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9th May 2008 |
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The Scottish team of James Paterson, Martin MacGill
and Graham Rudd came fourth in the Men's Prone team today in Pilsen. An
equal personal best of 594 from James combined with 592 from both Graham and
Martin gave the team a total of 1778, just two points away from the Bronze, and
four points away from the Gold.
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9th May 2008 |
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Brian Ingles took the Silver medal in the Men's
Three Positions event at the English Open Championships over the Bank Holiday
weekend. A Qualification Round of 1125 earned him a share of first place
with England's 12-times Commonwealth Games medalist Chris Hector, and although
Hector pulled away over the final ten shots, Brian held on to second place.
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9th May 2008 |
Neil Stirton and Matthew Thomson, shooting as two
thirds of a Great Britain team, took silver medals in the Men's Prone team event
at the recent International Shooting Competition in Hannover. Teamed up
with Welsh Commonwealth Champion Dave Phelps, the team were three points behind
winners Switzerland, with the German regional team from Westphalia in third
place.Robin Honhold was the highest placed individual athlete, with
sixth place in the Junior Men's Prone, while James Paterson set a new Personal
Best of 1124 in the Men's 3x40.
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7th April 2008 |
Bon Accord won the British Team of Six Championship
for the "News of the World" trophy yesterday in Wigan. In a repeat of the
Scottish Cup last month, only two of the four teams who qualified for the
semi-finals were able to attend, leaving Bon the task of beating Marlow for the
championship - something they achieved by a margin of 1175 to 1165.In
the Individual Championship, Hugh Simpson was third, with Nick Baker and Mike
Ozmond also making the top ten.
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7th April 2008 |
On Sunday 20th April the combined
All-Ranges and Inter-Region matches are being held at the Denwood Target Shooting Centre in
Aberdeen.
The All-ranges Open Meeting comprises
shooting at 25 yards, 50 metres and 100 yards within an Aggregate. Competitions
for individuals are held in 5 classes under NSRA rules, and NSRA Classification
will be used, with the addition of an E class for beginners. Competitors who do
not have an NSRA classification must submit an average of their most recent 10
short range competition targets and will be classified as shown. Those with NSRA
‘X’ classification will shoot in ‘A’ class.
Concurrent competitions for Women, Juniors
(U18 and U21) and Veterans (O55) will also be held concurrent with the Aggregate
with all age groups applying on the day of the competition. In addition,
competitions for club teams of 3 are included in Short Range, Double Dewar and
Aggregate. Subject to receiving a sufficient entry, an inexpert team competition
for teams whose members are in C, D and E classes will also be held.
Handicap pairs in Short Range, Dewar and Aggregate for modest cash prizes will
be based on MacRae scores, calculated using either the competitor’s submitted
average or the upper limit average for his classification, i.e 100 for A class,
98 for B class, etc. Sweepstakes will be run for single cards at each
distance and in each class. 60% of this entry fee will be returned in prizes.
The Inter-Region Short Range Match Trophy
will be shot concurrently with the 25 yard competition and the Inter-Region
Dewar Match for the Bob Normand Trophy will be shot concurrently with the Double
Dewar competition. Teams are cordially invited from Lothian, Forth & Clyde,
Fife, Highland, Grampian, Southern Counties, Perthshire and Angus. Where a
region consists of more than one NSRA affiliated area, such an area may, with
the mutual consent of the other areas in their region, enter teams in the
Inter-Region Matches. Each Inter-Region match is for teams of 5, or of 6 with
the best 5 to count. The team members for the Short-range Inter-Region Match and
the Dewar Inter-Region match need not be the same.
All team members for the club team
competitions and for the Inter-Region matches must be nominated before any team
member shoots.
Details will commence at 9.30 am and will
start on the hour and half hour on all ranges, with 2 targets being fired during
each half hour at 25 yards. Ten minutes will be allowed for each 25 yards target
and 20 minutes for each 50 metres and 100 yards target. All entrants are urged
to book their details in advance. Entries on the day will be accepted if
squadding is available.
