27/04/2026
What a great day of shooting we had in Ravenshoe yesterday at the inaugural Ravenshoe Anzac Shoot!
It was fun and everybody had a great time. Even the rain hold off finally, leaving a sunny day with mainly light winds but pretty tricky.
Most of the Service Rifle guys got it tough at the 500yds to keep their bullets on the targets, but they did try hard and still kept smiling😆
In Service John Anderson dominated the 300yds ranges, but couldn't hit the target twice at the 500yds, where only James Gowan and Alex Tessieri didn't get a miss.
In Sporter Production, Steve Madsen won the first 300yds and showed everybody that when you can really shoot it doesn't matter for how long you haven't shot! Gail Christie broke in in her new gun nicely, winning the second 300yds, but couldn't beat husband Eric at the 500yds.
In Sporter Open Lucas didn't loose a point in any of the ranges, but miss gold in the second 300yds by a high performance by Thaniel Cloake with only one centre shy of the maximum score of 50.10. Not bad Thaniel for your first ever competition 👏
Aggregate winners are as follow:
SERVICE RIFLE:
1st place - John Anderson 120.7
2nd place - Alex Flectcher 110.1
3rd place - Alex Tessieri 105
SPORTER PRODUCTION
1st place - Gail Christie 149.20
2nd place - Eric Christie 149.19
3rd place - Steve Madsen 145.15
SPORTER OPEN:
1st place - Lucas White 150.19
2nd place - Thaniel Cloake 149.19
3rd place - Andrew Bowater 149.18
Full results: https://www.results.nraa.com.au/ravenshoe-anzac-shoot-2026-results/
A big thank you to:
- Ravenshoe Hardware for sponsoring the 1st prize for the Aggregate winners and especially to Paul Adamson for presenting trophies and prizes to the aggregate winners.
- Geoff Lewis, Secretary of the Ravenshoe RSL Sub Branch for presenting the medals to the winners.
- Max, Jason and Peter for marking the targets and Murray for being the Butts Officer.
- Liz and Tracey for doing a great job with the catering.
- All the participants: without you we couldn't have had a such a great day of shooting.
Well, it was such a success that we have already settled on next year date:
SUNDAY 2 May 2027
Hope to see you back all next year and...bring some friends🙂
