Guest Speaker
Terry Brennan - Numurkah Rifle Range
- Rifle range was established in 1884, continuous use until 2005 when Lakeside was starting to be developed
- Developed to train soldiers
- As a kid use to ride bike over to the range
- Percy Saig, Burt Beverley, Arthur Aldridge, George Mclure, Evan Sutton, Bill Carlisle, Robbie Gordon - some returned servicemen were members
- 1976 became neighbors to Burt and he asked Terry to come and have his first shot
- Team sport - involved in shooting over a series of ranges
- Terry showed a demonstration of a target and discussed the role of the 'marker' - kids earning pocket money
- No matter what the weather you had to shoot, rain, hail or shine, wind, heat
- Rifles used from the 1st world war - Lee Enfield 303
- Peter Hallot received the Queens prize in 1977 for Victoria and then onto shoot for Australia
- The armorer's job was to repair rifles and adjust for better performance
- In 1964 the Small Bore Club was formed
- Live bird shooting outside of Numurkah (starlings and invasive species)
- There were women rifle shooters Bev Braybon, Glad Beverley, Jan Hooker, Yvonne Fowles
- Two pennant teams
- Dookie, Katandra, Nathalia had pennant clubs - only Nathalia and Katandra still have clubs to this day
- Many questions were asked by interested members.