Another successful Open has been run and won.
Numbers were down on recent Open events but this has been the case at most Clubs running Open events recently.
It was pleasing to see some competitors back in the scene after having been absent for quite a number of years.
We also had several long distance runners with two from the Canberra district but there were quite a number that had travelled 6 or 7 hours to take part in the event.
It was also pleasing to see the number of 1st time "Open" contestants taking part in the event.
Bruce Quick took out the 5 match Aggregate, Amanda Graham won the 3 Match Aggregate and Isabella Burton took out the Junior 2 Match Aggregate.
For a full list of scores recorded, please see the attached file

Glen Innes Pistol Club will this month become the first Club in New South Wales with a high pressure air pump for refilling Compressed Air Pistol Cylinders rather than rely on Dive Tanks or the Labour Intensive High Pressure Hand Pumps. (see photo of the unit below)
The Club takes delivery of the new Pump from Potter New England Firearms in time for our Open shoot in just over a week.
This pump has many advantages to Club members as they no longer have to rely on getting their Dive Tanks periodically re-certified and refilled or pump Air Pistol Cylinders up by hand with the manual pumps which require  considerable effort to fill a Cylinder from empty.
The pump will be available every weekend at the Club for those wishing to contest air matches or top up a tank if the pressure fails in their Pistol Cylinder during a match.
In the past, visiting shooters have arrived at our Competitions expecting to be able to fill their empty Cylinders before competing only to find that we have not had the facility available and have then had to chase around other competitors to borrow a pump or get a fill from someone else's Dive Tank.
This is all now in the past and we will be able to provide a service not available at most Country Pistol Clubs.

Nine members and two potential new members attended the Range last Saturday.
Four members contested a Standard Pistol Match with Kerri winning both off barrel and on Handicap.
Daughter and son duo Jacqui and Cooper contested a 60 shot air pistol match with Jacqui leading the way off barrel by 4 points and Cooper winning on handicap by 12 points.
One of our new members furthered his training by receiving further coaching in Air Pistol with Charles doing some additional work with the excavator to remove potential hazards from the 50 metre range before our upcoming Open Shoot.
Our two prospective members seem very keen to follow on and join the club and will undertake their initial training later this month.
There will be a working bee next Saturday to prepare facilities for the February Open scheduled for the following weekend with competition to commence at 3 pm on Friday 15th February.

Only 6 members attended the Club last Saturday which is not surprising in view of the fact that it was Australia Day.
One member completed  Air Pistol Practice without returning a score.
A second member spent several hours on an excavator and finally gained access to the floor of Range 3 to undertake some remedial work on earth walls and removing rubble which has fallen into the range over the years.
Three  members contested the Centre Fire Match and one the Ladies 25 m Pistol Match with varying degrees of success.
Match of the day next Saturday will be Standard Pistol commencing at 1 pm

The NSW Junior Coaching Camp held at the Club last week is now done and dusted and all the juniors who attended would have made it home last night.
By all reports, the Camp was a great success.
Glen Innes Junior Cooper shot a tremendous Air Pistol Match on Thursday improving his personal best score by 99 points and having 89 points shaved from his handicap. I understand that he also showed great improvement in the Junior Sport Pistol Match training. Well done Cooper. 
Only five persons contested the Centre Fire/Sport Pistol Match of the day Saturday in blistering conditions and, with one exception, the scores reflected the terrible conditions.
Match of the day next Saturday is again Centre Fire/Sports Pistol commencing at 1pm.

Saturday saw a group of 6 members contesting the 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol match and 6 members and visitors contesting the 25 m Black Powder Match
The two Bruce's pushed each other to the end in Rapid Fire with Bruce F beating Bruce Q by 1 point returning scores of 571 and 570 respectively.
The black powder Match had a wide Range of scores with Bob (visitor from Sydney) taking the honours with a score of 342.
In the late afternoon, the bus carrying 10 of the NSW Juniors arrived for the Junior Coaching Clinic being held all week at the Glen Innes Pistol Club complex.
Coaches, Chaperones and helpers arrived either Friday or Saturday to help make the week a success for all Juniors in attendance. One of our local Junior members has now also joined the visitors to further his training and skills over the week.

Centre Fire and Sport Pistol will be the matches of the day next Saturday commencing at 1 pm

A hand full of members attended the first club day for 2019 on Saturday with two practicing Standard Pistol, another giving our newest Junior additional coaching to prepare him for the Junior Coaching Clinic to be held at Glen Innes Pistol Club from 13/1/2019 to 19/1/2019 and another doing some work with heavy machinery to gain access to our 50 metre Range
Bruce was shooting particularly well after a break of about 1 month and shot a score of 100 for his first two series of 20 Seconds in Standard Pistol (see photo below) and would have recorded a score in excess of 570 if the practice match had been fully scored.
Matches of the day next Saturday are Rapid Fire Pistol and 25 m Black Powder commencing at 1 pm.
Juniors will be arriving for the Coaching Camp on Sunday and departing the following Saturday for home.

The final Club competition for 2018 was held this afternoon with a very small attendance of seven members due to so many having family commitments/preparing for Christmas
Two members contested Centre Fire, One Ladies 25 m Pistol, one Men's 25 m pistol and another providing coaching to two of the newer members on use of rimfire pistols. For a first time attempt at using a rimfire pistol, both did very well.
All ranges are now closed for the Christmas/New Year break with Competition to re-commence on 5/1/2019.
On behalf of the Executive Committee, we wish you all a happy and safe Christmas and New Year

A very good turnout for the Club and Reserve Committee meetings yesterday with 10 of the 12 Committee persons in attendance. Several had other commitments and had to leave as soon as the meeting ended with a six members staying on to enjoy the matches of the day.
Scores have today been added to the Match scores page of this site along with those from the previous weekend.
Matches of the day next weekend are Centre Fire and 25 m Sports Pistol commencing at 1 pm with the club then closing competition activities for the Christmas New Year break.

Scores from last weekend have now been added to the results page.

The Logo of White Rock Wind Farm has now been added to our "Proud Supporters" page acknowledging their very generous grant to complete the upgrade of the Air Range.

Next Saturday, the match of the day is Standard Pistol