MAJOR SPONSOR NORFOLK ISLAND TRAVEL CENTRE

The 23^RD Travel Centre Pistol shoot done & dusted for another year. A big thankyou to all our sponsors for your continued support of our annual competition.

We had 22 visiting shooters from SA, QLD, NSW, & Tahiti all arriving in time for our welcoming fish fry on Saturday night. President Kevin Coulter welcomed the visitors and gave them a run down on the competition. A new format for us this year in that we presented the daily medals on the day to save having to listen to Kevin and Doug for so long at the presentation dinner.

The competition commenced on Sunday with Standard Pistol sponsored by Baunti Tours. By this time, the visitors were getting used to our range.

A Grade 1^st Andrew Grimshaw 481

B Grade 1^st John Gray 517, 2^nd Freddy Yen Kway 517, 3^rd Johan Perchard 507

C Grade, 1^st Valerie Nicaisse 495, 2^nd Jayson Norris 462, 3^rd Maeva Normand 453

D Grade, 1^st Shane Profitt 466, 2^nd Jean-Marie Delmas 464, 3^rd Jean-Pierre Mihuraa 442

Monday saw the shooters take to the line for with 25m men’s pistol event, sponsored by Norfolk Island Building Supplies. Jac presented medals on behalf of Foodland and filled in for Norfolk Island Building Supplies

A Grade 1^st Doug Creek 539, 2^nd Andrew Grimshaw 521, 3^rd Jayson Norris 474

B Grade 1^st John Gray 556, 2^nd Johan Perchard 546, 3^rd Marco Horley 533

C Grade 1^st John Ingold 509, 2^nd Maurice Wong 495, 3^rd Jean-Marie Delmas 483

D Grade 1^st Shane Profitt 492, 2^rd Neil Stewart 470, 3^rd Ross Profitt 455

At the same time the 25 metre Sport Pistol Women’s event took place.

Sponsored by Foodland.

B Grade 1^st Valerie Nicaisse 518, 2^nd Kaye Norris 501, 3^rd Maeva Normand 490

C Grade 1^st Lucie Dejean 515, 2^nd Kealani Provost442

Tuesday’s event was the Centre Fire competition, sponsored by Central Service Station. D’anne from Central brought along a cheer squad including Colleen to present the medals.

A Grade 1^st Andrew Grimshaw 500

B Grade 1^st Doug Creek 537, 2^nd John Gray 535, 3^rd Johan Perchard 479

C Grade 1^st John Ingold 502, 2^nd Jayson Norris 488, 3^rd Kaye Norris 470

D Grade 1^st Jean-Pierre Mihuraa 455, 2^nd John Stokes 412, 3^rd Mathew Lindner398

Wednesday was the 25m Rapid Fire event sponsored by Aloha Apartments, with all targets in use on the day. Dylan came along to present medals for Aloha and caught up with Kaye Norris who because of the delayed flight from Sydney on Friday missed out on running in the Gift on Saturday.

B Grade 1^st Johan Perchard 515, 2^nd Doug Creek 483, 3^rd Andrew Grimshaw 465

C Grade 1^st Maurice Wong 475, 2^nd Neil McKay381, 3^rd Jayson Norris 375

D Grade 1^st Shane Profitt 444, 2^nd Cooper Pike 438, 3^rd John Ingold 430

During the week everyone was slotting in 10m Air Pistol events which the Men’s competition was sponsored by KC Industries and Ladies sponsored by Norfolk Island Motors. 50m pistol, sponsored by Alpine Designs & Services, was also shot concurrent with the other events. These medals were presented at the presentation dinner.

Results for 10 metre Men’s Air pistol event. Medals presented by Jill from KC Industries

A Grade 1^st Doug Creek 542, 2^nd Johan Perchard 533

B Grade 1^st John Gray 539,2^nd Freddy Yen Kway 536, 3^rd Andrew Grimshaw 499

C Grade 1^st Michel Darius 518, 2^nd Shane Profitt 518, split by count back, 3^rd Marco Horley 505

D Grade1^st Copper Pike 491, 2^nd Tom Sapienza 473, 3^rd John Stokes 469

Results for 10 metre women’s air pistol event. Medals presented by Morgan from NI Motors

B Grade 1^st Lucie Dejean 541, 2^nd Kaye Norris 527, 3^rd Maeva Normand 526

C Grade1^st Valerie Nicaisse 529

D Grade 1^st Sheelagh Gray 451

Results for 50 Metre Pistol. Medals presented by Eve from Alpine Designs & Services

B Grade 1st Doug Creek 505, 2^nd Jayson Norris 482, 3^rd Johan Perchard 459

C Grade 1^st Valerie Nicaisse 477, 2^nd Kaye Norris 458, 3rd John Gray 429

D Grade 1^st John Ingold 443, 2^nd Tom Sapienza 403, 3^rd Cooper Pike 402

Thursday saw the final day and the weather was brilliant just like all week, for the Fun Day where we do a series of events with club guns to make it a little harder. A gun that you are unsure where the sights are set does make it a little difficult to try and hit a tennis ball sitting on a wire which looks like its just levitating 25 m in front of you. After having a laugh and surviving the day every one headed to the club house for a Fish Fry lunch to finish the shooting competition. It was the wind down time, before we attended the Presentation Dinner held at the range. After a delicious meal catered for by Paul Hayde assisted by Fletcher Buffet it was trophy presentation time and the drawing of our “100 Club raffle” for a $600.00 travel voucher which was won by Kaye Norris.

Special mention to Johan Perchard for 50/50 in the 8 second series of Rapid Fire & to Tom Sapienza for the most clips shot for the week.

The over 65 Walking Stick Trophy sponsored by Paul Waterhouse was won by John Ingold, third year in a row. Rumour has it he is coming back next year. Can he do it again?

Ladies High Gun was taken out by Valerie Nicaisse from Yamba and the Men’s High Gun was taken out by our very own Doug Creek.

Thanks go to the dedicated crew who put in the hard yards at the range in the weeks leading up to and during the shoot. Comment from a visiting shooter saying what a lovely, well kept facility and a credit to the members.

A very big thank you to Norfolk Island Travel Centre. We appreciate all the organising you do for our annual event.

We would like to thank the sponsors of our events each year and also the sponsors who donated vouchers for the Fish Fry night raffles.

MAJOR SPONSOR

Norfolk Island Travel Centre

Event Sponsors

Central Service Station

Norfolk Island Motors

Norfolk Island Building Supplies

K.C. Industries

Alpine Design Services

Baunti Tours

Foodland

Aloha-Tudor Apartments

Paul Waterhouse

And to the following who help make our event happen

The Gas Centre The Olive Two Drips Water Norfolk Shirts & Screen Printing Seriously Chocolate Butcher in the Mall Rod Jones

Paw Paw’s Pump Shed The Golden Orb Salty Beer Garden Bounty Centre Slick & Sons Trading Post