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I had the pleasure of attending the first shoot of the Cape Air Rifle Benchrest Club at the Parow Shooting Academy in Parow. Cape Air Rifle have spent a considerable amount of money to repair and erect 10 benches.
Unfortunately the wind did not play it's part on Saturday with wind speeds registering 48km/h but that did not dampen the spirits of the shooters young and old, who with enthusiasm managed to shoot reasonable scores in those trying conditions. Not bad for first time Benchresters! Great turnout with attendance of 26 shooters and top score 237 10X.
A big hand to Cobus and his team and Joe da Silva of Parow Arms whose range they are using. - Terry Harrison WPBSA Chairman
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
IBS Nationals 2011
I went over to Michigan, USA on 21st July 2011 to take parting the IBS Nationals in Holton USA. There were about 110 shooters with me the only foreigner.
 
It started on the Monday with the 100m unlimited class and Tuesday the 200m unlimited class. These were railguns and a first for me to see these things in action. Awesome if they work; a disaster if they don’t. Ten shots in less than 10 seconds. No time to look through the scope. If one of your platform feet slips into a dent on the bench you will know it only after the 10th shot. Group sizes (10 shot) at 100y in the low teens and around 0.5 at 200y. This is the machine you want to really learn some wind shooting.
 
Wednesday we shot Sporter 100. I was lucky to get the trophy for the small group of 0.089 thou. I and Bill Gammon shot the same and both got a trophy. That happened after Chris Harris and Gene Bukys got hold of my rifle and set the trigger properly. They then gave me a crash course in rifle setup and tuning which seemed to work with VV133. I managed 13th place in the Sporter 200y with an aggr of 0.2594 and 16th in the Sporter Grand  with an aggr of 0.260.
 
Thursday we shot both 100y LV and 100y HV. Made stupid mistakes and ended middle of the pack.
 
On Friday and Saturday we shot 200y of Sporter, LV and HV. I managed a 5th place in the HV 200y with an aggr of 0.2176 and 15th in the HV Grand with an aggr of 0.2366.
    
This was the best shooting experience of my life. The shooting took place over 7 days included the practice day. I was surrounded by arguably the best shooters in the world and that takes you to another level.
 
The Super Shoot is something special but this is something totally different. It is all about yardages. Gene Bukys won the 4-gun but did not get any Hall-of-Fame points for that. You win a yardage and you get your points.
 
The nationals is only about the competition and it is hard work to shoot up to 12 groups a day.
 
Results and photos.
 
 
Keep well.
 
Kobus Visser
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WRABF World Championship 2011
 

SABSF Match report 2nd Rimfire and Air Rifle World Championships 2011 

July 30th 2011 to August 7th 2011    

 

Participation:

 

The following countries participated in the event.

 

USA, GBR, ITA, AUS, FIN, CZE, GER and RSA with a total of 97 competitors

 

Team RSA:

 

Pieter Grundlingh

Niekie van Dyk

Gert van Wyk

Gert Coetzer

Mario Coetzer JR

Coenie Schoonwinkel JR

Nick Schoonwinkel

Rohan Roux

 

Official practice day.

 

We arrived at the Palmetto gun club on 28 July where we met the Match

Director Craig Young. He introduced to us all the local rules and logistics.

 

The temperature 35C with a humidity more than 75%, it was very hot and we all

needed to climatise very fast. Team practiced and discussed our strategy

for this shoot.

 

Day one Air Rifle LV 25M .

 

It was still very hot and humid. The wind and mirage was very bad and was

very difficult to interpret.

 

At the end of the day we had the following medals.

 

South Africa Team A Silver with Rohan Roux, Niekie van Dyk and Gert Coetzer

and Coenie Schoonwinkel with a 3rd place in the Junior division with a

bronze medal.

 

Top Ten Finish Rohan Roux had a 5th place.

 

Day two Air Rifle HV 25M.

 

The heat was unbearable and no change in the wind and the mirage.

 

Pieter Grundlingh came second and collected the silver medal.

 

Coenie Schoonwinkel did get a 2nd bronze in the Junior division.

 

Day three Rimfire Sporter 25M

 

This was a very close scoring event and our best shooter was Niekie van Dyk

with a 24th Place with the same score as the winner but placed 24 on the count out.

 

Day four Rimfire LV 25M

 

Mario Coetzer did us proud with a silver medal with his 2nd place in the

junior event

 

Day five Rimfire HV 25M

 

Our best shooter for the day is Niekie van Dyk with a 8th Place and Mario

Coetzer did get a silver medal in the Junior division.

 

Day six Rimfire Sporter 50M

 

Mario Coetzer 13th and winner Junior Division with a Gold medal.

 

Day seven Rimfire LV 50M

 

Mario Coetzer came 21st overall and winner Junior division with his 2nd Gold medal

 

Day eight Rimfire HV 50M

 

Pieter Grundlingh came 22nd and Coenie Schoonwinkel the winner in Junior division his 1st Gold medal and Mario Coetzer the 2nd Junior.

 

Delegates meeting

 

The next World Cup will be in the Czech Republic in 2013 and the next World Championships in 2015 will be in Australia.

It was also decided that the World Championships of 2019 will be hosted in South Africa.

 

Final note

The 2 juniors of us did do us all proud and Mario Coetzer who is just 12 years of age showed great maturity his started very bad made some mistakes and recovered very well.

The conditions were not easy and all of us shot for the first time at a elevation of 60m above see level and is completely different than the high veld that we know so well.

This was a memorable experience which was enjoyed by all off us.

 

Regards,

 

Nick Schoonwinkel

Team Captain