31st December 2004

A small Scottish team will compete in the annual RIAC competition in Luxembourg between the 12th and 15th of January.  Graham Rudd will take part in the Men's Air Rifle, with Emma Cole-Hamilton and Heather Rudd competing in the Junior Women's Air Rifle.

15th December 2004

The 2005 Scottish Air Rifle Championships will be held on the 22nd and 23rd January and the new venue is the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan near Kincardine-on-Forth, Fife.  The Police College is situated in the heart of Central Scotland and is conveniently placed for easy access to the motorway network. On the College campus, we are able to offer a full board package for the weekend which is also available to competitors' family and companions.  Apart from the amenity of the campus, this part of Central Scotland is also full of interest to fill your time off the range or to amuse your companions while you shoot

The Campus at Tulliallan occupies 90 acres of parkland on the outskirts of the village of Kincardine-on-Forth just north of where the Kincardine Bridge spans the River Forth east of Stirling.  The original Tulliallan Castle was built between 1821 - 1824 and consists of a mixture of Gothic and Italian style architecture.  Over the years, significant additions have been made to provide substantial modern residential and training facilities.  This renders the College easily accessible from most areas, being surrounded by a good motorway and trunk road network.  The nearest railway station, at Falkirk, is some 7 miles distant and both Edinburgh (30 miles) and Glasgow (40 miles) airports are less than an hour away.  Ample free car parking is also available.

Accommodation for the Air Rifle Championships will be provided in the Tantallon block where both single and twin bedrooms are available with en-suite facilities.  Bedrooms suitable for the disabled are also available.  The package includes Bed & full Breakfast for both Friday and Saturday nights, a packed lunch on Saturday, waitress service dinner on Saturday evening a choice of packed lunch or self-service lunch on Sunday.  Tea and coffee will be available throughout the week-end from a trolley service in the lounge area near the Dining Hall.

If you would like further information on the accommodation package, and/or an entry form the these championships, please contact Anne Hamilton on executive@ssra.co.uk.  Compressed air will be available on site.

15th December 2004

The Scottish Target Shooting Federation (STSF) has agreed that it wishes to adopt a logo that can be used as part of the creation of a strong corporate identity, including on the uniform of multi-disciplinary teams that are selected for CSF(ED) and Commonwealth Championships.  Rather than employ an expensive consultancy to create one, the STSF would like to invite members of the bodies that make up the Federation - SCTA, SPA, SRA and SSRA, to create the logo for us. A prize - free entry to a Scottish Championship (as run by these governing bodies) of your choice - will be awarded to the person who designs the logo that is adopted by the Federation.

Ideally, the logo should endeavour to capture the essence of target shooting - Shotgun, Rifle and Pistol - along with one or more internationally recognised symbols of Scotland, be that the Saltire, a Thistle, the Lion Rampant, etc. Ideally the logo design should be simple and eye catching, bearing in mind that intricate and complicated logos are difficult to reproduce in a variety of formats and embroidery for multiple colours can be expensive.

Entries should be submitted to myself, by the 10th of January 2005. A judging panel made up of one representative from each governing body along with the STSF Chairman and Team Manager for the CSF Championships will make a decision in early January. Entries can be submitted on paper, or as graphics files, in which case they should be sent by e-mail to logo@stsf.org.uk.

15th December 2004

The Forth & Clyde county association has entered teams in the Inter-County 3P and Air Rifle leagues for the first time this year, and has started the season by raising the record for the Air Rifle league by three points in round one.  The team of Robin Law, Tricia Littlechild, Donald & Shirley McIntosh and Cliff Ogle superseded the nine year old record held by a Lothian team that contained three of the same shooters.

15th December 2004

Robin Law was a comfortable winner of the second Air Rifle Grand Prix, held at Glenrothes last Sunday.  Alan Ritchie also looked set to dominate the Air Pistol event, however he was unable to stay for the final, which then proved very competitive, with Bruce McIntosh overtaking Mark Joyce to win his first GP since December 2002.

