Reigning Caribbean individual rifle shooting champion Ransford Goodluck won the Silver Cup as the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) programme resumed last Sunday at the Timehri rifle ranges following an improvement in the inclement weather over the past two weeks.
Lt. Col. Terry Stuart carted off the Spoon Prize in the ‘O’ Class competition in a two-man showdown.
Apart from the winds varying in speed and switching regularly while there was interruption for rain, otherwise sunny conditions prevailed after rain had forced the cancellation of two competitions recently.
Goodluck dropped only one point at three ranges in recording 104 points out of a possible 105 with 11 V-bulls.
He shot 35:4 at 30 yards, 35:4 at 500 yards and 34:3 at 900 yards.
National captain and current national champion Mahendra Persaud secured the second position with 102 points and nine V-bulls.
He recorded 34:4 at 300, 35:3 and 500 and 33:2 at 900 yards.
Richard “Dickie” Fields claimed the third position with 99 points 9 V-bulls with Lennox Braithwaite returning to competition to capture the fourth place with 99:5 while retired Assistant Commisssioner of Police Paul Slowe claimed fifth with 98:8.
In the ‘O’ Class competition, Lt. Col. Stuart proved too strong for Charles Deane to take the Spoon prize.
Stuart shot 94 points with 6 V-bulls while Deane recorded 89 with 7 V-bulls.
Last Sunday’s shoot formed part of the local shooters preparation for this year’s West Indies Fullbore championships to be staged in Antigua/Barbuda for the first time from May 1-8.
Guyana are the reigning regional champions at both the long and short ranges.
Results below:
PLACE NAME 300 500 900 TOTAL
1ST RANSFORD GOODLUCK 35:4 35:4 34:3 104:11
2ND MAHENDRA PERSAUD 34:4 35:3 33:2 102:09
3RD RICHARD FIELDS 32:1 35:4 31:1 99:06
4TH LENNOX BRAITHWAITE 32:2 34.1 33.2 99:05
5TH ACP PAUL SLOWE 34:3 32:2 32:3 98:08
6TH DYLAN FIELDS 32:2 32:3 32:0 96:05
7TH RYAN SAMPSON 34:3 31:1 29:1 94:05
“O” CLASS
1ST TERRY STUART 29:2 33:2 32:2 94:06
2ND CHARLES DEANE 28:1 28:3 33:3 89:07
