The scores are on the door for the first two rounds of the SSRA/STA team prone league. New entrants from the Isle of Man, Kirk Michael Rifle club, scored a debut victory. Visit the Domestic Results page for all the scores.

The final event of 2016 took place at the Alloa & District range in Kincardine, with Seonaid McIntosh once more leading the way, this time with 618.5. Vikki Walls was much improved on 608.8.

In the final, Seonaid scored 204.2 to win, with Vikki on 197.8 and Robin Law on 172.8.

This year's Watsonian Rifle Club Open Meeting will be held on the Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th of December. Click here for the entry form. This year there will be a "Guess the number of empty cases" competition, the prize being a £50 voucher very kindly donated by Edinkillie Sport Services.

The second 10m Air Rifle Grand Prix took place at Denwood, with Seonaid McIntosh in a different league to the rest of the field. Leading qualification with 617.8, Seonaid's final of 208.9 was more than ten points ahead of Robin Law on 196.6, with Vikki Walls in third with 175.9.

The new season for the 10m Air Rifle shooters got underway at Glenrothes earlier today. In a low scoring qualification rounds, Vikki Walls was the highest qualifier for the final with 597.9.

In the final Vikki was dominant, beating Robin Law 201.3 vs 193.0, with Ruaraidh MacLeod in third place.

The Scotland team had a clear victory over North Island, New Zealand in the annual match. Scotland did the business at Balerno & Currie's range. The scores can be found here.

The CSF(ED) Championships have come to an end in Cardiff. Scotland's small and Scotland's small and relatively inexperienced team found the going tough.

There were Bronze medals in the Women's Prone Pairs for Sarah Henderson & Fiona Crowden, and another for Fiona in the Women's Prone Individual.

Jim Main qualified for the final of the Men's Prone, Brogan Smith and Bobby Spence for the final of the Men's 3P and Vikki Walls for the final of the Women's Air Rifle.

The 2016 Commonwealth Shooting Federation (European Division) Championships are spread across several venues, and even nations, with 25m Pistol events being staged in Jersey. The Shotgun, Air Pistol and Smallbore & Air Rifle events are being held in and around Cardiff from 22-15 September.

The selected rifle shooters are:

The team will be supported by High Performance Rifle Coach Anne-Grethe Jeppesen, with Donald McIntosh as overall Team Leader for the whole Scottish Team.

A number of Scottish officials will be assisting with the event.

The programme for the 2016-17 Air Rifle GP series has been unveiled. There is a problem with the usual website calendar but the dates and venues are as follows: Sunday October 9, 2016: GP1 at Glenrothes; Sunday November 13, 2016: GP2 at Denwood; Sunday December 11, 2016: GP3 at Kincardine; Saturday January 14, 2017: GP4 at Carlisle; Saturday February 11, 2017: GP5 at Glenrothes.

The final 3P Grand Prix of the summer was held at Denwood on Saturday, Sheena Sharp pipping Maria Bexley for the Gold by 0.2, with Bobby Spence in third place. The series wins went to Bobby Spence for the Men and Sheena Sharp for the women.

The SSRA Prone Grand Prix Series is over after our Megalink cyber-army marched from Denwood in Aberdeen overnight to Gagie outside Dundee in time for an 8.30am start. Bill Vaughan was the winner of the main final on the day and Jim Main held his nerve to win the series overall.

Ian Henderson won the C&D series after Scott Norval took the plaudits in the C&D final.

The results of all the Prone and Three Positions Grand Prix matches held over the summer, and the final points tables, can be found on the Domestic Results page.

So that's the sandbags away for 2016 and now attention turns to the Air Rifle and Air Pistol series...

The time is nigh to begin the 2016-17 Team Prone Rifle League (Formerly the SSRA Team Prone League). Get your club's entries in to Billy Crawford by the end of October. The competition is locally scored.

