The ORA Full-Bore Section: Awards for 2008
The ORA Target Rifle Autumn Meeting 2008, held at Otmoor on Saturday the 4th October.
2. Competition Scores and Winners Part 1 Part 2
3. Full Individual Scores
The FB Summer Meeting 2008, held at Otmoor on Saturday the 14th June.
The Wright Cup and Long Range Pairs Cup 2008, held at Otmoor on Saturday the 28th June.
A record five Teams took part in the Match. We welcomed Bicester for the first time and they shot very well to just pip Isis by one point. The match was shot in bright sunshine with a very brisk cross wind that needed close watching. The win by Bicester proved that SB Clubs can compete in this match with no difficulty despite many doubts expressed in the past. The scores were slightly down this year due to the wind. Well done to Pat Adams for making the highest score of 48.6V , a very good effort. Once again we have shown that the 0.22 Match Rifle shoots well at 200 yards and it would seem the BSA International Mks 2 & 5 still out shoots the more modern rifles at long range.(John Winter, Chairman FB Committee) Download Results here or view the results here.The Astor County Stage 2008, held at Bisley on the 27th April.
Two teams competed at Bisley on the morning
of Sunday, the 27th. April. I don’t know whether we picked the wrong
day or the wrong place because we had light rain, heavy rain and the threat of
a thunderstorm - which luckily did not come too close - whilst getting reports of good weather at home!
Still, we did not get too wet and finished the match with only the score sheets
looking a bit tatty.
The County stage was won by Ricochet with 402 and 33 “V”.
Isis were not far behind with 394 and 35 “V”, a difference of 1.3 points per
team member.
Top scorers were; for Ricochet, Brian Taylor, 69 and 8 “V”, and for Isis, Ian Farnell, 68 and 9 “V”.
HPS for a team would have been 420 and for an
individual, 70.
A practice at 600 yards, during the afternoon, attracted 6
people.
Fees received for each event covered the costs comfortably. (Ian Shepherd)
Addendum: I have to report a contradiction to some of the above report (JF). The following comments was received from a reliable witness of the day's event:-
"Don't believe a word Ian says about not getting too wet. I got SOAKED and am still drying out my equipment. I scored a 32.1 at 500 yds ex 35 without seeing the target !!!!!!!!!"(John Winter)ORA Fullbore Section Awards 2007
Target Rifle
Astor Tankard Isis R&PC
Saye and Sele Cup Wilbury RC
Wright Cup Isis R&PC
Vivian Smith Bowl Ricochet RC
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Venables Cup & County Champion Steve East (Wilbury)
Shepherd Bowl Steve East (Wilbury)
Centenary Cup Stage 1 Steve East (Wilbury)
Centenary Cup Stage 2 Steve East (Wilbury)
Tyro Tankard Not Awarded
John Clarke Shield Ian Farnell (Deddington)
Simmonds Cup Steve East (Wilbury)
Pairs Cup Rob Ackrill & Peter Bysshe (Ricochet RC)
Millennium Cup John Winter (Harwell)
Gordon Biddle Memorial Tankard Ian Farnell (Deddington)
The Otmoor Tankard Alex Hamilton (Harwell)
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Classic & Historic Rifle
Tom Boughen Memorial Cup John Winter (Harwell)
The Volunteer Bowl Nic Washington (Wilbury)
The Historic and Classic Autumn Meeting, 22nd September 2007 at Otmoor
The match was shot at Otmoor on a lovely sunny autumn day. There was a rather poor turnout of 20 with 17 members shooting in the various classes.
The scores were excellent throughout the day, with many rifles being well over 100 years old. Thanks to Jason Buckingham who supplied the tent and to Nic Washington who helped me with the RCO duties.
Well done to Peter Bysshe who scored 100 in the Over 100 year Service Rifle Class and to Alex Hamilton with a 99 in the Veteran Rimfire Class , plus Peter Bysshe again with a 99 in the Service Rifle Class.
The “Volunteer Cup ” was keenly contested by four members shooting BP / ML Rifles, just won by Nick Washington with 91 over Hugh Hinde shooting an original Volunteer Rifle , who got himself a 10% bonus.
I was very disappointed with the turn out considering the great efforts the NRA and ORA put in to get shooting back at Otmoor.
The overall standard in all Classes has improved immensely over the last few years.
John Winter,
CRO
Full results can be viewed here
The Fullbore Summer Meeting and Astor Competition 2007 at Bisley
The ORA Full Bore Rifle Section held its Summer Meeting , combined with the Astor Competition and the Saye & Sele Cup, at Bisley as Otmoor was unavailable. It was very successful and very enjoyable. The NRA Markers were excellent and their efforts were most appreciated.The top score was made by Steve East with a very good 146.20V , closely followed by Mick Silver with a 146.15V.
Best "O" Class Jeremy Hooper with 144.15 and best "T" Class Cliff Shelley with 128.4"F" Class was won by Cliff Warwick with 147.22 and best Veteran by Crawford Alexander with 142.13.
Our thanks to Pat Adams for organizing the event and for doing all the statistics. Thank you Pat from all of us. To cap an excellent day Alan O'Dair was presented with an ORA Silver Award on the Firing Point for outstanding service to both Full Bore and Small Bore Rifle Sections.
John Winter
A summary of the winners and the full results are available here