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Western Downs Muckadilla Shoot - May 2013
Mungindi shooter takes western trophy The Western District Rifle Association championship trophy stayed in the west this year, but slipped over the border with Mungindi shooter Ben Picton at the weekend. Ben finished on top after a tussle with repeat winner Colin Cole from North Arm on Sunday.Their scores were locked together going into the final range at 900 yards, but Ben pulled away to...
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North Arm .303 ANZAC Shoot - April 2013
Gympie shooter blitzes .303 event Gympie-Kilkivan Rifle Club member Dave Hatherell put on a great display of precision shooting to win the ANZAC memorial .303 competition at Yandina on Sunday. His possible 150 with 12 centre bulls across three ranges was a top performance, even with the modified scoring system used to make allowances for guns up to 100 years old. Dave is a regular competitor and...
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Department of Sport and Recreation news
Brisbane Region e-Advisory April 2013 "Play By The Rules" March/April 2013
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QRA “Bullet-In” Newsletters
QRA email Newsletter 25-3-13 QRA email Newsletter 21-12-12 QRA email Newsletter 5-10-12 QRA email Newsletter 8-8-12 QRA email Newsletter 21-5-12 QRA email Newsletter 16-3-12 2012 Queens coverage...
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City of Ipswich 2013 Australia Day Awards - Sports Award Nominee
City of Ipswich 2013 Australia Day Awards - Sports Award Nominee Ray Edbrooke Life Member Ipswich & District Rifle Club In recognition of his long standing contribution to target shooting, Life Member of the Ipswich and District Rifle Club, Mr Ray Edbrooke was jointly nominated for a 2013 City of Ipswich Australia Day Award by both the SSAA QLD and the members of the Ipswich and District Rifle...
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MDRA Champion of Champions - April 2013
Hamish Pollock & Erica Young both members of University of QLD Rifle Club. Winners of the MDRA Champion of Champions, Hamish the Open TR with 196.22 & Erica the U25 with 189.09:
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GORDON DUNCAN at the 116th Tasmanian Queen’s Prize Meeting
Congratulations to GORDON DUNCAN Central Rifle Club, for his performance at the 116th Tasmanian Queen’s Prize Meeting He won the Davis Series Lead-up and the Grand Championship with the following scores: Davis Aggregate: Gordon Duncan 296.21 ahead of Jan Dyer, Darwin (294.26) and Mark Buchanan, Roseville (292.26). Grand Aggregate: Gordon Duncan 783.60 ahead of Anthony McGuigan, Mosman/NBay...
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CENTRAL QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS - March/April 2013
CENTRAL QUEENSLAND DISTRICT RIFLE ASSOCIATIONCENTRAL QUEENSLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS29 MARCH TO 1 APRIL 2013 - Results: Central Queensland Championships- Results: Central Queensland Palma Match- Results: RTSA Benefit Day Photo of winners of C.Q. Championships: Left to Right: Nev Fyles C.Q. Target Sports –“ B” Grade; Paul Kerlin Clermont F Std “B” Grade; Patrick Mayfield Ipswich “C” Grade; Andrew...
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GORDON DUNCAN Tas Queen’s Prize Grand Champion
Congratulations to GORDON DUNCAN, Central Rifle Club, for his performance at the 116th Tasmanian Queen’s Prize Meeting Gordon Duncan won the Davis Series Lead-up and the Grand Championship with the following scores: Davis Aggregate: Gordon Duncan 296.21 ahead of Jan Dyer, Darwin (294.26) and Mark Buchanan, Roseville (292.26). Grand Aggregate: Gordon Duncan 783.60 ahead of Anthony McGuigan,...
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Looking to F Class World Championship in USA
F Class shooters are warming up for a big year, with several Queensland members in a strong Australian contingent to the World Championships in the USA in August. Thirty shooters will compete in four teams and individually in both F Open and Field Target Rifle contests at Raton in New Mexico from August 19 to 27. Australia will be contesting the World Cup event for the first time. There will be...