26th November 2004

Robin Law continued where he left off last year with a win in the first Air Rifle GP of the new season.  In the Air Pistol, Scottish squad member Alan Ritchie posted a fine 570 to win by a comfortable margin, adding an excellent final of 100.8 to his qualification score.

26th November 2004

Wick Old Stagers have recorded the first perfect team score in the Scottish record books, with 400 ex 400 in round 1 of the Banffshire League, overhauling the previous record of 399 set in 1997 by Balerno & Currie.

updated 21st October 2004

Three Scots - Jim Cole-Hamilton, Martin MacGill and Sheena Sharp, have been selected for the British team which will travel to Camp Perry in the USA next year to compete in the Pershing Match.  In addition, Donald McIntosh has been invited to be coach for the team.  This match, between Great Britain and the USA, takes place every eight years, and it will be the first occasion that each of these shooters have participated in the match. 

18th October 2004

The following competitors have been nominated by SSRA for the Commonwealth Championships, which will be held in Melbourne from 9th to 20th March next year:

In each case, the first two named athletes will compete in the pairs competition, with all three competing in the individual matches.

18th October 2004

SSRA have announced their new 'A' and Under-25 squads for 2004/5.  Ken Silver comes into the 'A' squad for prone for the first time, with Matthew Thomson, Graham Rudd and Heather Rudd being promoted from the U25 squad for Prone, 3x40 and 3x20 respectively.  Lynda Sinclair drops out of the 'A' squad, and Simon Clark drops back to the U25 squad for prone.

27th September 2004

Scotland have ended a run of consecutive losses to the North Island, New Zealand in the annual postal match with a convincing win.  The series now stands at Scotland 16, NINZ 17.  The Scottish Under 21 team lost their match, for only the second time, taking the series to 3:2 in Scotland's favour.  Detailed results are available here, and the full history of the match can be found here.

27th September 2004

Jim Cole-Hamilton, Sheena Sharp, Martin MacGill, Jon Latimer and Donald McIntosh have made their way through to the second stage of the trials for the Pershing Match, which will be shot at Camp Perry in the USA next year.  The final trial will be held over the weekend of 16/17 October.

updated 24th September 2004

The CSF(ED) Championships on the Isle of Man have been very successful for the Scottish team, with seven gold, two silver and two bronze medals coming from the smallbore/air rifle members of the team.  A summary of the results is available on the STSF website, with full results available on the Isle of Man Shooting Council website.

12th September 2004

With the last Grand Prix matches of the year now completed, the SSRA have completed their selections for the CSF(ED) Championships next week, with the competitors who will compete in the pairs matches being nominated.  The selections are as follows:

12th September 2004

The 3x40 series was won by Bill Long, with a convincing victory over Peter Gray in the final match.  The 3x20 series was won by Emma Cole-Hamilton.

7th September 2004

7th September 2004

In the C&D series James Henderson was unable to pick up any points, but remained far enough ahead to top the table.  Bill Vaughan won the Grand Prix, with Jim Ward and Nicola Sammels second and third respectively.  Second and third places in the C&D series went to Ron Nilsen and Simon Batchelor.

Earlier in the day, the Gagie Open had seen some good scores recorded, Cyril De Jonckheere winning Class A with 596 ahead of Neil Stirton on 595, Cliff Ogle just nipping in ahead of the pack with 592 for third.  592 was good enough for Ken Silver to win Class B, with James Henderson and Nicola Sammels winning Classes C & D respectively.  Tom Hunter showed a welcome return to form after his summer of shooting primarily fullbore, with 591 to win the Junior event.

31st August 2004

In addition, an indoor shoot at St Andrews (20yds) on is planned for 6/7th November, to be followed by a buffet and prize-giving at St Andrews Bowling Club on the Sunday – all ex-members of St Andrews are welcome.

Centenary clothing will be available, including polo-shirts, sweat-shirts, badges & lambswool sweaters.

