Armidale Rifle Club

02/11/2026

We have 5 sleeps to go until our annual OPM at the Wallamumbi Range and to say we are excited is an understatement.

The range has been polished up and looks an absolute picture, and is ready for the cheers of adulation and the tears of frustration.

Here are the few basics you need to know, especially for those first time visitors to Armidale:

✅Make sure you bring a hat and sunscreen. Armidale is the highest altitude r***e range in Australia 🇦🇺 and you will burn to a crisp as you are closer to heaven!

✅Bring a warm jacket for the night shoot, as despite being November it can still get bloody cold 🥶. Especially for the Queenslanders! A beanie will also not be out of place. We will have a couple of fire pits so don’t fret.

✅The range will be Open for travellers on Thursday night with the best spots available for the early birds. There is plenty of room around the club house with an overflow up behind the 600 yard mound.

✅We don’t have internet so no eftpos, so bring cash for entry and lunches etc. We have a sensational range of home cooked goods as well as the best scotch fillet in the region to keep you fed.

✅All shooters will be squadded in disciplines so that you get a chance to shoot the same windows.

✅Bring your A Grade game as the competition will be extremely hot 🔥 in all categories. We have some sensational prizes for the cream of the crop.

✅Finally ensure you bring your best banter and sledges, as we love a good time with plenty of bu****it. You will be guaranteed to catch up with old friends and make plenty of new ones, we are a fun club.

✅Shooting starts at 10am sharp on Saturday morning 7th November.

✅We have 6 ranges so you will need 82 rounds, more if you get caught in a shoot out!

The range is located 45km East of Armidale on the Waterfall Way (road to Coffs Harbour) and if you type in Armidale R***e Club into Google Maps it will bring you right to us.

We look forward to hosting all our visitors this weekend, travel safe.

01/11/2026

Armidale R***e Club 300y 1st November 2026

A day that started out with thunderstorms and heavy rain turned into a beautiful sunny day. Six shooters turned out to verify their r***es ahead of next weeks OPM and the NSW team selections in Canberra. Our Club Captain was showing off his brand new 7-08AI and doesn’t it show promise. Both Rowan and Greg put down 60.09 for their first stage with Matt close behind with a 60.08. Cassandra had a great second stage running a 15 shot string and finished with a 90.12.

After the shoot a mini working bee got underway. The fence has been all tied off, Matt has the ranged mowed and wipper snipped from top to bottom, Darryl fixed up the number above the targets (so no excuses for shooting the wrong targets) and Jock, under Leah’s expert supervision, has all the batteries and charging cables in tip top condition. Bring on next weekend!

F-Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Greg Carson 60.09, 60.07, 120.16🥇🐓
Joel Sorensen 60.06, 60.08, 120.14🥈
Cassandra Fullagar 60.03, 60.08, 120.11🥉
Rowan Urquhart 60.09, 59.07 119.16
Matt Foster 60.08, 59.06, 119.14

Target R***e B Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Darryl Stace 47.05, 48.03, 95.08🥇

31/10/2026

The thunderstorms have passed through quickly peeps, so sorry for late notice but if anyone is keen to shoot I will be out there for a normal start.

Got to love being the Captain and making weather calls! 🤦‍♂️

31/10/2026

Enjoy the morning thunderstorms people, with plenty of lightning about and rain we are off this morning!

No last minute practice for the OPM.

I will be out at the range dropping off a target once the rain clears if anyone wants to zero.

Enjoy your Sunday.

25/10/2026

Armidale R***e Club 500y 25th October 2026

The executive decision was made early to skip over the 400m range today and head for 500y. After all the rain and the grass seed Matt threw on the newly renovated firing point we thought it would be good to give it a rest.

Conditions first up were pretty favourable but Casandra still managed to wind the wrong way hitting a 5 for the first scoring shot finishing with 59.08 for the first stage. Once you hit a 5 in F-Open in Armidale you know you are in trouble. Along came Nik and you guessed it, he is Top C**k again this week with a 120.15. He was the only Open shooter clean for today. Great shooting Nik

With a bit of load development on his .308 Darryl’s target r***e is showing great promise. A 49.05 in gusty winds, the water line is spot on.

