Dave's Rifle Shooting Experiences: April 2007

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Sydney International Shooting Center, the tour..

I thought I would try and do a litle bit of a virtual tour of the range complex here in sydney. Not sure how well this is going to tern out as the complex is massive!! but here we go.....


Ok here is the main central corridor running the entire length at the back of the range. A, B, and C will be explained shortly.	Here you can see the way the ranges were labelled.

	Range "A" The 10 Metre air range.
	Range "B" The 25 metre Pistol gallery
	Range "C" The 50 Metre smallbore range
	This also runs of from the central walkway and is the general meeting / reception area.
	The multi purpose finals only hall. The wooden door can open and close and the range can be outfitted for all the various disciplines the other ranges have to offer. pretty cool..

Neil "performing" on the range.
Mr. Babb showing us how its done..
Hey, look! Even i've been shooting!!
Shooters eye view

And thats all for now folks!!! Training again in the morning, so of to bed now.
nite nite.

:)

# posted by davethechamp @ 7:45 am 3 comments

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Sydney Baby, Yeah!!!!!

Greeting from the other side of the world!!! Sydney, the latest stop on my world domination tour! Bugger the commentry, here are some pics....


The sydney Opera house, nice I guess?	Same thing, different angle!!!


Sydney harbour bridge. Pretty cool architecture!	Same bridge, but with one of the old ferries passing.

We have done some shooting also! We shot in the Aus cup on saterday with varying success! Mike shot a good match (596) and then a damn fine final (104.6) to win the competition! Neil and myself were not quite so on form, but at least satisfied with parts of the shoot, ie. the end and then the bar.


The medalists.	Neil, the semi un-official photographer. (nice pins mate)

Thats all for now folks, we are up early in the morning for a days training. speak soon guys..

Dave
:)

# posted by davethechamp @ 12:54 pm 5 comments

Friday, April 06, 2007

World Cup USA - Fort Benning elimination

And I nearly was.... Elininated that is....
The scores....
Mike - 596
Mat - 595
Dave - 587

Here are the results from the two elimination matches this morning, it just goes to show how close it was for me. Not a great day at the office, but I live to fight another day and thats all that counts!


Elimination first relay.	Elimination second relay

Far to close to that bottum line for my liking!!

Tomorrow is another day and I'm still looking forward to the match. Here's hoping for a good GB result and a better performance from myself.
Speak again soon.
Dave

# posted by davethechamp @ 8:47 pm 4 comments

Thursday, April 05, 2007

World Cup USA - Fort Benning 2

Greetings my friends! Welcome to the further wanderings of myself and the team in USA. We had a little time to spare the other day, a rare luxury, so we thought we'd ead on down to Atlanta. Nice place, nice weather, shame about the locals.. That accent is so annoying!!!! We didn't have much time there but did hit a Mall and went to Coca Cola world.


The entrance to Coca Cola World	A model of a bottling proccess


Its got to be done I guess	Now thats a glas of Coke

Say, That's a nice bike!!	Try as much as you Like!!!!

We have been at the range also!!! We had our Official pre-event training today. Mike and myself ar on the 9:00 detail with Matthew on the 10:45 detail. Training went well for all of us today and are really looking forward to the match.
Its starting to really feel like home here, the temperature has dropped and we are expecting minus temps at night over the weekend!!!! JOY!!!!!


Matthew "brrr" Thomson	Mike "txting" Babb

Ok I'm of for a trip to Krispy Kreme and Starbucks, only viewing.... Honest!!

Mwahahaha....
Dave
:)

# posted by davethechamp @ 8:55 pm 2 comments

Monday, April 02, 2007

World Cup USA - Fort Benning

Greetings fellow humans from the U S of A, and full of holes they are!! Well so far the weather has been great, making us feel really at home by raining and some thunder storms - Joy! As you've already guessed, I have some internet access, so realistically there are few excusses for me not to keep reasonably up to date.

We all arrived safe and sound, though a little tired. We trained yesterday for a short while and were all very satisfied. really looking forward to the main event.

Currently hanging round the hotel whilst the flat tire on the van is sorted. joy


The range	Again its pretty big, 80 lanes?

Each lane has second monitor for public viewing, and a 10 shot LED board, for quick view of each score! NICE

Well thats all for now, not to much I know but its a start. We are hoping to go to Atlanta for a day at some time so hopefully will get some more decent pics then!!
Meanwhile enjoy and keep well. see / speak soon.
Dave :)

# posted by davethechamp @ 2:20 pm 3 comments

Sunday, April 01, 2007

South Africa place holder

as the title suggests, this is just a post so i can save a place for some pictures from south Africa. I know I have been lazy when it comes to the blog, and I'm sorry. Have been Busy training and stuff you know!!

Here's a few tasters....