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7th April 2008 |
The following team will represent Scotland at the
second International Shooting Competition in Hannover, from 30th April to 4th
May:
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Graham Rudd (Prone, 3x40 & Air), Martin MacGill
(Prone), Sinclair Bruce (Prone), James Paterson (Prone & 3x40) |
| Senior Women: |
Sheena Sharp (Prone, 3x40 & Air), Susan Jackson
(Prone, 3x40 & Air) |
| Junior Men: |
Robin Honhold (Prone) |
| Junior Women: |
Nicola Sammels (Prone), Kay Copland
(Prone) |
The following team will represent Scotland at the
Grand Prix of Liberation in Pilsen, from 7th to 11th
May:
| Senior Men: |
Graham Rudd (Prone, 3x40 & Air), Martin MacGill
(Prone), James Paterson (Prone & 3x40) |
| Senior Women: |
Sheena Sharp (Prone, 3x40 & Air) |
In addition to these teams, Matthew Thomson & Neil Stirton will be attending
Hannover as part of the Great Britain team, with Neil also attending Pilsen.
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6th April 2008 |
The final results of the 2008 individual postal
competitions have now been posted on the
Domestic Results page. Hugh Simpson won the Class A medal with
299, one ahead of a three-way tie for second place. A similar scenario
played out in Class B, Billy Crawford with 295 winning by a point, with
three shooters tied on 294. Class C was more clear-cut, Ian Henderson
romping home with 296 and a six point lead, while Simon Batchelor cleaned up
in Class D, with 290 for the same winning margin.296 was required
to win both the Veterans and the Junior sections, Eddie Jones and Rory
McAlpine the victors respectively, and Pat Gray was the most consistent
shooter in the CanDicap, a net total of 300 just enough to take victory.
Donald McIntosh won the Short Range 3P title, 399 prone and 393 kneeling
making up for some rather low scoring standing.
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The Association are delighted to announce that Ian
Henderson of Larbert & District Rifle Club has been appointed as Acting
Executive Officer. Ian has been co-opted onto Council to fill one of the
existing vacancies, and has agreed to fulfil this role in the interim, through
until the AGM, where he will stand for election. The AGM will be held on
the first Saturday of the NSRA Scottish Meeting in Dumfries, and official
notification will be issued to members in due course.
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4th April 2008 |
The Team Postal League has just concluded its
programme and there were some close results in the run-in. In Division 1
Watsonians A led for the first seven rounds and were four points ahead of
nearest challengers Callander A. Two lost matches later, including one to
Callander, they were tied on points and down on aggregate and suddenly in
second place. The key match in round 10 was Bon Accord v Callander, and
it proved to be decisive as the Aberdeen team won it with a fine score of
396 (including three 100s) to let Watsonians, who sneaked past Banff in
their last match, win this league for the third year in succession.
Callander can consider themselves unlucky as they had by far the best
aggregate.
In Division 2. Selkirk were the best scorers,
and could afford to lose their last match to second-placed Clachnacuddin A,
to win by one point in a two-horse race.
Larbert & District 'owned' Division 3, only
dropping three points (the one match lost being due to a disqualified card),
and finished well ahead of Edinburgh University A and Callander B.
Division 4 was the closest - Orkney A tied
with Alloa & District B on 14 points each and islanders won by only 10
points on aggregate - only one point per round. Steeple were not far behind
and if Watsonians B (who had the second best aggregate) had not lost their
last three matches, two by only one point, to the three teams who finished
above them, it might have been a different story.
Division 5 saw Orkney's B team pretty-well
walk away with it, leaving Clachnacuddin C and Aberdeen University in their
wake.
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25th March 2008 |
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Jon Hammond came fifth in the Men's Prone at
at the ISSF World Cup in Rio De Janeiro. A qualification round of 596 earned
him a share of third place before the final, to which he added 102.5 for fifth
place. This was Jon's first World Cup final,
following on from his fourth place at the European Championships last summer,
and is an excellent start to his Olympic campaign.
