Friday 22 July - revised

The second Stage of the St. George's was fired yesterday evening. Scoring was extremely high, with just one of the 149.17s qualifying for tomorrow's Stage III. James Corbett of Australia won the Stage with a perfect 150.30. Of the Canadians, Serge Bissonnette was the only one to advance, scoring 150.18.

This morning, the important international team matches were the Kolapore and the Under 25. The Kolapore is for teams of eight shooters is the most important team match of the meeting, not least because it is the only one that Great Britain competes as a team, rather than the four Home Countries.

After the 300 yard range, our hopes were bolstered by Canada being one point ahead of GB, one point behind Jersey. At 500 and 600 yards, the GB Team showed its skills, which we fell back a bit. In the end we finished in a creditable third place.
1. GB 1188.176
2. Jersey 1181. 146
3. Canada 1174.124
4. Kenya 1153.116
5. Guernsey 1152. 122
6. Germany 1137.96
Canadian scores: Bissonnette 148.13, Mullin 145.14, Stanoev 144.13, Paton 147.16, Murray 149.17, Landreville 145.17, Spinney 148.18, Marion 148.16.

In the Under 25 Match, Canada, represented by the Canadian Cadets finished second to Great Britain U25, 841.79 to 883.102.
This afternoon, the Queen's Second Stage is being fired. We have four in that: Marion, Mullin, Murray and Paton. Jim Paton is our only qualifier for the Donaldson Memorial Final to be fired this evening.

Innumerable aggregates have now been completed. Lists may be found on the NRA web site.

The Mackinnon Long Range Match is tomorrow morning. For once it's been sunny all day so far.

Friday evening. Back home after a very enjoyable evening at the Central Bankers BBQ.
Scott Murray, 149.17, and Jim Paton, 148.21, have qualified for the Queen's Final tomorrow afternoon. The cut-off was 147.20, with 100th place being taken after a tie-shoot by our old friend Steve Thomas.
So in the mornig, we have the St. George's Final (Serge), tie shoot for the Conan Doyle (Jim), the Mackinnon, and then the Queen's in the afternoon. It rained very heavily for a while this evening, but tomorrow is said "not to be too bad."