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I had the honour of being Match Director for the first ever Level 3 match in N Ireland.120 entries from around Europe and beyond. Some of the best shooters in the world attended and helped make it a memorable occasion.It was a great chance for local guys to shoot alongside the pros. One guy remarked to me that shooting a match in the same squad as his hero was better than paid tuition.
Freddy got to meet Eric Grauffel and I also had a class with him . I have been shooting IPSC for many years and have read many books and watched a lot of instructional videos but I have to admit Eric was still able to offer tips for improvement. He corrected my grip,draw, reload and stance. Then told me how to improve my pick up, kneeling, weak hand, strong hand, and moving skills. Apparently everything else was ok or maybe he ran out of time.
Seriously it was an enjoyable day and well worth the effort. Everything was taught in a clear easy to understand manner. Unfortunately I couldn't take the class till after the match
I finished 6th in production, 2nd in Senior Production.
1 100.00 896.7028 100 Grauffel, Eric FRA
2 95.97 860.5793 101 Kirsch, Saul NED
3 87.86 787.7999 111 Obriot, Emile FRA
4 70.07 628.2913 107 Huttner, Eli ISR
5 67.49 605.1886 105 Carnette, Irene L ITA
6 61.06 547.5254 22 Cowan, Mick GBR
7 56.88 510.0540 9 Mitchell, Geoff GBR
8 55.29 495.8138 73 Rankine, Stuart SS GBR
9 51.55 462.2730 63 Seger, Dick NED
10 50.48 452.6519 118 Dunkley, Bob S GBR
1 100.00 888.7406 95 Hobdell, Angus USA
2 90.06 800.4050 110 VanUitert, John NED
3 82.93 736.9974 48 Greer, Stephen S GBR
4 80.77 717.8361 97 Saveljic, Boris MTO
5 79.91 710.2271 19 Towndrow, Nick GBR
6 71.70 637.2104 1 Ellis, Alexander S GBR
7 68.23 606.3907 29 VanStanden, Dave IRL
8 66.87 594.2832 25 Chamberlain, Ian GBR
9 63.58 565.0725 15 Spence, Martyn GBR
10 62.66 556.9168 104 Power, Mike IRL
1 100.00 906.0065 18 Jensen, Ralf K DEN
2 79.28 718.3001 106 Pesce, Fabrizio ITA
3 76.32 691.4388 4 Thompson, David GBR
4 74.71 676.8827 42 Kirkpatrick, Paul GBR
5 68.65 621.9481 96 Pedlow, Andrew IRL
6 67.98 615.9484 76 Rodgers, Cleland GBR
7 57.89 524.5091 88 Smith, Paul S IRL
8 55.97 507.0909 7 McAleese, Robert GBR
9 54.86 497.0012 37 Cumming, David GBR
10 53.94 488.6863 12 Hunter, John GBR
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Björn Dietrich of Holland with the Gold Medal and the president's medal. He uses Frontier CMJ 45acp 230 RN bullets. Bjorn came 3rd in the World IPSC Championships in the revolver section. Congratulations!
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Saturday 10th May was first practical shoot of 2008 at Ballymena RPC. It was fully subscribed with over 60 competitors in Modified, Open, Production and Standard.
Jim Jones won Modified
David Cully won Open
Alex Ellis won Production
David Cumming won Standard.
On Sunday 8th June Freddy and I traveled to Harbour House Clay, Rifle & Pistol Club in Co Kildare ROI.
This was my first taste of IPSC as organised by IPSA, the governing body for practical shooting in The Republic of Ireland.
There were seven very challenging stages and fifty eight competitors in Open, Standard and Production.
I thoroughly enjoyed the warm welcome, friendly banter, good food and the challenge of the stages.
I made a real mess of stage number one but managed to pull back enough to win production Division.
Mick Cowan won Open and Andrew Pedlow won Standard.
The IPSA guys put in a lot of work and put on a first rate match I am looking forward to the next one and highly recommend anyone who has the chance to go along and shoot one.
I have attached a pic of myself (showing my good side) at the match, some pictures of Freddy meeting Mr Tommy O'Brien who owns the range.
Freddy also pictured with John Crawford and Nigel Barrett who were very busy all day doing stats, the guys from Hilltop Shooting Club (black shirts) and also Mr John Fitzgerald (red shirt) and the ROs.
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Kells Rifle and Pistol Club held its first 2008 UKPSA Graded Practical Pistol Competition on the 19th April. As well as local Northern Ireland UKPSA members, a group of over twenty traveled over from Great Britain and a similar sized squad of competitors from the Irish Practical Shooting Association ( IPSA ) attended from the Republic of Ireland. With a group of competitors also attending from the Isle of Man, the total number of entries was 70.
The local and visiting range officers, match officials and a small number of competitors shot the “pre match” on the Friday, with the main bulk of the competitors taking part on the Saturday. Many club members donated a lot of their own time to design and build stages and organise everything else that is required to run a proper graded competition.
There were seven courses of fire, three short, three medium and one long course for a total of 105 rounds, not allowing for any mistakes! The match was competed on the indoor and outdoor ranges with the competitors split into three squads, moving around the stages in chronological order. Once everyone had shot the indoor and outdoor stages, the targets and some props were moved around to construct the rest of the stages. Stages 3 and 7 where on the indoor range and stages 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 were positioned on the outdoor range.
The stages consisted of a blend of free style, strong and weak handed only requirements with movement and reloads, combined with a high accuracy requirement. Stage 3 was the biggest, a 32 round field match. The clever positioning of the targets meant that three reloads and a lot of running around were required. Stage 7 was also shot indoors. Here the competitor had to retrieve an empty gun and all ammunition from a box then engage four targets, then run forward and limb a platform and engage another four targets. If you had the magazine capacity and where confident enough you saved time by only retrieving one magazine.
The outdoor stages used a lot of screen barriers that you had to shoot around or underneath and included a mixture of paper and steel pepper poppers. A high level of accuracy was required in this match as there were a lot of long range shots and close targets were either partial or obscured by no shoot targets.
Results
Open Division was closely contested with Bob Dunkley piping Geoff Mitchell, from the Isle of Man, by only 0.07 % at the finishing post!Local Open shooter MartynMcNicholl came in third place. In Production Class Stephen Greer came out on top with Nick> Towndrow and Alex Ellis in second and third place. In Standard Division. David Thompson won with Paul Kirkpatrick 2.4 % behind him.
Third and fourth places went to up and coming local shooters Shane Dinkin and Glen McGall respectively, with only 0.27 % between them!
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