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Team Scotland is under starter's orders for next year's
Commonwealth Games, which returns north of the Border for the first time since
1986. Scotland's target shooters were the stars of the show in Delhi in 2010 and
their medal haul was recognised by Jon Hammond carrying the team flag at the
closing ceremony of the Games. Now it is almost time for our athletes to prove
they can do the nation proud on home soil too. The Games are being staged not
just in Glasgow but also Want to know more? lYou can read about the drive to produce a winning formula for Team Scotland here lYou can hear from some of our prospective team, including some defending champions, in this video lYou can keep up to date with news from Glasgow 2014 using the the link at the top of each page here. Jen McIntosh, pictured centre top right, was on hand to represent target shooting at the launch of the Go Scotland campaign held at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Musuem.
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All the scores can be found here, courtesy of the NSRA. Pictured above, from left: Sian Corish, Jen McIntosh and Sheree Cox. Pictured at right, the Scotland team of Maria Bexley, Jen McIntosh and Sheena Sharp. Thanks go to Donald McIntosh for the photographs.
Fiona Spence took the honours in Caithness when she won Prone Grand Prix 3. Iain Malone won the C&D final. Full results are available on the Domestic results page.
Clachnacuddin's Maria Bexley took the honours as she won SSRA 3P Grand Prix 2 at Denwood. Her final score was not only the best of the women's event but the best of the day while Andrew Ross won the men's event. And let us not forget a very special day for Orkney's Bobby Spence, who had his birthday celebrated on the range with a brilliant cake complete with target etched in icing, marzipan bullets and a rifle so detailed the maker could be identified! Qualification results available here.
This competition, which has been running just a few years but has already become a recommended warm-up event for the NSRA's Scottish meeting, takes place on June 22-23. Click here for an entry form.
You have until 24 May to enter the NSRA's 2013 Scottish Meeting which will be held in Lauder. Click here to download an entry form and click here to read the accompanying letter from organiser Ian Burton. Later entries will attract a surcharge.
The first SSRA Grands Prix were held at Denwood and Andrew Ross and Kathryn Williamson took the honours in the 3P event while Robin Thomson won the Prone competition, ahead of James Henderson and Matthew Thomson. Detailed results are now available on the Domestic Results page, along with results from the recent All Ranges event.
Following recent development work carried out by Scottish Target Shooting, a rationale document was produced on the benefits of Unification of the Associations. Click here for more information on this exciting period of evolution for our sport.
It may be the
furthest to travel for a mainland event for many, but with incredible scenery it
cannot be matched for a more splendid setting. Please click
here to download
the entry form for the Caithness SBRA Open 2013 and SSRA Prone GP3. It can also
be found on http://www.csbra.org. It has been
said that the Caithness Open is like a mini-Scottish, because of all the
competitions available in one week-end (17). This year there is a new
competition, where a Megalink is available courtesy of the SSRA. It will be on
the 50m range. Entry fee £5.00, enter on the day with secretary. Cash prize,
pending on entry. By popular demand, catering is by Murkle WRI. Any queries
please contact
martysimpson@tiscali.co.uk; 01955 621323, or 07915293593.
Ten Scottish Target Shooters have been given funding for the Commonwealth
Games in 2014 with the allocation of sportscotland Athlete Personal Awards (SAPAs).
Announced at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, 62 Scottish athletes were the
recipients of SAPAs.
Step forward Maria Bexley and Fiona Park as the winners of Division 1 and 2 respectively... Look out also for results from the final two rounds of the SSRA Team Prone league, which saw Banff and Macduff A take the honours in Division 1, Clachnacuddin A in Division 2, Steeple in Division 3, while Clachnacuddin's B team won Division 4. All the results can be viewed on the Domestic Results page.
The final round of scores have been published for the SSRA Prone League. Congratulations to the winners of the classes: Division 1: Bill Vaughan, Division 2: Robin Thomson; Division 3: William Allan. Full results are available from the Domestic Results page.
Organiser Willie McAulay has announced that Alloa's Tullygarth range will be open for the season from 1pm on Sunday April 7. Email him for more information.
A revamped 50m competition is now open for you to enter and is open to any club member shooting within Scotland. With averages based on previous indoor or outdoor cards, discounted entry terms are available to SSRA members and members of SSRA-affiliated clubs. Also, don't miss your chance to take part in the All Ranges and Inter-Region event at Denwood on April 14. You'll find entry forms for both using the SSRA online entry portal at the top of this page.
The NSRA has issued the entry form for the 2013 Scottish Meeting which will be held in Lauder. Click here to download it and click here to read the accompanying letter from organiser Ian Burton.
Results from the 2013 Scottish Air Rifle Championships are now available here. In addition, the latest scores the SSRA Individual Prone League have also been published, see the Domestic Results page.
East Lothian club Prestonpans had to deal with a shrinking membership and run-down facilities in order to stop the club going under. Thanks to the SSRA's coaching and development initiatives and the Awards For All grant scheme, they went on a recruitment drive, renovated their range and equipment and were given £5000 to bring on the next generation of target shooters. Read about this success story in full here.
Entries for the Scottish Air Rifle Championships at Tulliallan are now closed and the revised squaddings are available here. The full official timetable for the event is available here. This supersedes any previously published information. Decimal scoring will be used for all events which will be recorded using the latest Megalink software release and the 2013 ISSF rules.
The points results from Sunday's finals of the SSRA Speedway event, held at the Balerno & Currie range, are available on the Domestic Results page.
Bill, pictured right, got the better of Tom Hodgson to take the title.
The scores from the initial rounds of the SSRA Silver Medal, Speedway and CanDicap winter competitions are now available from the Domestic Results page. In addition, the latest scores from the SSRA Air Rifle league and round six of the SSRA Team Prone League have also been released.
Robin Law has won the Air Rifle Grand Prix series after a win on his home range at Kincardine. He edged the final with Shirley McIntosh in second, just ahead of daughter Seonaid and Sheena Sharp in a day packed with Commonwealth Games medallists and watched by the press - the last event run in Scotland using the old ISSF rules. Look out for detailed results here soon as we look ahead to the all-electronically-scored Scottish Air Rifle Championships at Tulliallan in a month. Due to a technical issue, the scores from the ten-shot finals themselves are not currently available and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Results from Round 4 and 5 of the SSRA Team Prone League are now available via the Domestic Results page. Look out also for the latest results from the Individual Prone league.
Results from this well-attended competition in Edinburgh are now available here.
Kay Copland won
Air Rifle Grand Prix 4 held at Denwood after a dramatic tie-shoot decider with
Anne-Marie Bexley in front of an excited worldwide audience. For full results
on the Air Rifle GP click
here and the
Pistol event, click
here. All of the news stories that appear here will be archived periodically. Follow the links to see each archive The current 2012 archive runs up to 15 January 2013.
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