NSW MATCH RIFLE & LONG RANGE F CLASS STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

[Cliff Austen]

The NSW Match Rifle and Long Range F Class State Championships will be held at Ungarie on Saturday 6th May and Sunday 7th May 2023.
Programme is on the Match Rifle.org web site.
Competition over 1000, 1100 and 1200 yards
Manual targets.
BBQ lunch both days
Big Breakfast at the Ungarie Bowling Club on the Sunday morning.
It's a great shoot for Match Rifle, F Open and FTR.
See you there
Cheers
Cliff Austen OAM - President. NSW Match Rifle & Long Range F Class

[RDavies]

Ive always enjoyed the Ungarie long range shoot, just a little miffed it is on the same weekend as 2 other shoots I intended to go to.

[macguru]

what are the other 2 ?

[RDavies]

what are the other 2 ?

Spring Ridge OPM and Victoria Fly shoot on same weekend.

[Barossa_222]

Ive always enjoyed the Ungarie long range shoot, just a little miffed it is on the same weekend as 2 other shoots I intended to go to.

This is one of the problems with the NRAA/State associations/Match Rifle. I remember one year I shot Coonabarrabran and the NSW Queens was scheduled the same weekend. I understand that you can't please everyone, but I'd like to see us move away from each state holding a Kings every year and just having one Nationals every 2 to 4 years shared around between the states. You'd make it a bigger event by holding the Nationals with the state team shoots and Match rifle before or after in the same state trying to maximize our dwindling numbers.

[Cliff Austen]

Hi All
Just a reminder One month to go, start loading.
See you there.
Cheers
Cliff

[BenW]

Hi there Cliff, I am looking at coming for the weekend and for the practice on Friday. Do we have to nominate and pay early or is on the day fine.
Regards Ben

[Chris H]

Hi there Cliff, I am looking at coming for the weekend and for the practice on Friday. Do we have to nominate and pay early or is on the day fine.
Regards Ben

Payment on the day is fine Ben.

[Chris H]

The results for the NSW Match Rifle Championships held last weekend are on the match rifle

http://www.matchrifle.org/

We had the best attendance ever for a State event at Ungarie with 19 entries in Match Rifle, and 14 in F Open &11 in FTR for a total of 44 competitors.
Saturday had good conditions, sunny with light winds. Sunday was a different story however with a strong and cold gusty south to south westerly wind which strengthened throughout the day which was indicated by the scores at 1100 and 1200 yards. The MR and FTR shooters had around 12-13 minutes on the scope at 1200 yards. One hardy FTR shooter was heard to say he needed 17 minutes for his 223’s 90 grainers.

***Note that due to the high number of competitors and the difficult conditions the Saturday 1200 yards was shortened to 15 shots and the Sunday 1000 & later the 1200 yards were shortened to 10 shot matches to ensure a reasonable finish time).

[Barossa_222]

That's a really great turn out. Congrats

[Cliff Austen]

Many Thanks to Chris Halloran for stepping in and running the match me last weekend.
I had a small medical procedure which did not go exactly to plan and I had to be hospitalised for 3 days with strong medical advice not to travel.
Thank you to all those who participated and survived Sunday with its 10deg air temp,with a 2deg wind chill and wind gusting between 35 and 50 km/h. It would appear that all had a challenging time.
Details on the Ultra Long-Range challenge at Coonabarabran will be published shortly.
Once again - Many Thanks Chris.
Cheers
Cliff

[mike H]

Many Thanks to Chris Halloran for stepping in and running the match me last weekend.
I had a small medical procedure which did not go exactly to plan and I had to be hospitalised for 3 days with strong medical advice not to travel.
Thank you to all those who participated and survived Sunday with its 10deg air temp,with a 2deg wind chill and wind gusting between 35 and 50 km/h. It would appear that all had a challenging time.
Details on the Ultra Long-Range challenge at Coonabarabran will be published shortly.
Once again - Many Thanks Chris.
Cheers
Cliff

Cliff,
Sorry you were unable to attend,as you know the show rolled on,thanks to the workers and competitors who all did their bit,the big breakfast was well attended and assisted our stamina for the rest of Sunday.I know that I am connected to NSW Match Rifle,but it would be remiss of me to not mention the biscuits,cake and slices that were there for morning and afternoon teas,all supplied by not only by local members,but also by visiting shooters.
As an old Match Rifle shooter,in more ways than one,it was great to see more shooters giving Match Rifle a go,but as well F Open who have always been there were very strong and FTR ,the newer kid on the block was very well supported,even having some from the Australian Team to the recent World Championships.Hope to see you at the South Australian Championships in August.

[BenW]

Thank you for putting this event on, I can assure you that I will be coming back next year. Going to put this one on the calendar early. As has been said the conditions on Sunday were difficult to say the least but when all are in the same boat getting a drumming like that is somewhat ok.