Lilydale Rifle Club

28/06/2024

11/06/2024

Hi Everyone, a new post on our FB page with a back to basics tutorial on the old vernier central sights as used on Target Rifles. Unfortunately it’s a little dry, but contains the nuts n bolts for anyone getting started in this discipline.

Enjoy …

https://youtu.be/UN9nmvZZmY8?si=Tac6BwaiaY01Iq0f

07/05/2024

01/04/2024

25/03/2024

Excellent result from a team of champions :)

𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐟𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞!

Australian Rifle Team members are World Champions in Team Fullbore Target Rifle Shooting for the second time in a row.

Australia successfully defended the Palma Match trophy, won at Trentham, New Zealand in 2019. The Palma Teams match competition is held every 5 years and in 2024, the match was fired at Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd March.

Click on the link below to read more.

LINK: https://nraa.com.au/nraa-news/australia-defends-world-champion-fullbore-target-rifle-shooting-title/

25/03/2024

𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐟𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞!

Australian Rifle Team members are World Champions in Team Fullbore Target Rifle Shooting for the second time in a row.

Australia successfully defended the Palma Match trophy, won at Trentham, New Zealand in 2019. The Palma Teams match competition is held every 5 years and in 2024, the match was fired at Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd March.

Click on the link below to read more.

LINK: https://nraa.com.au/nraa-news/australia-defends-world-champion-fullbore-target-rifle-shooting-title/

06/10/2022

- Cleaning Large Bore Rifles

There’s a growing misconception surrounding proper cleaning of big bore rifles. Perhaps the aid of proper tools eludes shooters, or even that false positives are being gleaned from chemicals and techniques fooling the shooter into believing that their barrel is clean when it is not.

Big bore rifles often need more frequent attention to maintenance than their small counterparts. Barrels commonly foul sooner than small calibers with similar round counts. Why? Burning 3-4x the amount of powder, at much slower rates, with a larger contact surface area of projectiles, the amount of fouling left behind is tremendous. It’s like a Top fuel dragster v. the daily driver. One requires the engine be disassembled and cleaned each pass down the track, or it loses peak performance, if not catastrophic failure. The other, a mere oil and filter change every 3-5K miles. Both vastly different maintenance requirements.

We rarely advocate shooters use bore scopes, especially if they’re unfamiliar with them. Many who start using them, become a bit OCD in cleaning. That said, when one becomes accustomed to looking through one and equating amounts of visible fouling to what’s going on with their chronograph and groups down range, it becomes a superb tool for shooters to utilize. It will show the user every single detail inside the barrel; perhaps a bit too much with respect to magnification. No rifle bore is perfect from one end to the other in terms of metallurgy and finish. Once you learn to look past that, using it for cleaning purposes, the tool’s invaluable to achieving consistency down range.

Listen to your rifle. It tells you everything it needs. You're already doing this during load development. By experimenting scientifically to find what bullet, charge weight, and seating depth yields the best performance, you’re listening to what the rifle’s telling you works. Same goes for cleaning. It’ll tell you what it needs regarding thoroughness of cleaning and the depth of regimen needed to keep it performing at peak levels. Some need more than others, while others can go a little longer on the round count before pressures start to climb.

02/08/2022

KT Canvas Prone

08/04/2022

What's more important; wind speed, or direction?

Obviously they both matter, but they do trade dominance based on direction.

For example, a 10 mph wind between 2:30 and 3:30 is only changing its value from 9.7 to 10 to 9.7 mph (bracket of 0.3 mph). However a 10 mph wind between 11:30 and 12:30 is changing its cross wind component value from 2.6 mph left to zero to 2.6 mph right (bracket of 5.2 mph). Same 30° change in direction, massively different bracket.

Point being, in this case, a direction change is far more critical if it's near 6 or 12 o'clock. A small direction change when it's close to 3 or 9 o'clock is negligible.

On the contrary, a change in wind SPEED when it's near 3 or 9 affects your crosswind component directly. But for a near head or tail wind, a fluctuation in wind speed only causes a small fraction of a change to the crosswind component.

In summary, if you're in a near full value wind, pay more attention to wind SPEED. If you're closer to a head or tailwind, nailing the exact DIRECTION will be more important.

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10/02/2022

02/02/2022

https://www.outdoorlife.com/evolution-65-creedmoor/

How this mild metric went from niche competition round to shooting and hunting superstar