The penultimate Grand Prix of the summer season saw a small influx of visitors from England, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland in search of British Shooting selection scores. Jennifer McIntosh had the better of Katie Gleeson in the 3x20 qualification, with 583 vs 582, while Mike Bargeron was ahead of Bobby Spence in the 3x40. In the combined final, Jen shot a superb 461.1 for a more than 30 point lead over Sheena Sharp, with Rachel Glover in third place.

In the Prone events the next day, there were high scores in the Grampian Open - Dave Binney winning Class A with 625.1 ahead of Mike Bargeron and Rachel Glover. Lenny Thomson won Class B, with Claudia McLung and Stuart Hill second and third. Class C went to Georgia Gooch ahead of Steven Beattie and Scott Norval, while Robin Shand took Class D from Jake Smith and Mike Smith.

In the C&D Grand Prix the honours went to Peter Jones, with Cyril De Jonckheere second and Scott Norval third.

Top score in the A&B Grand Prix was Stuart Hill with 625.0, Lenny Thomson with 620.4 the last qualifier for the final. A tight final between Stuart and Neil Stirton went the way of the Northern Irish soldier, Lenny Thomson taking the Bronze.

The series will come to a conclusion next weekend with the final events at Denwood and Gagie.

A new national postal competition has been devised by Huntly Small-bore Rifle Club. They have been very fortunate to secure £1,250 of sponsorship as prize money. The entry money will, along with other fundraising efforts, go towards new club equipment, including electronic targets.

There are four classes: 1st prize - £200, 2nd prize - £50 in each class with an entry fee of only £5. The club with the highest number of individual entries will receive a special prize of £250.

An entry form can be found here and look out for regular updates on the club's Facebook page.

The closing date for entries is 28 October 2016 and the scores for the first round must be returned by Monday 12 December 2016.

The entry form can be found here and thanks to Jackie Smith, HSBRC membership secretary, for this exciting news.

During the meeting, there were individual competition wins for Cliff Ogle and Ken Greenaway in Class X, while Richard Simpson won the Veterans. Ken Greenaway placed 3rd in the Class X Aggregate, with Richard Simpson 6th. The Alloa & District team of Tom Hodgson, Richard Simpson and Cliff Ogle won the Grand Aggregate club team competition.

Reducing entry numbers meant that Scotland were unable to field a Ladies Team in the Home Countries International Match since 1964. In the team of ten match, Scotland came second to England, with Wales third and Jersey fourth - you can see the results here.

In the final of the British Long Range Prone Championship, for the Earl Roberts Trophy, Cliff Ogle placed 6th, with Ken Greenaway 13th and Bill Baird 14th.

While the seniors were enjoying themselves at Bisley, you can read Ian Thomson's report from the Junior Internationals here.

And so the Olympic Games are over for another four years. Jen McIntosh was the only British Rifle shooter at the Games, and performed well, placing 15th in 10m Air Rifle with 414.7 and 18th in Women's 3P with 578.

Below a collection of images contributed by Donald McIntosh, who supported his daughter at the Games in his role as Team GB Coach.

The scores from the recent 50m match at Tullygarth are available here and if that well-attended event whetted your appetite, why not enter their next competition, the Forth & Clyde Double Dewar competition on Sunday 28 August? You can enter on the day, just provide a certified average.

The Scottish 50m Championships, staged over two days at Denwood in Aberdeen, produced some great scores and tense finals.

In the Women's 3P a good field of twelve shooters, including Norwegian visitor Malin Westerheim, contested the qualification round, with Jen McIntosh leading the field on 585. In the final Jen got away to a decent lead of 2.2 ahead of Malin in the Kneeling, and so it remained at the end of the final, with Sian Corish of Wales taking third place.

The Men's Prone featured an experienced international field, including 2000 Olympic medallist Harald Stenvaag of Norway, 1996 Olympian Gary Duff from Northern Ireland, Scotland's own 2008 World Cup medallist Neil Stirton, 2008 & 2012 Olympian Jon Hammond and a member of GBR's 2010 300m World Championship winning team in Harry Creevy from the Isle of Man alongside a number of other experienced shooters from across the UK.

