ISSF WC Fort Benning (USA) - 10m Air Rifle Women

Sdt Vercrusse Stephanie ended in the qualification round on the 22nd place with 394-26X. Hereby, Stephanie was the best in the Belgian team.
Best three in the qualification:
1. CHN 399-36X
2. CHN 398-34X
3. FRA 398-30X
To get in the final (best 8 shooters), 396 Pts were needed.
A "Shoot Off" was necessary to decide the 8th finalist, because 4 shooters totalized 396 Pts in the qualification round. An italian shooter won the "Shoot Off" with 52.3 Pts.

Initiation & Scouting 2010

From Tuesday May 18th, till Thursday the 20th of May, AOC Florennes was again, the host for this event. New Comers and others interested in sport shooting could witness and take part in our activities:
A presentation on CISM Shooting & on our pistol and rifle team by the team captain;
A technical explanation in pistol and rifle shooting by the coaches;
And of course, an initiation in sport shooting itself;

A total of 8 candidates presented themselves: 3 for pistol and 5 for rifle.
On Thursday, every candidate was to pass a test: a "Sport Pistol Match" for the pistol shooters, and a "3 Positions 50m Match" for the rifle shooters. The minimum for joining the team is 500/600 Pts. Just one candidate succeeded scoring more than 500 Pts. Cpl Jossart Oliver (RChA), a pistol shooter, totalized 520 Pts, 260 Pts in precision and 260 Pts in rapid fire.
Welcome to the team Oliver! For the others: Keep on practising.

At the same time, the annual “Challenge Cup Cdt Grangé” was held. The “Center Fire Match” was won by AJM Marique Jean-Luc, with 565 Pts (283 + 282 Pts). For the second place, a “shoot off” had to be shot between 1QC Michiels and 1CC Hooghe, since both scored 545 Pts in the regular Match. 1CC Hooghe won the “shoot off” with 47 Pts against 37 Pts for 1QC Michiels.

The results of this pistol match can be found on: http://sites.google.com/site/nmpshp/Results

Ammo testing in Schönebeck (GER)

The annual testing of small calibre ammo took place on May 05th in Schönebeck, Germany. After a nice journey (+/-600 Km) for the biggest part on the "autobahn A2 ", we arrived at Burg, some 40 Km from Schönebeck. We stayed at the "Clausewitz cazerne" over night and went to the factory the following morning.

About 15 different lots of Center-X were tested in our weapons (pistol & rifles) in the testing facility. Two lots for pistol and three lots for rifle were selected, together 70.000 rounds.

Again this year, the shooters can be sure they have excellent ammo at their disposal: "Ten's and X's" should be normal.

R-CISM Shooting Championship in the Czech Republic

Plzen was, once again, the hosting city for this regional competition and this for the 20th time: A jubilee version, however with a uncertain future. As the town becomes bigger, more and more houses are being build nearer to the military shooting range of "DUKLA PILSEN". The new citizens, building in the rural surroundings of the military shooting range, can't bare the noise of guns. So, the shooting range has to reduce the noise. Big bore competitions, like our tournament, will no longer be possible, unless measures in noise reduction are realized. Therefore, the Czech Army decided not to organize this tournament in 2011 and study possible adaptations to the infrastructure, in order to fulfil to the civilian demands. This story sounds familiar to us. In Belgium, many shooting facilities have been closed down for the same reason. It's the world upside-down: people buy cheap grounds for building (because of the presence of a shooting range) and than complain about the noise. Although the shooting ranges were there first, they get what they want.
Over to our results in the competition now:
1. Pistol team

• CF
  AJM Marique: 543 & 556 Pts
  1CC Hooghe: 537 & 540 Pts
  Adjt Pirotte: 535 & 542 Pts
  1CC Haenebalcke: 537 & 529 Pts
• MRF
  AJM Marique: 564 & 563 Pts
  1CC Hooghe: 547 & 544 Pts
  Adjt Pirotte: 540 & 548 Pts
  1CC Haenebalcke: 543 & 533 Pts

2. Rifle team

• 
  
  SR
  Adjt Aspers: 545 & 540 Pts
  Cpl Baiocchi: 527 & 533 Pts
  Adjt Van Herreweghe: 522 & 535 Pts New Personal Records
   1Sgt Wets: 495 & 514 Pts
• 
  
  MRF
  Adjt Aspers: 522 Pts
  Cpl Baiocchi: 517 Pts
  Adjt Van Herreweghe: 494 Pts
  1Sgt Wets: 487 Pts

A few of our new shooters got the opportunity of shooting on an international level. They learned a lot.
We have to congratulate Bart for his performance in Standard Rifle. In his first international competition, he set a new personal record, twice in a row.
Another newbie, Patrick Haenebalcke, did well in his first tournament.
It's clear that, the road to high performances is still long for them, but they made the first step successfully.

Pictures of the tournament can be found on: http://picasaweb.google.com/NMP.SHO
More results will soon be available on: http://cism.pcer.cz/