Yes, the Marty and Cameron shootout had a disapointing ending. They were tied together with me 3 points behind, both were shooting well with their 284s at the long ranges for the 1st two days. In the 900y today, it was close with Cameron just one point in front of Marty and me 1 point behind again, then the rain came in. Shooting was delayed and the 1000y shoot didnt start until 12.30. Unfortunatley for Marty, he had to catch a flight for Cairns (He is a pilot and had to fly to Cairns to pilot a flight to Brisbane the next morning!!!). Fortunatley he gained valuable experience from the shoot for his upcoming World Championship shoot in Bisley. The climate, temperature, humidity etc would be similar to what he will be facing in Bisley, so he did some experimenting. He checked how long he could shoot without cleaning and found when he will need to clean in Bisley. The score they shot were pretty good when you consider the winds were fickle, with small changes, just enough to move you out of the 10 ring F class open target. John Tracey will also be going to Bisley with Marty. John had the best looking F class rifle I have seen, but unfortunatley he had not had much time to prepare the rifle for the shoot and was working on loads and trying to repair niggly issues with the rifle during the Queens. His rifle was slowly but surely improving as the Queens progressed and I hope he can iron out the faults in time for Bisley.
With Marty on the way to the aiport to sit in the back seat on a flight, the 1000yd shoot was shot, with Cameron McEwan shooting a 95 in picky conditions. A lot of other shooters who were shooting at the same time were getting verticle misses which seam to happen a bit at Belmont. I was shooting shooting high and low 8s
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with my 6mm, so I wasnt able to catch Cameron. In the end, Cameron took a good lead in the 3rd day aggregate with myself and John Tracey behind.
For the 3 day Queens, Cameron McEwan was on 850 points, with me on 839 and his wife Julie McEwan on 819
The Belmont range was very well set up, looking good for the World Champs there in 2011. I had heard the conditiones would be tricky, and I certainly saw that the flags tell baltant lies here.
In F standard, Bob Petterson Blitzed the field, with awesome shooting to win the Queens, with Peter Drew and Alan Seaman tied for points behind him and Ben Curley a few points back. The standard of shooting in F standard was phenominal when consider the conditions.
Once again, James Corbett won the full bore shoot, only getting one 4 in 3 days, which was unbelievable in the conditions. The way many of the other full bore shooters shot in these conditions, shows how strong the field is in this discipline.