The SSRA Team Prone League for 2013/14 is up and running and results from the first two rounds are now available from the Domestic Results page here.

Sarah Henderson took the honours in the final of SSRA Air Rifle Grand Prix 3 in Glenrothes, holding off Sheena Sharp with the last shot. Results are available here.

Sarah Henderson, Maria Bexley and Bobby Spence will travel to Luxembourg later this month to compete at the RIAC international match.

The second SSRA Air Rifle Grand Prix was held in Kincardine and Jen McIntosh took the honours in the final with Sheena Sharp second and Seonaid McIntosh third.

Jen won A Class, Sarah Brown B Class, Gavin Riome C Class and Ashleigh Taylor D Class.

Results are here including graphic score cards and also on the Domestic Results page.
 

Team Scotland have announced the first tranche of athletes selected for Shooting at next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Inclued are three Smallbore Rifle shooters, all Gold medal winners at Delhi 2010:

Jen McIntosh - 10m Air Rifle, 50m 3P Rifle

Jom Hammmond - 50m 3P Rifle

Neil Stirton - 50m 3P Rifle

Further selections, including those for the hotly contested 50m Prone events, will be announced next year.

With the indoor Domestic Prone Rifle season now getting under way, there are not one but two good reasons to enter some extra competitions. First, Balerno & Currie stage their annual Open event on Saturday and Sunday November 2-3 and then Watson's host the latest instalment of their very popular Open on Saturday November 30 and Sunday December 1. More details on both events can be found here:

Balerno & Currie RC Open Shoot    Watson's Open Shoot

Scotland's team lost once more to their New Zealand counterparts in the annual postal match, the results of which have only just been released down under. The main Scotland team's score of 5900 was overhauled by the New Zealand total of 5930 while the Scotland Juniors fared no better as their team score of 1918 was beaten by the NZ total of 1940. Click here to see the full results.

Alloa and District Rifle Club are running a Club Instructors course at their range in Kincardine on 12-13 October. There are currently two places available. To find out more or to reserve a place, contact Willie McAulay on 07863906135 or by email mcaulay8580@btinternet.com.

In a new and exciting development for the forthcoming indoor season, it has been announced that the 2013-14 Air Rifle Grand Series will be conducted entirely on electronic targets. Glenrothes, Denwood in Aberdeen and Sands/Alloa in Kincardine will host the GPs. Keep up to date with developments by visiting this site, where entries can be made using the online service and paper entries can be downloaded.

As the recent influx of Manx and even Maltese shooters at Gagie proved, Scottish Target Shooting competitions are getting the right kind of reviews and this development is just part of the plan to keep that going as we head towards the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

The dates and venues for the Air Rifle GP series are shown below and all levels of air shooters are welcome to enter.

The 2013 Commonwealth Shooting Federation (European Division) event was staged on the Isle of Man and Scottish athletes had a haul of 27 medals, including 11 golds, to take back to the UK. Congratulations to the small bore rifle winners Sarah Henderson, Sarah Brown and Jen McIntosh for their gold medal performances. A full run-down of medals can be seen here and included the following from the smallbore and air rifle shooters:

10m Air Rifle Women - Jen McIntosh - Gold
50m Prone Women Pairs - Sarah Henderson & Sarah Brown - Gold
50m Prone Women - Sarah Henderson - Bronze
50m 3P Women - Jen McIntosh - Gold
50m Prone Men Pairs - Dave Caughey & Matt Thomson - Bronze

In addition, organiser Stewart Watterson was pleased to reveal that the officials helping run the event represented possibly the strongest line-up for many a year. Scots judges were represented on three of the Juries and their experiences will hopefully serve them well ahead of next year's Commonwealth Games. Results can be found here via the Isle of Man Target Shooting Federation Facebook page.

The final 3P GP of the season took place at Denwood with Neil Stirton edging Jen McIntosh out for the win (click here for results). The following day, 8 September, saw Stirton do the double in the season's Prone Rifle climax at Gagie. All the competitors were winners, though, as 15 Megalinks were used at the range for the first time. Pictured right are the podium places from the ISSF final at Gagie: Sarah Henderson, third, Neil Stirton, first, and Mel Mutch, second.

