On Sunday 11th June 2023 an inaugural short range, centrefire benchrest match, was held at the clubs 300m rifle range at TECT Park, Tauranga.  This was a match shot for group over a moving target backer system donated to the club.  The moving target backer system verifies that 5 record shots were fired into each group.

Rifle classes shot were:

1. NZDA Light & Heavy Varmint (LV/HV)
2. NZDA Factory Class (FC)
3. NZDA-BOP Club Class (CC)

Records were set for the 100 metre distance for both small group and aggregate group size (average over 5 targets shot).

100 Metre Records (5 shot group / 5 target aggregate)
Class	Small Group (mm/SMOA)	Aggregate (mm/SMOA)
LV/HV	5.69 / 0.205	6.762 / 0.2435
FC	12.41 / 0.447	13.474 / 0.4852
CC	14.34 / 0.516	22.606 / 0.8140

 

More information and the records both at club level and national level can be found here:

Benchrest Shooting

 

Congratulations to the new record holders.  Keep em’ small!