NTSA Monthly Mailshot

June 1, 2007

Hello all.

There are a few changes to the calendar, so keep an eye out  for the next official release on July 1 - but before then, there's an additional event on June 17, the DURC 50m Open. Plan your training accordingly!

We've had an interesting month on the lobbying front - things with the licence fees and the introduction of the rest of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 which modifies the Firearms Acts so heavily have been thrown right up into the air with the results of the General Election making a change in Minister for Justice mandatory. We're keeping an eye on things, but don't let that get you thinking that that means things are taken care of. Keep an eye to your email and the website, stay in touch, and remember that the individual, grass-roots letterwriting and phone calls were what worked on this front, not the actions of any one shooting association or body.

On a more pleasant, sporting front, this month sees two new clubs joining up and there's at least one more new club lined up behind them again. And we've started to run 25m Smallbore Pistol matches this month, which is a very welcome addition to the 
calendar. 

We now have a national ranking in smallbore rifle; check out the rankings section at the bottom of the eMailshot.

We're still making progress with the review process, and I know people are getting impatient, but please bear with us just a little longer folks. We're going to be rolling out the changes as they're ready, so you should be seeing the start of the change announcements over the coming days.

This is now our fifth month of this e-mailshot newsletter. How do you think it's doing? Are there things you'd like to see in here? Have you any suggestions or queries? I want to hear them. Please send them by email to:

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Yours in Sport,

Mark Dennehy
Secretary, NTSA

Last Month:

Last committee meeting (May 14)

Last month's committee meeting was the mid-way point between the last AGM and this year's; so a review of all the agenda and tasklist items so far this year was done and we took stock of what we've done so far and what's left to do. The review process is in full swing right now and taking up the bulk of our time, but the licence fees issue and an attempt to gather information on political views on our sport prior to the election ate into our time as well. During all of this, we ran two events, a 50m event in the midlands as a test for the Nationals next month, and a 25m Nationals for 2006, delayed by quite a bit, which proved very interesting indeed (see below for more details).

The most immediately obvious task currently underway in the committee is the six-monthly review of the calendar. Our plan is to release the next version of the calendar on July 1, one month from today, which will have the next 18 months of events in it, so far as we are able to draft them. This, you will remember, is the new model we're trying out for the NTSA calendar - released every 6 months with 18 months on it, the first six being as set in stone as we can make them (though obviously events have kicked that attempt about a bit), the next six being a bit more malleable and the last six being a work in progress.

We will be depending on the clubs to work towards this goal as well. Without their efforts, matches just don't happen.

Speaking of clubs, one new club and one old club have been brought back into the NTSA this month; the Kerry Target Shooting Club and the Fermoy Rifle Club are both signing the paperwork and FRC will be hosting a 50m Open later this year. Welcome guys'n'gals, good to have you on board!

Please remember folks, the date of the next committee meeting is always up on the website, and the agenda for that meeting is up three days before it convenes.

NTSA 3x40/PR60 Event

Results are now in for the NTSA 3P/Prone event held at the MNSCI shooting grounds in Tullamore. Logistics as expected proved difficult with the result that the 3P event was delayed by two hours due to a combination of preparation taking a lot longer than anticipated, coupled with the desire to minimise disruption to MNSCI's other details being run on the day.

Sean Baldwin won the 3P event with a score of 1095, while Richard Stapleton Jr. won the Prone event on Sunday with a combined score of 681.8.

The full detail in the standing position.

Three Positions	Club			Tot
Sean Baldwin	DFST	375	P
		346	S
		374	K	1095
Joe O'Donohoe	DFST	382	P
		350	S
		351	K	1083
Daniel Fleming	WTSC	371	P
		312	S
		287	K	970
Pat O'Brien	DRC	362	P
		309	S
		DNS	K	671

Conditions were relatively calm on Saturday, especially when it rained! The competition progressed smoothly after the delayed start. Sean Baldwin who was trailing by eleven points going into the kneeling position, secured the win with a storming 374 almost equalling his prone score!

