Shooters Wanted for Mini Palma match in September

Interested in Team shooting?  Make arrangements now for a great shooting opportunity this fall!  The Maritimes Team needs TR and F-TR shooters for this fall's match.

Every year there is an annual Mini Palma Friendship Match fired between the New England States and the Maritime Provinces.  It rotates between a US and Canadian location, this year it will be fired 15-Sep-2012 at Nashua, New Hampshire.

Each team consists of ten shooters; it was originally a TR-only match but F-Class is now part of the team.  Each team has seven TR shooters and three F-TR shooters.  The Canadian Team is selected based on individual shooter performance during the Atlantic Championship Match on Labour Day weekend, which this year is 1-2-3- Sept at Batouche range - so please plan on shooting the Atlantics.

Travel to the USA with a rifle requires a BATF form.  They're quite easy to get and there is no fee, but they do take 6-8 weeks to get.  This means that a shooter needs to apply for his permit *BEFORE* the Atlantic Championships are fired and the team selection is made.  *NOW* is a good time to apply.

I would encourage every shooter who thinks they MIGHT want to shoot this match, to apply now for the BATF permit.  One of the things you will need is an official invitation to the match.  Have a look at the invitation form and match info, then please contact me, give me your mailing address, and I will arrange for an official invitation (with your name on it) to be given to you, and then you can apply for the permit.

UPDATE 3-July: Here's a link to the BATF Form 6NIA (.pdf) that you need to fill out.

Memorial/MacGillivray Match, 19-May

Tomorrow is our first long range match of the year, the Memorial/MacGillivray match.  We'll be shooting 2ss10 at 800m, then we'll fall back to 900m and fire 2ss10, twice.

The weather forecast is fantastic (sun and cloud, 20km/h winds, high of 25C).

We don't have paid target markers tomorrow, so we'll be doing competitor marking.

Hope to see you there!

Results

F/TR
Ron Mason 150-17V
Matt Wolf 146-13V
Bert DeVink 142-16V
Paul MacIlveen 138-9V
Andre Charlebois 123-4V
John Holleran 70-3V

MTR
Brian Doherty 139-9V
Conrad Leroux 138-9V

TR
Mike Lutes 124-5V

F/BR
George Cooke 93-4V

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Fredericton Centennial Match Batouche Range

500m, 600m Match Director: Coleman

Cloudy with a few rain showers, temperature on the cool side 10 - 12C and winds mostly from the west and variable. Not all shooting was recorded on the scorecards and rainshowers caused some competitors not to shoot the last range.

A combination of electronic scoring and self marking was used.

Name	Class	500	500	600	600	Total
Bert DeVink	FTR	49.4	50.8	50.6	46.3	195.21
Ron Mason	FTR	49.6	50.9	50.8	45.2	194.25
Adrien Roy	FTR	48.2	50.3	36.0		134.5
Brian Doherty	MTR	50.7	50.8	50.6	50.6	200.27
Paul Mcllveen	MTR	49.4	50.8	50.4	50.3	199.19
Wayne Kay	MTR	50.5	50.6	49.3		149.14
Mike LeRoy	MTR	50.4				50.4
Don Coleman	TR	49.5	48.2	47.4		144.11
Conrad Leroux	TR	45.0	42.0	47.1		134.1

 

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regular target on #10, e-target on #12
(photo taken from 600m firing point) 



Fullbore Season Opener this weekend

The 2012 RNBRA Fullbore season starts at 09:00 this Saturday-5-May, at Springfield Range (google maps link), with a joint FRSA(Springfield)-RNBRA Fullbore "300m Sight-in, Practice and Circle Training".  This is our first event of the year, it is the first time an RNBRA Fullbore event has been fired at Springfield, and it is the first RNBRA event that will be run on electronic targets.

Being a joint event, it is open both to FRSA members and to RNBRA Fullbore Section members (and as always, RNBRA Fullbore Section welcomes new shooters to come out and fire as a guest once or twice).  The fee for this event is $10, it is a training/practice event and no prizes or medals will be awarded (regular RNBRA Fullbore match fee is $20).

We will run an introductory-level "Circle Training" session for those who are interested in shooting in this format.  Other shooters may fire practice (and coaching/helping is permitted/encouraged).

We will fire 300m from 09:00 until about 1:00pm.  At that point the event will be officially over, but we will move back to 600m and anyone who wants to stick around and do some more shooting at 600 is of course welcome to do so.