31st August 2004

Ann carried her form into the Grand Prix stage, with 594 the top score, but was unable to stay for the final.  This left Angus Jackson, who had produced a personal best of 592, in the lead, just one point ahead of Neil Stirton, Martin Sinclair and Sinclair Bruce.  Angus, shooting in his first ever final, struggled at the start, leaving Neil and Martin to fight it out for the gold - Neil winning by a margin of 0.4 in the end, with Sinclair in third.  Jon Latimer won the C&D Grand Prix, with Bill Jones and James Paterson second and third respectively.  Both series remain undecided going into the final round at Gagie next week.  In the A&B version, Sinclair has a seven point lead over Neil, who is the only person who can catch him now.  James Henderson looks more secure in the C&D series, with a nine point cushion over Ron Nilsen, and the advantage of two wins on the board if a tie on points occurs.

The penultimate three-positions Grand Prix events of the summer were won by Johanne Brekke of Wales in the 3x20 and England's Jason Burrage in the 3x40.  Emma Cole-Hamilton racked up the Scottish Junior Women's Record for the ten shot final with 97.9, but was unable to secure a medal.  Both series will now go to the wire, with Bill Long and Peter Gray tied on points at the top of the 3x40 series, and Emma maintaining a narrow lead at the top of the 3x20 series.

22nd August 2004

The other county representatives were Cliff Ogle for Lothian, Cyril De Jonckheere for Scottish Southern Counties and Neil Stirton for Aberdeenshire.

21st August 2004

Neil Stirton, Donald McIntosh and Jon Latimer qualified for the Lord Roberts British Championship final.  Neil produced an excellent performance over the 80 shots of the match to tie for the lead with Phil Scanlan.  A tie shoot consisting of one 100 yard card was required to split the two men, and despite a good performance from Neil, Phil sneaked in two points ahead to win the title.

In addition to the main final, a concurrent event for the top scores in Classes B, C & D from the second stage was won by Emma Cole-Hamilton, with a score for the 80 shots that was better than many of the main finalists.

20th August 2004

Scotland completed a double in the Home Countries internationals for 2004, adding a win at Bisley to that at the Scottish Meeting last month.  Ken Silver led the team home with a superb 393, with Sheena Sharp also breaking the 390 barrier in difficult conditions.  Steady performances from the remainder of the team were sufficient to bring the team home nine points clear of Wales, with England third ahead of Northern Ireland and Jersey.  This is the first time since 1992 that the Scottish team has managed to win both of the senior prone internationals, and was also the Cyril De Jonckheere's 30th international match at the National Meeting - his first having been in 1967.

The Scottish Ladies struggled in the conditions, and came third behind England and Wales, but the Under-21 team continues their good run, winning the event for the fourth year in a row, just a single point ahead of England, with Wales trailing in third.  The results of the Scottish teams are available here.

20th August 2004

Bon Accord won the Astor Championship today at Bisley.  The event, held between the champion clubs of each county, consists of teams of six firing a Dewar course, and it is the first time that a Scottish team has featured in the medals since EU Alumni were second some fifteen years ago, and is believed to be the first time that a Scottish club has ever won the event.

19th August 2004

The Scottish teams for tomorrows Home Countries International Matches are as follows:

19th August 2004

In very strong and difficult winds at Bisley, Neil Stirton held his nerve to win Class X by a margin of two points, an excellent continuation of his performance last year where he was second.  A solid performance from Sheena Sharp was enough to put her in 8th place in X, with Martin MacGill 6th in Class A and Charles Allan 4th in Class B.

The good performances from the Denwood based shooters were continued in the County Sextette, where Aberdeenshire were second - the first Scottish county to pick up a medal in this event for a number of years - and the Bon Accord team of Neil, Sheena and Ken Silver won the Aggregate team championship.  In the Any Sights competitions Erling Watt won the 50m event, and Jon Latimer the 100 yards, with Erling taking second in the aggregate of the two.

18th August 2004

A day of difficult winds have seen some changes in the Aggregates.  In Competition 5 (60 shots at 50m) Jim Cole-Hamilton took second place in Class X, and Jon Latimer took third place in Class A.  In Competition 6 (60 shots at 100 yards) Vidar Nilsen was second in Class B.  Neil Stirton remains in second place in the Class X aggregate, with Charles Allan remaining second in Class B.  Aberdeenshire produced a steady performance for 4th in the County 50m.