Neil and Jon topped the qualification round ahead of Harald, and were joined in the final by Gary Duff and Stuart Hill of Northern Ireland, Simon Green of England and rising Scottish talent in the shape of Jim Main and Lenny Thomson. Tricky conditions made for a low-scoring final, Jon Hammond snatching the lead back on the last shot to finish just 0.1 ahead of Simon Green, with Jim Main in third.

The Women's Prone field also featured a number of highly experienced athletes including Commonwealth Games Gold medallists Sheena Sharp and Jen McIntosh. In the end it was an all-Scottish affair, with Jen McIntosh a clear winner ahead of Maria Bexley and Sarah Henderson.

The competitors in the Men's 3P event were probably the least experienced field all weekend, and James Paterson had a comfortable lead in both qualification and the final, with Bobby Spence and Finn Ryley taking second and third.

The results book can be found here.

Alloa Rifle Club is staging a shoot on August 6 & 7 at the Tullygarth range. The course of fire is 60 shots at 50 metres (English match). For more details and to obtain an entry form, please contact  organiser Willie McAulay.

St Andrews and Alloa shooter Ken Greenaway won the Scottish Long Range Prone Championship for the Haig Challenge Trophy final at the NSRA Scottish Meeting in Lauder. Bill Vaughan was second with Lenny Thomson third. The C&D final was won by Perth's Stephen Gemmell.

Aberdeenshire won the County Sextette, with Alloa & District completing a clean sweep of the team competitions concurrent with the Aggregate. Banff & MacDuff managed to break their run long enough to secure the Scottish 50m Team Championship for the Pullar Targe, but Alloa came back to win the 100 yards version for the ICI Challenge Cup.

Ken Greenaway did the double, winning the Class X Aggregate, with Stephen Gemmell winning Class B, Peter Dingle taking Class C and Georgia Gooch Class D.

In the Home International matches, the Main Scottish team lost to England by two points, while the Ladies were also beaten by their English counterparts. The detailed results can be found here.

The Junior matches were hampered by the lack of competition from England, so our Scottish Junior team of three had a match against a team of three from St Andrews University - which they won comfortably.

The previous day had seen Graham Shedden make off with the Wilkinson Sword in The Freuchie and Ewan Scougall winning the Sgian Dubh in C&D class.

A message from Bill Hamilton:

The trophies for the C&D Speedway (The Boston Bowl) and the Indoor 3P championship (The Watsonian Trophy) are currently missing despite the efforts of Jim McIntosh to track them down.  I have a personal interest in these trophies as the former was donated to the SSRA for annual competition by my late mother (born in Boston and hence the name) and is high-quality American silver-plate. The latter was presented by myself at some expense.  I do not want them left mouldering in someone's attic for the unforeseeable future and just be forgotten about.

If you have any information about the whereabouts of either of these trophies please get in touch with the webmaster in the first instance with a view to having them returned.

Editor's Note: The Boston Bowl has subsequently been found, and the Watsonian Trophy was never missing, having been awarded annually for the 50m Three Positions Championship since the mid-1980s.

Results from the Alloa Double Dewar event can be found here and here.

Despite struggling with her health - which meant she was unable to compete in the Prone event - Seonaid McIntosh produced a remarkable performance in very difficult conditions to dominate qualification in the Women's 3P - her new British junior record of 581 the top score.

In the final she was well placed after the Kneeling and Prone stages, but slipped back slightly during the Standing to finish fourth

The third 3P Grand Prix was held at Denwood yesterday, with Bobby Spence the top dog after the final. Sheena Sharp and Brogan Smith collected the remaining medals.

Jim Main took advantage of relatively light winds on a chilly day to come out on top in this SSRA Prone Grand Prix. As the Caithness event is run on paper targets, the final is not conducted in a "return to zero" format and Jim's even-point lead from qualifying, where he scored 594, set him up nicely. Scores are to be found on the Domestic Results page.

