GBRT : West Indies 2013

While GB relaxed at the hotel this morning, most of the West Indians and Channel Islanders were trying to complete yesterday's 900, which had been rained off, in conditions with so much light behind the targets as to make them very hard to discern.

After enjoying the beach or, in most cases, sleep, the team arrived at the range at 1:05pm for a 2pm start only to be told that they needed to be on the firing point for a 1:15 start - they'd decided to run the afternoon's 600 before the morning's 1000 yards. At 1:55pm, shooting started.

Shooting at 600 was largely decent, but at 1000 some struggled with wind - a left headwind with angle variations - before the later firers struggled with the dying light, such that hitting the right target was a feat in itself. Charles and Matt got up from shooting to see half the sun below the horizon!

Scoring was very variable, and was mostly ignored as everyone settled on for the "party" given by the BRA while they worked out the scores.

Grand Agg top ten (GB unless stated) was:

Luckman 470.65
Ball 469.45
Emms (Aus) 468.52
Calvert 468.51
Underwood 466.53
Crispin 466.42
Messer 465.48
Pozzebon (Aus) 465.40
Morris 464.58
Rylands 464.43

Apparently it's because Richard Arthur's brother Owen is no longer Prime Minister that we are paying for our drinks tonight and not at the PM's residence. So says Norris.

8:20pm and we're already on the way home. We're good boys and girls with a team match tomorrow,  after all...