Teams will begin arriving at the weekend ahead of the West Indies Fullbore Rifle Shooting championships billed to fire off next Tuesday at the Timehri Rifle Ranges.
Guyana last hosted the event in 2007 and officials of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) have heightened preparations with shooters from Antigua/Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago expected to arrive to battle with their Guyanese counterparts.
As part of their preparations, the Guyana Team Members were involved in a Team Practice at the Timehri Ranges last Sunday over the 300, 600 and 900 yards ranges. This practice gave the Wind Coaches an opportunity to gauge the new conditions of the Range.
Chief Wind Coach ACP retired Paul Slowe returned home from his duties with the West Indies Cricket Board specifically to get a feel of the conditions.
Guyana are the defending long range champions and will be looking to recapture the short range title they relinquished to Jamaica last year in Antigua.
Meanwhile, members of the organizing committee continued to work on the Range to bring it up to required standard for the Championships.
The Trinidad and Tobago team is expected in Guyana on Friday, the Barbadians are due on Saturday while Antigua/Barbuda, Bermuda and Jamaica will be arriving on Sunday.
Guyana’s foreign-based shooters Sigmund Douglas, John Fraser and Paul Archer are also due here at the weekend.
Douglas and Fraser who are based in the United States are expected Friday while Canadian-based Archer is expected Saturday.
Three days (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) are set aside for individual competition while the team matches will take place on Saturday and Sunday.
Meanwhile the GNRA continues to appeal to Corporate Guyana for financial support in offsetting expenses for the competition.
Treasurer of the GNRA Lt. Col Terrance Stuart has disclosed that the association has received assistance from the Office of the President, Banks DIH, Bank of Guyana, Ministry of Sport, Citizens Bank, Sterling Products Ltd, Demerara Life and the Guyana Defence Force.
