for this donation and for his generous support of shooting in New Brunswick.

The Conditions:

For several days before the match, it had been raining furiously, and we were all afraid that the match would be a very wet one with the winds that Petitcodiac is known for. When we drove down to the range it was cold, about 4 C but there was only the slightest hint of rain - a misting. During the match it was only during the last 2 relays that a substantial rain appeared. It remained cold on the firing point and did not exceed 10 C. Those horrible and tricky Petitcodiac winds? - not a sigh or even a breath. 

This was very unusual but did lead to some excellent scores - 3 shooters shot a perfect match and joined the illustrious Petitcodiac 300 CLub: Cecil Harvey with 300/20X; Dan Gladstone with 300/13X and for the first time in his shooting career, Matt Armstrong shot a perfect 300 with 12X. Congratulations guys - well done. That's not all - there were 22 perfect targets shot in all - a record for a match I'm sure.

People to Thank:

The following people worked hard to make this Final shoot a success. Volker T. was the Match Director and did all the scoring with Martin T. verifying the results. The Range Safety Officers were Dan G. and Darryl K. Targets were set up by John McCl., Dan G. and Brian P. while the target changers were Dan G., Brian P., Logan G., and Cecil H. The lunch and prizes were arranged by John C. Shelly C. brought the treats for the lunch while Dan G. and John McC. brought the Timbits for the shoot. Many thanks to all of you for your dedication and efforts.

The Results - sent by Volker Topf:

                                     Target #1           Xs         Target #2          Xs          Target #3           Xs           Total                    Xs                 Rank

Cecil Harvey		100		8		100		5		100		7		300		20		1
Dan Gladstone		100		6		100		4		100		3		300		13		2
Matt Armstrong		100		2		100		2		100		8		300		12		3
Volker M. Topf		99		5		100		7		100		6		299		18		4
Darryl Keirstead		100		5		99		2		100		4		299		11		5
Don Murrin		98		4		100		3		100		7		298		14		6
Logan Gladstone		99		3		99		1		100		1		298		5		7
John McClusky		99		2		98		5		100		4		297		11		8
Bert deVink		98		3		100		4		99		4		297		11		9
Brian Petitpas		99		2		100		4		98		2		297		8		10
George Cook		99		6		97		4		100		3		296		13		11
Tom Worden		100		3		99		5		96		2		295		10		12
Bruce Bennett		100		4		96		2		99		0		295		6		13
Tom Nowlan		97		3		99		3		98		3		294		9		14
Terry McNeill		96		1		97		5		99		7		292		13		15
John Corbett		94		1		99		0		98		1		291		2		16
Shelly Colpitts		93		1		97		1		96		1		286		3		17
Tony Lewis		90		2		96		0		93		1		279		3		18

The Top 5 from the left: Dan G., Matt A.,
Cecil H., Volker T. and Darryl K.

Other Awards:

As this was the final Centerfire Benchrest shoot of the year, several other prizes were awarded for Benchrest Shooting during the year as follows:

High Single Target Score during the Regular
Schedule: Dan Gladstone with 100/9X

High Match Score during the Regular Schedule:
Cecil Harvey with 300/8X

OCTOBER 19, 2014 - RNBRA ANNUAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of the RNBRA  was held in Sussex NB on Sunday, October 19, 2014 with Interim President Michael Lutes chairing the meeting.

                 

The following are excerpts and highlights from the meeting and are not intended as the minutes of this meeting.
- the activity of the Board since the resignation of the previous president and vice-presidents were reviewed. 

There has been an emphasis on communication with improvements to the RNBRA website and facebook; 

NFA insurance; establishment of an airgun section; and RNBRA members had a very good year of competition.
 - the Financial Review could not happen in 2014 as the previous year's books were not comprehensible. 

This will be done in the coming year by Conrad Leroux and Daniel Chisholm.

                   

 - the RNBRA is composed of 105 individual members and 21 affiliated clubs which comprise 2805 affiliated members. 