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Crows Nest Goombungee - February 2013
Downs shooter takes tight Crows Nest contest Darling Downs Rifle Club member Rob McMaster held his nerve to win a tight season opening Prize Shoot at Crows Nest on Sunday. He was in a bunch of five shooters who had dropped just a single shot going into the last range at 500 yards -- and the only one to keep his record intact with a possible 50. In tricky wind conditions, top local shooter...
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Australian Team – The Australia Match Trophy – Barbados 2013
Queensland will provide more than half the firepower in an Australian team doing battle for one of the country’s oldest sporting trophies in Barbados this year. The historic Australia Match for supremacy in long range rifle shooting will be contested after the West Indies Championships in May.
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Passing of LAURIE STEELE
(Jim Breeze, QRA Board Member, Darling Downs Rifle Club, 12 December 2012.) I received word tonight that Laurie Steele passed away this morning. He has been in poor health for some years, taking a turn for the worse in recent months, and of late has been in the Salem Lutheran nursing facility. Laurie was Captain of DDRC 16 times between 1957 and 1980. He was Club Champion 6 times, the latest in 1983....
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QRA Winners at ACT Queen’s 14-18 November 2012
R A Rolph Aggregate A Grade - Helen Griffiths (Pacific) First Place - Don Thompson (Natives) Fourth - Rob Cadden (Central) Sixth Queensland Team – winners of the Tiverton Cup Queen’s Aggregate F Class Standard A Grade - Daryl Barlow (Ipswich) First Place - Ernie Mace (Central) Fourth F Class Standard B Grade - Dave Challen (Natives) First Place - Nicola Slee (Ipswich) Third...
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DDDRA Open Prize Meeting - November 2012
The State’s top performing rifle shooter of 2012 Ashley Bidgood ended the competition year on a high note winning the Darling Downs Open shot at Warwick on Sunday. Ashley dropped just one shot to post the best score of 149 with 14 centres. He opened the season winning four Open competitions in a row and placed third in the 2012 QRA Queens Prize. Three competitors in the strong Warwick field...
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NORTH ARM Open Prize Meeting - October 2012
Windy challenge at North Arm There were excellent individual scores mixed with plenty of hard luck stories as competitors battled windy conditions in weekend rifle shooting action on the Sunshine Coast. Some of the State’s top shooters were challenged at the 25th North Arm Rifle Club Prize Meeting on Saturday and the 92nd Lilly District Rifle Association Open on Sunday. Russell Saxby from...
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BUNDABERG/BURNETT Open Prize Meeting - September 2012
Gillian wins Bundy, next stop Adelaide Australian representative shooter Gillian Webb-Enslin snared her second successive Bundaberg-Burnett Open title at the weekend. Gillian and her husband Darren Enslin had their final competition hit out before flying to Adelaide for the South Australian Queens Prize which starts later this week. They will then join other members of the Queensland Rifle...
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QRA Taipans off to Adelaide
The Queensland Rifle Association has selected one of its most experienced teams to do battle in the national championships to be held in Adelaide early in October. The team now branded the Taipans, has won the coveted Merrett Match at two of the past three championships with the same core of shooters. Results and Updates available here....
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Barcaldine Open Prize Meeting - September 2012
BARCALDINE Open Prize Meeting 8-9 September 2012 View the results here.
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Big day out for 4BC radio crew at Belmont
A big crew from Radio station 4BC descended on Belmont range for a day’s shooting action in a great relationship-building exercise for the QRA. A selection of full bore rifles were provided and also shotguns with a portable clay target thrower set up for the occasion. After being shown the basics, a serious competition ensued with the trophy and bragging rights going to the station’s sales team....
