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<\/p>\nGBRT rose early, partly due to the 0630 departure time and partly due to the thin walls of the motel, which allowed the conversations and morning exercises of fellow guests to be heard throughout the building.<\/p>\n
The journey to Rattlesnake range was conveniently brief, with the bleary eyed team arriving shortly before 7am. The range is part of a much larger shooting facility, located on Rattlesnake Mountain, outside Richland, which caters for multiple disciplines.<\/p>\n
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Conditions, however, were not as bad as the team was expecting. The temperature was pleasantly in the low 20s (70s Fahrenheit) and the wind was blowing gently down the range. Although things did heat up during the morning and the wind did start to push either side of zero, we did not experience the extreme conditions, for which Rattlesnake is famous. As one American shooter put it, “It’s usually much harder than this, I promise!”<\/p>\n
The course of fire for the morning was two sighting shots and fifteen shots to count at both 900 and 1000 yards. Target faces were traditional US long range ones (the bullseye being almost identical in dimensions to that of an ICFRA target), with an X instead of the V-bull, the bullseye scoring 10, not 5, and so forth. This meant that an HPS at each range was 150 with 15x.<\/p>\n
Shoots were string shot (an alien concept for less experienced tourists), with one of the three shooters allocated to each target, register keeping and then swapping over. The advantage of string shooting is that it allows the shooter to adjust mostly off fall of shot and track, rather than make full adjustments for, changing wind conditions. The relatively tight time limit of 22 minutes, however, restricts shooters in terms of the normal amount of elevation and wind graphs they might usually expect to be able to plot, when shooting in a three.<\/p>\n
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GBRT put in a very strong performance at 900 yards, Ellie Joseph top scoring, with an impressive 150.10. 1000 yards saw the British domination continue, Jon Underwood top scoring, with 149.5. The competition was won overall by American, Anette Wachter, scoring 297.19. Jon Underwood came second, with 296.9 and independent English shooter, Andrew Wilde, came third, with 295.16. Full results will be available on the website.<\/p>\n
After lunch, the Americans (the diarist believes it was the local Lions Club) put on a delicious barbecue, as only their great nation knows how. Prizes and prize money were awarded (the money being handed straight back into team funds, as is the custom), before the team left the range, which was now unbearably hot.<\/p>\n
Dungarees were donned and rocking chairs placed on the verandah in front of the motel. Here, GBRT whiled away the sultry afternoon, before returning once again to the Atomic Ale Brewpub & Eatery, in search of lighter and healthier bites, such as salads, before then undoing all the good work, by consuming large amounts of the locally brewed ale.<\/p>\n
The evening was not a long one, however, due to the impending match against the USA, the next morning, the teams for which are as follows:<\/p>\n
GB Blue:<\/p>\n
Coach: Chris Hockley
\n1 Simon Carson
\n2 Rory MacLeod
\n3 Ian Ashworth
\n4 Stephen Penrose<\/p>\n
Coach: Charles Dickenson
\n1 James Mehta
\n2 Colin Skellett
\n3 John Lindsay
\n4 Jeremy Tuck<\/p>\n
GB Red:<\/p>\n
Coach: David Calvert
\n1 Jon Underwood
\n2 David Crispin<\/p>\n
Coach: Jon Underwood
\n3 Lindsay Peden
\n4 David Calvert<\/p>\n
Coach: Matt Charlton
\n1 Graham Nelson
\n2 Angus McLeod<\/p>\n
Coach: Graham Nelson
\n3 Ellie Joseph
\n4 Matt Charlton<\/p>\n
Lollipop awards (Day 10):<\/p>\n
Good – Jon Underwood, for top scoring at 1000 yards and coming second overall.<\/p>\n
Bad – Chris Hockley, for not noticing that his foresight had worked loose and therefore missing the target at 1000 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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