As report below, Jon now has a short turnaround from South America over to South
East Asia. The British rifle shooters selected for the second World Cup,
in Beijing, will first visit Macau for a short holding camp at the venue which
will be used by the British Olympic Association prior to the Games in August.
Elsewhere, Neil Stirton and Emma Cole-Hamilton are part of the British squad
heading for a training camp in Granada from 7th to 13th April. They will
be joined by Robin Honhold and Ollie Barron, who have been invited to attend the
camp as guests following on from their performances in Dortmund earlier in the
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23rd March 2008 |
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Jon Hammond and Matt Thomson are two of the
three British rifle shooters selected by British Shooting for the ISSF World Cup
in Beijing, which will be held between 10th and 21st April. Jon will take
part in all three Men's rifle events - Air, Prone and 3x40 - with Matt competing
in the Prone. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The Scottish rifle shooters attending the International Start of Season Match (ISAS) in Dortmund had an extremely constructive week of competition. A nine strong Scottish team was entered alongside an almost full-strength Great Britain team featuring a further three Scots.
The undoubted highlight of the week was Matthew Thomson’s win in the Men’s 50m Prone Rifle event – Matthew’s first international victory as a senior. The 2006 World Under-21 Champion shot an excellent qualification score of 597 out of a possible 600 in the 60 shot match to enter the eight person final in third place. His final
was of a standard rarely seen in any international matches, and lifted him clear of the field, leaving 2000 Olympic
Three Positions Champion Rajmond Debevec trailing in third place.
There were excellent performances elsewhere in the team – Emma Cole-Hamilton shot extremely well in the Prone and Kneeling sections of the Women’s Three Positions match, with a score of 574 her highest for 18 months. Graham Rudd also started to show some signs of excellent form, recording a score of 1148 despite a poor Prone section in the Men’s Three Positions match.
There were excellent performances also in
the Junior events, with Ollie Barron and Robin Honhold both tied on 591 in the Junior Men’s Prone, coming 4th and 8th respectively, and Jennifer McIntosh (CSIS) setting new Personal Best scores of 387 and 589 in both the Junior Women’s Air Rifle and Junior Women’s Prone matches respectively. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The NSRA Scottish Short Range Individual and Team of
Six Championships were held yesterday at Denwood. Jim Cole-Hamilton was a
clear winner in the individual, with 398, ahead of Mike Ozmond on 396 and James
Paterson, Ian Shanks and John Sinclair on 395.
The junior title, decided on the second postal
stage, went to Ollie Barron.
Of the four teams that had qualified for the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup,
neither Wick Old Stagers or Callander were able to field a team on the day,
leaving Halkirk to take on Bon Accord in the final, the home team winning by 1169 to 1154. |
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17th March 2008 |
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Mark Joyce and Robin Law took the honours in
the final Air Rifle & Pistol Grand Prix of the winter, successfully defending
their series titles from the previous season. Robin came close to his best
form with a solid 588 and with a 16 point lead over Steven Watterson going into
the final he was effectively unchallenged. Things were a little closer in
the Air Pistol, where Bruce McIntosh started the match on top of the points
table, but Mark Joyce took an eight point lead into the final and secured the 9
points to overhaul Bruce at the last. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The following teams represented Scotland in
the annual postal international match against a team from the North Island of
New Zealand:
Main Team:
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Dave Caughey
Jim Cole-Hamilton
Bill Copland
David Cummings
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James Henderson
Tom Hodgson
Tim Kidner
Gordon Motion
Mike Ozmond
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James Paterson
Ronnie Sellar
John Sinclair
Robin Thomson Bill Vaughan |
| Reserves: Kay Copland, Callum Rose |
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Kay Copland
Andrew Laurie
Ian McDougall
Callum Rose
Andrew Ross |
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The results will be announced once the Kiwis have shot their cards in
September. Congratulations to Andrew Laurie, Ian McDougall, Callum Rose &
Andrew Ross for making their first appearance
in the Junior team. Top scorers for Scotland were Gordon Motion
in the main team and Ian McDougall in the Junior team. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The final of the British Team of Four for the
Burroughs & Watts cup will be contested between Bon Accord and Callander.
