Vice-captain of the Guyana Fullbore shooting team, Dylan Fields, led the first day’s aggregate at the West Indies Rifle Shooting Champion-ships at the Twickenham Rifle Ranges in Jamaica yesterday.
According to reports from Jamaica, Fields defied very windy conditions rarely experienced at Twickenham, to finish the opening day on 130 points with 10 V-Bulls out of a possible 135 points in the ‘X’ Class competition.
He was closely followed by Ransford Goodluck who was on 129 points with 10 V-bulls as Guyanese shooters showed form in the iIndividual competition.
Fields dropped one point at the 300-yard range to end with 34 points with 4 V-bulls and returned to shoot 48.3 at 600 yards and 48.3 at the 900 range.
Team-mate Goodluck, one of the local shooters expected to excel, completed the first day just one point behind Fields.
Goodluck was third at the 300 yards range with a score of 35.4.
Dylan’s father Richard “Dickie” Fields also shot a possible of 35.3 at the 300 yards.
At the 900-yard range, Guyanese shooters occupied the first three places, with Mahendra Persaud winning with 48.4, followed by Dylan Fields with 48.3 and Major Terrence Stuart with 47.7.
Stuart was leading the regional ‘O’ Class shooters with an overall score of 121 points with 12 V-bulls.
Other top scorers for Guyana in the ‘X’ Class, Mahendra Persaud 125 points with 6 V-bulls, Richard Fields 124-9, Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe 123-7, Ryan Sampson 121-6, Claude Duguid 120-2 and Dane Blair with 114-2
Day two of the individual championship was scheduled for yesterday and the shooters were competing at 300, 500 and 1000 yards ranges.
The final iIndividual championship ends today while tomorrow will be a rest day before the team championship on Saturday and Sunday.
The championships are attracting shooters from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Guyana, Jamaica, London & Middlesex Rifle Association and Trinidad & Tobago.
The Guyanese shooters are the reigning regional short range champions following their excellent performance at last year’s championships held at home at the Timehri Ranges.
The local marksmen missed out on the long range title by just one point to Trinidad and Tobago and senior members of the team vowed to reclaim it in Jamaica this year.
