Saturday March 12, 2006 900 and 1000 Practice and BBQ at Castlemaine

Another Team practice day and another encouraging result, a pair of 75s at 900 and only a few points dropped at 1000. The winds for our practices have been fairly mild and mostly readable. The heat has been mounting, with temperatures reaching nearly 40 degrees Saturday afternoon. The temperature is supposed to break Monday. We went to Castlemaine after shooting finished. The club had invited us to join their Saturday practice and BBQ. We could not take our rifles with us because we would not have had time to return them to the lock up in Bendigo before it closed for the day. So we visited instead and joined in for the BBQ after shooting. The Castlemaine range is one of seven in the immediate area and has a little over a dozen members. They took the range over from the militia around 75 years ago. They rent out the old Range Wardens house to pay the property taxes. They have about a dozen targets and shoot back to 900 yards. They have a club house on the property and BBQ’s after shooting finishes are a regular event. The range is in a valley just west of the town, about a 7 minute drive from the main street. Jealous anyone? I have put up a few photos. Cheers, Jim