DURC sent a small team to compete in the Fassaroe Club's Air Rifle Open (aka the WAIDAM open), with a total of 7 competitors.
The standard of competition was high, the winning score being 578 from Nicola Murphy of Wilkinstown (an ex-UCD shooter), who recently won silver in the English championship. Steven shot lower than his previous average, with his 565 beaten into 4th place by one point by Declan Kelly of the Fassaroe Club (566). (Second place was taken by Rhona Barry with 570).
Unfortunately, most of the DURC shooters were only just recovering from their annual bout of 'flu and so scores were generally down. I shot a personal best on Saturday with 553 and then reentered on Sunday hoping to push that further, but instead dropped one point to 552. Peter Byrne shot lower than he had hoped, but still managed to take third place in class D. Novice Colman Marcus-Quinn managed to increase his Personal Best score by 82 points to 441 and took the prize for best DURC novice.