NB team for 2011 InterMaritime Match and British Team Match

On Sat-18-June the Intermaritime Match will be fired at St. Antoine, and the British Team Match will be fired on Sun-19-June.  The I.M. Match has been fired for more than 100 years, and the British Team Match has been fired since the 1960s.

Provincial teams for these matches will consist of eight shooters, up to three of which may be F-Class.  One of these F-Class shooters may be F-Open, the rest must be F/Restricted (i.e. .223 or .308).  (See the 2010 Atlantic Highpower meeting minutes for more info).  Please note that we can also use any of our MTR shooters, since they fully fit within the rules for F/Restricted.

I am looking to form a New Brunswick team for this match.  Usually we designate one of our matches to be the team trials but due to an oversight on my part we did not do that this year.  Although never published, we had discussed designating the 29-May Fredericton Centennial Match to be used for the trials, and we also discussed using the 22-May Intro Level Circle Training instead (since shooting under team conditions might be a more relevant way of selecting shooters for a team match).  If it is OK with our shooters I would like to suggest that we give first priority to anybody who fired either of these two events, and then second priority to any other shooters.

Would interested shooters please contact me (dmc@danielchisholm.com) and let me know if you will be able to be a shooter and/or a coach for one or both of these days?

Match results - Fredericton Centennial

On Sun-29-May-2011 we fired the Fredericton Centennial match at Batouche Range.  I think every one of us was shocked that it didn't rain, and it wasn't cold; certainly not the sort of shooting weather we have come to expect in May!

Conditions were quite windy, an almost entirely fishtailing wind for the whole day.  Even more challenging the wind seemed to be completely mixed up down the entire length of the range.  For the day the average wind was "0", and that would get you in the bull most of the time, except for the times that it didn't.  Then you could see 3's and even 2's from the wind.

FREDERICTON CENTENNIAL MATCH

Batouche Range CFB Gagetown, 29 May 2011

Name     Class 500 500 600 600 Total
Brian Doherty MTR 47.2 46.2 46.2 49.4 188.10
Wayne Kaye MTR 44.2 47.3 47.3 46.5 184.13
Paul Mcilveen MTR 48.5 45.3 42.1 46.4 181.13
Ron Mason MTR 50.6 48.3 38.3 44.1 180.13
Mike LeRoy MTR 46.1 46.1 40.3 40 172.5
Bert DeVink F/O 49.4 47.2 49.3 50.5 195.14
JC Gautreau F/O 49.3 49.3 49.3 45.2 192.11
Paul Bastarache F/O 49.7 49.6 45.4 48.3 191.2
Daniel Chisholm TR 47.2 46.3 47.7 48.3 188.14
Don Coleman TR 48.5 47.4 50.3 43.1 188.13
Edgar Poirier TR 41.2 49.3 42.2 42.1 174.8
Conrad Leroux TR 43.1 44.2 41.1 44.1 172.5
Nancy Bougeous TR 44.2 45.3 39 32 160.5

raining today... will try to run match anyhow

The Loyalist St.John Westmorland Counties Match is scheduled for today Sunday 15-May-2011. At this time it is raining where I live and the 5:00AM Environment Canada forecast is calling for "Rain. Amount 10 to 15 mm. Fog patches dissipating this evening. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 late this evening. Low plus 3.".

I will go to the range and if anybody shows up and wants to shoot we will go ahead. If you have a 2+hour drive and don't want to risk wasting a drive for no shooting then by all means stay at home and we'll see you next week

- Daniel


P.S. It rained enough that only two people showed up so we had a work-day instead. Hope to see everybody for two day's shooting next weekend!

All Comers Match this weekend

RNBRA Fullbore Section's first match of 2011 will be fired this Saturday at Batouche Range. Course of fire is 2 sighters and 10 on score at 300m, 500m and 600m.  Match start time is 09:00, please arrive a bit early to help set up the range. The Match Director is Matt Wolf.