The aussie finale had Friday practice today. Big weekend of shooting. Anyone interested in updates, pics, match book, stages ? We have a few sponsored shooters who qual'd, plus multiple others talking pics and video. Quite a few company rep's present too.
He mumbled something about wanting a mulligan.. no one can understand his accent.
Patrick from US, for Team MDT and Leupold (i think).
Steven Zilm also from Team ICE and Kahles, also team lefty-handed-spastics.
Memory says he had a ZCO previously ? Got a bunch more pics, videos, etc... more to follow.
Nightforce.
Hardys have been the NZ dealer for NF for a while now.
Hopefully they've lost the dealership and the NF pricing stops being ridiculous.
Had a blast guys. Thanks for having me out, the hospitality, and camaraderie I experienced from the aussies made it feel just like home. Especially all the shit talk. Hope to see you all stateside sometime.
Excuse my ignorance, is tripod deployment on the clock? Lots of tripod rear support there where I wouldn’t necessarily use it, but these guys are pros and I’m not, so I’m probably missing something.
Not on the clock, all gear in hand as is most national matches these days. The Australians shooters shoot with a lot of tripod rear since they have been accustomed to much less stable props on average than what is in the states. I definitely think it is overused at times, I didn’t use a tripod at all over the weekend, the props at this match were stable.
Gear is NOT deployed on clock, standard rules are "may setup gear as required".
We had a run of really bad baracades / props which were janky, and thus we got used to rear tripod. It was more about fudds and police. Fudds didnt like tactical stuff on their range, so had to be mobile and quickly packed up, also cops put their 2c worth in trying to limit terrorism training.
@Patty got an extremely advanced crash course in aussie-language when he almost started a punch-on.
We had a run of really bad baracades / props which were janky, and thus we got used to rear tripod. It was more about fudds and police. Fudds didnt like tactical stuff on their range, so had to be mobile and quickly packed up, also cops put their 2c worth in trying to limit terrorism training.
@Patty got an extremely advanced crash course in aussie-language when he almost started a punch-on.
I’ve got all sorts of great words and phrases to bring back home. You guys can keep your overzealous govt and regulations though
Phil L from China. Yes, he really is like 8ft tall. Dwarfs that table. Shooting an AI with a fixed stock. No folders allowed in NSW. Not even joking.
Rear tripod work from Chris Prewett. Eagle park VIC team shirt. Chris won a rifle as a prize last year, a Howa1500 in a KRG bravo. This year he won production division with that exact rifle ! Also a top dude to talk to.
Many still didnt Tripod, like local shooter, Matt Avard, who is also team-lefty-spastic, AND marksman winner !
RO'S doing their thing. They did a super effort all weekend.
Forgot shooters name, however this baracade style is common for us.
Nick (Nozza) Noske who took out top senior went rear tripod. He represents Team Cactus (not really, long running joke).
Martin from MDT laying down on the job again. @MDT_Josh may want to file a complaint with management about it. Oh wait.....
Kurt Henke is new this year, and put up a good fight at one match, tanked another, but did well in finale. Shooting out of QLD. Could be one to watch in the future. Super fun guy to be around.
Speaking of fun guys.... Joel Rinaldi from Team ONION like to draw pictures, and won the honor of "TNC", or top nicest cunt. Top sportsman award for being a good lad. Love you Joel !
Alex Trefus from Romania, shooting out of Eagle Park, VIC was also doing his thing.
Ben (BK) Kennedy from team MPA had a fun time with projectiles end of day 1, but eventually sorted it out. Hornady 140gr ELD were exploding mid air randomly which burnt him on a stage or 2, but a full clean saturday night fixed it and was back on track, but couldnt recover points he needed.
George (crispy) Crisp from Team Delta Tactical and Nightforce hails from Tasmania. Ready to shoot some pipe baracades. Crispy has done extremely well historically (lots of 2nd places and a 1st at little river / eagle park) and also well in the series overall.
Brett rogers from WA just starting a stage. Many people didnt use a rear tripod for this stage, but quite a few still did. Really solid baracade setup.
Simon Harvey from SA and team left-handed-spastic likes rear tripods.
But Scotty Pattel from Cleaver Firearms and supported by MDT doesnt do rear tripod. Scotty also does lots of shooter training and is ex-army serviceman.
Ben (i leave my bipod on to shoot because i can) Dubber also went rear tripod. You cant see his glorious beard in this pic. But its there, I promise.
John Nicholas who repp'd AUS in NRL22 in USA shooting a baracade which boned LOTS of people on the weekend.
A life time membership was awarded to Sam (Rusty) Russell with a standing ovation. Yep.. this happened.
Ill try to get the match book and stages done too.
2023 Nightforce PRS Australia Finale | PractiScore
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Full results from the weekend. There was a bunch of trophies and awards, ill get some of those too from people who took pics.
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