NTSAI Prone 50 Metre ~ 26th May 2007
Competitor	Club	Cl.	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Av	O/A	Class
											Place	Place
Richard Stapleton	WTSC	A	96	100	98	94	95	95	578	96.33	1	1	A
Joe O'Donohoe	DFST	A	96	93	97	96	97	95	574	95.67	2	2	A
Sean Baldwin	DFST	A	96	98	90	92	97	95	568	94.67	3	3	A
Brendan Byrne	RRPC	C	91	91	92	90	95	94	553	92.17	4	1	C
Conor McDermottroe	DURC	C	93	89	92	95	89	94	552	92.00	5	2	C
Kealan Symes	RRPC	B	90	88	91	95	94	92	550	91.67	6	1	B
Daniel Fleming	WTSC	A	94	94	88	86	90	94	546	91.00	7
Michael Madigan	RRPC	B	91	94	87	90	86	91	539	89.83	8	2	B
Joe Kinane	RRPC	D	84	84	86	90	93	92	529	88.17	9	1	D

Conditions on Sunday were extremely testing. The wind was very strong at times, and at one stage a mini-twister formed behind the 50m butts! Wind direction was changeable with it alternating between blowing directly at the shooters to blowing from left to right at varying strengths. We are still cleaning the sand out of the targets as I write this!

Final		Qual	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Sub	Total
Richard Stapleton	WTSC	578	10.7	10.2	10.6	10.4	10.2	10.4	10.3	10.5	10.0	10.5	103.8	681.8
			588.7	598.9	609.5	619.9	630.1	640.5	650.8	661.3	671.3	681.8
Joe O'Donohoe	DFST	574	10.0	9.3	10.5	9.4	9.6	9.2	8.9	10.1	10.0	9.1	96.1	670.1
			584.0	593.3	603.8	613.2	622.8	632.0	640.9	651.0	661.0	670.1
Sean Baldwin	DFST	568	9.7	10.8	10.0	10.6	10.2	9.9	10.3	9.5	9.1	9.3	99.4	667.4
			577.7	588.5	598.5	609.1	619.3	629.2	639.5	649.0	658.1	667.4
Brendan Byrne	RRPC	553	10.0	10.2	10.3	10.2	9.1	9.2	10.0	10.0	10.7	9.6	99.3	652.3
			563.0	573.2	583.5	593.7	602.8	612.0	622.0	632.0	642.7	652.3
Conor McDermottroe	DURC	552	10.7	8.5	8.9	9.3	10.4	10.3	9.4	9.0	9.4	10.7	96.6	648.6
			562.7	571.2	580.1	589.4	599.8	610.1	619.5	628.5	637.9	648.6
Kealan Symes	RRPC	550	10.0	7.9	9.3	8.6	10.6	10.4	10.2	8.4	9.3	8.9	93.6	643.6
			560.0	567.9	577.2	585.8	596.4	606.8	617.0	625.4	634.7	643.6
Daniel Fleming	WTSC	546	10.1	10.5	9.6	9.3	9.6	9.6	9.3	9.3	9.9	8.6	95.8	641.8
			556.1	566.6	576.2	585.5	595.1	604.7	614.0	623.3	633.2	641.8

Due to a problem with No. 8 target, the final was held for the first seven shooters. No positions changed hands, but Richard impressed everyone by shooting a perfect ton in the final!

The NTSA would like to thank all those at MNSCI for their unstinting help and assistance and without whom this event would never have taken place. We look forward to seeing you all again on the 23rd/24th June for the Nationals. We would also like to thank the members of the Defence Forces shooting team and the members of Rathdrum who helped with the clean up afterwards and with the loading up of the targets and equipment.

The kneeling position

NTSA 25m Standard Pistol Nationals

Despite a low turnout, we had a very succesful competition in Rathdrum this morning. Joe O'Donohoe was the eventual winner with a score of 536 and we had a visit from a former Albanian Womens champion; Vjollca Neli who travelled up from Cork for the event.

National 25m Standard Pistol - 13th May 2007
		150 Second				20 Second				10 Second
		1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
Joe O'Donohoe	DFST	48	49	46	49	44	42	42	47	43	41	38	47	536
PJ Harding	DRC	41	41	40	44	28	32	36	40	28	35	29	37	431
Alan Kelly	CDPC	34	44	35	36	31	32	20	37	32	40	38	37	416
Mark Dennehy	WTSC	38	36	24	42	39	30	30	39	35	40	34	28	415
Liam Crawford	DFST	40	37	35	40	34	35	42	35	27	32	31	27	415
Vincent White	FRC	28	44	31	21	24	30	41	39	38	35	34	38	403
Vjollca Neli	ASF	45	38	46	43	42	41	41	39	33	36	35	34	473

Detail A being observed from outside the range in the spectator's area

Targets being converted from 25yd Rifle to 25m Pistol

Detail A underway



Detail A underway

Good Press for 10m AP Nationals

The 10m Air Rifle and Air Pistol National Championships got some good press last month:

This Month:

Upcoming Committee Meeting Agenda

The next committee meeting is on June 11^th. The agenda is available for download from the website as it's put together. You'll need to be able to read pdf files to read it, but these days, every computer can. Mostly we'll be working on the new calendar.