There were some minor medals for some of the Scots at the British 50m Championships at Bisley.

In the Men's Prone Neil Stirton was the only Scot to qualify for the final, finishing in third place.

Sarah Henderson was third in the Women's Prone, with Fiona Crowden in fifth.

Scotland was unable to field teams in the Home Countries 3P Matches. In the Women's Prone the team were second, and in the Men's Prone they were third. Details of the teams and scores can be found here.

Congratulations to Donald McIntosh, who has been inducted into the University of Edinburgh's Sporting Hall of Fame. Donald was inducted alongside former Olympic swimmer Caitlin McClatchey, and joins previous inductees from Shooting in the form of Shirley McIntosh and Susan Jackson.

Click here to read his citation.

Alloa's popular and well-attended Double Dewar is to be to be held on the 25th and 26th June 2016 at the Tullygarth range. Click here for an entry form.

The second in the series of five Grand Prix were held at Denwood and 3P this weekend. Jen McIntosh won the 3P Grand Prix, more than ten points ahead of Bobby Spence in the final, with Sheena Sharp third.

At Gagie the next day, Jim Main won Class A in the Angus Open with 619.6 ahead of Bobby Spence and Fiona Crowden. Class B saw Lenny Thomson sneak past Sarah Brown by 0.1, with Adam Dove a further 0.6 behind.

Class C was also close, Ian Henderson pipping Cyril De Jonckheere by 0.6 for the win, Brogan Smith 0.1 behind Cyril in first. Class D produced the biggest margin for Jake Smith, with Graham Martin and Robin Shand second in third.

Ian Henderson's winning streak continued in the C&D Grand Prix, leading Martin Sinclair and Ian Thomson onto the podium.

In the qualification for the A&B Grand Prix, Fiona Crowden was way ahead with 624.0, 611.0 good enough to make the cut for the final. Fiona was unable to shoot in the final however, maximum points going to Bobby Spence ahead of Jim Main and Jim Godsell.

Neil Stirton, Jen and Seonaid McIntosh were amongst the British team at this World Cup. Neil shot well in both elimination and qualification, 626.1 giving him 16th place.

In the Women's Air Rifle scores from the Scots were well below expectations, but there were better performances in the 3P - Jen shot 584 in the elimination, finishing with a string of 100 in the standing position. The qualification round did not go quite as well, 580 placing her 24th.

Seonaid McIntosh, shooting for MQS only, shot another new personal best of 575, picking up another British Junior record in the process.

With only four entries spread across the 3x40 and 3x20 events, a combined final was run at the first 3P Grand Prix of the season. Brogan Smith came out on top, ahead of Sheena Sharp and Maria Bexley.

In the Denwood Open, Neil Stirton was a runaway winner in Class A with a huge 630.5, Sarah Henderson second more than 12 points behind and Ian Shanks third. Class B was won by Lenny Thomson ahead of Stephen Gemmell and Mike Ozmond, and the Class C roll of honour was Brogan Smith, Ian Thomson and Cyril De Jonckheere. Class D went to Mike Smith ahead of Jake Smith, with Graham Martin third.

Scott Dixon won the first of the Prone Grand Prix competitions, beating Niel Stofberg and Neil Stirton in the final. The C&D Grand Prix went to Ian Thomson ahead of Jake Smith and Martin Sinclair.

Jen McIntosh and Neil Stirton were amongst the British team who attended the Grand Prix of Liberation in Pilsen. Neil was the best of the Brits in the Men's Prone - a solid 624.7 placing him 18th.

In the Women's Prone, Jen McIntosh was 7th, setting a new British Record in the first relay, only to see Lina Jones beat that in the second relay! Jen and Lina combined with Sian Corish to take second in the Women's Prone team with a new British team record.

In the Women's 3P, Jen came a cropper during one of the changeovers between positions, when her rifle was knocked off of the table, splitting the stock in two just in front of the pistol grip. Fortunately help was at hand in the form of Daniel Grünig, who very kindly provided another stock from his trade stand, allowing Jen to complete the match and help the team to another new British Record.

