OzFclass

I've been looking at the NSW Queens information in the latest ATR and it looks like F-Class may be using manually marked targets whilst TR uses electronic. Before anyone cries discrimination, I for one will be very happy if we have manual marking, because I understand the electronic alternative would have at best used non-standard ring sizes, and at worst just an aiming mark with no other rings!

Its not a criticism, but just an observation that by my calculations this Queens will have the shortest average range distance of any current Queens (560 metres).



There's a possibility it will be the last Queens at the ANZAC range, so let's give this great range a good send-off.

Alan

I had noticed that both the lead up and Queens will have 2x 300M shoots each. I sort of thought 300 yds was falling out of favour due to target centre damage.
I wonder where the next NSW Queens will be if Malaba is forced to lock the gates for good????

RDavies wrote:I wonder where the next NSW Queens will be if Malaba is forced to lock the gates for good????

If it happens quickly, there may not be a NSW Queens next year - not enough time to build or modify another range up to the required number of targets. Maybe Canberra is an option as a temporary home.

Hi there, yes I had noticed that too, on the entry form, and yes, it could be the last Queens to be shot at Anzac, a great pity if that is the case.
I shot in my first Queens back in 1984 and a couple since then, an amazing place and vibe, something very special. I am intending to enter into FClass, for the first time, having previously shot in TR, now my eyes are not what they used to be, hence the change. It should be interesting, challenging and possibly the end of an era, but one has to be there all the same, to wave the flag

F-Class will be on paper purely because there aren't enough electronic targets owned by the resident clubs to do the job.

Someone had to shoot paper and the F-Class group was of the right size to go onto paper in it's entirety. Avoiding a split group is necessary to ensure no benefit either real or imagined exists within the classes.

The main deciding factor though is the consideration of target maintenance through the shoot.

T/R don't need scoring rings at all so the electronic targets maintenance is limited to changing aiming marks which makes that job significantly easier.

If you're maintaining scoring rings as well as aiming marks, as is necessary for F-Class, then doing it on paper is far easier so it's from purely practical sense that F-Class are on paper for the Queens.

Hence the NSWRA and the MDRA have made the sensible decision.

The club that I belong to has an electronic target, I think that there are only ten electronic targets overall and then the end of F block is the manual targets.

Since starting into FClass I have only shot on electronic, and I am still coming to grips with reading the monitor and adjusting on that, as compared to have shot TR since 1978, and on the old targets adjusting on the scoring disk, so it should be interesting from that point of view. I can read wind pretty well, with Anzac being my home range. I look forward to shooting the Queens, have not shot one since about 2002/2003.