After an early night on Saturday and much speculation about Sunday’s weather, America Match day started fine enough to allow us onto the range for the 9am scheduled start time. The match began well for GB, with a steady routine…
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Saturday – Commonwealth Match and Governor General’s Final. Another sunny day on Connaught ranges and all GBRT were involved in this morning’s Commonwealth Match, shot over 800m and 900m, our furthest distances, with a team of 12 firers across three…
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Friday – Gatineau, Grand and Canada Match Once the squadding for today had been clarified, normal service resumed, with the top competitors in the Grand all squadded, as traditionally, on the same 9am detail for the last competition in the…
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Thursday has brought us close to the end of the Grand, with the two remaining shoots in the Gibson shot this morning, leaving only the Gatineau (2 & 15 @ 900m) tomorrow. Some interesting “science” is emerging from our experience…
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Wednesday – Presidents After the rain stoppage yesterday, the team decamped back to the hotel for a couple of hours down time (and drying off) before heading to the Corn Boil, a fund raiser for the Canadian U25 team to…
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Tuesday at Connaught matches 2nd Wednesday at the Bisley Imperial. The Letson (2&7 @ 300m, 500x & 600x) makes up the first qualifying stage of the principal prize (The Governor General’s). And the nemesis long range shoot, akin to a…
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DCRA – day 4 (Monday) Another bright sunny day dawned on Ottawa leading to Fu Yung deciding to run to the range (11km). He was not accompanied. The rest of the team had split breakfasts, due to Martin Townsend’s love…
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The last warm up shoot before the Grand, T’ilton, began with our first shoot on range D, offering 300m only. The firing point was blessed with the thickest carpet this diarist has seen, with a lot of overnight moisture “promising”…
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DCRA day 2 After a hearty Best Western breakfast, all buses departed for the range at 8am, ready for our first full day’s shooting in nearly a week. This morning was the Gooderham competition (the equivalent to the pre-Grand Century…
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Yesterday, the last full day of R&R, brought reports of a float plane overturned in the Lawrence River close to our hotel near Kingston (WingCo, Olay and this diarist all disclaim responsibility for this); torrential rain stopping golf; and news…
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