RESULTS 2024 BLUE HEELER CLASSIC
Some tricky conditions certainly made for an interesting weekend. Sunshine to wind on Saturday with some storms Saturday night and onto some fairly strong winds that developed into another storm as we were finishing up on Sunday.
In lieu of trophies the club had individual chamber flags embroidered with the results in the Fly colours of Yellow and Red.
Before competition on Saturday we held a short send off for one of our long time members and fly winner Paul Deehan who passed recently. The Blue Heeler himself spoke about Paul’s time at the club and some of his accomplishments in the fly and other range matches over the years. Grant Groves fired a “last shot” to pay tribute to Paul which was followed by a minute’s silence.
This was made more special by having Pauls Wife and Daughter Tracey and Kiera present for the ceremony. They also stayed on for the match and even camped at the range on Saturday night. Whilst the circumstances were sae, it was enjoyable being able to chat to them during the day.
Thanks to Tracey and Kiera for visiting us. You are welcome anytime.
Saturday 500m Light and Heavy Gun
Matty Riches and Eli Groves duked it out most of the day with the lead changing a few times. Eli held on and picked his way through some tough conditions on the E target to clinch the win.
Heavy Gun
1st Grant Groves 258.04
2nd Matty Riches 256.03
3rd Mark Welsh 241.03
Small Group Ivan Wilson 1.673
High Target Simon Hore 58.01
Light Gun
1st Eli Groves (Junior) 263.06
2nd Matty Riches 260.02
3rd Tim Pavey 254.05
Small Group Glen Ross 0.716
High Target Dave Zucconi 59
Junior winner Eli Groves 263.06
It was also great to seen Glen Ross pick up his first screamer patch with a 0.715 which was a cracking group in the conditions.
Junior Shooter Lawson Starr also shot his PB and earned his silver fly badge.
Well done to both shooters.
Sunday Custom and Factory 300m Fly
Father and Son Grant and Eli Groves were neck and neck with Dad Grant finally taking the win only on fly count. Grant also managed not one but two perfect 60.05 targets.
Factory
1st Matty Riches 261.01
2nd Anthony Hall 253.04
3rd Les Fraser 249.02
Small Group Alf Gugliemino 1.995
High Target Alf Gugliemino 56.03
Custom
1st Grant Groves 296.14
2nd Eli Groves (Junior) 296.12
3rd Matty Riches 295.12
Small Group Rochenda Moran 0.429
High Target Grant Groves 60.05
Junior Winner Eli Groves 296.12
The top three two day winners were separated by only 5 points
1st Eli Groves (Junior) 559.18
2nd Matty Riches 555.14
3rd Grant Groves 554.18
Eli won a 27 inch 6mm 1:8 twist IBI Stainless HV barrel for his stella performance over the weekend.
Richard L also picked up the same barrel in a draw from all shooters who shot both days.
Reports back are that everyone loved our hot water and pressure solutions in the showers and the new outdoor kitchen/BBQ was a big hit too.
A huge thanks to the volunteers who made this match what it was. The Target crew ran red hot all day, Range officer kept things ticking over nicely and the scorers were finding it tough to keep up with the target crew.
Our volunteers went into a draw and Bunnings Gift Vouchers were also given to Bruce M and Brett T for their efforts over the weekend.
Interestingly Bruce was also the reason we had a smooth freshly graded track into the range so thumbs up to him. Both Bruce and Neil had spent most of the week at the range undertaking an enormous amount o tasks pre match.
We thank all the competitors for their attendance and conduct during the weekend. On behalf of the committee we all hope you enjoyed the weekend and we will see you back in March.
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