Seventy Seven competitors attended the Natives Rifle Club two-day Prize Meeting on the weekend of June 16th and 17th. Excellent shooting conditions on the Saturday led to some very high scores but wild westerly winds on Sunday saw scores plummet at 900 and 1000 yards. Despite this, Natives Club members figured prominently in the winners list.

Wendy Latham won the A Grade Les Perrin Memorial two-day aggregate with fellow club members Leigh Marett, Don Thompson and Kim O’Loghlen also collecting A Grade badges. In B Grade, Josh Pratt started a very successful week of shooting by taking out the aggregate for that grade with fellow Natives, Rudi Mueller 4th badge and Luke Baker 8th badge. Craig Pratt, not to be out-done by son, Josh, won F-TR.

Other club members to collect badges were Michael Halpin (2nd in C Grade), Wayne Latham (5th in F-Class Std A Grade), Wayne Blair (3rd in F-Class Std B Grade), Paul Menzel (5th in F-Class Std B Grade) and George Constantinou (3rd in F-Open). The Keith Affleck Belt was won by Colin Jones of the Albert and Central club in the traditional shoot-off at 1000 yards of the top ten target rifle competitors in the two-day aggregate regardless of grade.