Seonaid McIntosh narrowly missed out on the 3P final in Suhl. 574 placed her 10th, two points off the final, and it was 10th again in the Women's Prone match with 614.3.

The West of Scotland Small-bore Rifle Association will stage their Open competition at Alloa's Tullygarth range on Saturday June 4. Details of the event and how to enter can be found here.

Jen and Donald McIntosh have just returned from Brazil where the ISSF World Cup, and test event for the 2016 Olympic Games, has just come to an end.

Both athlete and coach have gained invaluable experience of the city and venue prior to the Games, and will return as part of Team GB in July.

All the scores from Sunday's meeting at Denwood are available via the Domestic Results Page.

Scores from the NSRA's Scottish Short Range Championships are available here and the Junior results here.

Look also on the Domestic Results page for the final state of play from the SSRA Team Prone League and the SSRA Prone League. Further results from the SSRA's winter competitions are also on line.

Fiona Crowden stood on her first international podium this week, with a fine Bronze medal in the Women's Prone at the IWK Berlin. Shot on an indoor range, Fiona shot 621.2, finishing behind Jolyn Beer on 625.8 and Silvia Rachl (both Germany) on 622.5.

This competition is now confirmed as June 11, 2016 and the entry forms for this (together with information on SSRA Grand Prix 3) and available here.

Alloa & District Rifle Club is running another NSRA Club Instructor course on May 7 and 8 and there are spaces available.

Contact Willie McAulay for more information.

Click here for the results from the recent British Schools international matches.

The annual Easter Open on the Isle of Man attracted a decent entry from Scotland, with Jen & Seonaid McIntosh, Fiona Crowden and Sarah Henderson all competing.

In the 3P event, qualification scores were on the low side in challenging wind conditions, but the final was a hard-fought affair, with Jen coming out on top and Seonaid second.

This pattern was repeated in the Prone, with Jen, Seonaid and Fiona taking the top three places in the final.

With the ISAS competition split across two weekends once more, Sinclair Bruce travelled with the Scottish Seniors to the first part - Fiona Crowden with 14th place in the Women's Prone the best result from the small team.

The following weekend a small GBR junior team, supported by Donald McIntosh, followed their footsteps to the Westphalian city. Seonaid's Prone and Air Rifle were lower than she would have liked, but she also made her debut in the 3P event, with an excellent 572 placing 14th.

The Scottish 10m Air Rifle Championships sported a new look this year, with a revised schedule and additional competitions added. Saturday provided the Junior Championships, along with a non-Championship match for Seniors, both held with finals for the top eight competitors.

The Junior Men's event was won by Dean Bale ahead of Jacob Hill and Tom Warren, with Scotland's Brogan Smith in fourth place. In the Junior Women's event, local athlete Seonaid McIntosh was the clear winner ahead of Kim Tzabach and Jemma Toms. In the Senior matches, there were no surprises, Jen McIntosh and Jack Bale well ahead of their respective fields

Sunday's schedule included the Senior Championships - open to the Juniors as well - and also the new AR50 Mixed Pairs event. Both finals became family affairs, Jen McIntosh winning the Women's Championship ahead of sister Seonaid and Jemma Toms, and Dean Bale getting ahead of older brother Jack by just 0.1 on the final shot. James Paterson was third in the Men's event, winning the confined Scottish Championship in the process.

In the afternoon, the AR50 event was held. In the qualification event, each athlete shot 25 shots, giving the pair a total score out of 50 shots. The top eight pairs then proceeded to two semi-finals, each athlete shooting firstly two series of three shots, followed by pairs of single shots, with the fourth placed team eliminated after a total of eight shots each, third placed team eliminated after two additional shots. Two further shots to complete the semi-finals took the winning pair from each forward to a Gold Medal Match, with the second-placed teams contesting the Bronze Medal Match.

