Dale Cup/RAF match 2025
CURA shoots our first TR match of the season against OCRA, the RAF and Cambridgeshire.
On a bright and sunny April Saturday, 6 of our members met with representatives from the RAF, OCRA and Cambridgeshire to shoot our first external match of the season.
Kicking off with 900x and 1000x in the morning, our 900x results saw some very admirable scores being put by many members of our team. As the wind picked up at mid-morning, though, 1000x saw deceptively easy-looking winds that dropped us many points. After a rather rushed lunch that was mostly spent in the queue at Fat Tony’s, we continued with shooting at 300x and 600x, where the wind continued to prove tricky.
In the end, we came off with 1079.73v, just behind the RAF’s 1081.66v and quite a bit behind OCRA’s 1137.101v. In the Dale Cup, we shot a 740.55v, sandwiched between OCRA’s 766.65v and Cambridgeshire’s 674.28v.
All considered, it was a good first match of the season, with good attention paid to team drills as well as some encouraging development from our novices. We got our first opportunity of the season to shoot at 1000x, and our coaches honed their skills at reading tricky winds.
Congratulations to OCRA for winning both the OCRA v. CURA v. RAF match and the Dale Cup, and to Joe Pattison, who top scored for CURA with an impressive 191.14v. Thank you to all who participated in the match for the friendly competition, and we hope to see you again next year!
(Photo credit: Vita Chamberlain-Evans)