Discussion focused on fees, club membership and the benefits to clubs of affiliating with the RNBRA.
 - Steven Stewart and Wayde Clifford have been busy with Club Development - courses, range development, 

airgun section, cadets

 - New Brunswick needs to start from scratch on the development of a coaching network.
 - the Airgun Section is preparing to send a team to the Canada Games. In 2019, there will be no shooting sports 

included and alternatives are being looked at.

 - The Pistol Section has had three Level III matches this year and has sent several shooters to national and 

international competitions.
 - the By-laws and Constitution were amended to increase the participation of the Board in decision making and 

also to improve the nominating process for the election of officers.

 - a new slate of officers was elected - Michael Lutes, President; April Brewer, 1st Vice Pres.; Don Brown, 2nd Vice 

Pres.; Matt Wolf, Larry Schriver and Tony Wood - Members at Large.
 - Membership Fees will increase to Individual Membership - $40 (Juniors $20); Individual Membership if a member 

of an Affiliated Club - $30 (Juniors $15). Club affiliation fees will not change.
 - A "Late Fee" was instituted to encourage people to submit their membership application/fees in the first months 

of the year. A Late Fee of $10 will be levied on applications received after March 31, 2015

 - This year, the Andy Gunther Award for meritorious service to RNBRA was given to Lorraine Chapman for her work 

as secretary of the RNBRA and also her work locally with several organizations.

 - noteworthy is Emily Dean's performance at the Nationals in Airgun; Don Coleman will be a shooting member of the 

Veteran's Palma Team; Daniel Chisholm will be a wind coach for the Palma team in 2015; several pistol shooters 

have attended the World Championships in Florida.

OCTOBER 19, 2014 - MINTO - CENTERFIRE/HANDGUN - FIRST FINAL SHOOT - RESULTS

Many thanks to Gerry J. for sending these results.

The first Final Match of the Centerfire BR season took place at the Minto Gun Club range on Sunday with 10 shooters competing for top honours in Open Class Rifle, Sporter Class Rifle, Rimfire Handgun and Centerfire Handgun. These results will be combined with the results of the second Final Match.

Today, temperatures were cool with gusty winds.

Thanks to Bruce B. and Gerry J. for serving as RSO. Thanks also to Bruce B. for changing the targets midway through the match.

RESULTS - OPEN CLASS RIFLE:
Tom W. - 292/3X
David C. - 290/2X
Don M. - 289/3X
Bruce B. - 287/2X
Terry McN. - 284/2X
Malcolm MacD. - 266/1X
Grant P. Sr. - 264/0X

RESULTS - SPORTER RIFLE:
Gerry J. - 135/0X
Terry McN. - 133/0X
Wayne K. - 118/0X
Grant P. Jr. - 115/0X

RESULTS - RIMFIRE HANDGUN:
Grant P. Sr. - 96
Gerry J. - 92
Wayne K. - 76
Grant P. Jr. - 69

RESULTS - CENTERFIRE HANDGUN:
Grant P. Sr. - 96
Gerry J. - 92
Grant P. Jr. - 32

OCTOBER 11, 2014 - NEW BRUNSWICK .22 BR TEAM SHOOT - RESULTS

Description of the Match (sent by John C.):
The New Brunswick .22 Rimfire Benchrest Team Shoot was held at the Petitcodiac Sportsman's Club Rifle Range starting at 10:00am. and lunch was provided. Spotting scopes were allowed. Two paper targets were shot at 100 yards with 20 shots on score for each target for a total of 40 shots and 400 points. Each club represented could have a minimum of 4 shooters to a maximum of 7 shooters on their team. The top 4 scores on each club team were totaled for the team score and the club team with the highest score is the New Brunswick Champion.

The Match Conditions (sent by Volker T.):

Well, the 'wind gods' were kind to the shooters today. The wind was very light, with only some increase in velocity at times. It was a great day to shoot 100yds., but sadly, nobody was able shoot a 400 at 100yds., (if we would have been shooting at 50yds, I'm sure there would have been several 500's shot today - the conditions were that good - and if course on a good day we're not too too bad shooters). But then again, most of us seldom shoot this distance. 

The lighting was good with a mixture of sun, changing to some overcast during the match, and it was pretty cloudy towards the end of the shoot. It was cool at the start, but warmed up a bit before cooling down again at the end of the match. Average temperature hovered around 13 degrees C. We will need to restart the wood stove again - winter is not far away!

