Caribbean Fullbore Rifle Shooting Championships – Individuals ...Guyanese marksmen ready for the challenges

Caribbean Fullbore Rifle Shooting Championships – Individuals …Guyanese marksmen ready for the challenges

May 11, 2013 Sports

By Franklin Wilson in Barbados with the compliments of…..
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The 2013 edition of the Caribbean Fullbore Rifle Shooting Championships will fire off today at the Paragon Ranges in the Land of the Flying Fish, Barbados with the Individual competition and unlike previous years, the competition is anticipated to be much stiffer.
Despite receiving their rifles only yesterday morning since no space was available on their Caribbean Airlines Flight out of Trinidad on Thursday, Team Captain Mahendra Persaud said he was pleased that his charges were able to put in a satisfying day of practice at the Ranges.

Let the shots begin! Team Guyana posing at the Hotel just after practice yesterday, primed and ready for action from today. Missing from the photo is Vice Captain Dylan Fields who will arrive on the Island today.

“We had a quick practice at 300 yards then we went to 900 yards and basically everybody did well. We had a pretty decent practice so it’s all about tomorrow (today). Guyana will start off this morning with other countries possibly Trinidad.”
There will be four days of individual competition with Canada, Australia, England, Guernsey, Guyana, Jamaica, Antigua & Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago and the host country set to compete in what is a huge meet.
Commenting on the team, Wind Coach Paul Slowe said that the individual competition will be used to get the team into full readiness for the Team Championships where Guyana will be defending the Short and Long Range Titles.
“I think all the shooters were able to get in some good practice and from a coaching standpoint I looked at the wind and tried to pick up changes but that will change from day to day. Luckily today (yesterday) we got a bit of rain so we got to see what it would be like when the rain is falling, so I think we are as ready as we can for action.”
Slowe, who is also Captain of the West Indies team, said that he noticed all the big shooters from the Caribbean are here in Barbados so he is looking forward to putting together a solid team for the Australia versus the rest match.
The team held an encouraging team talk yesterday morning and all are on the same page, ready for the battle, Persaud noted.
The meet and greet session with all the countries took place last evening.