Click here for the results from Gagie.

SSRA GP4 saw some tremendous scoring in a packed field at Denwood, with Ken Parr equalling his British 3P record of 1170 on the Saturday, Seonaid McIntosh demonstrating her potential yet again with a score of 588 in 50m Prone on the Sunday and a win in C class and then the C&D Final. Neil Stirton took the honours and the malt whisky in the main grand prix event although it seems that a wandering Iron Maiden fan just had to get in on the act! Look out for more information and scores here soon.

A reminder to interested participants that the final Prone GP of the season, at Gagie on September 8, will be conducted using electronic targets. The previous day at Denwood sees the final 3P GP.

There is still plenty to play for, and you can see the current 3P standings here and the current Prone standings here.

Thanks go to Peter and Lina Jones for the photographs.

A sizeable Scottish contingent attended the NSRA's National Rifle Meeting at Bisley from 10-18 August, and Bill Baird led the way with a triumph in the "Roberts" for the British Championship. Baird, now with the Havant club but formerly of Bon Accord, led the aggregate then fell away a little to finish sixth in X Class. And our own inimitable Irishman Cliff "Bones" Ogle was fifth. Baird and Sinclair Bruce qualified for the final of the British Long Range Championships. Baird pulled off a beautiful card at 100 yards - 198 with a single eight which was remarkable in the rough, windy and wet conditions to win. Bruce, clearly determined to go one better than the Scottish Meeting at Lauder, finished third.

In the Home Countries team events, Scotland, pictured left, lost by ten 136 off to 146 off to England but were more than 30 points ahead of Wales. The Ladies team, pictured right with Cyril de Jonckheere, were beaten by England. More details of the scores can be found here.

Emma Steeples finished in the top half of C Class and made the Ladies Team (top equal score with Sheena Sharp) and the GB Junior Drew team against the USA.

Bruce won the County Champions shoot for Lothian with Bill Vaughan (SC) third & Ogle (F&C) 7th (even with running out of time for his first shot in the final!).

Gagie hosts the final Prone Grand Prix of the season, on Sunday September 8, and the SSRA is pleased to announce that this event will be contested using 15 lanes of Megalink electronic targets. Entries for the event will be taken in the usual way, including the SSRA's online booking system.

A high-quality field of 32 shooters came up with some excellent scores as they took part in the Alloa 50m competition over two days at Tullygarth. Sarah Brown took A class with 593, Brian Cooke-Duffy's 583 saw him win B class, Tom Kenny took C class with 576 and J Norval won D class with a score of 564. Full results can be downloaded here.

And there's a reminder that there will be another Open shoot at Tullygarth on Sunday September 1, when Forth & Clyde have their annual event. Norrie Steele is the organiser for this event.

The major international season came to a close with the European 25/50/300m Championships in Osijek, Croatia.

Jon Hammond produced a steady 622.2 in the Men's Prone for 22nd place, still 2.5 away from the final. Jen McIntosh also made the top 25 with 576 in the Women's 3P, but the best performance from the team was from Sarah Henderson - 593 in Women's Prone placing her on equal terms with the bronze medallist, placed 5th on inner-ten tie-break.

A weekend of excellent shooting saw a number of Commonwealth Games selection standard scores as the sun shone at Denwood (mostly).

Jennifer McIntosh took the honours in Saturday's Women's 3P and Neil Stirton the Men's 3P title. With 20 Megalink targets providing results which could be followed live on the internet, the following day the pair repeated the feat in their respective Prone events but all the finals were keenly contested, with nail-biting finishes. Stirton managed to hold his nerve in a close Prone final to be crowned Scottish Open Champion, just 0.3 ahead of Mark Symankiewicz.  In the Prone elimination round he had shot an impressive 597 (622.8) and in the 3x40 he came up with a good standing section to produce 1157. McIntosh shot well in the Women’s Prone Open event, recording a 595 with Maria Bexley second on 589 and Sarah Brown taking third on 588, thanks to a higher centre-ten count than Sian Corish of Wales.

The results of the Scottish 50 metre Championships are available here.

