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Updated 28th August 2010

COOTAMUNDRA RIFLE CLUB IS NOW BACK IN OPERATION

DO NOT MISS THEIR CELEBRATORY PM ON THE 17th OCTOBER

The Narromine-Dubbo OPM is on the 29th August, not 5th September as advertised in ATR 87 

NSW 150 Years Anniversary Championships 11-19th September

ENTRY FORM

The Story of the New South Wales Rigbys.

The New South Wales Rifle Association was formed in October, 1860, ‘To give permanence to Volunteer Corps and to promote Rifle Shooting throughout New South Wales’. The same year saw the formation of the Victorian Rifle Association with similar objectives.

The military rifle of the day was the Enfield Pattern 1853 percussion muzzle loader, (there were numerous variations). It was ·577 inch calibre, with a barrel length of thirty nine inches, rifled with three grooves at the rate of one turn in seventy eight inches, weighing about nine pounds and with a muzzle velocity of 1200 feet per second. To hit an object at a range of 1000 yards required a trajectory in excess of seventy five feet above the line of sight. click here for full article


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