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NSW Match Rifle and Long Range F Class Open State Championships
NQRA King’s 2024
ENTER ONLINE: 2024 NQRA KINGS NOMINATION FORM (jotform.com) Program and details: 2024 NQRA Kings / NQRA
2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games Announcement – 6 NRAA members!
Congratulations to our 6 NRAA members who have been selected to represent Australia in biathlon at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games (WYOG). The Games are...
Biathlon Update!
NRAA’s support of the winter Olympic sport of biathlon continues to progress. Overseas Training Camps NRAA’s cohort of biathlon members recently took...
Online safety for sporting clubs webinar – Nov 14 and Nov 22
Sport Integrity Australia has provided the below information to NRAA for the interest and distribution to our wider shooting community. It notes the session...
Recent Posts
NQRA 2021 Pennants Match, Townsville, 31 Jul-01 Aug’21.
The NQRA hosted its 2021 Pennants match at the Townsville Marksman’s Rifle Club home range at Hervey Range, Townsville on the weekend of the 31 July and 01 August 2021. At the same time, NSW and South East Queensland were unfortunately enduring lockdown. A minute’s...
Chapman Valley Rifle Club, WA, Picnic Shoot 24-25 July 2021
Situated at the foot of Mt Erin in the middle of rich farming country, Chapman Valley RC is a picturesque little rifle range that has been in operation since 1902. The last picnic shoot held at Chapman Valley was in 2019, as 2020 was cancelled due to COVID-19...
Loxton Rifle Club’s Steel Gong Challenge
Members have been working hard on developing and growing our club to host our inaugural steel gong challenge on the 19th and 20th of June. We had 35 registered shooters for the event. The shoot involved rimfire from 100yds to 200yds and centrefire from 600yds to...
Project “Remember Them” Address by Bruce A.R. Scott, CSC, ADC HRSC – 14 May 2021
Special guests: Patron NQRA – Ms Glenys Schuntner President NQRA – Mr Eric Christie – great nephew and nephew of two former Herbert River Rifle Club members killed in both World Wars Chairman NQRA – Mr Marty Eiteneuer Patron TDRA – Mrs Janine Mahony Patron TMRC – Mr...
2021 NQRA Championships, Townsville QLD
From 11 to 16 May 2021, the North Queensland Rifle Association (NQRA) welcomed the courageous southerners that successfully negotiated the Minefield and Iron Curtain at the Tweed River and ventured north. The much anticipated journey was to attend the 2021 NQRA...
Natives Rifle Club Prize Meeting
Geoff Grenfell wins Natives Club Prize Meeting Geoff Grenfell winner of A Grade Les Perrin Memorial Aggregate with Les’s daughters Donna and Adele The Natives Rifle Club Prize Meeting was held on the beautifully prepared Belmont range on Saturday and Sunday, June 12th...
Townsville D.R.A. & Marksmen Rifle Club Prize Meeting
The Townsville D.R.A. & Marksmen Rifle Club Prize Meeting was held on 11th May after a two year absence due to Covid, with organisers not knowing what sort of numbers to expect. However 68 shooters were in attendance which made it worthwhile. The...
Fathers and Sons Association of South Australia – Annual Anzac Day shoot 2021
Almost 50 shooters and numerous volunteers and helpers gathered on the 25th of April, in almost perfect weather, for the “Fathers & Sons” Anzac Day Shoot at Mt Barker Rifle Range, long since open to mothers and daughters as well. The shoot, which has more than 50...
Miss Emily Willmett (1867-1927) A Prominent NQRA Lady Shooter in the Early 1900s
The first detailed record of an NQRA ladies competition was in 1899 at Charters Towers. The Northern Miner, on 3rd May 1899, reported that “the ladies of Charters Towers made a new departure in sporting matters yesterday by inaugurating a Ladies Rifle Club”. ...
Rifle Club Member’s Second World Ware Service Recognised
Jock Hucker began rifle shooting in 1947/48 immediately after the rifle clubs emerged out of recess post the Second World War. As a new shooter, he was a member of the Woorndoo Rifle Club (where his father William Hucker was also a member) and later the Willaura Rifle...
QRA State Championships 2020
QRA were pleased to be able to conduct this year's State Championships. We shared the disappointment of not having competitors from the length and breadth of Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The range and surrounding grounds had been prepared beautifully and the...
James Wishart OAM (1925-2020)
One of Tasmania's finest and most respected rifle shooters, Mr James Wessing Wishart - B Sc, F.R.A.C.I., C Chem, OAM, passed away on the 21st July 2020. James was born on the 3rd of July 1925, the only son of James and Charlotte Wishart. James started shooting at a...
VRA Annual General Meeting Preliminary Notice
Perth Fremantle Night Shoot 14/3/20
22 shooters from Perth Fremantle, Bassendean Bellevue, Subiaco, Darling Range, some country club shooters from Dalwallinu and Boddington competed in the night shoot back in March. They were supported by a group of spectators and a team of PFRC members who...
TRA Queen’s 2020
David Llewellyn series In Tassie it was time for our Queen's series as Match Rifle and F Class and the 1,500 yds had been shot a week earlier. First up was the David Llewellyn series, a two day match, but due to some very heavy rain state-wide it was only shot...
NSWRA COVID 19 Update 25 March 2020
Postponed – NSW Match Rifle and Long Range F Class State Championships
The NSW Match Rifle and Long Range F Class State Championships, which were due to be held on the 2nd and 3rd of May at Ungarie, NSW, have been postponed. The event will be run in October in conjunction with the Ultra Long Range Challenge on the 6th, 7th and 8th...