Former Apollo Bay shooter Robert Howell has come agonisingly close to winning two international shooting gold medals. Howell and team-mate Warren Potent won an international silver medal at the eighth Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championships in New Delhi, India. Howell and Potent shot a combined [...]

One of Colac’s oldest sporting clubs is on the hunt for people in a 1930s’ club photo. Colac Rifle Club wants to find names for nine people in Colac Rifle Club’s Christmas shoot photo in 1933. Long-time Colac Rifle Club member Keith Hay said the club had retrieved the [...]

Redemption is a driving force behind Colac shooter Tom Holt’s last bid for a junior world title. Preparing to represent Australia next month at his third world championships, Holt, 20, is determined to make his final opportunity on the junior world shooting stage count. Holt will travel to the [...]

Former Apollo Bay shooter Robert Howell will represent Australia at a Commonwealth shooting championship in India in February. Howell, who now lives at Warrnambool, is one of three Australian representatives shooting at the Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championships in New Delhi. “It’s a test event for the [...]

Australia’s top veteran shooter Rod Brain says he’s excited about the rest of the world coming to him for a change. Colac’s international-calibre marksman has travelled far and wide to match firearms with the world’s top shooters in the past few years. But later this month, this year’s [...]

A Colac junior shooter has learnt Olympic shooting techniques at a development camp in New South Wales. Kurt Jamieson was one of 18 junior shooters Australia-wide to attend a junior development camp at Wagga Wagga. The 17-year-old sharp shooter fine-tuned his shooting technique, learnt about media relations and had [...]

Three Colac shooters will compete at a world field and game shooting championship in November. Rod and Robert Brain and Brian Robertson will compete in the Australian Field and Game Shooting Championship next month at Murgheboluc near Inverleigh. The trio will also compete at the 31st FITASC World [...]

Four Colac Gun Club members have won Commonwealth medals at a gun shoot. David Fenn, Jarryd Gardiner, president Steve Tevelein and Kurt Jamieson won seven medals between them at the Commonwealth Clay Target Championships. Kurt collected almost half the club’s [...]

Colac district’s top ten-pin bowler can now lay claim to being the state’s best senior player. Simpson’s Merv Billing, 57, has made his fifth Victorian masters’ team, qualifying with the highest average score at state selection trials in Melbourne. Billing achieved an average score of 227 during a two-round [...]

A part of Colac’s sporting history is on display for the community to see. Colac Rifle Club has trophies, photographs and uniforms on display at Colac and District Historical Society at Colac Otway Performing Arts and Cultural Centre. Colac Rifle Club captain Keith Hay said the display featured [...]