The cards have to be shot during the first half of April, so a result should be
announced in about four - five weeks time. |
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17th March 2008 |
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The Forth & Clyde county team have raised
their own Scottish Record in the NSRA Inter-County League. The team,
consisting of Robin Law, Jennifer McIntosh, Donald McIntosh, Tricia Littlechild
and Cliff Ogle, scored 1434 in Round 7, raising the record by four points. |
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3rd March 2008 |
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David Cummings won the "Speedway" Scottish
Short Range Matchplay Championships held yesterday at the Balerno & Currie club
on the outskirts of Edinburgh. David won 24 points from the five matches,
giving him a one point lead over last year's winner Bill Copland, with a late
charge giving Ollie Barron third place one further point behind.
The matchplay format can be harsh - the best
aggregate of the day was Hugh Simpson with 989, two points ahead of David, but
the timing of his scores meant that he ended up in eighth place!
The Class C&D event was won by Andrew Ross, with Fraser Cheetham having to
settle for the runner-up spot for the second year running, with Ian Henderson in
third place. |
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1st March 2008 |
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Jon Hammond shot a personal best of 585 in the
Men's Air Rifle at the European Championships in Winterthur, SUI, earlier today.
Although not competitive in a match that saw the World Record of 600 equalled by
Denis Sokolov of Russia, this secures Jon a Minimum Qualification Score in this
event for the Olympic Games, and should he be selected for Beijing he will be
able to take part in all three of the men's rifle events. |
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25th February 2008 |
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Jennifer McIntosh became British Junior Air
Rifle Champion at Bisley last Sunday, at the age of 16. A qualification
round of 385 set a new Personal Best, and gave her a one point lead going into
the ten-shot final over Hannah Pugsley, with Rebekah Pidgley one point further
behind. After a closely fought final, during which it appeared at times
that all three girls might be able to extend a lead, Jennifer and Hannah were
tied for first place. A sudden-death tie-shot was required, Jennifer
taking the title with 10.1 to Hannah's 8.8.
Graham Rudd also featured on the podium, with second in the Senior Men's event
to 17 year old James Huckle. Graham narrowly fended off the challenge of
third placed Chris Hector, who was tied with him after nine shots in the final.
Sheena Sharp was the other Scottish finalist, taking 6th place in the Senior
Women's event. Elsewhere over the weekend,
Jennifer won Class B comfortably, and featured along side Emma Cole-Hamilton and
Graham Rudd in the Scottish team that came second to England in the Home
Countries match. Jennifer and Emma were joined by Sheena in the Scottish
Ladies team, also coming second to England, with the highest Scottish team score
to date in this match. Sheena also made it a Home Countries double,
appearing alongside fellow Commonwealth Games rifle medallist Janis Thomson and
Caroline Brownlie in the Scottish Air Pistol Ladies team! |
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19th February 2008 |
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A Scottish smallbore rifle team will be
attending the ISAS International Match in Dortmund for the first time in a
number of years. The team is:
| Senior Men: |
Graham Rudd (Prone, 3x40 & Air), Martin MacGill
(Prone) |
| Senior Women: |
Sheena Sharp (Prone, 3x40 & Air), Susan Jackson
(Prone, 3x40 & Air) |
| Junior Men: |
Robin Honhold (Prone), Ollie Barron
(Prone), Rory
McAlpine (Prone) |
| Junior Women: |
Nicola Sammels (Prone), Jennifer McIntosh
(Air & Prone) |
They will be accompanied by coaches Donald McIntosh and
Sinclair Bruce. Neil Stirton, Matthew Thomson and Emma Cole-Hamilton
will also be competing, as part of the Great Britain team. The match
takes place between 10th and 16th March.
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19th February 2008 |
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Graham Rudd completed a very steady series of
performances at Intershoot with an appearance in the final on the third day.
