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SARPA Indoor Action Pistol Championship 2006

The event took place at Glenrothes Target Shooting Club (GTSC) on Sunday 1^st October and combined with the results from the Outdoor Action Pistol Championship would decide the Scottish Air Rifle and Pistol Association’s Action Pistol Champion for 2006.

All the competitors arrived in good spirits and everyone seemed to be more interested in catching up on what had been going on since the outdoor event in August.

Shooting started with Steel Challenge. Richard McDonald from GTSC would normally be expected to dominate but made a nervous start under stiff competition from Wesley Giles (GTSC) but came through in the end to win. Wesley finished a close second with Colin Young from Tayside Airgun Club (TAG) third and Richard Monese, forth, very close behind.

After lunch it was time for Police Pistol and once again there wasn’t much to split the top competitors – only five points covered the top five shooters after the first card! Police Pistol specialist, Craig Leslie (TAG), looked to be very nervous and this clearly had an effect on his overall score which was well down on what he’s capable of. As a result, Colin Young edged Craig into third place. Richard McDonald, buoyed by strong scoring in the outdoor event and the earlier Steel Challenge, was relaxed and did enough to win, but only by three points!

Overall, Richard McDonald took top spot, winning the Steel Challenge and Police Pistol at both the Outdoor and Indoor Championships, making him SARPA’s Action Pistol Champion for the fourth year in a row!!!!

Everyone had a great day, which was capped off by a couple of fun shoots, won by Colin Young and Michaela Monese (GTSC).

Next year’s championship will no doubt be even more stiffly fought over?

The event took place on Sunday 27^th of August at Tayside Airgun Club’s (TAG) ground at Aughterhouse near Dundee. It was a welcome return to TAG as last years shoot had to be moved to Dunfermline FT Club at short notice due to a clash of events.

As anyone who has ever attended the outdoor event can testify to, the weather is usually pretty awful. However, the sun was blazing down and aside from gusting winds that seemed to come from all directions, conditions were good. An unfortunate side effect of the wind was its ability to carry birdshot from the nearby clay pigeon shooting in our direction from time to time. Everyone was wearing safety glasses so this occasional occurrence didn’t put anyone off.

The day started at 11.30am with the Police Pistol event. The gusting winds were having a very noticeable effect on shooters’ scores and any notion of personal bests and highest ever competition totals went out the proverbial window. “Damage limitation” was the name of the game today. After all the scores had been totalled, Craig Leslie and Ian Kennedy took 2^nd and 3^rd places respectfully for Tayside and 1^st place went to Richard McDonald from Glenrothes Target Shooting Club (GTSC). A special mention has to go to Wesley Giles who had only just sighted his new Rohm in that very morning and came in an excellent 4^th.

After lunch it was on to the Steel Challenge event. The wind was still coming in from all directions and without the protection of the awning that had been used to cover the turning target assembly from any potential rain, times were also noticeably affected. Richard McDonald and Chris Whytock from GTSC came in 1^st and 2^nd respectively and special mention goes to Colin Young from Tayside who looked really surprised to come in 3^rd.

Overall, Kevin Graham from GTSC must get a mention. He came in 13^th in Police Pistol and 10^th in Steel Challenge after only taking up shooting 6 weeks ago. Well done!

Everyone seemed to have a great day and several people went home somewhat red faced after daylong exposure to the big orange thing in the sky – nobody knew what it was because we’ve never seen it at the outdoor shoot before!

A big thank you to the members of Tayside Airgun Club for making everyone welcome and setting everything up for the day.

Sorry  no photographs have yet been received. If they arrived they will be posted

Bring on the Indoor Championship at the start of October (Sunday the 1^st of October to be exact).