Commonwealth Games Kiwi Shooters 2014:

This years Commonwealth games are being held in Scotland - starting next week in Glasgow - but of-course the shooting events are not being held in Glasgow City itself.

The 'Full-bore Rifle' and Shotgun Clays are being shot in a Defence Ministry facility at Barry Duddon near Dundee - while the Small-bore (.22RF) Rifle and pistol shooting are happening at a "temporary facility" built at Carnoustie in Angus - where there is a golf-course.

The guns used for small-bore ISSF style "bullseye" shooting are very specialised devices - about which I know next to nothing!

These rifles have an intriguing and complex functional beauty to some eyes I'm sure - they certainly look expensive.

New Zealand has entered a team of nine shooters to compete at the Glasgow Games and I certainly wish them all the best - and pass my most considered traditional advise - "While there's lead in the air - there's hope".

We have two full-bore rifle shooters, two clay shooters, four small-bore rifle entrants, - and a single mens 50 metre pistol shooter, Ricky Zhao.

A Free Pistol.

 

Free-Pistol shooters in the outdoor 50 Metre range have two hours to fire single-handed sixty shots while carefully watching wind indicating flags and hoping to keep all their .22"RF shots in the nine-ring of the target.

- It might be interesting to get the Scottish police to publish their violent crime stats after the games eh - well, with that massive concentration of firearms in such a compact area there must be a disastrous effect on crime - for sure!! - More seriously - let's hope that the suspected local outbreak of Noro virus doesn't spread.

 

 

 

Good luck Guys,

 

Marty K