Drew took out production r***e open with a 100.14. Jen was hot on his heels scoring a 100.13 on a borrowed 6BR which is not her usual r***e so I think that counts for an extra V bull or two.

Greg was on the top podium in production class staying clean with a 100.08. It was great to see visitor Will come along and try out PC. We hope you had a fun day! If you would like to try shooting please contact us through our page.

We are trying something new going forward. We will be shooting 1 x 10 shot stage and 1 x 15 shot stage (+ sighters) so make sure you bring extra rounds for next week.

F-Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Nik McRae 60.08, 60.07, 120.15
Matt Foster 60.08, 58.04, 118.12
Joel Sorensen 59.05, 59.05, 118.10
Greg Carson 60.06, 58.04, 118.10
Cassandra Fullagar 59.08, 58.04, 117.12
Chris Davis 60.06, 57.03, 117.09
Tony Marshall 60.04, 57.03, 117.07
Cal Orman 57.05, 59.07, 116.12
Gary Cluley 56.02, 58.04, 114.06
Angus Duddy 56.01, 57.04, 113.05

Target R***e A Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Andrew Cameron 50,06, 48.03, 98.09

Target R***e B Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Darryl Stace 49.05, 44.01, 93.06

F-STD A Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Alan Mathison 59.02, 53.00, 122.02

Production Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Andrew Winkel 50.07, 50.07, 100.14
Jen Winkel 50.07, 50.06, 100.13
Murray Hill 50.08, 50.04, 100.12
Craig Morgan 47.06, 50.07, 100.08
Nick Winkel 47.06, 50,08, 97.13

Production Class Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Greg Keene 50.05, 50.05, 100.10
Shawn Keene 49.06, 50.07, 99.13
Brice Herbert 49.01, 50.04, 99.05
Ben Kaper 47.04, 47.03, 94.07
Will Grzazek 45,05, 47.04, 92.09

21/10/2026

Look forward to seeing these sponsors on our range this year at the OPM on the 7/8 November. Make sure you introduce yourself to them & look over their quality range of products first hand.

18/10/2026

To say the club is proud of Leah Baklien who was a member in this team is an understatement. This will be the first of many times representing your country we reckon.

18/10/2026

Armidale R***e Club 300y 18th October 2026

What a day at 300yards. Despite the intermittent showers, the wind from the east was relatively consistent and there were pin hole (dead centre of target) shots galore. 45 in total to be exact. Gary managed 4 in a row on his second stage.

Matt duplicated what was his winning score of 119.13 from 700y last week. This week it earnt him dead last in F-Open. Should have left the 60.10 SAUM barrel in from Mungindi Matt.

There were three 60.10s shot today and Nik claimed 2 of them earning him top c**k scoring a 120.20. Amazing shooting Nik 👏. Shorty was sooo close and finished with a 120.19 although he will tell you he shot more pins.

Lindsay in F-Standard B had a cracking morning as well. Starting with a 60.05 in his first stage, he got all the way to the last shot on his second string and it just slipped it out into a 5. He finished with a 119.09. Great effort on the .223 Lindsey.

Andrew had a strong day on his target r***e finishing with a 100.13. Darryl has tweaked a few things with his body position and the sights on his r***e and the results are promising. Picking up 8 V bulls, the dreaded fours were few and far between.

In PCO Drew finished out with a 100.18 with Murray hot on his heals finishing with a 100.15

It was great to see visitors Angus from Spring Ridge and Joe who tried out a few different r***es. You are both welcome back anytime.

Next week, Sunday 25th October, we will be at 400m. If you would like to try shooting please contact us through our page.