17th August 2004

There were a few Scottish successes in day two of the aggregate at Bisley.  In competition 4, Sheena Sharp was 1st equal, counted out to third, in Class X, setting a new Scottish record in the process.  In Class B, Karen Nilsen won competition 2.  In the aggregates, Neil Stirton is top Scot in Class X in second place, with Ken Silver third equal.  Martin Macgill is in second place in Class A, with Charles Allan also in second, in Class B.

In the team events, Bon Accord won both the 50m team championship, beating Alloa & District's Scottish record by a point in the process.

16th August 2004

The main aggregate of the meeting kicked off today, with Classes B & C shooting competitions 1 & 4 (each 40 shots at 50m) and Classes X, A & D shooting competitions 2 & 3 (each 40 shots at 100 yards).  In Class X Ken Silver was 3rd in competition 3, and lies in 3rd place in the Aggregate overnight, while in Class A Matthew Thomson also picked up 3rd in competition 3.  In Class B Charles Allan was 3rd in competition 1 and 1st in competition 4, with Colin Gall 3rd in competition 4.  This leaves Charles and Colin 1st and 2nd in the aggregate overnight.  The aggregate continues tomorrow with the classes swapping distances, each firing another two 40 shot matches.

16th August 2004

There were a few Scottish successes in the weekend aggregate at Bisley over the last two days.  While no Scots managed to secure top three places in the aggregate itself, there were some placings in the competitions which make up the event.  In Class X Cliff Ogle won competition 10 (40 shots at 100 yards) and competition 10b (60 shots at 100 yards), while Bill Brown was third in competition 10.  In Class A Jon Latimer was 2nd in competition 9 (Dewar course), and in Class B Colin Gall was first in competitions 9 and 10b, with Charles Allan 2nd and 3rd in competitions 9 and 10b respectively.  Cliff Ogle combined with Donald McIntosh to win the club pairs for EU Alumni, with Bon Accord second in the Weekend Agg team event.

15th August 2004

Both of the Scottish three positions teams crashed to third place in their respective home countries matches.  Shot concurrent with the British championships, the best placed Scots in each event were Donald McIntosh with 5th in the 3x40 and Susan Jackson with 4th in the 3x20.  The scores from the international matches are available here.

In the 3x40 classes there were wins for Graham Love in Class B, with Graham Rudd third, while Peter Gray won Class C.  Lothian were second in the County Team Championship, with EU Alumni winning the Club Team Championship.

13th August 2004

Matthew Thomson secured individual bronze in the Men's Prone at the Junior International match at Bisley this morning.  Entering the final in 5th place, he shot a very steady final of 103.6 in difficult conditions to move up two places.

13th August 2004

There were a number of medals, including some Gold, for the Scottish competitors in the annual NSRA/Eley Inter-Region Match at Bisley today.  In the Men's Prone, Graham Rudd, Jim Cole-Hamilton and Donald McIntosh won the team event, with Donald second in the individual.  Donald and Graham also combined to win the 3x40 pairs, taking first and second place in the individual respectively.  In the Women's events, Heather Rudd recorded a personal best of 555 in the 3x20 to take individual silver.

12th August 2004

Emma Cole-Hamilton was 8th in the Women's Air Rifle match at the Junior International at Bisley earlier today.  A score of 377 took her into the final in 8th, where she remained after the additional tens shots.

12th August 2004

Heather Rudd was 6th in the Women's 3x20 match at the Junior International at Bisley yesterday.  A score of 543 was good enough to secure 7th place before the final, and an excellent additional ten shots of 96.0 was enough to pull her up one place.

The matches continue today with Heather and Emma Cole-Hamilton shooting in the Women's Air Rifle.

