First Long-gun Club Champs #2 2024 – Springbuck
Saturday 15 April, we hosted the 2nd long-gun club championship for 2024, that is the Springbuck target. The shoot needed 11 rounds, that is; big bore pig and big bore chicken silhouettes at 300 m, 3 shoots to hit two plates; 3 heart-lung shots at 200m sitting with mick-sticks; 3 heart-lung-shots sitting or kneeling at 100m, and 2 brain shots sitting with mick-sticks at 100m.
We only had a total of 6 shooters, so we only ran two squads of 3. Sharon’s son Adrian joined in for his first long gun competition ever shooting with Sharon’s 6.5 Creedmoor rifle.
None of us scored very well; the wind plaid a more substantial role than I think we estimated, some of us had good groupings but all off the animal on the right.
The top 3 scored were:
| 1st | Tom Diedericks | 72 |
| 2nd | John Rutherfoord-Jones | 55 |
| 3rd | Jakes Pieterse | 51 |
The full set of scores were as follows:
The next long-gun club champs is scheduled for 15 June 2024 and will be the Blue Wildebeest target 11 rounds, that is; big bore pig and big bore chicken silhouettes at 300 m, 3 shoots to hit two plates; 3 heart-lung shots at 150m Standing with mick-sticks; 3 heart-lung-shots Standing with mick-sticks at 100m, and 2 brain shots standing no supports at 50m. See you guys there.
