The Campbell River Gun Club hosted more than 30 shooters last weekend in Independent Shooters League qualifiers number four and five.
The club was showing off its new International Practical Shooting Confederation Range just west of Echo Lake and celebrated with a pig roast on Saturday night.
The event attracted some high-profile figures including Mayor Walter Jakeway who got a little coaching from Murray Gardner – an eight-time Canadian men’s International Practical Shooting Confederation winner.
Winners of the weekend event were:
Saturday
Open Class
1st- Murray Gardner (Vancouver)
2nd- Don Neratini (Campbell River)
3rd- Barb Neratini (Campbell River)
Standard Class
1st- Oleg Matveenko (Victoria)
2nd- Joe Strachan (Campbell River
3rd- Gord Murphy (Salt Spring)
Sunday:
Open
1st-Gardner
2nd-Don Neratini
3rd-Don Sloan (Campbell River)
Standard
1st-Matveenko
2nd-Kevin Wheatcroft (Nanaimo)
3rd-Strachan
The gun club would thanks the following for their help:
Pioneer Home Hardware; Brymik Earthworks; Hyland Precast (Grant Armstrong); 3E Excavating (Mike Russell); CR Metal Fabricators (Rob and Darcy Beetstra); North Island Machine Works (Ryan Anderson); Progressive Metal Fabricators (Chris Udy); and AJ Forsyth (Jeff Schmidt).