Pictured left, SSRA chairman Ian Thomson presents the 3P trophies to Jen and Neil. Pictured right, competition organiser Jim McIntosh provides the winners of the Prone titles with the water of life . . . courtesy of Glenturret Distillery.

The Scottish shooters at the final World Cup of the year endured a difficult time in the Spanish hills at the venue for next year's World Championsips. Neither Jon Hammond nor Neil Stirton could make it through the elimination rounds of the Men's 3P, and while Jon did make it to the qualification round in Men's Prone, he was well off the pace. In the women's events, Jen McIntosh became unwell during the elimination round of the Women's 3P and was unable to start in the Women's Air Rifle.

Due to late cancellations we have a couple of entries available on Men's prone and Men's 3P for next weekend's ISSF 50m championships at Denwood on Saturday and Sunday August 20-21. If you wish a spot contact Willie Allan (treasurer@SSRA.co.uk.) by 6.00pm Wednesday.

Neil Stirton and Jen McIntosh took the honours in yesterday's SSRA 3P Grand Prix 3 at Denwood. Full results, which were published live to the web, can be seen here.

Don't miss the opportunity to take part in Alloa's 50m Challenge on August 3-4. Entry forms are available for download here.

Tom Hodgson won the Earl Haig Scottish Championship at Thirlestane Castle with a score of 579, just ahead of Sinclair Bruce and James Paterson.

As is traditional, he was chaired round the range by the other finalists with a piper in attendance - a big improvement on last year when the incessant rain in Dumfries meant winner Emma Cole-Hamilton had to settle for the inside of a tent.

"It's a brilliant feeling and one that will last a long time," said Hodgson, having savoured the traditional winner's glass of whisky.

Sinclair Bruce (pictured left with SSRA chairman Ian Thomson, far left) took possession of the Wilkinson Sword when he won the final of the Freuchie at the NSRA's Scottish Meeting at Thirlestane Castle in Lauder. Bill Copland came second and Graham Shedden third in the final while Ashleigh Taylor (pictured) and Lawrence Cooper qualified for the C&D final where Taylor took the honours.

In the Home Countries Internationals, Scotland's main team won by 3825 points, ahead of Wales with 3772 and England with 3770. Scotland's ladies team came second in their international, their score of 1854 edged out by England's 1874.In the Junior international, Scotland, the sole entrants, scored 1079. Full details can be seen here.

Pictured left, the Scotland junior team. Centre, the Scotland main team and right, the Scotland ladies team

Results from the 2013 Alloa Triple Dewar at Tullygarth are available here.

With two days left of the NSRA's Scottish Meeting at Thirlestane Castle in Lauder, the qualifiers for the final of the Earl Haig competition are: (from 1st place to 20th). JG Shedden, S Sharp, R Dove, T Hodgson, J Paterson, E Brown, C De Jonckheere, M Ozmond, I Thomson, AS Bruce, R Nilsen, S Sandground, WA Copland, G Mortimer, M Melvin, JR Sinclair, R Law, W Vaughan, I Shanks, R Thomson.

The top score in qualifying was 379 and the lowest 368. The Class B/C/D section qualifiers all made the main final: Dove, Nilsen, Melvin, R Thomson. The final will be shot on Friday, July 5.

Results: Weekend aggregate placings (1st, 2nd 3rd):
X Class: Aiken, Duguid, JG Shedden. A Class: Swain, Shanks, Sharp. B Class: R Thomson, Marshall, Brough. C Class: Main, Deakin, Hilder. D Class: Dove, Williamson, Baikie.

At the halfway stage in the main championship aggregate (ie after comps 2 and 3, 60 shots at 50m and 40 shots at 100yds) Selected Scots placings:
X: AS Bruce 1st, R Simpson 3rd
A:G Mortimer 1st, S Sharp 3rd
B: S Blackwood 3rd
C: K Nixon 2nd, A Taylor 3rd
D: A Williamson 1st, R Dove 2nd
 

Look out for updates being posted here.

The GB teams for the Granada World Cup and the European Championships in Croatia have been announced and Scottish shooters are well represented:

ISSF World Cup, Granada, Spain:

Men's 50m Rifle 3 positions: Jon Hammond, Neil Stirton. Men's 50m Rifle Prone: David Caughey MQS, Jon  Hammond, Neil Stirton MQS. Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions: Jennifer McIntosh. Women's 10m Air Rifle: Jennifer McIntosh.

