The NTSA wish to congratulate Joe Kinane, Pat O'Hagan and Kealan Symes for having recently been granted ISSF Judge 'B' licences in the Rifle disciplines. The three new judges attended a course and examination in Bisley in December last and were notified of their qualification by email last week.

The NTSA now have five qualified 'B' Judges in the rifle disciplines and are hopeful that these individuals will be able to expand their qualifications to encompass other disciplines within the coming months and years.

We had 10 shooters competing in the Spring Standard Pistol Open. Congratulations to Vjolica Neli who won by a clear margin on 506 points, despite being disallowed to fire one shot due to the strict imposition of the ISSF "allowable malfunctions" rule. New daddy, Alan Kelly was second on 449 and PJ Harding was third on 426.

The malfunctions rule seriously impacted on Brendan Byrne also, which resulted in him being unable to fire his final 10 second series. On a happier note, Don McLave gave his new Walther SSP its first competition outing. Let's see you back for further competitions Don!

Full results - click on "Read More".

The February Open will be held at Rathdrum Rifle and Pistol Club on Saturday/Sunday 9th/10th February 2008. This is an Open competition, no membership requirement necessary.

This competition will also incorporate a 3x20 3P event to be run in the order of Standing, Kneeling and Prone which will be held on Saturday 9th.