This produced a Gold Medal Match of Seonaid McIntosh & Jack Bale against Jemma Toms & Jacob Hill, while Dean Bale & Ruth Holloway faced Vikki Walls & Emily Bale for the Bronze medal. Each medal match consisted of a series of single shots from each athlete, the highest scoring pair on each shot winning one point - the first team to five points winning the match. McIntosh & Bale took the Gold 5:3, with Holloway & Bale winning the Bronze 5:1.

The inclusion of the AR50 Pairs event proved to be particularly popular with the younger athletes, and we hope it will be held again in future years.

The results book is available here.

The new STS web system for club and individual membership system is now live.

Please read this STS Sign-up Letter to see how to register as an STS member.

Unfortunately there is no integration between the new STS membership system and the older SSRA competition pages, so, in the meantime, please continue to login to the SSRA competition entry system using your original SSRA number. Until the new STS competition entry pages are available you will probably have to maintain your personal data on both systems.

Photo courtesy Bill Hamilton

St Andrews' Ken Greenaway, pictured right, emerged victorious in the finals of the SSRA's Speedway marathon, staged at Balerno & Currie's range, with Richard Simpson and Bill Vaughan second and third respectively.

Results from the event are available here on the Domestic Results page.

Unfortunately only 13 finalists were able to attend.

No C&D final was run this year, due to low entry numbers in the first stage, Neil McMillan of Greenock was the highest-scoring competitor in that postal round.

Jen McIntosh qualified for the final of the Women's Air Rifle at the European 10m Championships in Györ, Hungary, with 416.7. As ever, the final was highly competitive, with every loose shot punished, and Jen finished in fifth place.

The 2015/16 Air Rifle Grand Prix Series came to a conclusion in Glenrothes. Sheena Sharp took maximum points on the day, ahead of Steven Abbott and Vikki Walls, with Bobby Spence just pipping a three-way tie comprised of Robin Law, Maria Bexley and Steven Abbott for the series title. The results can be found here on the Domestic Results page.

With Jen McIntosh staying away as final preparations for the European Championships were underway, and Seonaid McIntosh not able to complete her qualification round, Scotland were unable to field a team in the Home Countries International for the first time since matches began in 1974.

In the Individual Championships James Paterson kept the Scots in the fray, with Bronze in the Senior Men's Championship, while Sheena Sharp was sixth in the Senior Women's Championship.

The sportscotland Institute of Sport is working with the Scottish Target Shooting Performance Programme and is currently looking to engage a World Class Smallbore Rifle Performance Coach to train Scottish athletes in their preparations to compete successfully at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and to gain selection to British Shooting teams. The coach will deliver coaching to key athletes in a training environment and also at competitions around the world as they prepare for the Games.

For more details on the post and how to apply, click here. The deadline for applications is noon on Friday March 4, 2016.

The Team Lists for the annual international matches can be found here.

Jen McIntosh made a great start to this Olympic year with a very productive week spent in Innsbruck and Munich. Her scores in Innsbruck weren't quite enough to make the finals, but an upward trend was carried forward into the Munich Airgun competition, with a stunning 419.8 on the first day taking her into the final in third place. A very tough final ensued, with Jen ending up in 6th place.

Day two saw another very solid performance, 417.3. was 12th in the field of 100 shooters, just 0.9 away from a second final. Seonaid McIntosh - shooting in the senior event - also had an exellent day two, a new personal best of 416.4 placing her 20th.

Jen's 419.8 is a new Scottish and British Senior Record, and Seonaid's 416.4 a new Scottish and British Junior Record.

Maria Bexley won Air Rifle GP4 in the Kingdom of Fife and found the time to reflect on the victory:

"I did indeed win, and over a few damn good shooters too. What was surprising is that I had lent my equipment to my daughter Keira , it's all sized up for her now and I usually just use her settings. This GP she made it to the finals too - oh hell - so I borrowed a rifle and a pair of old size 10 boots and got there despite!"

Results from the first THREE rounds are now available here on the Domestic Results page.