Monday 1st August
Arrived – minus Liz Kidner (Air Canada Spectacular mess up – overbooking!) met by David Hossack and entourage at Vancouver Airport, not much else apart from Dominos Pizza and a Deluxe without the onions, ham, mushrooms, peppers, olives, anchovies or pepperoni. So a margarita then Jonny??? Nonce.
Tuesday to Wednesday 2nd & 3rd
of August
Days free for acclimatisation – reads spend two days in the pool. However this idyllic scene was rudely interrupted by an afternoon trip to the range on Wednesday to test the bangsticks. First glimpse of the stunning BCRA range and the fairly large mountains surrounding and successful ‘testing’ of the rifles. (they all went bang)
Thursday 4th August
First day of BCRA Grand Agg, and the captain attempted to lead from the front. A respectable 50.7 seemed to be all that was needed, that was until the Vice-Captain put in a 50.9, so David Hossack won the Victoria/Woodward.
However the day didn’t stop there for the vice. The first of a few sprained wrists was achieved by Mr. Hossack by misjudging the gradient of his open air toilet and ending up with a slightly sprained right wrist, obviously with experience the essential ability to stay upright during this action disappears!
Paul Crosbie began the F-Class grand as he intended to go on, and led with 230 ex 240, whilst Peter Hunt followed with 225.
However the muppetry award went to Pete Dingle who bless his soul believed that the V-bull indicator (Which in Canada is on the Mid right hand side of the target frame) was his fall of shot and therefore adjusted accordingly. Unsurprisingly, the subsequent shot missed the target board!
Friday 5th August
Seven shoots down, another seven for this day. (Hectic schedule) By the end of the day James Lawrie was leading the Scottish with 496.43 ex 505 with the Vice David Hossack on 495.46. West Atholl took the Sir Aurthur Currie Match with 292.20 (S.Adamson 50.1) whilst Paul Crosbie continued his domination of the F-Class competitions. The evening was spent at the International Reception where the 2005 Queens Prize Winner Jim Paton was guest of honour.
I’m afraid more to follow. Ran out of time.