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Border Championships Open Prize Meeting - Goondiwindi September 2012
First win for young Mackay shooter Rising young shooter Matt Pozzebon broke through for his first open win at the Goondiwindi Rifle Club’s Border Championship at the weekend. Matt, who hails from Mackay, is a final year student in Brisbane and shoots with the University of Queensland Rifle Club. He has been a regular member of the Queensland Under 25 team and will again represent the State at...
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QRA QUEENS 2012 WINNER
NSW shooter wins 2012 Queens Prize Top New South Wales marksman Jim Jeffery has won the 122nd Queensland Rifle Association Queens Prize. Jim, who shoots with Lyndhurst Rifle Club, is a member of the Australian team and a regular competitor in Brisbane. After his narrow Queens victory at Belmont Range, Jim is preparing for an Australia Cup selection match for the 2014 Commonwealth Games team....
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Press Clippings
Wynnum Herald - Local shooters ready to fire in Barbados in national team Sporting Shooter Magazine - Downs shooter takes tight Crows Nest contest Target Shooting Update (PDF) - Senior College students participated in a Target Shooting program and developed their skills on a small bore range. For the Love of the game - Bernie Pramberg - Courier Mail (PDF) Ipswich Team Produces Top Performance...
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Queens 2012 Press Clippings
For the Love of the game - Bernie Pramberg - Courier Mail (PDF) Ipswich Team Produces Top Performance (JPG) South East Advertiser: Helen on Target for Queens Prize (PDF) Ipswich News: Anatomy of a Champion: Rob Rush (PDF) Southern Star: O'Loghlen aims for highest prize...
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Duncan Memorial Match 2012
Kiwi’s fly high at Belmont. Kiwi shooter Rob Johansen from Gisbourne has struck form early on this visit to Brisbane, taking out the Duncan Memorial Match, the lead-up event to the 122nd QRA Queens Prize. Rob and North Arm member Colin Cole went head to head the whole way with Rob prevailing by the narrowest of margins 298.34 to 298.33. The pair were all locked up going into the last range at...
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Gemfields Open Prize Meeting - Sapphire - August 2012
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IPSWICH Open Prize Meeting - Ripley - July 2012
Another Trophy for North Arm Shooter One of Queensland’s best performed rifle shooters Colin Cole had to survive a shoot-off to secure another trophy at Ipswich on Sunday. Colin, a member of North Arm Rifle Club at Yandina, won the annual Ipswich Prize Meeting which attracted a big field of 97 shooters to the range at Ripley. Four shooters dropped only one shot over three ranges at 600, 600 and...
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NRAA National Chanpionships - June 2012
Kaltenberg Mission Possible for Kim Brisbane shooter Kim O’Loghlen continued his good form in the National Rifle Championships which drew a class field of more than 150 shooters to the Belmont Range from June 20-24. The winner of his Natives Rifle Club Prize Shoot turned in an outstanding performance on the final day of the nationals to take out the Royal Kaltenberg Challenge Cup. The best...
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QLD Taipan Team 2012 Results
Results can be found on the National Rifle Association web site
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Darling Downs DRA - Warwick - May 2012
Honours Shared in Hot Competition at Warwick DARLING DOWNS DISTRICT RIFLE ASSOC OPEN PRIZE MEETING - WARWICK - 19TH & 20TH May 2012. Some of the hottest shooting of the season saw a packed field in contention going in to the final range at the Southern Downs Open Prize Meeting at Warwick on Sunday. But the six shooters who went down at 600 yards carrying possible 100 scores for the day all came...
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Victorious Qld Fraser Shield Team, Mackay 2012
The Victorious Qld Fraser Shield Team, Mackay 2012. The QRA won with 483.37, NQRA score was 450.25. (L-R) Back Row: Colin Cole, Peter Schafferius, Darren Enslin, Damien Earl,Don Thompson, Rod Prayle, Kim O'LoghlenMiddle Row: Carol Solomon, John Caske (Captain), Gillian Webb-Enslin, WendyLatham, Karen ColeKneeling: Coaches: Bill Baker & Wayne Latham.
