Fassaroe Air Rifle Open

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The Fassaroe Air Rifle Open (fondly referred to as the WAIDAM - We Ain't In Dalkey Any More - open) is being held this weekend in the UCD rifle range in Belfield. While some of the top shooters in Ireland won't be there (they're at the European Airgun Championships in Sweden at the moment), this is traditionally the first competition for the new up-and-coming collegiate shooters from DURC and UCDRC.

Visitors are of course welcome, but I'd recommend you show up for the last detail on Sunday as it tends to be the most interesting time - that'd be 1400 on Sunday. Just remember you'll have to be quiet - it's somewhat like golf, except that we have 1 hour and 45 minutes of concentration instead of a minute or two's concentration followed by a nice walk

I'll post photos once I have them developed - assuming my camera doesn't do what it did for the last two competitions and act like it's taken the photo when in fact it hasn't even taken up the blasted film....
*sigh*
I need a digital camera

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The first leg of the Fassaroe Air Rifle Open went reasonably
well this weekend, if a bit under-attended due to both
influenza affecting half the Wilkinstown shooters, and the
top shooters being in Sweden for the European Airgun
Championships.

Nicola Murphy from Wilkinstown took first place with 577,
well in the lead ahead of Wilkinstown junior Ryan Lynn on 562
and last year's UCD Rifle Club Captain Emma Lyons on 549.

Notable entries included Daniel Fleming of the PDF who put in
a personal best of 538 and Nicholas Moran of the US Army who
shot a 516 in a new record time of 47 minutes.

Full Scores are available
here.

The next upcoming competition is in two weeks is the DURC Air
Rifle Open in the UCD rifle range in Belfield.

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Okay, first of all sorry for the quality. I'm afraid my camera needs to be thrown in the bin and replaced with a proper digital SLR model...

Anyway, here are the (very fuzzy) photos from the FSC Open...

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Two shots of the UCD range, showing what it's like. It's directly under the water tower in UCD, so this whole space used to be a machinery space, which leads to very odd architecture

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Terry Wearan (PDF) shooting on the Sunday morning detail...

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The sunday morning detail. This is what I mean by a low attendance



Emma Lyons, last year's UCD captain. Emma came in third overall, and first in her class. She also had the distinction of being one of the only people whose photo library photograph came out reasonably unfuzzy
Stupid camera...

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A horribly fuzzy photo of the winners - left to right, we have Nicola Murphy (first in class A), Emma Lyons (first in class , Dave Cooney (the Fassaroe Sporting Club organiser for the event), Daniel Fleming (first in class C) and Gavin Moloney (first in class D).