Three consecutive scores of 589 were the most consistently high scoring
performance from Graham to date, taking eleventh place on each of the first two days and
eighth place on the final day. |
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19th February 2008 |
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Bruce McIntosh and Robin Law took the lead in
the Air Pistol and Air Rifle Grand Prix series respectively with wins at the
fourth event of the winter, held in Dumfries on the 10th of February. The
final event will be held at Glenrothes on the 9th of March. |
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6th February 2008 |
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Graham Rudd will represent Scotland in the The
Netherlands this week, at the Intershoot competition. This Air Rifle &
Pistol match is held annually in The Hague, and for the first time will be shot
entirely on electronic targets. Graham joins a small team of Pistol
shooters in representing Scotland, and full details can be found on
www.intershoot.nl. |
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20th January 2008 |
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Emma Cole-Hamilton and Graham Rudd
successfully defended their Scottish Air Rifle Championships at Tulliallan over
the weekend. Earlier in the weekend Emma had broken her own Scottish
Women's record, raising it by a point to 392, and although her championship
qualifier was a little lower at 388 she entered the final four points ahead of
Jennifer McIntosh, with Sheena Sharp in third place. The additional ten
shots saw no changes in position, with Jennifer winning the Junior title in
addition to taking the Senior silver. In the
Men's event, Graham Rudd had a comfortable lead of eight points going into the
final with 584, with Donald McIntosh just ahead of Robin Law with 576 and 575
respectively. Robin overtook Donald on the first shot of the final, and
remained in second place to the end. Callum Seale took the Junior Men's
title. Full results can be found
here.
As a precursor to the Prize Giving, six of the initial inductees to the SSRA
Hall of Fame were presented with commemorative badges and certificates. |
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9th January 2008 |
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Many visitors to this site will be aware that the
proposed venue for the Shooting events at the 2012 Olympic Games is a temporary
facility constructed at Woolwich
Barracks. This site will not provide a suitable venue, however despite the best efforts of
British Shooting and it's member bodies, the organisers are insistent that
Woolwich will be the venue. This will leave Shooting in this country with no lasting legacy
unlike the majority of other Olympic sports.
An E petition to move the venue has been uploaded onto the 10 Downing St
website: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OlympicShooting
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9th January 2008 |
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Under the guise of the National
Association of Target Shooting Sports (NATSS), the Clay Pigeon Shooting
Association (which governs Clay Target shooting in England), the National Rifle
Association and the National Small-bore Rifle Association are participating in a
programme to shape the future of target shooting in the UK and examine the
potential, like most sports today, for a ‘common vision, common voice’ strategy
for the future of our sport.
As this first stage in the process, an Open Forum was staged
at the Bisley National Shooting Centre with the aim of gathering approximately
100 representatives, evenly drawn from amongst the three governing bodies, to
launch the programme of work, and to give a wider audience the chance to hear
about, and react to, the work planned. The SSRA was represented by its
Chairman, Ian Thomson. A report on the Forum may be viewed by clicking
here.
The second stage of the consultation process is the launch of
an online survey. You can access this by using the following link:
Online Survey. |
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7th January 2008 |
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Emma Cole-Hamilton and Mark Joyce started 2008 with wins in
the Air Grand Prix at Denwood last Saturday. Emma broke Tricia
Littlechild's nine year old record for the ten shot final, with an excellent
103.4, taking the nine points in the rifle event. Robin Law secured his
third consecutive second place to move up to equal first in the Rifle series
with two events remaining. In the Pistol series, Mark moved one ahead of
Jennifer Pearson. |
| Scottish Air Rifle
Championships |
7th January 2008 |
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The Scottish 10m Air Rifle Championships are being held
at the Scottish Police College, Tulliallan, on the 19th and 20th of this
month. The programme includes an Aggregate competition of two 60
shot matches, in four classes, along with the Scottish Open and Scottish
Confined Championships for Men and Women in both Senior and Junior
categories. Entries are due by the 12th of January,
entries received after that date will be accepted, but a late entry fee
will be charged. Please contact
Donald McIntosh for an entry
form if you do not already have one. |
| Commonwealth Youth Games
2008 |
7th January 2008 |
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Information relating to the 2008 Commonwealth Youth
Games is available on the Scottish
Target Shooting website. |
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