THE Guyana Sport Shooting Federation (GSSF) has secured Demerara Distillers Limited to fully sponsor their first anniversary shoot this weekend at the Timehri Ranges. The shoot features four stages of action where shooters will shoot at five individual steel targets per stage.
Shooters will be scored using an electronic timing device. Penalties of added time are applied for any misses after the designated stop plate is shot and the total time taken is the score – all the while being closely monitored by the Federation’s Range Safety Officers.
The shooter with the lowest time to hit all the plates overall in the match will be declared the winner. GSSF SC’s Match Committee reported that everything is set for tomorrow’s match which will see shooters compete in two SCSA Divisions – Wildcat and Limited.
Prizes up for grabs will be awarded to the top three overall in each division.
Wildcat Division will have competitors using .32ACP and any other calibre less than a 9mm while those in the Limited Division will shoot 9mm or higher calibre hand guns.
To add to the prestige of this GSSF’s first anniversary match, members who will be shooting full power handguns (Limited Division) will be competing for the rights to hoist the El Dorado Trading Steel Challenge Cup.
Managing Director Tamesh Jagmohan, indicated that this Cup will be a Challenge Trophy which the winner will have to defend annually in the month of June to commemorate the anniversary of the federation. Each year the winner’s name and corresponding year will be inscribed on a plaque attached to the Cup’s base.
At the ceremony at the headquarters of El Dorado Trading, located at Lot 136 Young Street, Kingston, Georgetown, president of the GSSF, Vidushi Persaud, in accepting the kind sponsorship, expressed thanks to the company.
Persaud, in her capacity of Match Director noted that “Steel Challenge is the perfect way to introduce new shooters to the safe sport of steel shooting because it is easy to understand the rules and scoring, coupled with the satisfaction gained from the instant audible “ping” when the bullet hits the steel plate. (Stephan Sookram)