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Muckadilla May 2012
Ashley masters Muckadilla Top Crows Nest shooter Ashley Bidgood mastered the challenging conditions at Muckadilla for a convincing win in the Western District Rifle Association Championship at the weekend. Ashley took his third competition event for the season with an aggregate score of 345.29 over seven ranges with 11 shots on the last range. A number of shooters in contention coming into the...
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2012 National Ladies Teams Championships - May 2012
3 May 2012 CONGRATULATIONS to the QLD LADIES RIFLE TEAM Winners of the 2012 National Ladies Teams Championship, Mackay Wendy Latham (Captain), Karen Cole, Helen Griffiths, Elyse Morrison, Cathy Smith, Carol Solomon. Congratulations to the Queensland Ladies Team for their outstanding performance in the Australian Ladies Teams Matches winning the President’s Match, Medland Match and the Grand...
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North Arm ANZAC .303 Competition - April 2012
Anzac shoot a breeze for Jim TOOWOOMBA shooter Jim Breeze was a convincing winner of the popular Anzac Day .303 Memorial competition staged at Yandina on the Sunshine Coast on Sunday. Jim headed a strong contingent of Darling Downs enthusiasts who made the trip worthwhile by taking out the Teams trophy. There was some high scoring in still conditions at the first two ranges over 300 and 400...
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City v Country - April 2012
City shooters too good, yet again The City rifle team again proved their superiority in the annual challenge match against Country at Belmont Rifle Range in Brisbane on Sunday. The City team captained by Geoff Grosskreutz retained the open trophy they won last year with an aggregate score of 2554 to Country’s 2548. The State’s best shooters were in Brisbane for the match which comprised 35...
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Ipswich shooter takes Beaudesert Prize - April 2012
Seasoned Ipswich shooter Rob Rush showed he is still at the top of his game with an outstanding performance to win the hotly contested Beaudesert Prize Meeting on Sunday. He was the only competitor in the field of more than 70 shooters to complete the tricky three range event without dropping a shot. He posted a score of 150 with 16 centre bulls to win the 30 shot match over 300 yards and 500...
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Crows Nest shooter running hot - March 2012
Crows Nest shooter Ashley Bidgood continued his impressive 2012 form winning the South Burnett annual prize shoot at the weekend with his second successive possible score. He shot an aggregate 150.18 to take the Gordon Iszlaub Memorial Shield -- the same score which won his own club open at Crows Nest last month. He finished a clear winner of the South Burnett competition shot over 300, 500 and...
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Strong opening by Crows Nest local - February 2012
Ashley Bidgood opened the 2012 shooting season with a possible 150 to win his Crows Nest-Goombungee Rifle Club Annual Prize Shoot on Sunday for the second year in a row. He was the only competitor not to drop a shot in the field of more than 70 shooters from Central Queensland to Northern New South Wales. The match shot over 500 and 600 yards provided some flukey wind challenges, with the...
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Murwillumbah shooter tops at Goondi - September 2011
Murwillumbah shooter Alan Cronk scored a competition double to come out on top in the hard fought Goondiwindi Rifle Club Annual Prize Shoot held at the weekend. Alan, one of the most consistent A Graders on the shooting circuit, prevailed in tricky wind conditions on Saturday to win the Cam Ellis Memorial with a score of 147.9. The conditions tested a strong field of 69 shooters drawn from...
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News and Events
QRA Updates NRAA Updates Major Events Calendar QRA “Bullet-In” Newsletters Press Clippings and Member Stories Department of Sport and Recreation news Sports Awards / Grants 2012 Queens coverage 2013 QRA Queens Programme and Entry Form...
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QLD Rifle Association Queens Prize 2011 - August 2011
QLD Rifle Association Queens Prize 2011 Video
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QLD Rifle Association Celebrates 150 Years. - August 2011
QLD Rifle Association Celebrates 150 Years Video
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