9th August 2004

The SSRA have selected the following teams to represent Scotland in the Home Countries Three Positions Matches at Bisley next weekend:

9th August 2004

On Saturday, a steady 591 from Sheena Sharp secured the Women's Prone title for the third time in four years, beating Helen Spittals on countback, with Ann Roberts third.  The performance of the day came from Martin Sinclair, winning the 3x40 with a personal best of 1162, including a score of 394 kneeling - one point better than his prone - which is a new Scottish kneeling record, beating Alister Allan's 14 year old record by two points.  Graham Rudd also set a new personal best, by a massive 25 points for 1135, and with Jason Burrage withdrawing from the final due to illness he moved up to second spot, Ken Parr taking third.

Conditions on Sunday were somewhat more difficult, with the Aberdeen haar never really lifting.  Despite difficulty with sight pictures and spotting the shots, there were 18 scores of 590 and better in the two rounds of the Men's prone.  Eighteen year-old Matthew Thomson secured victory with an equal personal best of 594, just hanging on to Gold despite a late charge from Cliff Ogle who overhauled Ken Silver for second and third respectively.  The Women's 3x20 went to Susan Jackson, with a season's best of 566, her two point lead over Johanne Brekke never really threatened in the final, with Ann Roberts picking up third place for the second time.

4th August 2004

The SSRA has announced it's nominations for the smallbore and air rifle events at the CSF(ED) Championships, which will be held on the Isle of Man in mid September.  In addition to the main matches, in which up to four individuals can be entered, the Isle of Man are offering development matches for up and coming shooters.  The team is:

Jon Hammond was also selected for Men's 3x40, but is unable to get back from the USA for the match.

Pairs events will also be run for each discipline.  The air rifle pairs will be Emma Cole-Hamilton & Heather Rudd and Robin Law & David Rattray.  The pairs for the 50m events will be selected following the final SSRA Grand Prix events in early September.

Details of the full Scottish team can be found on the STSF website.

4th August 2004

29th July 2004

26th July 2004

26th July 2004

Donald McIntosh won the SSRA Grand Prix despite throwing away most of a five point lead over Gordon Motion in the final, while James extended his lead at the top of the C&D series with his second win in three matches.

20th July 2004

12th July 2004

10th July 2004

Despite that, the opening weekend produced some fine shooting, particularly in Class A where John Sinclair and Sinclair Bruce won the Early Birds and Non-Aggregate Dewar respectively, beating everyone in Class X in the process.  The new weekend aggregate, combining those two competitions with the qualification round for the Haig (and concurrent Dewar for the non-Scots) produced a number of fine performances, with wins for Neil Stirton, John Sinclair, James Paterson, James Henderson and Emma Goodall in Classes X through D respectively.

The main meeting aggregate, shot between Monday and Thursday, was shot in less rain, although the wind conditions gradually became more difficult as the week progressed.  Sheena Sharp returned in time from the Nordic Championships to be the top Scot in Class X with 3rd place, while Bill Hamilton edged out Shirley McIntosh on the 100 yard tie-break for 3rd in Class A (and a place in the main Scotland team).  Martin MacGill shot very steadily for 2nd in Class B, with James Henderson winning Class C in front of Greg Scott.  Class D went down to the wire, with Robin Honhold beating Kay Copland - still only 13 - by a point.

The unsquadded aggregate also produced some good performances, with 2nd for Sheena Sharp in Class X, a tie for 1st place in Class A for John Sinclair and Jon Latimer, 3rd place for James Paterson in Class B, 1st and 2nd for James Henderson and Greg Scott in Class C and 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively for Emma Goodall, Robin Honhold and Kay Copland in Class D.  Other unsquadded results included wins in the County & League Medal Holders for John Sinclair, the NSRA Life & Annual Members for Sinclair Bruce, the Under-18 title for Steven Campbell, the Under-15 for Kay Copland and top score in Flowers for Shirley McIntosh.  The Scottish club team events both went to the Bon Accord trio of Neil Stirton, Jon Latimer and Sheena Sharp, with the Alloa & District team of Gordon Motion, Donald & Shirley McIntosh second in both cases.