More on this next month.

Upcoming Events in detail

Ballymena Open Pistol Meeting

BALLYMENA RIFLE & PISTOL CLUB,
ARE HOLDING THEIR ANNUAL OPEN PISTOL COMPETITION
ON SATURDAY
THE 2nd OF JUNE 2007 @ THEIR CULLYBACKEY RANGE,
CENTRE FIRE MATCH & SPORT PISTOL
A, B, & HIGHEST AGGREGATE,
£6-00 ENTRY FEE PER COMPETITION,
THERE WILL BE LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
TEA COFFEE ETC,
FIRST DETAIL STARTING @ 10 AM SHARP,
CONTACT,
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NISSU Rifle Championships

Competition details

Competition will be shot under I.S.S.F. Rules
Equipment Control from 8.00am

Preparation Period 10 Minutes before start of each stage
Stage 1: 60 shots at 50 Metres, commencing at 10.00am
Stage 2: Top 20 (and equal scores)
60 shots at 50 Metres, commencing at 1.00pm
Stage 3: Top 8; Olympic Final 3.00pm

Entry Fee: payable on entry £8.00
Veterans over 60 on 2nd June 2007 £4.00
Juniors under 21 on 1st January 2007 £4.00

Entries to:

J M Spooner, 36 Killeaton Gardens, Dunmurry, Belfast. BT17 9HF

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DURC 50m Open

The DURC 50m Open has been confirmed as an addition to the NTSA Calendar, to be held in Dublin Rifle Club on June 17th. More details by email and on the website as we get them.

National 50m Rifle Championships

Please note that the Prone event will be filmed by a TV crew for OB Sports, so we would urge everyone to don the sunday finest for the occasion so our sport can put its best foot forward. Manpower on the day will be a concern, volunteers would be appreciated to help haul gear about and so forth.

NTSA 50m National 3P/Prone Championships 2007

The NTSA are delighted to announce the holding of the 50m 3P/Prone Championships on the weekend of 23^rd/24^th June 2007 at the Midlands National Shooting Centre of Ireland Ranges in Tullamore, Co. Offaly.

3P event – 40 shots each in the Prone, Standing and Kneeling positions

Prone event – 60 shots in the Prone position only.

Classified competition – 60 shots run concurrently with the Prone event.

Team of three competition – Top three shooters scores in the Prone event for each club represented.

Entry Fee: €20 for each event

Prizes for 1st to 3rd in Championship and 1st to 3rd in the classified competition. Team of three shield.

 

Saturday 23^rd June – Check in no later than 11:30am

Detail A - 12:00: 45 minutes Prone, 75 minutes Standing and 60 minutes Kneeling. Changeover time of 5 minutes allowed.

There will be one detail only for this competition. No final will be held. Shooting on electronic targets by kind permission of Rathdrum Rifle and Pistol Club.

Sunday 24^th June – First detail at 10:30am

Detail B - 10:30 (75 minutes per detail)

Detail C - 12:00

Detail D - 13:30

10 Shot Final for first eight qualifiers – 15:00

To book a detail, go to www.rathdrumrpc.org and choose 'Book Detail' from the menu on the left. Follow the steps to book date, firing point/detail. A confirmation email will be sent to you to confirm your booking. Only available firing points/details will be displayed.

If you are not able to book online, you may phone or text to 086 8099009 with your preferred choice of detail.

Please note: Closing date for entries is 8am on Wednesday 20^th June 2007

The NTSA reserve the right to re-allocate firing points/details should numbers booked not require the running of all details. In that event, shooters will be notified of any changes by email. In the event that an extra detail is required, the timings of details will be changed and such changes will be published on the NTSA website: www.targetshootingireland.org

Kealan Symes

Smallbore Rifle Coordinator

 

NTSA 10m Airgun Summer League, Match #1

The first match in the NTSA 10m Airgun Summer League will be the weekend after the 50m National Championships, and we are trying to pursuade OB sports to also cover this match. The location will probably be the WTSC range, but details are not yet nailed down right now. Again, keep an eye to your email and to the NTSA Website at http://www.targetshootingireland.org

International Scene:

ISSF WC Munich

As you read this, the ISSF World Cup in Munich is underway (be sure to follow it on http://www.issf.tv/ ) and has already set a new record for the number of participants, with 80 nations, 834 competitors and a grand total of 1,400 entries across the various events.

Ciara Gaffney of the UCD Rifle Club will be representing Ireland at this match, and we all wish her well.





