Fifteen competitors participated in the 50 metre rifle match on Saturday and then 17 members were on the line for standard pistol on Sunday.

Saturday was the first 50 metre rifle match of the month.

Warren Johnson put his broken wrist to one side and took out first with 601 (598, 3) and actually shaved a point off his handicap in the process.

Peter Caligeros grabbed second with a neat 600 (594, 6) and Ned Worthington was third with 595 (582, 13). Other scores were Brett Pengilley 592 (560, 32), Bec Pengilley 592 (560, 32), John Salter 591 (572, 9), Heidi Ryan 586 (571, 15), Terry Greer 585 (583, 2), Doug Jump 582 (570, 12), Bob Dowling 570 (569, 1), Marg Stevens 564 (539, 25), Max Fraser 560 (551, 9).

John Slapp, Chris Slapp and Geoff Luck were training.

Sunday’s Standard Pistol match had a tie for first place with Michael Ryan (333, 259) and Ned Williams (402, 190) scoring 592.

Brian McMullen was second with 590 (367, 223) and Jon Bohan was third with 576 (418, 158).

Other scores were Geoff Luck 573 (339, 234), Daniel Munro 563 (459, 104), Warren Johnson 545 (450, 95), Peter Howell 539 (510 – best off pistol, 29), Joan Boyle 532 (337, 195), Willis Tonniges 520 (321, 199), Bob Dowling 518 (496 – weighed down by cake, 22), Malcolm Bootle 488 (359, 129), John Salter 484 (387, 97), Monique Causey-Ryan 480 (304, 176), Bruce Dowling 465 (372, 93), Bob O’Keefe 406 (343, 63) and Max Fraser was training. Trevor Munro was Range Officer.

The remainder of the monthly calendar has Centrefire/Sports next Sunday as well as the weekend of July 24, with Black Powder also contested on that date.

50 metre rifle is set down to be contested again on July 23 while the air pistol competition will be held on July 21.

A reminder to all invovled with the club that the annual genereal meeting will be held on Sunday, August 21 commencing at 10am.

Everyone who attends the meeting will go into a draw for the club raffle and the club’s birthday cake will be cut and and is certain to be consumed with gusto.

Dubbo Pistol Club will also host the Western Plains ISSF Open on September 2-4.

There will be a general clean-up held before that weekend. The club will need workers for the clean-up weekend and also volunteers for the weekend of the Western Plains Open itself so any interested members with time to spare are asked to make their interest and availability public.

The exact date of the Dubbo Pistol Club clean-up will be confirmed at a later date.