NSW Queens

Post by **AlanF** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:26 pm

Well done to McIntosh winners Peter Drew and Mark Fairbairn =D>

. By the look of those scores, ANZAC range provided some interesting conditions. :shock:

Alan

SENDIT · Post by **SENDIT** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:34 pm

Got to say well done to who ever is posting the results, can't believe how fast they came up

Tman · Post by **Tman** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:08 pm

The conditions for the first day of the Mac was challenging, the second day was unbelievable. Now it all starts again, ala groundhog day, for the next three days of the Queens. Good luck to all of you shooting, expect interesting conditions.

Post by **AlanF** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:26 pm

Looks like it was definitely interesting again Ben. By the look of the wild fluctuations in scores, it looks like conditions were patchy? Those who suffered will be able to blame Friday 13th :shock:

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Alan

ecomeat · Post by **ecomeat** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:31 pm

It was certainly an "interesting" day at Malabar.
You might have noticed the new Queenslander, Roderick Davies is going well now that he has become a Cane Toad ! Unfortunately that was just one of a number of clerical errors and he is still a bloody cockroach. A number of us shooting F Open were down as F Standard etc tec.
All F Class shooters are together in one block, so that we don't tarnish the TR shooters or teach them any bad habits.
Mark Fairbairn and others were refused permission to blow off a few foulers at the zero range as it is apparently "against the SSRs". I must have had a more angelic face coz I got away with it thismorning, thank God. My 284 needs 3 or 4 thru it before I can trust it and that saved my bacon today.
Luck again played a big part in proceedings today, where we had shifting winds from the Right .....Westerlies I presume....for most of the day. A few poor buggers got caught in the "switch" this afternoon when they disappeared and the wind swung quickly 180 degrees and started coming in from the Ocean/east. Fortunately by the time I shot at 3rd last it was damn sweet, and I got up with an 89-6 or something out of 90.
John Peters from Cessnock then shot superbly with his 280 AI for. 90 something/90 just to show us it could be done and that puts him in a very well deserved First place in the Queens Agg at the end of day one.
Mark Fairbairn, Matt Paroz and Brent Knudsen are some of those who may well need counseling after getting caught in the switch......unbelievably sudden drop offs and restarts meant that for the first 6-7 shooters an 82 or 83 was a very good score. It was very cruel at times.
So there is still a loooong way to go, and with 15-20mm of rain and squalls forecast for tomorrow it too is guaranteed to be an interesting day.
I have to mention that I have no idea how much we had to pay the NRAA to have all Qld and Vic shooters names in CAPITAL LETTERS !
Tony Berry

bruce moulds · Post by **bruce moulds** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:56 pm

tony,
are you coming on down to sara queens at lower light?
keep safe,
bruce.

DaveMc · Post by **DaveMc** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:17 pm

Tony , Don't forget Rod was (and therefore always will be

) a Cairns Boy!!

As with Andrew Pearce

Post by **AlanF** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:21 pm

When you go to another State to shoot, and even more so when you go to another country, you see some things done differently - some things are better., others not. A couple of good things at the FCWC which would have improved things at NSW were (a) blow-off shots allowed, and (b) shooting done in relays. At ANZAC there are enough targets for e.g. all F-Open shooters to shoot simultaneously at every range. I've always thought its healthy to have some element of luck, but it sounds like it played too big a part today. At least if conditions are changeable again tomorrow, it might favour a different bunch of shooters (or not

).

Alan

Post by **AlanF** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:25 pm

DaveMc wrote:...Don't forget Rod was (and therefore always will be ) a Cairns Boy!!...

Is that so? He seems quite normal to me....

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:19 pm

ecomeat wrote:All F Class shooters are together in one block, so that we don't tarnish the TR shooters or teach them any bad habits.

Sounds like your saying that the F-Open shooters were treated like second class citizens. Is this right?

Hangfire · Post by **Hangfire** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:34 pm

Norm wrote:
ecomeat wrote:All F Class shooters are together in one block, so that we don't tarnish the TR shooters or teach them any bad habits.

Sounds like your saying that the F-Open shooters were treated like second class citizens. Is this right?

I think they might have had the fun lovers or the lovers of the shoot all squaded together. To much merriment can be all to much for some to bare.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:47 pm

RIGHT-O

Hangfire.

bruce moulds · Post by **bruce moulds** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:57 pm

norm,
is that pharquen righto, or ordinary righto?
bruce.

Ben F · Post by **Ben F** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:08 pm

ecomeat wrote:Mark Fairbairn and others were refused permission to blow off a few foulers at the zero range as it is apparently "against the SSRs". I must have had a more angelic face coz I got away with it thismorning, thank God. My 284 needs 3 or 4 thru it before I can trust it and that saved my bacon today.

Tony Berry

Tony,

I don't think I would admit that on a website if I was told it was against SSR at an event. Belmont call it zeroing, Malabar doesn't allow it.

Hangfire · Post by **Hangfire** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:24 pm

I think we should introduce a 1 minute blow off here into the SSR's.

It would alleviate any need for fouling shots to be done in less than appropriate areas.