The Quigley Shooting Asssociation

THE QUIGLEY SHOOTING ASSOCIATION.

 

AUGUST QUIGLEY COMPETITION.

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      Saturday 19th August, weatherwise, how pleasant it would be for us to have a full day without rain. Unfortunately, the forecast was for more of the same, so an executive decision was made to utilize the covered firing points at both 400 and 600yds. The infamous "Diggle Breeze" also decided to postpone its’ holiday and competed with several ferocious rainstorms to harass the firers. As there are no wind flags on the prairie we don't provide wind flags on the range for Quigley events, so the wind caught out many firers at least once and caused more than the odd "flyer". The 400yd Quigley target is most unforgiving and a miss on the 5 zone (which is only 2 ½ minutes wide and 4 minutes high) by a fraction of an inch can result in a one or a zero score.

     Stage 1 at 400 yds, consisted of a fouling shot, two sighters, and fifteen shots to score at the Quigley bucket. Only three firers read the wind well enough to score more than 30 points, Dennis Richardson 37, Darren Wallis 35 and Ken Hall 33.

     After lunch, stage 2 was the buffalo silhouette at 600 yds and more of the same weather meant little change in the order of things. Darren closed up on Dennis and both finished with 83 points, the decision going to Dennis for his score on Stage 1.

        The final scores were as follows.

Pos.         Shooter.                   Rifle.                               Score.

1.     Dennis Richardson        Browning 45/70             83

2.     Darren Wallis                 Sharps 45/90                83

3.     Ken Hall                        Sharps 45/70                 69

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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