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Kuortane Training Camp, 11-16/11/07 2007-11-13 06:27:56 So it’s lunchtime in Finland, and I’m in day two of a training camp in Kuortane. My back’s aching, my arms are tired, I’m generally run into the ground, but I got told yesterday by Jozef Gonci that if I change my jacket (it’s binding in some spots) I’d be shooting around 580 or so. [...] Read more:Training
GB Junior International, homecoming 2007-08-11 12:04:04 Well, my dreams of uninterrupted broadband access for the entire trip didn’t quite work out - for the last two days I wasn’t able to upload photos or access email. Oh well. Next year I’ll figure something else out.
For now though, we’re back, I’m 14 hours of sleep down and still feeling exhausted and I [...] Read more:International
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Ireland takes Silver medal! 2007-08-08 07:56:10 Sorry folks, little time here, but a quick update - Susan Cunningham has taken a silver medal in the Junior Women’s Air Rifle match here! More later tonight! Read more:Ireland
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GB Jr Intl 07 - Day One 2007-08-06 18:54:03 The first day of the event proper kicked off early this morning, with the team having breakfast together in the Surrey Rifle Club at 0730. Not quite bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but we perked up a bit after breakfast. At that point, the shooters and Marina headed back to their rooms to prepare their kitbags and [...] Read more:Day One
GB Jr Intl 07 - Day Zero! 2007-08-05 18:44:25 Well, we made it here in one piece - eventually! - and everyone’s settled into their accommodations. A bit of changing around of rooms and so on when we got here, but you expect hiccups like that; and Matt and Geoff got far too little sleep on the way over with all the gear in [...]
GB Jr Intl ‘07 2007-08-01 07:54:39 Kickoff is getting closer. Final itinerary being prepared, but we’re hampered by the lack of squadding times from the NSRA, who are swamped, since they’ve gone from 130 to 160 shooters this year. Sent to the team today:
Okay folks, here’s what we have so far. Excuse the minddump format.
Flights are booked, Accomodation is booked, Car [...]
GB Junior International 2007 2007-07-26 17:37:02 Long time since posting here last, but it’s not been idle time. We’ve just spent the last year concluding a review of the NTSA’s internal structures and processes and we’re writing them up as we speak. Expect announcements before the NTSA AGM (September 8 this year). Work and other stuff has kept my head [...] Read more:International
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Competitive vs. Recreational 2007-03-06 12:07:13 One of the things that has come up in the aftermath of the Colours loss is the question of where the squad goes from here. That’s led in turn to a degree of soul-searching being needed by the squad members. It’s not an easy task. The problem is that there are different parts in this [...] Read more:Competitive
Colours Results 2007-03-05 08:18:22 From the NTSA website:
Colours
2007 Results Contributed by Collegiate Officer
Sunday, 04 March 2007
The Results are in….
The 2007 Colours Event between UCD and Trinity College Dublin was held yesterday, March 3rd, in Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club.
After a six year drought, UCDRC have finally reclaimed the Overall prize. In a closely fought match, just 61 points out [...]
Firearms Consultation Panel conference 2008-05-06 14:02:15 One of the odd things about target shooting administration in Ireland is that there aren’t many people in it. Most of the shooters want to, well, shoot. Meaning that about 2% of the people do 98% of the work involved in running matches, keeping clubs going, meeting the Powers That Be and so forth - [...] Read more:conference
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Firearms Consultation Panel conference 2008-05-09 14:08:50 Well, that’s the conference
over. A lot of further detail on what happened is up on this thread on boards.ie, so I won’t duplicate it here, save this:
…I’m of the opinion that people (not necessarily me, and I’d prefer it if there were a lot more doing it) showing up at these things and blogging [...] Read more:Consultation
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Hobby versus Sport 2008-05-12 07:07:34 Been pondering that distinction for a fair while now. Up to now, you see, I’ve not been much of a plinker. I did plink once, back before I got drafted/dragged onto the DURC committee years ago. From that point onwards, I’ve been pretty much solidly committed to competitive shooting and I tend to go all-in [...] Read more:Hobby
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Prime Time 2008-05-20 18:49:16 Some news coverage is more infuriating than others. For anyone who didn’t see the Prime Time
hatchet job on the shooting community, these letters ought to give you a good idea of how shooters received it. First to Prime Time themselves:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have watched Prime Time and it’s predecessors for many years now, but until [...]
Snappy disaster. 2008-05-23 16:14:54 Was moving the rifles from the safe at home to the safe in DURC so that I could train there during lunchtime. As I’m walking, the strap on the Anschutz rucksack bag undid itself and the bag fell off my shoulder and dropped the three feet to the ground. It’s happened once or twice before [...]
