2024 All Ranges Match Report and Results

All Ranges Match

Saturday 20 April 2024

Five of the six member of the Grampian Team - Winners of the Bob Normand Trophy in the Inter-Region Double Dewar event : Left to Right - Ian Shanks, Charles Allan, Kirsty Scott (holding the Bob Normand Trophy), Gad Habiby, Lenny Thomson (Euan Munroe was not present for the photo)


On Saturday 20th April 2024 the All-Ranges Competition was held on the Denwood ranges, to launch this year’s outdoor season.

A total of forty-four shooters entered this event, two withdrew due to their circumstances on the day, so forty-two took part on a typically chilly, breezy April day at Denwood (the sun appeared for about half an hour in the early afternoon!)

With a good team of helpers assisting - Range conducting officers, scorers, a stats officer, and many of the competitors - the first details started promptly at 9:30am. Shooting carried on through the day until the last detail ended just before 5:00pm.

It was good to see this event fulfilling the purposes it was designed for: -

  • To introduce “indoor” shooters to the outdoor experience: around 14 of the entrants had never previously shot outdoors.

  • To hold an Inter-regional competition – teams from Grampian and from Lothian took part.

Along with “local” shooters from around Grampian region it was good to see several “Fifers” and a strong contingent travelling from the Lothians – Edinburgh University, George Watson’s and George Heriot’s schools were all represented.

The event included a mix of competitions indoor at 25yds, and outdoors at 50 metres and 100yds.

The individual competition was held in classes. Due to low entries on previous occasions, I had taken the decision to rationalise the classes by reducing the options to 4 (A, B,C and D) instead of 5 as was the case in earlier years.

On the evening before the competition, it became obvious that “D” class was heavily subscribed so (thanks to some last-minute adjustments by Jim Ward to the software program) we reinstated class “E”.

This gave a better overall balance to the event – many thanks are due to Jim for his contributions to the setting up and running of the control program, which was originally developed by Bill Hamilton.

In addition to individual events, there were pairs competitions, club team of three (handicapped) competitions, and inter-regional competitions to be competed for – all shot concurrently with the individual cards.

There were also medals for the leading woman, the leading junior and the leading veteran.

At the end of the day the Scottish Target Shooting (STS) Vice Chairman, Ian Thomson, presented medals to the successful shooters – and the Bob Normand Cup to the Grampian Inter-regional team, who won the “Double Dewar” outdoor event.

Grampian beat the Lothian team by a comfortable margin, but the Lothian Team turned the tables by winning the indoor event, just seven points clear of Grampian.

I hope many of the All Ranges competitors move on to take part in this summer’s events.

The STS Grand Prix, Aberdeenshire “Wapinschaw” and the Alloa Open are all coming soon, then there’s the Haig weekend and Bisley week!

I must thank the many people who helped the day to run smoothly, especially the competitors - without whom the whole exercise would have been pointless!

Robin Thomson
All-Ranges Organiser

The Lothian Team - Winners of the Inter-Region Short Range event : Left to Right - Adam Dove, Rhona Dove, Susan Jackson, Angus Jackson, Joshua Mitchell, Thomas Ralph

2024 All Ranges Medal Summary

Class A

  • Short Range : Gold - Lenny Thomson

  • Double Dewar : Gold - Adam Dove

  • Aggregate : Gold - Lenny Thomson; Silver - Adam Dove; Bronze - Chris Stirling

Class B

  • Short Range : Gold - Andy Downing

  • Double Dewar : Gold - Kirsty Scott

  • Aggregate : Gold - Kirsty Scott; Silver - Joshua Mitchell; Bronze - Euan Munro

Class C

  • Short Range : Gold - Amand Puchalla

  • Double Dewar : Gold - Aleyna Kartal

  • Aggregate : Gold - Aleyna Kartal; Silver - Amanda Puchalla; Bronze - David Thompson

Class D

  • Short Range : Gold - Matthew Jackson

  • Double Dewar : Gold - Hannah Crosby

  • Aggregate : Gold - Nathaniel McCann; Silver - Hannach Crosby; Bronze - Todd McIntosh

Class E

  • Short Range : Gold - Charlotte Kim

  • Double Dewar : Gold - Rachel Somerset

  • Aggregate : Gold - Rachel Somerset; Silver - Charlotte Kim; Bronze - George Gauld

Women : Gold - Susan Jackson

Junior (U21) : Gold - Kirst Scott

Veterans : Gold - Ian Shanks

Pairs

  • Short Range : Gold - Edinburgh University; Joshua Mitchell and Thomas Ralph

  • Double Dewar : Gold - Edinburgh University; Joshua Mitchell and Thomas Ralph

  • Aggregate : Gold - Edinburgh University; Joshua Mitchell and Thomas Ralph

Club Teams

  • Short Range : Gold - Edinburgh University; Joshua Mitchell, Thomas Ralph and Hannah Crosby

  • Double Dewar : Gold - Edinburgh University; Joshua Mitchell, Thomas Ralph and Hannah Crosby

  • Aggregate : Gold - Edinburgh University; Joshua Mitchell, Thomas Ralph and Hannah Crosby

Inter-Regional Teams

  • Short Range : Gold - Lothian
    Susan Jackson, Adam Dove, Joshua Mitchell, Thomas Ralph, Angus Jackson and Rhona Dove

  • Double Dewar : Gold - Grampian : Winners of the Bob Normand Trophy
    Gad Habiby, Euan Munroe, Kirsty Scott, Ian Shanks, Charles Allan and Lenny Thomson