European 25/50/300m Championships, Osijek, Croatia:

Men's 50m Rifle Prone: Jon Hammond. Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions: Jon Hammond. Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions: Jennifer McIntosh. Women's 50m Rifle Prone: Maria Bexley, Sarah Henderson. Men's 50m Rifle Prone Junior: Jonathan Barron, Adam Dove.

A vacancy has risen for the position of Interim National Development Manager. Click here for more information and the tendering document.

Kathryn Williamson has been selected as part of the British Team which will compete at the Junior International Match in Suhl next month.

Kathtyn will then be joined by Jonty Barron as part of the British Team at the Meeting of the Shooting Hopes junior international in Pilsen.

The Scottish team returned from the British International 50m Rifle Championships at Bisley with a haul of medals amid some exciting results.

Jen McIntosh took gold in the Women's 3P final, just 0.3 points ahead of Wales' Sian Corish with Sheree Cox in third. It was a great reward for McIntosh's performance in qualifying, when her score of 576 put her into the final in no uncertain terms, 12 points clear of the next shooter. She also picked up another gold medal as Leading University Student.

Jon Hammond secured a bronze in the Men's 3P final by winning a tie-shoot against Dan Rivers and Sarah Brown's score of 579 earned her bronze in the Women's Prone.

In the Home Countries Internationals, the Scotland's Women's team of Jen McIntosh, Sheena Sharp and Maria Bexley won the 3P title. The Men's team of Jon Hammond, Neil Stirton and James Paterson won 3P silver and there was silver for the Women's Prone team of Jen McIntosh, Maria Bexley and Sarah Brown along with a silver for Jon Hammond, Mel Mutch and Bobby Spence in the Men's Prone. Details of the Home Country matches can be found here.

Jonty Barron was awarded two golds as Leading Junior and Leading University Student.

All the scores can be found here, courtesy of the NSRA.

Pictured above, from left: Sian Corish, Jen McIntosh and Sheree Cox. Pictured at right, the Scotland team of Maria Bexley, Jen McIntosh and Sheena Sharp. Thanks go to Donald McIntosh for the photographs.

As part of the ongoing celebrations of the London Olympics, many of those involved in Team GB continue to be invited to events in the capital.

This week saw some of the shooting team invited to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, including rifle coach Donald McIntosh, pictured here with wife Shirley.

Fiona Spence took the honours in Caithness when she won Prone Grand Prix 3. Iain Malone won the C&D final. SSRA results are available on the Domestic results page and full results from the weekend meeting can be found here.

Jon Hammond, Neil Stirton, Matt Thomson and Jen McIntosh were once more amongst the GBR team at the ISSF World Cup in Munich.

With the weather very cold and wet, shooting conditions on the 50m range were unpleasant throughout. Jon Hammond was the best of the men, 621.5 giving him 15th place in the Men's Prone. On the indoor ranges, Jen McIntosh shot 414.6 for 18th place in Women's Air Rifle.

The entry at Gagie may have been a little down from normal for the Angus Open/SSRA Prone GP2 but the weather was fine and there was a tricky wind to keep the shooters alert for the two finals. Ashleigh Taylor won the C&D final, while Dave Cummings took the honours in the A&B final. For full results, visit the Domestic Results page or click here.

Clachnacuddin's Maria Bexley took the honours as she won SSRA 3P Grand Prix 2 at Denwood.

Her final score was not only the best of the women's event but the best of the day while Andrew Ross won the men's event.

And let us not forget a very special day for Orkney's Bobby Spence, who had his birthday celebrated on the range with a brilliant cake complete with target etched in icing, marzipan bullets and a rifle so detailed the maker could be identified!

Qualification results available here.

This competition, which has been running just a few years but has already become a recommended warm-up event for the NSRA's Scottish meeting, takes place on June 22-23. Click here for an entry form.

You have until 24 May to enter the NSRA's 2013 Scottish Meeting which will be held in Lauder. Click here to download an entry form and click here to read the accompanying letter from organiser Ian Burton. Later entries will attract a surcharge.