Club tidy-up 2008-06-20 17:49:46 Cough. Splutter. Ich.
Lots of brushing and sweeping and hoovering and mopping and wiping and washing and tidying and dumping and hauling and moving and a lot of other verbs as well.
But now the club is neat, tidy, clean, smelling vaugely of a mix of bleach and dettol, has considerably fewer spiders and considerably less rubbish [...]
Further Retail Archery 2008-08-14 17:38:25 It’s like buying your way to… well, slightly less basic kit so that it looks very obvious that you’re the problem in the system
Bought a bowscales a few days ago and it finally arrived, so I was finally able to get measurements of draw weight; I’d already taken measurements of the nock-rest draw [...] Read more:Further
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Retail Archery 2008-08-08 19:43:25 So the archery side of things is continuing to improve.
The new Easton 1816 Jazz arrows Geoff got in give a more consistent grouping, and this weekend’s results were tighter still (and herself got into it as well with one of the new lighter bows we got, and disasterously has started to improve faster than I [...] Read more:Retail
FrankenRifle 2008-08-08 18:58:07 Okay, so after the Snappy Disaster in May, the air rifle has lain dormant in the safe in DURC while I tried to sort out a replacement part from Anschutz. I’m sorry to say that the fabulous after-sales experience I had described to me by those who praised Anschutz to the roof wasn’t quite as [...]
Gaffes and Goofs 2008-09-03 07:31:17 One of the advantages WTSC has in target shooting is that between Matt and Geoff, we have a wealth of knowlege and experience in the sport available right there on the range. A sort of support network I suppose. We’re not there yet with the archery and we’re working as hard as we can on [...] Read more:Gaffes
Joining Dublin Archers 2008-09-02 08:06:17 Heading out to Dublin
Archers tonight to sign up. WTSC hasn’t gotten sorted with the IAAA yet (though we will), so the fastest way for me to get access to a nearbyish field is to join up. For €40/year and €3/night, it’s not bad value. And it’ll mean I get exposure to other archers, which [...] Read more:Joining
New tab 2008-09-01 08:50:41 And arriving late (but better than never…), my new tab. Hopefully the last bit of kit for a while. It’s the cheap-ass version of the Soma Saker tab:
Still, for a cheap-ass version, it’s really well made, and unlike the A&F tab I’ve been using, the shelf doesn’t rock back and forth when I pull the [...]
Damn you FITA! 2008-09-01 08:46:49 So that’s a dozen arrows fletched with kurly vanes, and all the other stuff stuck on the riser, and everything packed into the backpack:
All set. Except for one touch. One trip to the Arts&Crafts shop later…
Now I can be one of the happy archers of Wilkinstown, who see naught but glee and merriment in [...]
New toys! 2008-08-28 18:58:12 So the stuff I ordered earlier has all arrived, and I can finally stop keeping my bow in a torn cardboard box held together with twine!
So that’s a dozen new arrows (albiet in kit form, but I’ve borrowed the club’s fletching jig so I should have them all made up by the weekend); a new [...]
New archery range in WTSC 2008-08-26 10:06:31 One little bit of news from WTSC is that we’ve been given permission to use a neighbouring field to our own for outdoor archery
practise. Our current setup can cope with a few people at up to about 30m:
It’s perfect for training and tuning and for beginners shooting, though perhaps it is time we did [...]
Some days, it all goes right. Twice. 2008-08-26 09:44:12 Was shooting at 18m on Sunday. The club arrows are a bit unmatched, and the bow’s untuned, but at least one of the arrows worked well:
Thought I was doing well with that one, and then on the very next end, the same arrow went into the same hole:
Needless to say, the other arrows didn’t want [...] Read more:Twice
Dublin Archers scouting trip 2008-08-20 08:47:48 So went last night to the Dublin
Archers field to see how a “real” archery club does it It was interesting and instructive in a few ways. Met up with Suzanne O’Hare who was running the session. She’s also the international secretary for the IAAA, so she’s about at where I’ve wound up [...]
Beijing Aftermath 2008-08-19 03:45:47 Oh, and to the Irish Times - if you’re going to compare the performance of the Olympic athletes to that of Padraig Harrington, would you do a fuller comparison? Like, say, pointing out that he earned more money from his first British Open win than the Department of Sport had for its entire Sports Capital [...] Read more:Aftermath
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Beijing 2008-08-19 03:41:02 Next person who says shooting is boring is being forced to watch coverage of the finals from this year. Between an Emmons making the news for all the right reasons at the beginning and an Emmons making the news for all the wrong reasons at the end; Bindhra taking India’s first ever individual Gold medal [...] Read more:Beijing
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