Interesting to note that Anschutz rifles were used by eight out of the top ten shooters. The other rifles were a Remington, and a Frank de Haas custom build.

Thanks are Due To (sent by Volker T.):

1.  Carl J., Guy H. and Cecil H. for setting target frames. 

2.  Dan G. and Brian P. for target setting/retrieval. 

3.  John C. for looking after the wonderful lunch. 

4.  Barb J. and Dan G. for the tasty sweets on the range. 

5.  Barb J., Daryl K. and Volker T. for the great pictures.

6.  Martin T. and Wayne K. assisted the scorekeeper. 

7.  Dan G. and Darryl K. for being RO.

8.  Volker T. was the Match Director and Scorekeeper. 

Thanks to everyone for making it a great day on the range! 

Your Director, Volker.

TEAM RESULTS (sent by Darryl K.):

1. FIRST PLACE - TEAM PETITCODIAC - 1533/51X

    Volker T. - 387/16X (1st individual)

    Dan G. - 385/14X (2nd indiv)

    John C. - 381/7X (6th indiv)

    Darryl K. - 380/14X (7th indiv)

    Martin T. - 369/9X (12th indiv)

    Brian P. - 369/5X (14th indiv)

    Tom N. - 347/7X (16th indiv)

TEAM PETITCODIAC SPORTSMAN'S CLUB
LtoR: Martin T., Dan G., Volker T.,
John C., Darryl K., and Tom N.

2. SECOND PLACE - TEAM MINTO - 1524/50X

    Cecil H. - 382/16X (3rd indiv)

    George M. - 382/10X (4th indiv)

    Matt McA. - 381/16X (5th indiv)

    Guy H. - 379/8X (8th indiv)

    Wayne K. - 322/3X (17th indiv)

3. THIRD PLACE - TEAM LAKE GEORGE - 1490/31

    Bruce B. - 376/10X (9th indiv)

    Barbara J. - 374/9X (10th indiv)

    Terry McN. - 371/6X (11th indiv)

    John M. - 369/6X (13th indiv)

    Carl J. - 367/8X (15th indiv)

THE MINTO WORK GANG - HARD AT IT ON THE NEW RANGE BUILDING

Many thanks to Barb J. for sending these excellent pictures.

The Minto Gun Club has been hard at work building a closed and covered firing point point and it looks like the building is coming along nicely. What a good job these carpenters - Dave C., Cecil H., George M., Guy H., and painters - Barb J. and Carl J. are doing! Looks like they are having a great day.

 

OCTOBER 5, 2014 - MINTO - FIRST FINAL SHOOT FOR .22 BR - RESULTS

Many thanks to Barb J. for sending the results, the write-up and the pictures.

Today's shoot was the first of 2 Final shoots for .22 Rimfire BR. The results will be combined with the second Final Shoot and an overall Champion will be announced.

We had a great shoot today in Minto. It was very wet and windy. Thanks to the carpenters, we were nice and dry inside the new building. (We plan to help stain the siding tomorrow on the new building.) The targets though had to be dried on the stove

There were sixteen shooters present.  Terry McN. was scorekeeper. Carl J., Wayne K., and Barb J. were Range Officers. Several people took turns changing the targets. Today was Wayne's K. birthday and he won the Sporter Class. 

Congratulations to Guy H. who, despite all the rain today, shot a perfect match with a score of 400/10X. He joins others in the exalted Minto 400 Club.





RESULTS - OPEN CLASS "A":
Guy H. - 400/10X
Cecil H. - 399/16X
Matthew McA. - 396/18X
Don M. - 396/3X
Bruce B. - 393/14X
Dave C. - 393/7X
Malcolm MacD. - 392/9X
Barb J. - 392/6X
Tom W. - 391/3X
Carl J. - 389/9X
George M. - 388/9X

RESULT - OPEN CLASS "B":
Terry McN. - 373/3X
Grant P. Jr. - 369/2X
Wayne K. - 366/3X
Grant P. Sr. - 355/3X

RESULTS - SPORTER CLASS:
Wayne K. - 347/1X
Gerry J. - ?????