The first SSRA Grands Prix were held at Denwood and Andrew Ross and Kathryn Williamson took the honours in the 3P event while Robin Thomson won the Prone competition, ahead of James Henderson and Matthew Thomson. Detailed results are now available on the Domestic Results page, along with results from the recent All Ranges event.

Jon Hammond, Neil Stirton, Matt Thomson and Jen McIntosh were amongst the British athletes at the recent ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, USA.

While no-one qualified for the finals, Jon Hammond was best placed with 621.9 for 17th place in Men's Prone, with Jen McIntosh 24th in Women's 3P with 575.

Following recent development work carried out by Scottish Target Shooting, a rationale document was produced on the benefits of Unification of the Associations.  Click here for more information on this exciting period of evolution for our sport.

With some of the team from Hannover heading over the pond to the World Cup in the USA, most of remainder of the group headed for Pilsen to compete in the Grand Prix of Liberation. The best performances came in the Women's Prone event - Maria Bexley leading the way with 592 and seventh place, the team of Maria, Sarah Henderson and Sarah Brown placing fourth, just three points behind third placed Bavaria.

It may be the furthest to travel for a mainland event for many, but with incredible scenery it cannot be matched for a more splendid setting. Please click here to download the entry form for the Caithness SBRA Open 2013 and SSRA Prone GP3. It can also be found on http://www.csbra.org. It has been said that the Caithness Open is like a mini-Scottish, because of all the competitions available in one week-end (17). This year there is a new competition, where a Megalink is available courtesy of the SSRA. It will be on the 50m range. Entry fee £5.00, enter on the day with secretary. Cash prize, pending on entry. By popular demand, catering is by Murkle WRI. Any queries please contact martysimpson@tiscali.co.uk; 01955 621323, or 07915293593.

Ten Scottish Target Shooters have been given funding for the Commonwealth Games in 2014 with the allocation of sportscotland Athlete Personal Awards (SAPAs). Announced at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, 62 Scottish athletes were the recipients of SAPAs.

Jennifer McIntosh £10,000; Jonathan Hammond £10,000; Shona Marshall £10,000; Matthew Thomson £7,500; Sian Bruce £7,500; Neil Stirton £7,500; Ian Shaw £2,500; Angus McLeod £2,500; Drew Christie £2,500; Linda Pearson £2,500.

Continuing the theme of co-operation between the Scottish and British programmes, a subtantial number of Scots took part in the ISCH competiton in Hannover. Scores in general were pretty low, although Jen McIntosh was unfortunete to be counted out of the Women's 3P final on inner-ten tie-break.

Team Scotland is under starter's orders for next year's Commonwealth Games, which returns north of the Border for the first time since 1986. Scotland's target shooters were the stars of the show in Delhi in 2010 and their medal haul was recognised by Jon Hammond carrying the team flag at the closing ceremony of the Games. Now it is almost time for our athletes to prove they can do the nation proud on home soil too. The Games are being staged not just in Glasgow but also in Edinburgh at the Royal Commonwealth Pool and at Barry Buddon near Carnoustie. The SSRA wants everyone involved in sport in Scotland to play their part too, be it by volunteering for roles at the Games or just lending support to our athletes.

Want to know more?

You can read about the drive to produce a winning formula for Team Scotland here.

You can hear from some of our prospective team, including some defending champions, in this video.

You can keep up to date with news from Glasgow 2014 using the the link at the top of each page here.

Step forward Maria Bexley and Fiona Park as the winners of Division 1 and 2 respectively... Look out also for results from the final two rounds of the SSRA Team Prone league, which saw Banff and Macduff A take the honours in Division 1, Clachnacuddin A in Division 2, Steeple in Division 3, while Clachnacuddin's B team won Division 4. All the results can be viewed on the Domestic Results page.

For the fourth year in a row a team headed south in search of warmer weather for some early outdoor training. A much larger group than previously, combining athletes from the Scottish and British programmes, spent a week training at the Eagle Eye Training Centre near Magaliesburg. They were supported by coaches Donald McIntosh and Sinclair Bruce along with Physiotherapist Kerry Kirk from the sportscotland Institute of Sport.