Ciara will be shooting in the AR40 event on the morning of June 2nd  - don't forget to follow her on ISSF TV!

Next Month:

• European Smallbore Championships (July 10-25)
• NTSA 10m Airgun Summer League, Match #2
• Comber Open

On the far horizon:

To keep in mind:

• GB Junior International
• Bisley Week
• Fingal 50m Open
• WTSC 10m Open
• NTSA 10m Airgun Summer League, Match #3
• XB Open, Tobermore
• Leinster 50m Championships
• Autumn Indoor Open
• RO Training Course
• NTSA 10m Airgun Open

 
So keep those eyes open and draw up those training plans well in advance!

Rankings:

Irish Classification Lists

Irish Air Rifle Classification List

Issue Date Feb 18 (sorry folks, we'll have an up-to-date one for you next month)

Master Class
Kaiser Julia
Class A	Class B
Cunningham P Cunningham S Dennehy M Fagan D Gaffney C Lyons E McFadden S O’Boyle P O’Hagan E Spillane L Stapleton R	Baldwin S Cooney D Corballis A Fleming D Flynn S Lynn M McEllstrem B McGrath P Nash I O’Donoghue J O’Hagan J Raval R Russell C Smith K Wissema W
Class C	Class D
Baconin Thomas Brown Karl Clancy C Cunningham R D’Ambrose M Dunne M Macken M McQuaid T Oughton E Walsh S	Byrne J Carstens Marius Clarke C Collison O Cunningham L Daly S Daynes P Doorley T Dunne L Farrell J Feeney S Fogarty L Gurubi Attila Kavanagh A Lawlor B Longworth N Lyczak D Mollett E Moore J Murphy A O’Keefe E Smith Christina Speaker Ben Thompson C Van Hooij M Walsh J Walsh R Ward Bernard Westenholt Fredrich

Irish Smallbore Rifle Classes and National Rankings

Issue Date 29/04/07

1	-	Ray Kane	DFST	98.3	A	X
2	(1)	Joe O'Donohoe	DFST	97.6	A	X
3	(2)	Richard Stapleton	WTSC	97.3	A
4	(5)	Sandy Wilson	FSC	97	A
5	(3)	Sean Baldwin	DFST	96.8	A
6	(6)	Tony Cogan	DRC	96.7	A
7	(4)	Iain Nash	DURC	96.5	A
8	(9)	Ray Reilly	RRPC	96.3	A
9	(7)	Leslie Fagan	WTSC	95.8	B
9	(14)	Michael Madigan	RRPC	95.8	B
11	(11)	Nick West	RRPC	94.9	B
12	(10)	Peter Daynes	DURC	94.6	B
13	(7)	Daniel Fleming	WTSC	94.5	B
13	(15)	P.J. Harding	DRC	94.5	B
15	(13)	John Carroll	RRPC	94.3	B
15	(11)	Kealan Symes	RRPC	94.3	B
17	(20)	Mike Dunne	DURC	94.2	B
18	(15)	Brendan Byrne	RRPC	93.8	C
19	(17)	Breandán O'Fearghail	DRC	92.8	C
19	(26)	Killian Maher	DURC	92.8	C
21	(18)	Dave Trumper	RRPC	92.6	C
21	(18)	J.K. Walsh	DRC	92.6	C
23	(21)	Pat O'Brien	DRC	92.1	C
24	(23)	Nicholas Flood	ECSC	91.6	C
25	(23)	Terry Somerville	DURC	91.2	C
26	(24)	Stefan Haberstock	DURC	91	C
27	--	Duncan Cleary	DURC	89.8	D
27	(25)	John Geoghegan	RRPC	89.8	D
29	(27)	Bernard Ward	DURC	87.2	D
30	(28)	Paul McGrath	DURC	86.5	D
31	--	Joe Kinane	RRPC	84.7	D
32	(29)	Kevin Smith	WTSC	84.5	D
33	(31)	Don McLave	WTSC	81.8	D
34	(30)	Paul Dunne	RRPC	80.6	D
35	(32)	Tommy McQuaid	DURC	80.5	D

Current European Rankings

Here are the rankings for June (changes from May in blue for those rising, red for those falling off):