The Freuchie - the SSRA competition run at lunchtimes - was won by new SSRA Chairman Donald McIntosh, defeating Bill Copland and Eddie Jones in the final, while James Henderson won the Class C&D section for the Sgian Dubh, beating Robin Honhold and Greg Scott in the process.

The final Friday featured the International Matches and the Earl Haig Scottish Championship.  The main Scotland team successfully defended the Iain Hamilton Cup, winning by a margin of nine points, however the Ladies struggled against a solid English team.  A good omen for the future however was the performance of Kay Copland, winning her first Scottish cap at the age of 13, and producing a score better than two of the main English team!

The Haig was won by Neil Stirton, his superb final card of 197 in very tricky conditions securing victory over Sinclair Bruce by a four point margin, with Jim Mudie in third place.  The meeting concluded with the traditional chairing of the champion by the remaining finalists.

10th July 2004

Also at the Nordics, Matthew Thomson produced a solid performance in his first international match, qualifying for the final of the Junior Men's Prone, ending up 7th.  Emma Cole-Hamilton was also 7th in her prone event, but was unlucky to lose out on a final place in the Junior Women's 3x20, being counted out to 9th.

Both Emma and Matthew are away on their travels again in a couple of weeks, heading for the European Junior Championships in Munich as part of the Great Britain team.  Tom Hunter had also been selected, but is unable to attend as he will be in Canada with the GB cadet fullbore team.

27th June 2004

24th June 2004

24th June 2004

15th June 2004

Emma Cole-Hamilton was the only other Scot to get amongst the medals, producing the best final on the range to climb from 6th to 2nd in the Women's 3x20.  In the Men's 3x40 Martin Sinclair was 4th, with Sheena Sharp and Susan Jackson 5th and 8th respectively in the Women's Prone.

7th June 2004

Scores earlier in the day had been a little better, Sheena Sharp winning Class A in the Angus Open with (yet another) equal personal best of 593, narrowly ahead of Neil Stirton with 592 and Tom Hodgson with 591.  Ken Silver, James Henderson & David Taylor won Classes B, C & D respectively, with Finlay Craig winning the Junior.

On Saturday, Graham Rudd won the Men's 3x40 event at the second 3-Positions event of the season in front of Peter Gray and Bill Long, but there was stiffer competition over in the Women's 3x20, where Susan Jackson overhauled Emma Cole-Hamilton in the final to win her first match of the summer, while debutant Heather Rudd picked up third place.

7th June 2004

19th May 2004

19th May 2004

17th May 2004

12th May 2004

11th May 2004

11th May 2004

2nd May 2004

There was some fine shooting also in the open meeting, with Phil Glover of the Isle of Man winning Class A on countback from Neil Stirton on 594 - Ken Silver taking Class B with the same score.  Bill Vaughan won Class C, with Bruce Farquhar winning Class D.  Emma Cole-Hamilton broke one of the oldest records on the books, raising the eleven year old Junior Women's Prone record to 590.

Emma was also in record breaking form at the 3 Positions event yesterday, raising the International Junior Women's record for the 3x20 & final to 644.8.  Despite that, Janis Thomson won the 3x20 match, with Peter Gray winning the 3x40.

2nd May 2004

18th April 2004

Also at Gloucester, the British Team of Six title was successfully defended by Bon Accord, gaining revenge for their defeat three weeks ago in the Scottish Cup by beating fellow Scottish club Watsonians by a single point in the all-Scottish final.

16th April 2004

13th April 2004

5th April 2004

Emma Cole-Hamilton picked up the Ladies and Junior Championships, equalling Heather Rudd's Scottish Junior record for 40 shots with 385, and beating her own Junior record for 40 plus final with 483.5.  Shirley McIntosh was also in record breaking form, with 584 in the Aggregate beating Tricia Littlechild's eight year old Senior record for 60 shots.

The Disabled Championship was won by Di Coates, making a welcome return to Largs, with the Blind championship going to Ali Burt.  In the remainder of the Aggregate competitions, Class B was won by Mike Lewis, Class C by Bill Long and Class D by Pat Gray.