The final round of scores have been published for the SSRA Prone League. Congratulations to the winners of the classes: Division 1: Bill Vaughan, Division 2: Robin Thomson; Division 3: William Allan. Full results are available from the Domestic Results page.

Organiser Willie McAulay has announced that Alloa's Tullygarth range will be open for  the season from 1pm on Sunday April 7. Email him for more information.

A revamped 50m competition is now open for you to enter and is open to any club member shooting within Scotland. With averages based on previous indoor or outdoor cards, discounted entry terms are available to SSRA members and members of SSRA-affiliated clubs. Also, don't miss your chance to take part in the All Ranges and Inter-Region event at Denwood on April 14.

You'll find entry forms for both using the SSRA online entry portal at the top of this page.

A nine-strong team of rifle shooters attended the ISAS competition in Dortmund - Sarah Henderson, Sarah Brown, Maria Bexley, Kathryn Williamson, Bobby Spence, Andrew Ross, Mel Mutch, Dave Caughey and Jonty Barron. In addition, Jen McIntosh and Matt Thomson were present as part of a Great Britain, with Adam Dove and Seonaid McIntosh present as part of the British Schools team.

This indoor match provided the 50m shooters the first opportunity to experience the various changes introduced by the ISSF, including the separation of sighting and match times, the reduced timings for the competition shots, decimal scoring for the Prone matches and the changed sequence for the 3P matches.

While no-one qualified for finals, Maria Bexley was the best placed with 15th in Women's Prone, closely followed by Sarah Brown in 17th and Jen McIntosh in 19th.

The NSRA has issued the entry form for the 2013 Scottish Meeting which will be held in Lauder. Click here to download it and click here to read the accompanying letter from organiser Ian Burton.

Results from the 2013 Scottish Air Rifle Championships are now available here. In addition, the latest scores the SSRA Individual Prone League have also been published, see the Domestic Results page.

In the Men's Championship Robin Law took the honours with a narrow victory by only 0.3 ahead of James Paterson, with Andrew Ross in third place.

Things were a lot tougher over in the Women's Championship, with Jen McIntosh a runaway winner, averaging nearly 10.5 for the final, with only one 9.9 on her 18th shot breaking the run of 10s. Her lead of over eight points over Sian Corish was quite remarkable - Seonaid McIntosh finishing in third place.

East Lothian club Prestonpans had to deal with a shrinking membership and run-down facilities in order to stop the club going under. Thanks to the SSRA's coaching and development initiatives and the Awards For All grant scheme, they went on a recruitment drive, renovated their range and equipment and were given £5,000 to bring on the next generation of target shooters. Read about this success story in full here.

Entries for the Scottish Air Rifle Championships at Tulliallan are now closed and the revised squaddings are available here. The full official timetable for the event is available here. This supersedes any previously published information. Decimal scoring will be used for all events which will be recorded using the latest Megalink software release and the 2013 ISSF rules.

The points results from Sunday's finals of the SSRA Speedway event, held at the Balerno & Currie range, are available on the Domestic Results page.

Bill Vaughan of Selkirk won the SSCA Borders Championship in the finals held at Carlisle at the weekend.

Bill, pictured right, got the better of Tom Hodgson to take the title.

The scores from the initial rounds of the SSRA Silver Medal, Speedway and CanDicap winter competitions are now available from the Domestic Results page. In addition, the latest scores from the SSRA Air Rifle league and round six of the SSRA Team Prone League have also been released.

The NSRA held the British 10m Air Championships at Bisley this weekend. Disappointingly the competition was run entirely to the previous rules, with qualification rounds scored as integers, and a ten-shot decimal final added to this for those who qualified.

The Scottish teams did not have a good weekend, placing third in both the Main and Women's matches - details of the scores can be found here.

Indivdually, Jen McIntosh was the highest placed, with a Bronze in the Senior Women's Championship, while Kay Copland was 8th. James Paterson qualified for the final of the Men's Championships, placing 5th. Kathryn Williamson was 4th in the Junior Women's championship, missing the podium by 0.4.

