DCRA

Friday, October 7, 2011

Friday Afternoon

We are all back from the range, having spent the morning practicing at 300 and 500 yards. The day was dry, warm with winds ranging from 0.5 right at 300 yards, and 1.5 right at 500 yards, with a few twitches to remind you that you do have sights. The flags are raised pretty high, so at the shorter distances some of us put on more wind than we needed, but a good lesson learnt for later in the week.

Followed by a quick dash back to the hotel to change into "number ones".

Back to the range for official Palma team photos, and a to sample the local beer in the QRA club house. Even the dark beers were served very cold!!!

Then over to the Brisbane Rifle Clubhouse, which has been offered to the Canadian team as our "home on the range". This will allow for easy access to the range, and a place to clean rifles. At the clubhouse we took part in a team meeting, and then were presented with our match tickets, and a goodie bag from the QRA.

Plan for tomorrow is an early start (0800hrs), with a team match at 300 and 500 yards (2 and 15). Teams of 6 shooters, where Canada has supplied 5 teams, one U25, two veteran and two regular teams. The afternoon will be the start of the Presidents matches, again 300 and 500 yards (2 and 10). Then that will be followed by a opening ceremony with flag raising and fireworks, and a BBQ for those that want to stay for a few "stubbies". Therefore a pretty busy day in prospect, so I may not get to post anything on the blog tomorrow.

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