Saturday 2 June 2007

GB v Combined Services Pistol

GB lost out again in the annual pistol competition vs. Combined Services (CS).

The competition is in two parts with teams of 6 with 2 shooting reserves per side. The first part (shot in the morning) has two events, 10m Precision and 25m Standard Pistol (Air), combined under the auspices of the NSRA and the GB side was Captained by Trevor Haynes.

The afternoon's second part has one event, 25m Centre Fire (Air), which is shot under the NRA and the GB Captain for this competition was Dave Levene.

The team for both GB and CS stays the same for the morning's events and can change in the afternoon.

The scores from both parts are then aggregated for the Combined Services Cup (Rose Bowl).

This year GB won the 10m Precision by 42 points, but lost the 25m Standard Pistol (Air) by 69 points, meaning we lost the NSRA part of the day by 27 points.

Both GB and CS's Captains decided to change the teams for the afternoon's match, although this turned out not to be a good decision for both sides scores.

CS won the 25m Centre Fire (Air) match by 9 points and so retained the Rose Bowl by 36 points (10,014 points to 9,978 points).

In the 10m Precision I had the highest score overall with 563. Standard Pistol score was 547 (could do better) and my Centre Fire score was 573, which was fairly good but didn't count as Dave Levene decided to put me down as a reserve.

Full results:- Combined Services v Great Britain Pistol 2007

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