DURC 10m Open 2010

So the plan was to finish work at 1800h, get home by 1830h, eat, change into underarmour and tracksuit, head for UCD by 1900h, get there by 1930h and spend at least 20 minutes wall-watching, be on the line in full kit and good to go by the start of prep time. It didn’t quite work out that way, I deferred leaving until 1940h and got to UCD by 2010h. Still plenty of time, still did my wall watching, wasn’t rushed and somehow still manged to be dressing during prep time. D’oh.

Still, I did get a good five minutes of settling into the position during prep, so that was an improvement on the usual mad rush I get buried by.

Herself Indoors also turned up to watch and take photos, which was nice 🙂

The position felt constructed in the first third of the match; by which I mean that it felt like it has in training – set up the position, hold and wait for the rifle to come down and take the shot. It wasn’t horrible, but it didn’t feel remarkable really, just putting training into practice on another range. But… there were eights. Bleuch.

I’m not even sure of why there were eights. Though, apart from them (to play the traditional “what if I’d shot better” game beloved of shooters 🙄 ), the group was nice enough.

I hit problems in the middle of the match more than anywhere else; the position lost its definitive ‘clunk’ when dropping the rifle into position and I found I was having to watch my sight picture far more than normal. Most of the nines in the middle 20 shots were down to sight alignment, not sway or wobble, oddly enough. I dropped the foresight from 4.4mm to 4.3mm and dialed down the rearsight diopter to 1.1mm; this seemed to help a lot.

Then the last 20 shots came up, and by now I was concerned over time pressure and was shooting faster; and something just clicked and the rifle started to lock into the position. Buttplate, pistol grip, glove hand, raise rifle, swing elbow, drop into –thunk– place, cant into the face, roll head forward, drop eyes to look at bear, raise eyes to check NPA and aim, pause, hold, shoot, follow-through, and up and reload and do it over again. It felt wonderful. No sway as such, all the muscles had relaxed, everything was just flowing along. Brilliant.

Yes, I said bear 😀 Meet the mascot, which also plays the role of giving a visual focal point when looking away to check NPA…

Now as to the results, I was hoping to break 540. I comfortably left that behind:

564 is 5 points below my PB; and there are five 8s in that score. So it was potentially my PB. Not bad for a first match back…

The first match for the new cheekpiece left an impression as well:

Postscript: Came in second when all the scores were in, Ray posted an excellent 580 for a convincing trouncing, but 2nd place on the first match back is still fine by me!

Scores up from shooting.boards.ie:

Air Rifle 60 Shot

Rank	Shooter	Club							Total	Inner 10s
1	Ray Kane	DFST	94	95	99	100	96	96	580	(34*)
2	Mark Dennehy	WTSC	94	93	93	95	93	96	564	*(21)**
3	Paul O’Boyle	WTSC	90	93	91	90	95	93	552	(20*)
4	Terry Wearen	DFST	91	93	94	91	89	91	549	(8*)
5	Tian Carey	UCDRC	87	91	95	85	94	94	546	(20*)
6	John Lancaster	UCDRC	88	94	92	89	91	92	546	(18*)
7	Diyu Wu	DURC	85	93	88	91	91	90	538	(15*)
8	Lorcan O’Carrol	DURC	89	87	89	94	86	90	535	(11*)
9	Siobhan Scarlett	DURC	82	82	85	89	91	86	515	(7*)
10	Micahel Cullinan	DURC	79	88	76	82	84	89	498	(7*)
11	Hossein Habibi	UCDRC	79	77	87	87	80	79	489	(9*)
12	Frank Lavery	DURC	85	87	76	77	82	82	489	(8*)
13	Tim Hynes	DURC	77	80	77	80	84	80	478	(5*)
14	Ian Beatty Orr	DURC	80	76	80	77	75	82	470	(6*)
15	Logan Hasenbeck	DURC	77	77	74	70	83	83	464	(3*)
16	Tayyaub Mansoor	UCDRC	86	73	77	81	82	64	463	(5*)
17	Claire Leyden	UCDRC	75	70	75	83	84	76	463	(2*)
18	Evan Boyd	UCDRC	79	81	75	70	78	76	459	(5*)
19	Tony Donnelly	UCDRC	72	78	68	75	77	78	448	(2*)
20	Donal Bourke	UCDRC	74	80	75	75	71	72	447	(1*)
21	Aoife O’Reilly	DURC	79	73	77	78	70	64	441	(0*)
22	Julian Ewers Peters	DURC	76	69	79	68	70	77	439	(2*)
23	Roohallah Ebrahimi	UCDRC	76	72	73	72	68	66	427	(5*)
24	Ivan De Wergifosse	DURC	71	76	70	51	72	81	421	(1*)
25	Paul Gibbons	UCDRC	73	64	70	59	69	74	409	(3*)
26	Emily Wallace	DURC	69	78	56	58	76	70	407	(3*)
27	Sasheendran Gopalakrishnakone	DURC	62	73	63	72	68	63	401	(3*)
28	Maria Tracey	UCDRC	73	71	58	60	72	56	390	(2*)
29	John Taaffe	UCDRC	64	68	63	62	65	58	380	(1*)
30	Claudio Sansone	DURC	49	73	42	64	68	77	373	(0*)
31	Sean O’Callaghan	DURC	60	65	70	58	49	68	370	(1*)
32	Diarmuid O’Maolalai	DURC	59	59	56	48	47	65	334	(1*)
33	Paul Malone	UCDRC	55	65	53	49	34	65	321	(1*)

