Sun 25 July 2010
Australia second in the Australia Match results

Sat 24 July 2010

Australia second in the Mackinnon
Aus Team results

Gray Robertson led the seven Australian Team members in 31st place
in the Queens Final Top 100 results

Gray Robertson WA

Andrew Sims NSW, Andrew Wilson NSW, Rick Scoones WA

David Rich VIC, George Edser QLD, Barbara Bell NSW

Peter Thurtell climbed to 27th in the St George's Final
leading the six Australian Team members in the Top 100 results

Peter Thurtell NSW, Gray Robertson WA, Barbara Bell NSW

Bill Baker QLD, Ron Whalen NSW, Mark Buchanan NSW

Gillian Webb Enslin, Janet Wagland and Mark Buchanan
on the mound

Fri 23 July 2010

George Edser, Nick Cock and Rob Cadden at home on the range

Australia third in the Kolapore
Aus Team results

Andrew Wilson wins the Donaldson Memorial Final at 1000 yards

Seven Australian Team Members in the Queens Final
Seven members of the team have made it into the Queens Final top 100
led by Gray Robertson in =3rd place (above).
Gray Robertson ranked 24th in the Grand Aggregate out of a total of 1042 entries
with a total score of 691.86! Nine members of the team made the top 200!
Qualifiers are all listed on the results page

Thu 22 July 2010
Australia wins the "Overseas" Challenge Cup
Aus Team results

Barbara Bell wins the Monro Memorial Trophy
Aus Team results

Mon 19 July 2010

Andrew Sims wins the Corporation 1000 Yards
Aus Team results

Sat 17 July 2010

Gray Robertson wins the Donnegal
Aus Team results

Wed 13 July 2010
Australia wins the BCRC Overseas Match
Aus Team results

Mon 11 July 2010

Australian Team Captain Rick Scoones with Patrick Simon,
Mayor of Villers-Bretonneux

The team travelled by ferry to France to visit a number of World War I battelfields and memorials which hold particular significance for all Australians. Villers-Bretonneux was a key position on the Western Front, sitting on a plateau overlooking Amiens and the Somme, Avre and Noye rivers. Standing at the back of the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetary is the the Australian National Memorial which consists of a central tower flanked by wing walls carrying panels commemorating the 10,772 Australians causalties who died in France and have no known grave.

Rick Scoones and Rick Ashton laying a wreath

The team laid a wreath at Villers-Bretonneus at 11.00 on 11 July and the occasion was attended by the local Mayor and his colleagues.

The Australian Team at the Australian Corps Memorial Park, Le Hamel, France

Sun 10 July 2010

Reg Wagland and David Rich observing the rifle inspections,
conducted by the NRA Chief Armourer, Fred James

Sat 9 July 2010

The beautiful Bisley Gun Club will be home to the Australian Team on the range

The team moved into their "Palace" hotel in Surrey

The famous Clock Tower on Stickeldown Range at Bisley, England

Australia On Target
World Long Range Rifle Championships

The Australian Rifle Team will travel to England's National Shooting Centre at Bisley to contest the Australia Match in July 2010 as part of their training programme for the Palma Match in Brisbane in 2011.

The Australia Match is shot over 300, 600, 900 and 1000 yards on imperial ranges such as Belmont, and 300, 600, 800 and 900 metres on metric ranges. Teams of 10 men and women, in two squads of five, fire 10 shots at each distance, over the day. Each squad is controlled by a coach who applies corrections for wind to the iron sights of .308 calibre rifles. Full bore team shooting is an endurance sport and the Australia Match, like the Palma Match, is a unique, shoulder to shoulder, international competition of marksmanship skills.

The Australian Rifle Team is looking to follow up their 2005 success in the Australia Match at Belmont in Brisbane, when they defeated Great Britain and New Zealand with a record score of 1977.217.

The Australia Match Trophy
formerly the Empire Rifle Match Trophy

The Australia Match was inaugurated in 1907 with the first match at Randwick Rifle Range, Sydney, between Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand. A splendid silver trophy, manufactured in Perth, Western Australia, and mounted on black marble. The trophy weighs more than 200cwt and is protected in a fine glass fronted wooden case. It is inscribed "The Empire Rifle Match - for competition by Great Britain and Units of the Empire".

In 1988, Australia's Bicentennial year, the match was renamed the Australia Match and the competition, formerly restricted to member countries of the Commonwealth, was opened to all shooting nations. From 1994 the title of "The Commonwealth Team Championships" was also added however teams outside the Commonwealth have been allowed to enter from time to time with the permission of the National Rifle Association of Australia (NRAA). Australia have completed in all 48 matches, winning 17 of them. The record score of 1977.217 was achieved by Australia, in Brisbane in 2005.