Colac shooter Rod Brain is back home after helping Australia to fifth place in an international event.Brain competed in the Australian veterans’ team and finished fifth at the Federation Internationale de Tir Aux Armes Sportives de Chasse World Titles in Cyprus.Brain said FITASC was renowned as the most difficult of clay target disciplines. The Cyprus [...]

Colac clay shooter Kevin Robertson has beaten the best Tasmania has to offer and now is hungry for more.The 43-year-old took his short target-shooting career to its highest peak, winning his first field and game state title in the 2008 Sporting Clays Championship in Derwent Valley.Robertson won the Double A Division and produced the highest [...]

Three generations of Colac’s Holt family have outclassed shooters from across south-west Victoria to take out the third leg of a four-stage tournament.Five members of the Holt family, eldest member Ian and his three sons Stephen, Greg and Jeff as well as grand-daughter Sarah, represented Colac Gun Club in a one-day tournament in Colac.Team Holt [...]

Colac shooter Tom Holt will return to Colac with two gold medals and a silver medal after competing in two world championship events in Ireland.But despite the medal haul, 19-year-old Holt was disappointed after he missed the World Down The Line Junior Shooting Championships individual final by one point after weather conditions hampered competitors.Proud parents [...]

Colac shooting sensation Tom Holt has won a silver medal in a pre-world championship shoot in Ireland.Holt is representing Australia at the world down the line junior shooting championships at the Esker shooting grounds at Banagher, Ireland.Holt’s medal gave him a boost heading into the world junior championship shoot last night.Holt shot 96 out of [...]

Rifle shooting is more than just a sport for Colac father and son duo Keith and Terry Hay.In fact it’s fair to say shooting is a lifelong passion for the crack shots.Keith Hay is a legend of the sport in Colac and is captain of the Colac Rifle Club for the 54th year in a [...]

Training is starting to get serious for Colac shooter Tom Holt. Holt will raise the bar with his training schedule during the next six weeks in preparation for his assault on the world stage with Australia’s under-21 team in Ireland. A state event this weekend will kick-start a hectic [...]

Colac junior shooters dominated an inter-school competition. A team of 15 Trinity College students won team and indivual honours at a Victorian Catholic Secondary School Shooters Aggregate competition at Swan Hill. Jarryd Gardiner, David Fenn, Kyle Johnson and Terry Baulch shot a combined total of 51 from a possible [...]

Some of Australia’s best senior shooters will take aim near Colac next year. Barongarook’s shooting range will be the site of a simulated field and game clay-target event during the 12th Masters Games hosted by Geelong in 2009. Colac Field and Game President Phil Gaylard said the event, on February [...]

Shooters from across Victoria will take aim in Colac and district this weekend. Colac Field and Game club has an open shoot at Barongarook on Sunday. Field and Game member Rod Brain said shooters from across Victoria would travel to the club’s range to compete. Colac Pistol [...]