Air Rifle 40 Shot

Rank	Shooter	Club					Total	Inner 10s
1	Caitriona Murphy	DURC	86	77	83	92	338	(7*)
2	Yuecong Wang	UCDRC	85	87	88	77	337	(5*)
3	Yanxuedan Zhang	UCDRC	81	84	70	62	297	(2*)
4	Sheila Curley	UCDRC	51	52	49	53	205	(0*)

Air Pistol 60 Shot

Rank	Shooter	Club							Total	Inner 10s
1	Lindsey Weedon	MPAI	86	79	92	89	89	87	522	(5*)
2	Caroline O’Brien	RRPC	89	86	82	89	84	88	518	(4*)
3	Eanna Bailey	MPAI	82	78	83	90	88	86	507	(5*)
4	John Lancaster ℗	UCDRC	81	83	85	82	87	85	503	(1*)
5	John O’Brien	RRPC	83	88	79	85	82	80	497	(4*)
6	Luke McMullan	UCDRC	78	83	84	76	84	79	484	(4*)
7	Philip Conway	UCDRC	73	83	79	73	72	65	445	(2*)
8	Martha Naughton	UCDRC	58	65	59	63	67	75	387	(1*)
9	Aisling Miller ℗	DURC	58	51	51	65	71	62	358	(1*)

Class A 40 Series

Rank	Shooter	Club					Total	Inner 10s
1	Ray Kane	DFST	94	95	99	100	388	(25*)
2	Mark Dennehy	WTSC	94	93	93	95	375	*(11)**
3	Paul O’Boyle	WTSC	90	93	91	90	364	(14*)

Class B 40 Series

Rank	Shooter	Club					Total	Inner 10s
1	Terry Wearen	DFST	91	93	94	91	369	(7*)
2	John Lancaster	UCDRC	88	94	92	89	363	(11*)
3	Lorcan O’Carrol	DURC	89	87	89	94	359	(10*)
4	Tian Carey	UCDRC	87	91	95	85	358	(13*)
5	Diyu Wu	DURC	85	93	88	91	357	(9*)

Class C 40 Series

Rank	Shooter	Club					Total	Inner 10s
1	Caitriona Murphy	DURC	86	77	83	92	338	(7*)
2	Micahel Cullinan	DURC	79	88	76	82	325	(5*)
3	Aoife O’Reilly	DURC	79	73	77	78	307	(0*)

Class D 40 Series

Rank	Shooter	Club					Total	Inner 10s
1	Siobhan Scarlett	DURC	82	82	85	89	338	(6*)
2	Yuecong Wang	UCDRC	85	87	88	77	337	(5*)
3	Hossein Habibi	UCDRC	79	77	87	87	330	(7*)
4	Frank Lavery	DURC	85	87	76	77	325	(5*)
5	Tayyaub Mansoor	UCDRC	86	73	77	81	317	(4*)
6	Tim Hynes	DURC	77	80	77	80	314	(4*)
7	Ian Beatty Orr	DURC	80	76	80	77	313	(3*)
8	Evan Boyd	UCDRC	79	81	75	70	305	(3*)
9	Donal Bourke	UCDRC	74	80	75	75	304	(1*)
10	Claire Leyden	UCDRC	75	70	75	83	303	(0*)
11	Logan Hasenbeck	DURC	77	77	74	70	298	(1*)
12	Yanxuedan Zhang	UCDRC	81	84	70	62	297	(2*)
13	Roohallah Ebrahimi	UCDRC	76	72	73	72	293	(4*)
14	Tony Donnelly	UCDRC	72	78	68	75	293	(2*)
15	Julian Ewers Peters	DURC	76	69	79	68	292	(1*)
16	Sasheendran Gopalakrishnakone	DURC	62	73	63	72	270	(1*)
17	Ivan De Wergifosse	DURC	71	76	70	51	268	(0*)
18	Paul Gibbons	UCDRC	73	64	70	59	266	(2*)
19	Maria Tracey	UCDRC	73	71	58	60	262	(2*)
20	Emily Wallace	DURC	69	78	56	58	261	(2*)
21	John Taaffe	UCDRC	64	68	63	62	257	(1*)
22	Sean O’Callaghan	DURC	60	65	70	58	253	(1*)
23	Claudio Sansone	DURC	49	73	42	64	228	(0*)
24	Paul Malone	UCDRC	55	65	53	49	222	(1*)
25	Diarmuid O’Maolalai	DURC	59	59	56	48	222	(1*)
26	Sheila Curley	UCDRC	51	52	49	53	205	(0*)

Fun Final

Rank	Shooter	Club											Total
1	Ray Kane	DFST	9.5	10.2	10.5	9.2	10.6	10.4	10.5	10.3	9.8	10.5	101.5
2	Tian Carey	UCDRC	10.2	10.0	9.9	9.6	9.4	10.5	10.6	8.9	7.5	9.0	95.6
3	Michael Cullinan	DURC	9.9	9.9	9.5	9.6	9.3	10.7	9.6	9.1	10.0	7.9	95.5
4	Frank Lavery	DURC	5.4	9.9	9.3	7.5	10.2	8.9	9.2	9.3	4.4	9.3	83.4
5	Tim Hynes	DURC	9.1	9.1	7.2	8.9	8.5	8.1	8.4	8.3	6.1	7.3	81.0
6	Donal Bourke	UCDRC	2.9	8.3	8.3	8.6	8.6	7.2	8.2	8.3	9.4	9.4	79.2
7	Ivan De Wergifosse	DURC	5.3	9.0	6.4	4.9	9.9	10.0	2.8	9.5	3.2	9.0	70.0
8	Julian Ewers-Peters	DURC	3.6	5.9	8.5	1.3	7.3	4.1	8.1	5.2	6.4	5.0	55.4

DURC 10m Open 2010

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