National Action Match Championships & 2008 Smith & Wesson Cup
27-28 September 2008
Blacktown

Top New South Wales competitive shooter Robyn
Ginger, left, made a welcome comeback for the
2008 Smith & Wesson Cup.


Blake Williams receiving last minute tips from his
father Peter before taking his place among the more
seasoned competitors. An increase in the number
of juniors was a pleasing aspect of the 2008 Smith
& Wesson Cup.


Grycol’s Stuart Collibee, left, with 2008 Smith &
Wesson Cup winners Darryl ‘Osca’ Carnicelli, Jim
Staader and Craig Ginger. The NRA Action Pistol discipline took another leap forward when the NRA-sanctioned 2008 Smith & Wesson Cup brought together 50 of Australia’s best discipline competitors at the Sydney-based Blacktown Pistol Club. As Action Pistol event coordinator, I found the event to be a great weekend of pistol competition. We had the country’s best come in from all states to participate in the Smith & Wesson Cup. With the 2009 NRA Bianchi Cup creeping up on us, the guys and girls were only too happy to participate in some serious competition at a national level.

What was pleasing was the number of junior shooters who came up to the line and gave it their best shot. We have been trying very hard to encourage the older brigade to get the young ones involved through our national magazine and it looks like we are having the desired results.

Support from the NRA is also welcome. Their efforts to encourage international competition by promoting internationally sanctioned matches is a great boost to Australian sporting shooters.

The Smith & Wesson Cup recognises equally the efforts of the best in Production, Metallic and Open Class. With Smith & Wesson supporting the event, in conjunction with its Australian representative Grycol International, the SSAA, NRA and industry combination is making inroads into both the quality of competition and its rewards.

Two Model 686 revolvers and an M&P extended slide 9mm were on offer to those who made the grade on match day.

Also of interest to the crowd was junior Blake Williams, who in his first competition used his Smith & Wesson .22LR target pistol, modified for Action Pistol by gunsmith father and Blacktown Club member Pete Williams.

“I am stoked,” said young Blake. “This is my first event and I was able to get through with no real problems. The guys at school are wanting to get out here and have a look at what I do. Now that this is over, I will be taking the video to school.”

Smith & Wesson Cup winners Darryl ‘Osca’ Carnicelli (Open), Craig Ginger (Metallic) and IPSC shooter Jim Staader (Production) were each pleased to be receiving a Smith & Wesson handgun from Grycol CEO manager Stuart Collibee. “We, with our partners in the USA, are only too happy to sponsor competitive pistol events hosted by the SSAA,” said Stuart at the well-attended presentation awards ceremony. “From all accounts, the 2009 NRA Bianchi Cup will be bigger and better than ever, and Grycol are only too happy to support those SSAA members who seriously go about promoting the shooting sports at a local, state, national and international level.”

Many thanks to the members of the Blacktown Pistol Club for their ongoing support of Action Pistol events in Australia.

by Allan Harriman

Metallic Class
	Name	Grade	Bar	Bar-X	Prac	Prac-X	Mov	Mov-X	FP	FP-X	Total	Total-X	LongX
1	Craig Ginger	Master	449	25	478	26	468	29	460	46	1855	126	37
2	Darryl Carnicelli	Master	464	24	463	24	465	19	460	46	1852	113	35
3	Brett Foster	Master	442	19	465	26	454	16	470	47	1831	108	32
4	Charles Kerner	Master	449	23	448	23	432	18	480	50	1809	112	31
5	Brian Hardy	Master	434	15	460	25	468	20	440	44	1802	104	31
6	Zeljko Cvetnic	Master	448	25	461	20	451	18	440	44	1800	107	29
7	Allan Harriman	Expert	427	18	455	15	451	19	460	46	1793	98	27
8	Richard Siebert	Expert	412	9	444	15	455	15	450	45	1761	84	25
9	Brent Laslett	Expert	410	14	441	18	445	12	430	43	1726	87	26
10	Shane King	Ungraded	393	5	413	13	455	17	400	40	1661	75	13
11	Ray Gray	Master	377	14	420	21	434	14	370	37	1601	86	15
12	Gary Fleetwood	Marksman	373	5	414	15	453	22	330	33	1570	75	18
13	Matthew Harriman (Junior)	Marksman	318	5	395	11	380	8	430	43	1523	67	13
14	Peter Renzow	Sharpshooter	353	10	355	6	397	9	180	18	1285	43	13

