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/

Trg resultaten SHP 15 Apr 10, Zwevegem (SBZ)

1. CF
   AJM Marique: 564 Ptn (289+275)
   1QC Michiels: 555 Ptn (278+277), Yes! Zum wohl, Santé, Skoll, ...
   CLC Van Vliet: 488 Ptn (277+211), too many malfunctions in RF
   1Lt Liétaert: 542 Ptn (274+268)
   1CC Haenebalcke: 545 Ptn (272+273)
   Adjt Pirotte: 548 Ptn (274+274)
   
2. MRF
   AJM Marique: 551 Ptn (182+192+177)
   1QC Michiels: 538 Ptn (189+189+160)
   CLC Van Vliet: 534 Ptn (172+181+181)
   1Lt Liétaert: 545 Ptn (182+188+175)
   1CC Haenebalcke: 560 Ptn (187+186+187), New Personal Record
   Adjt Pirotte: 556 Ptn (191+184+181)
   

Trg resultaten SHP 01 Apr 10, Zwevegem (SBZ)

1. CF
   Lt Liétaert: 533 Ptn (264+269)
   1QC Michiels: 537 Ptn (275+262)
   OLt Vl Leurs: 547 Ptn (279+268) New Personal Mil Record
   1CC Haenebalcke: 547 Ptn (276+271)
   Adjt Pirotte: 547 Ptn (273+274)
   
2. MRF
   Lt Liétaert: 523 Ptn (184+180+159)
   1QC Michiels: 550 Ptn (186+183+181) New Personal Record
   OLt Vl Leurs: 548 Ptn (181+180+187) New Personal Record
   1CC Haenebalcke: 549 Ptn (191+184+174) New Personal Record
   Adjt Pirotte: 549 Ptn (188+183+178)

Uitslagen Prov. Kamp. pistoolschieten 2010 -VSK

1. Disc 11 - Luchtpistool
   1QC Michiels Daniël 524 Ptn (11 Pl - S1 - W-Vl)
   OLt Leurs Eline 367 Ptn (1 Pl - D1 - Lim)
   1CC Deruytter Brigitte 352 Ptn (4 Pl - D1 - Lim)
   1CC Meesschaert Luc 526 Ptn (10 Pl - S1 - W-Vl)
   Anciens:
   Adjt bd Hommers Armand 566 Ptn (1 Pl - S3 - Lim)
   1CC bd Gerits Lisette 358 Ptn (1 Pl - D2 - Lim)
   Kpl bd Claes Hans 549 Ptn (5 Pl - S1 - Lim)
   1CC Darras Daniël 532 (6 Pl - S1 - W-Vl)
   
2. Disc 13 - Zwaar kaliber pistool
   1QC Michiels Daniel 547 (1 Pl - S1 - W-Vl)
   1CC Meesschaert Luc 534 Ptn (3 Pl - S1 - W-Vl)
   1CC Haenebalcke Patrick 532 Ptn (S1 - Vl-B)
   
3. Disc 14 - Standaard pistool
   1QC Michiels Daniël 512 Ptn (4 Pl - S1 - W-Vl)
   1CC Meesschaert Luc 465 Ptn (11 Pl - S1- W-Vl)
   
4. Disc 16 - Sportpistool
   1QC Michiels Daniël 560 Ptn (1 Pl - S1 - W-Vl)
   1CC Meesschaert Luc 526 Ptn (9 Pl - S1- W-Vl)
   OLt Vl Leurs Eline 540 Ptn (2 Pl -D1 - Lim)
   1CC Deruytter Brigitte 468 Ptn (3 Pl - D1- Lim)
   Anciens:
   Adjt bd Hommers Armand 570 Ptn (1 Pl - S3 - Lim)
   1SC bd Dillen René 533 Ptn (4Pl - S3 - Lim)
   
5. Disc 17 - Super kaliber
   Lt Kol SBH Ottevaere Serge 260 Ptn (1 Pl - W-Vl)
   1CC Meesschaert Luc 212 Ptn (7 Pl - W-Vl)
   
   

ISSF WC Sydney (AUS)

Sdt Vercrusse Stephanie ended in 25th place with 391/400 (26X) in the 10m Air Rifle Women.

European Championships 10m Air Weapons 2010

The championships took place last week in Meraker (Norway).
Belgium took a bronze medal in "10m Air Pistol Junior Women" with Manon Hamblenne (URSTBf).
Our Stephanie (Sdt Vercrusse) was in 58th place in "10m Air Rifle Women" with 387 Pts (23X)/400.
All results can be found on: www.ech2010.no/results.htm

Calendar News

The R-CISM tournaments in GER (Sonthofen-SHR & Warendorf-SHP) are scheduled for male shooters only. In each tournament, unfortunatly, just three shooters can take part per nation.

Team composition for R-CISM tournament in Pilsen (CZE)

The following shooters have been selected:

1. Pistol shooters:
   AJM Marique
   1CC Hooghe
   Adjt Pirotte
   1CC Haenebalcke
2. Rifle shooters:
   Adjt Aspers
   Cpl Baiocchi
   1SG Wets
   Adjt Van Herreweghe

More background Info on this tournament: http://www.cism.pcer.cz/

Start Meeting 2010

On Feb 10th, the annual start meeting was held in Brussels. Due to snowy weather conditions, we could not start at 09.30 Hr. Only a handful shooters was present at 0930 Hr. February 10th will be remembered as the day with the longest traffic jam in the Belgian history, as more than 900 Km of blocked cars were counted on our roads.