	First	Second	Third
AR60	Alin Moldoveanu (24) ROMania	Peter Sidi (28) HUNgary	Konstantin Prikhodtchenko (34) RUSsia
AR40	Katerina Kurkova (24) CZEch republic	Sonja Pfeilshifter (35) GERmany	Hanna Etula (26) FINland
AP60	Vladimir Gontcharov (29) RUSsia	Leonid Ekimov (20) RUSsia	Vladimir Isakov (36) RUSsia
AP40	Natalia Paderina (31) RUSsia	Jasna Sekaric (42) SeRBia	Viktoria Chaika (27) BeLaRus
PR60	Sergei Martynov(39) BeLaRus	Jury Sukhorukov (39) UKRaine	Guy Starik (42) ISRael
3x40	Artem Khadjibekov (37) RUSsia	Rajmond Debevec (44) SLOvakia	Peter Sidi (28) HUNgary
3x20	Lidja Mihajlovic (39) SeRBia	Sylwia Bogacka (26) POLand	Lioubov Galkina (33) RUSsia

Current ISSF World Rankings

Event Rank Rating Name Birthday Nation   50m Rifle 3 Positions Men 1/1 2562 KHADJIBEKOV, Artem 1970 RUS-Russia   2/3 1672 EMMONS, Matthew 1981 USA-United States of America   3/17 1357 SIDI, Peter 1978 HUN-Hungary 50m Rifle Prone Men 1/7 2664 POTENT, Warren 1962 AUS-Australia   2/1 1937 MARTYNOV, Sergei 1968 BLR-Belarus   3/3 1651 EMMONS, Matthew 1981 USA-United States of America 10m Air Rifle Men 1/2 2299 MOLDOVEANU, Alin George 1983 ROU-ROU   2/1 2216 ZHU, Qinan 1984 CHN-People's Republic of China   3/10 1671 SIDI, Peter 1978 HUN-Hungary 50m Pistol Men 1/7 2027 KOKOREV, Boris 1959 RUS-Russia   2/1 1751 TAN, Zongliang 1971 CHN-People's Republic of China   3/15 1328 OMELCHUK, Oleg 1983 UKR-Ukraine 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men 1/1 3369 ZHANG, Penghui 1978 CHN-People's Republic of China   2/3 2545 ALIFIRENKO, Sergei 1959 RUS-Russia   3/4 1733 LIU, Zhongsheng 1973 CHN-People's Republic of China 10m Air Pistol Men 1/1 2734 GONTCHAROV, Vladimir 1977 RUS-Russia   2/8 1776 LAPEYRE, Walter 1976 FRA-France   3/2 1575 ISAKOV, Vladimir 1970 RUS-Russia Trap Men 1/1 1291 FRASCA, Erminio 1983 ITA-Italy   2/13 1241 VARGA, Erik 1976 SVK-Slovakia   3/2 982 BADE, Lance 1971 USA-United States of America Double Trap Men 1/2 1996 DAHLBY, Hakan 1965 SWE-Sweden   2/1 1234 FOKEEV, Vitaly 1974 RUS-Russia   3/17 1220 ELLER, Walton 1982 USA-United States of America Skeet Men 1/1 2029 SHOMIN, Valeriy 1971 RUS-Russia   2/2 1010 ACHILLEOS, George 1980 CYP-Cyprus   3/18 931 NICOLAIDES, Antonis 1967 CYP-Cyprus

Event Rank Rating Name Birthday Nation   50m Rifle 3 Positions Women 1/5 2263 MIHAJLOVIC, Lidija 1968 SRB-SRB   2/3 2007 BOGACKA, Sylwia 1981 POL-Poland   3/1 1887 GALKINA, Lioubov 1973 RUS-Russia 10m Air Rifle Women 1/1 3101 DU, Li 1982 CHN-People's Republic of China   2/3 2587 ZHAO, Yinghui 1981 CHN-People's Republic of China   3/2 2130 KURKOVA, Katerina 1983 CZE-Czech Republic 25m Pistol Women 1/1 3659 CHEN, Ying 1977 CHN-People's Republic of China   2/3 1925 OTRYAD, Gundegmaa 1978 MGL-Mongolia   3/7 1765 TSOGBADRAH, Munkzul 1981 MGL-Mongolia 10m Air Pistol Women 1/1 2281 HU, Jun 1978 CHN-People's Republic of China   2/2 1882 PADERINA, Natalia 1975 RUS-Russia   3/3 1603 REN, Jie 1980 CHN-People's Republic of China Trap Women 1/7 1220 KIERMAYER, Susanne 1968 GER-Germany   2/29 1079 NAKAYAMA, Yukie 1979 JPN-Japan   3/3 1067 CHEN, Li 1974 CHN-People's Republic of China Skeet Women 1/1 1294 CAINERO, Chiara 1978 ITA-Italy   2/18 1209 WEI, Ning 1982 CHN-People's Republic of China   3/3 1198 BARTEKOVA, Danka 1984 SVK-Slovakia