NATIONAL Smallbore captain Dale Hing and leading handgun shooter Ryan McKinnon won the Production and Stand divisions respectively when the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) Smallbore section ran off its year-end Practical Pistol shooting championships last Sunday at the Timehri ranges.The programme consisted of three stages which were categorised into Standard and Production division and saw shooters with stock firearms with no modifications shoot under the production division while shooters with modified firearms were placed in the standard division according to the I.P.S.C. rules.

Stage one of the Production division saw Hing come out ahead of Randy Sarjoo who finished second while Ray Beharry placed third.
McKinnon was also victorious in the Standard division at the first stage beating into second position Gordon Richards while Murtland Smith finished third.
In Stage two of the Production Division, Beharry turned the tables on Hing while Sarjoo placed third.
McKinnon was beaten into second position by Stage Two Standard division winner Joshua Ramlakhan while David Dharry came in third.
Stage three proved to be critical for the shooters but in the end Hing and McKinnon won their respective category, Beharry finished second in the Production division while Rajiv Latchana was third and in the Standard division, Dharry was second and Dr Johan DaSilva third.
The overall standings were: Production – Hing first place, Beharry second and Sarjoo third; in the Standard McKinnon placed first, Dharry second and Richards third.