As shooters arrived during the morning, we verified their shooting equipment. As mentioned in a earlier article, our “Chief of Mission” retired from the Armed Forces on Sep 1st. The newly appointed “Chief of Mission”, Lt Col Vallé Bart, joined us on our annual meeting.

At noon, the pistol team took leave of 1CC David Denis. Denis entered the pistol team in 1999. Soon after that, he made it to the A-Team. Already in 2000, he participated in his first Mil World Championship shooting. During his ten years of military shooting, he accomplished good competition results: i.e. CF 573 Pts (BUL-2002), MRF 569 pts (CZE-2007), CF 577 Pts (Benelux-2009). He was three times Military Champion in service Pistol and won many other medals on various Belgian military & civilian competitions. He participated in four Mil World Championships: TUR (2000), FIN (2001), NOR (2006) & CRO (2009). After the departure of Rik and Paul, we lose yet another good pistol shooter. We’ll sure feel this in the team results, as the newer shooters are not yet on David’s level of performance. We are very grateful for his 10 years of dedication to our sport. He was awarded the silver CISM Star of Sports Merit.

After lunch, the teams accomplishments of 2009, in both rifle & pistol, were reviewed and evaluated. The results of each shooter were reviewed individually by the coaches.

Finally, the program for this year was revealed. 5 international tournaments are scheduled for the men’s teams (CZE, GER, SUI, AUT, BRA). The women have international tournaments in GER (SHP), FIN (both SHR & SHP) and BRA. This year, the shooters are allocated 30 days of Mil training on the shooting ranges of Zwevegem, Beveren-Leie, Florennes, Saive, Mechelen. We hope to shoot a Benelux tournament in the Netherlands, for both rifle & pistol team in June.

The “GO” has been given, the training starts.

International calendar 2010 is out now!

We have the following shooting tournaments planned for 2010:
R-CISM Pilsen (CZE), Men SHP + SHR, Apr;
R-CISM Sonthofen (GER), Men SHR, Jun;
R-CISM Warendorf (GER), Men & Women SHP, Jul;
R-CISM Kajaani (FIN), Women SHP + SHR, Sep;
R-CISM Bern/Thun (SUI), Men SHP + SHR, Sep;
R-CISM Lienz (AUT), Men SHR, Oct;
R-CISM Süssenbrun (AUT), Men SHP, Oct;
CISM World Championship in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), Men & Women SHP + SHR, Nov.
Hopefully, this planning can be worked out.

Start meeting 2010

On Feb 10th, the start meeting 2010 will be held in EVERE.

New Chief of Mission

It's official now: Lt Kol Vallé Bart is the new Chief of Mission Shooting. Like his predecessor, Lt Kol Vallé is an officer of the Medical Component. He’s the Commanding Officer in CMO 17 at the Naval Base in Zeebrugge.
Bart, welcome in the team.

Happy New Year!

To all shooters, I wish you many " 10's & X's " in 2010.

Results National Open Air

1QC Michiels Daniël: 542 (S1-26th)
1CC Meesschaert Luc: 530 (S1-46th)
AJM Marique Jean-Luc: 535 (S2-7th)
OLt Vl Leurs Eline: 364 +89.1= 453.1 (D1-5th)
1CC Deruytter Brigitte: 365 + 86.3= 451.3 (D1-6th)

Red= points in the Final

Ex NMP:
Adjt bd Hommers Armand: 540 (S3-4th)
1CC bd Gerits Lisette: 350 (D2-3rd)
Kpl bd Claes Hans: 360 (Disabled-1st)

Belgian Open Air

http://www.belgian-open-air.be/index.php?lng=nl

Heengaan van een CISM vriend

Gelezen op de Zwitserse Website:
Zum Gedenken

Paul Strebel, 2. April 1958, bis 26. September 2009.

Eine grosse Trauergemeinde nahm am 16. Oktober in Neuenhof AG Abschied von einem liebenswürdigen, tatkräftigen, kooperativen und vertrauenswürdigen Menschen. Am Europacup Final 300m in Pilsen CZ wurde er seiner Frau Gaby und uns viel zu früh und ganz unerwartet durch ein Herzversagen entrissen.

Paul Strebel war beruflich im Zeughaus Brugg als Waffenmechaniker tätig. Gerade deshalb war er auch in Schützenkreisen sehr bekannt. So war er beispielsweise als ISSF Richter, Range Officer und Schiessleiter am LZ-Cup Final 50m tätig. Verschiedentlich kam er auch als CISM Delegationsleiter in Auslandwettkämpfen zum Einsatz.

National Championship Big Bore Pistol (Disc 17)

Yes, they did it again!

1st place: Warichet Carl (276/300)
PF: 48 48 46 = 142
RF: 46 46 42 = 134

2nd place: Ottevaere Serge (267/300)
PF: 46 47 45 = 138
RF: 42 48 39 = 129

The rest of the shooters (in total 22) were way back.