If you are thinking of attending, it would be most helpful if you could RSVP to me dmc@danielchisholm.com and let me know you're planning to come.  At this point I am not sure if we will have only one electronic target (in which case things will be a bit tight/busy) or if we'll be able to have two running.

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** SAT-AM UPDATE 05:45 ** It's a GO.  There's a bit of very light drizzle, and a couple of mm forecast for the morning; won't be a spectacular day weatherwise, but more-than-good-enough to shoot in.  Bring a raincoat and a warm lunch!

**UPDATE 1 ** 25-30 rounds will probably suffice for the 300m shooting; if you bring 50 rounds you'll have more than enough for the whole day.

** UPDATE 2 ** The weatherman is calling for "2-4mm" of rain tomorrow - so at this point it looks like we're *ON*, though it won't be as much fun as a nice sunny day would have been.  Bring a raincoat and rainpants, and a shooting mat if you have one.

There will only be one electronic target in operation for this match, so the target will be very full for the day; lots of good opportunity to chat (or, warm-up / dry-up!!)

Do check this blog on Saturday morning just before you head for the range, in case there is a last minute cancellation.

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REPORT: We had 11 shooters turn out for this event, coming from as far away as Moncton.  The weather turned out OK, with a bit of a very light drizzle that would come and go.  We fired 140 rounds at 300m, and when everybody had their fill we moved  back to 600m and fired another 250 rounds.  Shooting on the electronic target made for a pretty leisurely day.

2012 Fullbore Season starting soon

In the upper right hand corner you will find a link to the RNBRA Fullbore Section Schedule for 2012.  Please have a look through, and start planning your summer's shooting.  If you notice any mistake please contact me and let me know ASAP.  In our schedule your will find that a Google Maps link to the location of each range.

There is still time to add a few more match dates; if you would like to run a match, contact me and we can add it to the schedule and book the range.

This year we will have two fullbore shooting events at the Springfield Rifle Range; in conjunction with the FRSA, these are open to RNBRA Fullbore Section members and also members of FRSA (the Springfield club).  We will be using an electronic target system to allow us to conduct these matches at Springfield.

I would like to remind shooters that there is always the possibility of a last minute change or cancellation of a match (weather, etc); if so, a notice will be posted on this blog.  PLEASE CHECK THIS BLOG BEFORE YOU GET ON THE ROAD TO A MATCH.

2011 Annual Prize Meeting Results

My apologies for such a belated posting of the results from our 2011 Annual Prize Meeting, which we fired 16-17 July 2011 on Batouche Range at CFB Gagetown, NB.

Here is the spreadsheet of results for the 2011 APM  (and here it is as an .xls spreadsheet file)

And here is a spreadsheet of list of match winners

2011 Atlantic High Power Committee Meeting

Here are the minutes from the 20-Nov-2011 meeting held in Amherst between the RNBRA, NSRA and PEIRA.

Mini Palma 2011 + 900m Fun Match (17- 18 Sep 2011)

The 34th annual Mini Palma match between the New England States and the Maritime Provinces was fired 17 September 2011.  This match alternates between a USA and Canadian location and this year it was fired on Batouche Range, CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick.

The match format has traditionally been teams of ten TR shooters; this year each team consisted of three F-TR shooters plus 7 TR shooters.
34th Mini Palma Match Results

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Following the Mini Palma Match we held a 900m "fun match" on Sunday-18-September which was fired by most of the New England and Maritimes team members.  The course of fire was 2 sighters and 15 on score at 900m, and several shooters also elected to fire a third "bonus" range.

We had 20 competitors, please see 900m Fun Match Results for scores.

2011 Annual Prize Meeting this weekend

This weekend we will fire the 2011 NB Annual Prize meeting, see program for details.

**NOTE** The match is 16-17 July 2011; incorrect dates had been published in an earlier version of the program

UPDATE Friday evening: we've got a good weather forecast for the next couple of days (hot, though).  See everybody at the range! 

Stapleford Coleman Match Sun 26 June

In spite of some very rainy weather today (Saturday), there is a decent chance that we will be able to get some shooting done on Sunday so we will go ahead and try to run the match.  You might want to check this blog before you leave just in case the weather forecast significantly deteriorates overnight; if we are going to cancel the match I will edit this post by 6:30am at the latest.

900m Stapleford Coleman Match

UPDATE Sunday afternoon: well it's a good thing we went ahead, we had really nice weather.  Overcast skies, cool, and nearly calm winds (a bit more would have been nice, to whisk away the mosquitoes!).  15 shooters turned out and some really good scores were shot.