70 shooters contested the WA Metropolitan Districts Rifle Association Prize Meeting on the 23 August 2025. With a dire weather forecast for the Sunday, the...
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Loxton Rifle Club – Loxton Hotel OPM
2025 Barry & Son Firearms Cup Successful
The Perth Fremantle Rifle Club Barry and Son Cup on the 13th April was a rip snorter of an event. This was the third year of our competition and 46 shooters...
ANZAC Shoot – Mount Barker
In the cool of the early morning, shooters once more gathered at the Mount Barker & District Rifle Club this ANZAC Day to remember the fallen, to pay...
NSWRA Newsletter – February 2025
NSWRA Newsletter – October 2024
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New WARA Headquarters at Pinjar Rifle Range
Click on the link below for a virtual look at the new WARA headquarters and facilities at Pinjar Rifle Range. LINK: https://nraa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/WARA-range-at-pinjarFINAL.pdf
NRAA’s international teams hard at practice for upcoming matches
NRAA’s international teams have been out on the range practicing for their upcoming matches. The Palma, U25’s and Veterans teams for the 2024 WLRC (World Long Range Championships) headed to Belmont for a weekend of practice while our biathletes used the biathlon...
NSWRA Biathlon Member awarded a Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship
Congratulations to NSWRA biathlon member Phoenix Sparke who has been awarded a Sport Australia Hall of Fame (SAHOF) Scholarship. Phoenix was awarded a Tier 3 scholarship along with 15 other young athletes across a wide range of sports including swimming, speed...
Women on Target!
Great work from NSWRA in securing a grant to hold a come and try Target Rifle shooting program at the Anzac Rifle Range. Please encourage as many females as possible to register their interest! Click to find out more: WOMEN ON TARGET – NSWRA
Biathlon – “Exercise CoolShot”
ADF Navy, Army and Airforce recently held their Biathlon “Exercise CoolShot” activities at the Mt Hotham Biathlon Range. Coolshoot combines the disciplines of Nordic skiing and rifle shooting and the teams from Navy, Army and Air Force conducted a week of...
Biathlon Racing Gets Underway
A number of NRAA’s State and Territory biathlon members recently attended the Australian National Championships Selection Races 1 & 2, which were held at the Mt. Hotham Biathlon Range. The biathletes were competing for selection to the Winter Youth Olympic Games,...
NSW country shooters selected to the 2024 Trans Tasman F Class Team
NBN News - North West Sport recently ran a story on the four members of the Armidale Rifle Club and 1 from Inverell Rifle Club that have been named in the NRAA F Class Team – competing against New Zealand at the Trans Tasman Challenge, in January 2024. CLICK HERE TO...
Perth Freemantle Rifle Club – Club Heritage goes ONLINE
The Perth Fremantle Rifle Club is the merger of two clubs both established in 1902. We are fortunate to have many old photos, trophies and other historical items. The Club has seized an opportunity to place records of its memorabilia and artefacts online for all to...
Inaugural Lithgow Cup – 2023
The Perth Fremantle Rifle Club’s Inaugural Lithgow Cup was won by Ethon Kearney from the Carnarvon Rifle Club. The competition was held on Sunday 11 June at the Pinjar Range and was the first Sporting/ Hunting Discipline (now called Sporter Discipline) focused prize...
The New South Wales Rifle Association of 1860
From the 1850’s onwards it was perceived that the colonies should take some responsibility for their own security. The presence of the French in the Pacific, the Crimean War (1853-1856) and the Māori Wars (1845-1872) all contributed to an unease leading to the raising...
Armidale OPM
Whyalla Rifle Club – 84th OPM
Loxton Rifle Club 22 Rimfire Steel Challenge Report
On the 27th of May the Loxton Rifle Club held a 22 Rimfire Steel Challenge which was shot from 100, 200 and 300yds. A total of 18 shooters turned out on a cool breezy day at Loxton which had some tricky fish tail winds later on the afternoon which tested shooters...
Golden Bullet 2023
The weekend of 20 - 21 May witnessed 46 shooters compete for the Golden Bullet Prize Meeting, held at the Coolilup Range in Capel, WA . The competition, which was organised and run by members of the Busselton-Bunbury Rifle Club is essentially a long range shoot,...
.22 Rimfire Steel Gong Challenge
ANZAC Day Shoot – Annual Fathers and Sons Shoot
The weather was almost perfect as members from full-bore rifle clubs from around the state arrived to compete and assist in what is a unique and long held commemoration of ANZAC Day among the shooting movement, the annual “Fathers and Sons Shoot”. As part of the...
The Inaugural 2023 Lithgow Cup
The Perth Fremantle Rifle Club will be hosting the inaugural Lithgow Cup 2023 on 11 June 2023. Not only will this be the first Sporting / Hunter Class focused prize meeting, but there are also fantastic prizes to be won. To keep up to date with all things related to...
David Lindsey McAlister 1885 – 1917
David Lindsey McAlister was a very successful marksman, shooting for various Rifle Clubs in the NSW Riverina region. He won 2 Kings Prizes and was a member of the Australian contingent to Bisley of 1913 as an Emergency Reserve, and in the Australian Bisley Team of...
The Beginnings of Mosman-Neutral Bay Rifle Club
Acknowledgements Club Sources: Club Members: Ray Franklin, Graeme Berman, Frank McDermott, Rod Evans, Phillip Somerville.Club Minutes and Annual Reports 1915 -1920Correspondence and Documents gifted to the Club from the estates C.H. Cromack and F.W.L. Travers Non-Club...
NRAA 50th National Rifle Championships – Entry Deadline EXTENDED
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