F-Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Nik McRae 60.10, 60.10, 120.20 🥇🐓
Greg Carson 60.10, 60.09, 120.19 🥈
Rowan Urquhart 60.08, 60.08 120.16🥉
Tony Marshall 60.09, 60.06, 120.15
Cassandra Fullagar 60.06, 60.08, 120.14
Joel Sorensen 60.07, 60.07, 120.14
Angus Duddy 60.04, 60.08, 120.12
Charlie McRae 59.08, 60.09, 119.17
Matt Foster 60.07, 59.06, 119.13

Target R***e A Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Andrew Cameron 50.07, 50.06, 100.13 🥇

Target R***e B Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Darryl Stace 45.03, 48.05, 93.08🥇

F-Standard B Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Lindsey Stace. 60.05, 59.04, 119.09🥇

Production Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Andrew Winkel 50.08, 50.10, 100.18🥇
Murray Hill 50.07, 50.08, 100.15🥈

Production Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Greg Keene 50.05, 49.07, 99.12🥇
Joe Watt 31.01, 48.05, 79.06🥈

17/10/2026

Congratulations to one of our U25 members Leah Baklien, who has been selected to represent Australia in Target r***e this past week. She has been smashing it out of the park already winning a Gold medal earlier in the week for the teams event. Today is the last day of competition at Belmont, with the Australia Match. Let’s keep our fingers & toes crossed they can come away with another win!!

🇦🇺💛💚 Australian Under 25 R***e Team Announcement

We’re proud to announce the Australian Under 25 R***e Team who will represent our country in the Australia Match tomorrow.

11/10/2026

What a weekend. First the working bee, then a 600y night shoot and a 700y shoot on Sunday to top it off.

A huge thank you to those who were able to attend the working bee on Saturday. The range is looking amazing with new fencing, a renovated 400m mound, all the target faces/membranes repaired and all mowed and whipper snipped in preparation for our OPM on the 2nd weekend in November.

To top off a successful day, we launched in to a 600y night shoot. With the target faces and flags illuminated it made for some spectacular shooting. In F-Open Joel took home the win with a 60.10 in the first stage and a 60.7 in the 2nd totaling 120.17, flogging Shorty by 1 super centre.

Drew was in first place on the podium in PCO. He was running Jen’s dasher (using all her Sunday rounds) and proceeded to shoot two 50.10 rounds finishing the night with a 100.20. Great shooting Drew.

700yards proved to be a little bit more difficult. The wind was moving right to left across the range but with no consistency. The pick ups and drop offs were quick and no one managed a double possible today. Matt took out top c**k with a 119.13 and Jen and Drew gave F-Open a go using Joel’s 6 Dasher. In Jen’s usual style she beat Drew so he is now on wash up duty.

It was great to see visitor Dave up from Cessnock and for the first time on a range Joe and Brad came out for a try. We hope you had fun today. It’s a bit rough using the club .223 at 700y for your first try. It was a tricky day.

If you would like to try shooting please contact us through the page. Next Sunday 18th October we will be at 300y

600 yard night shoot
F-Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Joel Sorensen 60.10, 60.07, 120.17🥇
Greg Carson 60.07, 60.09, 120.16🥈
Dave Piddington 60.06, 60.09, 120.15🥉
Cassandra Fullagar 60.05, 60.08, 120.13

Producing Class Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Drew Winkel 50.10, 50.10, 100.20🥇
Jen Winkel 50.09, 50.10, 120.19🥈
Craig Morgan 50.05, 50.04, 100.09🥉

Production Class Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Shawn Keene 49.03, 50.06, 99.09🥇
Brice Herbert 50.04, 48.02, 98.06🥈

700y yard Sunday 11th Oct
F-Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Matt Foster 59.06, 60.07, 119.13🥇🐓
David Piddington 60.05, 58.03, 118.08🥈
Joel Sorensen 58.03, 59.05, 117.08🥉
Cassandra Fullagar 57.06, 59.06, 116.12
Greg Carson 57.04, 59.04, 116.08
Jen Winkel 57.06, 57.05, 114.11
Drew Winkel 50.00, 60.05, 110.06

Target R***e A Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Andrew Cameron 48.05, 49.05, 97.10🥇

F-Standard B Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Brad English 56.00, 46.00, 102.00 🥇
Joe Watt 46.01, 51.01, 97.10 🥈

Production Class Open Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Murray Hill 49.04, 48.07, 97.11 🥇

Production Class Stage 1, Stage 2, Total
Brice Herbert 47.04, 47.00, 94.04 🥇