Sunday 24 June 2007

BPC Championships 2007

The weekend started on the Saturday with the 10m match, fairly warm and stuffy in the far left-hand range. Having to cope with loud music from the various groups of dancers that seemed to be everywhere didn't help, but it was the same for everyone and I ended with a score of 556. At least the roller-hockey people weren't there with making the floor bounce and with very loud music.

25m Sport score was nothing to write home about, especially as I had a disallowed skid shot towards the end, 10 points away. The heavens opened just as we started the rapid, so there was a slight delay as the monsoon-rain fell.

Kept awake until 2am at the hotel by a wedding reception.

Shot reasonably well in Free on the Sunday moning and ended with a 530, which gave me 3rd place for the 2nd year in a row.

Falling plates were next, and made the mistake of moving the sights the wrong way so ended up trying to find point of aim throughout the match and never actually found it, finishing with a massive 2 points. Going to laminate the instructions for the sight movement.

10m Standard up next - by this time the sights are where they should be, but final score was only 349, however, that was enough for 1st place and the John Chandler trophy along with a bottle of champagne. An "old" member had donated enough money to buy all the 1st place winners a bottle of champagne, as 2007 is the BPC's 50th Anniversery year.

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