Open Class
	Name	Grade	Bar	Bar-X	Prac	Prac-X	Mov	Mov-X	FP	FP-X	Total	Total-X	LongX
1	Darryl Carnicelli	High Master	480	48	480	42	480	39	480	48	1920	177	64
2	Zeljko Cvetnic	High Master	478	46	480	34	478	38	480	71	1916	166	54
3	Lee Webb	High Master	480	47	478	39	478	30	480	101	1916	164	61
4	Craig Ginger	High Master	480	48	480	44	474	31	480	48	1914	171	61
5	Charles Kerner	High Master	478	45	480	40	476	29	480	48	1914	162	55
6	Brent Laslett	High Master	480	38	476	34	478	38	480	96	1914	158	52
7	Richard Siebert	High Master	480	37	476	35	474	27	480	99	1910	147	50
8	Anita Mackiewicz (Lady)	High Master	480	44	480	37	468	28	480	96	1908	157	57
9	John Philpott	High Master	480	47	478	35	469	32	480	48	1907	162	58
10	Geoffrey Matthews	High Master	480	46	478	35	478	32	470	47	1906	160	59
11	Bruce Peters (Senior)	High Master	480	45	480	38	463	21	480	48	1903	152	58
12	Allan Harriman	High Master	480	45	476	41	476	28	470	47	1902	161	62
13	Tom Whitehead	High Master	480	41	468	32	474	27	480	48	1902	148	52
14	Brett Foster	High Master	480	47	478	34	472	28	470	47	1900	156	58
15	Glen Land	Expert	470	44	476	34	472	29	480	48	1898	155	52
16	Andrew Hansen (Junior)	High Master	478	40	476	39	462	21	480	99	1896	148	51
17	Les Clark	High Master	478	43	476	26	462	21	480	48	1896	138	45
18	Matthew Harriman (Junior)	High Master	480	46	480	39	465	22	470	47	1895	154	58
19	Robyn Ginger (Lady)	High Master	478	42	475	32	472	24	470	47	1895	145	51
20	Bruce Dickey (Senior)	High Master	480	43	469	31	474	31	470	47	1893	152	50
21	Peter Williams	High Master	480	44	475	24	458	17	480	62	1893	133	49
22	Henry Dajczer	High Master	480	44	480	34	459	27	470	47	1889	152	54
23	Greg Van Borssum	High Master	480	39	474	27	464	15	470	47	1888	128	47
24	Darrell Powell	High Master	480	44	469	23	457	21	480	48	1886	136	50
25	Ray Gray	High Master	478	35	470	27	474	30	460	46	1882	138	47
26	Geoff Miller	High Master	480	41	470	39	451	24	480	60	1881	152	53
27	Brian Hardy	High Master	478	43	474	33	459	22	470	47	1881	145	53
28	Greg Armstrong	High Master	478	40	459	22	476	26	460	46	1873	134	51
29	Rod Hansen	High Master	478	43	473	38	470	20	450	45	1871	146	52
30	Andrew Penney (Junior)	Master	470	38	468	25	472	25	460	46	1870	134	47
31	Stephen Larner	High Master	480	42	444	26	462	27	480	48	1866	143	45
32	Frank Tait	Master	480	45	469	22	443	22	470	47	1862	136	45
33	Kevin Bostridge (Senior)	Master	478	39	443	29	467	23	440	44	1828	135	49
34	Trevor Wilkin (Senior)	Master	474	36	460	25	453	21	440	44	1827	126	40
35	Peter Renzow	Expert	474	23	432	19	468	17	440	44	1814	103	29
36	Suellen Ryan (Lady)	Master	474	33	440	17	424	17	470	47	1808	114	33
37	Jeremy Hansen (Junior)	Sharpshooter	469	29	430	18	434	12	460	46	1793	105	31
38	Raymond Penney	Master	480	38	397	22	472	25	440	44	1789	129	44
39	Richard Lord (Senior)	Expert	437	22	442	24	459	17	430	43	1768	106	30
40	Jason Kukura	Master	478	37	368	20	446	19	470	47	1762	123	42
41	Cherie May (Lady)	Expert	467	21	404	15	435	14	410	41	1716	91	31
42	Blake Williams (Junior)	Sharpshooter	396	25	409	17	404	10	440	44	1649	96	35
43	Samantha Renzow (Junior Lady)	Sharpshooter	348	10	388	11	432	10	420	42	1588	73	22
44	Leon Ovens (Senior)	High Master	0	0	0	0	465	26	470	47	935	73	18

Metallic Production
	Name	Grade	Bar	Bar-X	Prac	Prac-X	Mov	Mov-X	FP	FP-X	Total	Total-X	LongX
1	Jim Staader	Sharpshooter	448	15	440	23	469	14	420	42	1777	94	25
2	Peter Williams	Sharpshooter	357	8	405	6	431	16	380	38	1573	68	14
3	Jodi Lyall (Lady)	Ungraded	343	8	363	7	392	4	340	34	1438	53	14
4	Adrian Keed	Ungraded	320	3	328	6	369	10	270	27	1287	46	8

Teams
Name	Total	Total-X	LongX
Open - Blacktown Gold	5722	492	182
Open - Springvale Gold	5711	473	162
Open - Canberra	5704	478	172
Open - Blacktown Silver	5681	439	157
Open - ST Ives Gold	5599	394	138
Open - St Ives Silver	5595	429	152
Open - Springvale Silver	5291	328	105