Ararat Rifle Club

17/05/2025

The History of the Interclub Shield

The popular Interclub Competition was officially started in 1985. The idea came about after four good friends; Cam Cooper, Ted Wohlers, David McMillan and John McMillan, all very keen shooters, got together to discuss the idea of running an annual Interclub Competition incorporating all five shooting disciplines over one weekend. Big Bore, Small Bore, Pistol, Gun Club and Field and Game.

The concept of the annual event was to make all of the shooting events easy, to come and ‘have a go’ by trying something different with the aim of encouraging more new members for the five clubs. Making the shooting events easy with help available where needed from the different discipline experts has been the long-standing basis of the Competition. The Interclub Competition was created to foster good relationships between all five clubs, without a strong emphasis on winning.

Ted Wohlers donated the perpetual shield, which is engraved at the conclusion of the weekend and presented to the winning Club.

20/04/2025

Andrew Muller shooting, (red top) at the 500 yard mound, watched on by other keen shooters and scorer David Murray. 14 members in attendance.

20/04/2025

Winners of the Annual John Brown Memorial Shoot. Gary Hargreaves,
F Class Open, Barry Millar Sporting Class, and Ben Molloy, F Class Standard with John Brown’s widow Kathy with the Shield.

11/03/2025

Winners of the ‘ Nominate your own handicap’ Christmas shoot 2024. Justin Brasser Sporting class, Andrew Muller F Class open and Paul Hogan F Class standard.

15/12/2024

05/12/2024

Last weekend was the annual ararat interclub shoot. It was wet but wind held steady we had 29 shooters and all did well.

Top scores where
Garry Brumby 50.9
Ben Molloy 50.8
Peter Asplin and Garry Hargraves 50.4

Well done to everyone there and to everyone that helped with the day thankyou it ran very smoothly

27/10/2024

Last weekend ararat & stawell rifle clubs had the annual Golden gateway interclub shoot hosted at stawell rifle club with Justin from our club winning the day with a 149.16 with 2 possibles dropped 1 point over 3 ranges.

Stawell Rifle Club won the day so well done to them all in all it was great to shoot with stawell and their members