In the aggregate competitions, Kay Copland was second in Class B, with Seonaid McIntosh third in Class C on her debut.

The Men's Olympic silver medallist, Nicco Campriani, is studying in England this year, and took part. In the space of three matches, he shot 599, 600 and 600...

Robin Law has won the Air Rifle Grand Prix series after a win on his home range at Kincardine. He edged the final with Shirley McIntosh in second, just ahead of daughter Seonaid and Sheena Sharp in a day packed with Commonwealth Games medallists and watched by the press - the last event run in Scotland using the old ISSF rules. Look out for detailed results here soon as we look ahead to the all-electronically-scored Scottish Air Rifle Championships at Tulliallan in a month. Due to a technical issue, the scores from the ten-shot finals themselves are not currently available and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Jen McIntosh is the only Scottish rifle shooter selected for the forthcoming European 10m Airgun Championships, which will be held in the city of Odense in Denmark.

A small raiding party of Jen McIntosh, Wales' Jenny Corish and coach Donald McIntosh crossed the channel and headed to Orléans for the Grand Prix of France. Shot on a good sized club facilty in nearby Fleury-les-Aubrais, there were two starts in each category.

Jen qualified for the final on the second day with 413.3, finishing in fifth place behind three Czech athletes and Jennifer Orly of France.

Results from Round 4 and 5 of the SSRA Team Prone League are now available via the Domestic Results page. Look out also for the latest results from the Individual Prone league.

A small Scottish Team of Bobby Spence, Sarah Henderson and Kathryn Williamson - supported by coach Sinclair Bruce - took part in the Intershoot 10m competition in The Hague over the last few days. Scores in general were low, with athletes starting their adaptation to the new ISSF rules. Bobby was the most succcessful of the team, qualifying for the Men's final on all three days, where he finished fourth, seventh and seventh respectively.

Results from this well-attended competition in Edinburgh are now available here.

Kay Copland won Air Rifle Grand Prix 4 held at Denwood after a dramatic tie-shoot decider with Anne-Marie Bexley in front of an excited worldwide audience.

Thanks to another technological leap by the SSRA, the match results were streamed live on the internet and attracted followers from as far afield as Sydney and Prague while the SSRA Facebook page did a great job of providing commentary as the match unfolded.

"To end up with a final that ended in a tie-shoot could not have been bettered even by the TV broadcasters, with the two protagonists themselves putting in an appearance that left us questioning what can we do to push the bar higher still. Kay Copland scored a 9.5 against an 8.7 from a relative newcomer Anne-Marie Bexley who does not put in a lot of practice, according to to her coach," said organiser Jim McIntosh. "From the feedback from those who were with us on the web, we succeeded in involving a great number of followers not just the shooters but friends and family as well, truly an education for some."

The unsung heroes were Jim and son Bruce who laboured to ensure the range was tried and tested in time for a 9am start on a chilly Sunday morning, with the invaluable contribution of Gavin Walker who developed the software necessary to make the Megalink target system work seamlessly.

The conclusion was this has to be the way forward, Jim continued, bettered only by the atmosphere. "I don’t know if it was the constant enquiry 'is it snowing out there' or the camaraderie amongst those involved in the day."

With this type of performance the future of target shooting in Scotland looks bright. With those in the “boiler house” running the range as well as keeping the webcast running all looks good for the future competitions.

Class A winner Robin Law leads the Air Rifle series with 30 points from Mark Joyce on 13 and Sheena Sharp on 12.

For full results on the Air Rifle GP click here and the Pistol event, click here.

Meanwhile, scores from Round Three of the 2012-2013 SSRA Prone Team League are also available while the first tranche of results from the Air Rifle Leagues and Prone Individual Leagues can now be accessed from the Domestic Results page.

Jen McIntosh will start her 2013 international season in Innsbruck at the Meyton Cup, followed by Munich Airgun. The Meyton Cup will run to the new 2013 rules, with the qualification round scored decimally, while Munich remains integer for now. Both competitions will adopt the new back-to-zero format for the finals, with eliminations beginning after eight shots. With Donald McIntosh in Australia with TeamGB at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, Sinclair Bruce will support the GB team in Innsbruck, with Donald joining them in Munich onhis return.