The DURC 50m Open took place this Sunday in DRC amidst rock-splitting sunshine and high temperatures, despite a misty start to the morning. Photos of the day are up here.

There was a decent turnout, with fifteen shooters despite the NSRA ISSF meeting in Bisley taking place that day and the ISSF World Cup in Milan starting the next day. The army team was first up and set the standard for the rest of the day, with Joe O'Donahue putting in a 582 and Ray Kane a 578. Of all the other shooters, only Sandy Wilson was able to catch them, with a 578, but Sandy lost second place to Ray Kane on countback.

Unfortunately, while there were a number of the more experienced shooters present, only a handful of our junior and novice shooters showed up, mostly due to exam pressure in the colleges, an unfortunate and uncontrollable problem for most novice smallbore shooters in DURC.




Many thanks to those who took part, our congratulations to the winners, and our appreciation to those who helped in both DURC and DRC, especially Declan Kelly for arriving so early to open up the DRC range, and PJ Harding for staying on to close up.


DURC 50m Open 2004
Shooter Ten-shot series Total Class Class Total Placing
  1 2 3 4 5 6        
Joe O'Donahoe 99 96 99 98 93 97 582 A 393 1
Ray Kane 96 95 96 97 97 97 578 A 387 2
Sandy Wilson 98 98 96 94 97 95 578 A 389 3
John Keeney 95 97 95 97 94 97 575 A 386  
Tony Cogan 96 96 98 95 94 93 572 A 385  
Declan Kelly 97 95 96 95 95 93 571 A 383  
PJ Harding 95 97 90 94 92 93 561 A 379  
John Carrol 95 92 94 93 93 93 560 A 375  
Ray Reilly 94 92 92 92 97 92 559 B 375 B1
Leslie Fagan 90 94 98 93 92 91 558 A 377  
Nick West 92 88* 94 93 95 93 555 B 375 B2
Mark Dennehy 89 92 90 92 94 90 547 B 368  
Mike Madigan 92 87 86 93 90 94 542 C 369 C1
Peter Daynes 74 79 84 89 86 85 497 D 344 D1
Emma Lyons 56* 70 82 85 81 86 460 B 334  
                     
  * denotes +2pp