RYAN McKinnon shot his way to winning the inaugural Guyana Sports Shooting Federation (GSSF) Steel Challenge Tier 1 Match at the GDF Timehri Range. McKinnon was certainly the ‘hot gun’ of the day, shooting lowest time/total of 40.04 followed by David Dharry who occupied second place with 56.17 and Ray Beharry third with 60.63

The GSSF, as an affiliate of the Steel Challenge Shooting Association (SCSA), is seeking to promote this completely new type of sport shooting to all local competitive pistol shooters by organising such matches on a regular basis.
Before the start of the competition, GSSF president Vidushi Persaud paid tribute to the members who came out to take part in the event and praised the outstanding effort that was put in by the match committee to ensure that everything was organised for this inaugural match.
She noted that the success of the events of sporting organisations depends primarily on commitment and cooperation.
Steel Challenge is considered to be one of the fastest shooting competitions in the world. The competition yesterday consisted of two stages where competitors were required to shoot five different steel targets set out at various angles and distances, one of which is designated as a ‘stop plate’.
Registering a hit on the plate stops the time. The total time it takes to hit all five plates is used for the score.
Misses and penalties add three seconds to the time for each. Competitors are scored using an electronic timing device which records the time that every shot is fired. The shooter with lowest time wins.
Shooting was done from a stationary position for the two stages. The shooter would assume his/her position in the shooting box, upon the beep of the timer, draw his/her firearm and shoot at the targets. Timer stops when the shooter hits what is designated to be the stop plate.
The competitor’s best four scores out of five strings of fire on each stage will then be added together for collective score. The lowest total time/score for all stages wins the overall match.