THE Armidale School's Sam Cannington made his mark in the Combined AAGPS rifle shooting team on Sunday shooting the equivalent of a high level A-Grade score in the annual competition match for the Josephson Shield.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
The match, held at Hornsby Rifle Range, brought together the two schoolboy GPS teams, along will all district rifle associations for competitions shot at four ranges - 300m, 400m, 500m and 600m.
Cannington had an outstanding day down the barrel, scoring 197.19 from a possible 200.
He had not long had a rifle out of his hand, having the day before competed in small-bore competition in Armidale for TAS against former students at the annual Old Boys' Weekend.
"The Josephson Shield competition consisted of 10-shot matches at each distance. I didn't drop a shot until the last range, and because it runs east-west we were shooting into the sun and it was a bit harder to see the targets," Cannington said.
