Monarto Fly Results

Hi All,

See attached the results from the fly shoot this weekend at Monarto - The South Australia State Titles fly shoot.

Monarto is a great facility and an enjoyable range to shoot Fly on, yes it is windy.... but it is also dead flat so flags are easy to setup and the wind seems honest enough (ground swirls and turbulence seem minimal).

Even though several of us travelled from interstate... it was more of a casual Club Fly shoot than a major match, there does not appear to be many local participating Fly shooters.  It was an enjoyable weekend of shooting and the club there provided a great BBQ lunch each day.....

I would recommend you visit and shoot there if ever you get a chance..... but I think it will be some time before the club is ready to run a SOTY type Registered Fly match.
Results:
Monarto_Fly_2015_Published.xls

Summary:
Saturday was a 200 Metre (not yards) Fly on the main range with fully enclosed benches. (very spectacular facility).

Anthony Hall managed first Place with 228.01, Followed by Brendan Atkinson & John Mcquire taking 2nd and Third.
Best Target and small group were both won by Ron O'Sullivan.

Sunday was the 500m event

Heavy Gun was won by Nick Aagren with 210.01, with Tim Pavey & Lee-Anne van Meurs taking 2nd & third.  Nick won both small group and best target.
Light Gun was won by Tyson Trotter with 226.01, with Nick Aagren and Anthony Hall taking 2nd & third.  Again Nick won best target and small group.

The 2 day combined (rimfire and centrefire) was won by Anthony Hall with 425.03, with RonO'Sullivan and John Mcquire taking 2nd & third.

The attached excel file has the full results.

Cheers

Anthony

Thanks for that Anthony. Much appreciated.

Yes the shoot was pretty good and we were spared the serious winds that can rip through Monarto at times.
We would have had a few more starters but apparently there was a big F Class shoot on somewhere and that took their attention.

Many, many thanks to the people who traveled so far to compete with us.

Brendan Atkinson

Thanks Brendan for putting on the event, the BBQ lunch and the prize table.

I agree the size and layout Monarto is impressive.  I wonder what the serious winds would be like as a look at the weather observations for Sunday showed gusting to 50kmh in the Murray Bridge area! During the middle of the 500m event I had 4.5 min of wind wound on, reduced to 3.0 min by the end of the day.

Nick

Hello Brendan      I would like to thank you for all the work you put into the Fly Weekend Shoot
                             we were lucky that the weather did not spoil our chances of hitting a fly
                           it would be a very hard range to shoot on in big winds  - I had 4 minutes wound on for Sunday
                               it was great to hit a few flys  over the weekend
                                    that is the real reason I  traveled down from Mackay  -- to get a Fly patch from Monarto
                                          makes it all worthwhile
                                                     john mc

Yes, well we have had some memorable shoots at Monarto over the years. I started shooting metallic silhouette there back in 1981 as one of the founding members of the club.
We used crow bars as wind indicators, and when they were more than 45 deg off the vertical we reckoned it was too windy to shoot!

I look forward to more Fly Shoots down here in the future.

BA