-says Paul Slowe
By Yonalla Dalrymple
and Iva Wharton
If Vice President of the Guyana National Rifle Shooting Association (GNRA) Paul Slowe is to be believed then Guyana‘s rifle shooters can run out short range shooting champions when the team event of the West Indies Full-bore Shooting Championships take place this weekend at the Timehri Rifle ranges.
Slowe told reporters of this newspaper earlier this week that Guyana’s chances of reclaiming the short range tile was good especially with the top shooters receiving the assistance of veterans like Sigmund Douglas, Paul Archer and John Fraser.
Guyana had three shooters including top shoot Lennox Braithwaite, national captain Mahendra Persaud and vice captain Dylan Fields in the top four places of the individual event which concluded Thursday.
Guyana are the holders of the Long Range crown with Jamaica the Short Range champs.
“We are the undisputed long range champions shooting over 900 and something yards. Last year we lost the short range trophy to Jamaica, a trophy we had held for four years prior to losing it. So we were on a roll and we lost it last year and we have trained to regain it this year.”
While not discounting the defending champions Jamaica, Slowe said that Trinidad is always a team to watch while Antigua and Barbados are shooting well.
In order to win Guyana’s shooters must go with their `A’ game today and tomorrow and hope to do well, said Slowe, a former Assistant Commissioner of Police.
