Miniature Rifles

In spite of a magnificent exhibition of shooting by Ysabel Corkill, the VUC smallbore rifle team as a whole was unable to compete with the spectacular scores of the other three major colleges. In the Tournament Shield competition Miss Corklll highest-scored, shooting six cards without dropping a point for a total of 600.51. She went on to drop two points in the North-South and NZU-Otago matches finishing just behind Dave Knight (O.U.) with a total of 998.81.

For the fourth successive year, OU (and ex-Massey) representative Knight out-shot and out-drank everyone to gain Blues in both "sports".

Indicative of the spectacular rise in standard of shooting this year was the attainment of previous Blues standard (total 990) by no less than ten competitors. Our congratulations to all Blues wings, particularly Miss Corklll, and sympathy to Bryden Williamson who suffered from the Blues Panel decision to raise the standard this year.