28th March 2004

There were two major upsets in the Scottish Cup team championship.  Firstly both of the Bon Accord teams were knocked out at the semi-final stage - making this the first championship since the finals have been held shoulder to shoulder that Bon have not won - and then the Glenrothes team of Margaret Haughey, David Turnbull, Robin Law, Neil Calder, Shirley McIntosh & Donald McIntosh produced the surprise of the season to defeat Watsonians for the title.  The victory was especially sweet for Margaret - who represented Scotland in the Home Countries Ladies International Matches 7 times in the 1980s - as she retired from smallbore rifle shooting at the end of the event.

28th March 2004

24th March 2004

24th March 2004

Scotland shot the annual postal match against North Island, New Zealand on Sunday.  While the scores are being kept quiet until the Kiwis shoot in September, top score for Scotland was Tom Hodgson, with Matthew Thomson top score in the Under 21 team.  The event was also notable as Tim Kidner made his 20th appearance in the team - the first person to make this milestone.  There was also a rather unusual appearance of three members of the same family in the team - brothers Ian and Robin Thomson along with Ian's son Matthew.  The full teams were:

20th March 2004

In the Air Pistol match, Mark Joyce lost out to a good performance by Cyril De Jonckheere, with Lawrence Cooper second.  Cyril's nine points were enough to move him into second place in the series - Mark having also won his series at Dumfries.

8th March 2004

The final for competitors in classes C&D was held the day before, with a win for J Holwill following a tie-shoot with Simon Batchelor and Neil McMillan.

8th March 2004

Edinburgh dominated the team events, comfortably winning the team of eight, quartet, ladies triad and pairs.

1st March 2004

Heather Rudd and Emma Cole-Hamilton increased all of the Scottish Junior Women's records once more - Heather increasing the 40 shot record to 385, while Emma increased the final record to 99.8 and the qualifier & final record to 480.8 - winning the British Junior Women's title in the process!  Heather secured 4th in the Junior Ladies, the same position as Shirley McIntosh in the Senior Ladies.  The two junior ladies then combined with Shirley to add 11 points to the Scottish Women's Team record.  However, faced with an England team who added 8 points to the British record for this course of fire, the Scottish ladies had to settle for a narrow victory over Wales.

The Men's team of David Rattray, Robin Law and Donald McIntosh fared less well, going down not only to England, but narrowly to Wales, with some poor shooting from all of the team.  Despite that, both David and Robin qualified for the final of the championship - as did Graham Rudd, who recorded a personal best of 579 to qualify in third place.  A steady final from David moved him up from 4th to 2nd, with Robin creeping up from 6th to 4th.  A ropey start from Graham saw him slip as far as 6th at one point, but a remarkable three perfect shots scoring 10.9 in the second half of the final - including his last two shots - moved him back to a well deserved third.

In addition to the championship, there were a number of placings in the Aggregate competitions, Graham Rudd and Emma Cole-Hamilton collected silverware, winning Classes A and B respectively.  David Rattray was 3rd in Class X, with Donald McIntosh 3rd in Class A respectively.  In Class C Peter Gray and Bill Long were 2nd and 3rd, with Tom Mackintosh - shooting in his first ever competition - 3rd in Class D.  Glenrothes were second in the Club team Championship, Forth and Clyde repeating this with second (by a single point) in the County Championship.

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1st March 2004

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16th February 2004

9th February 2004

3rd February 2004

amended 30th January 2004

Many thanks to all those who have helped in the collation of this information.

22nd January 2004

19th January 2004

A steady performance from Mark Joyce in the Air Pistol picked up maximum points for the second time this year, moving into a comfortable lead.

2nd January 2004

Senior Men: Robin Law, David Rattray, Graham Rudd
Junior Women: Emma Cole-Hamilton

amended 30th January 2004

NSRA Air Rifle Championships 1975 & 1976.

Please note, for National Meetings, all that is required is a copy of the results from the Home Countries matches.  Many thanks to Brian Woodall at the NSRA who has helped fill many of the gaps to date.