Great White IPSC level II shoot in Barbados this weekend
Plans are in place to take the sport of pistol shooting in Barbados off the backburner and make it a main-stream sport.
In order to do this, the Barbados Rifle Association has teamed up with the newly formed Great White Shooting committee to facilitate the growth of the sport. These two have organised an International Pistol Shooting Confederation (IPSC) Level 2 shoot at Paragon this weekend.
One of the members of Great White Shooting Charles Davis noted that although IPSC shooting was introduced to the island some 14 years ago, the sport has not developed as it should.
“The rise of that shooting has not gone to a higher level because of a lack of funding and the camaraderie on that type of shooting broke down. A group of us travel the Caribbean doing this shooting, but we found that at home, we weren’t doing sufficient shooting at that type of level.
“We basically were going into competitions overseas kind of hand in foot – thrown in – among these competitors who shoot as much as possible. So we decided to improve the level of IPSC shooting by having level two matches and also level one matches,” said Davis.
He added the level two matches will be held at Paragon and they are planning to hold the level one matches at the Barbados Rifle and Pistol Federation in Waterford. This weekend’s shoot will have six stages and a steel challenge over the two days of competition, in long, medium and short courses.
There will be entrants coming from St. Lucia, Trinidad and Curacao and is shaping up to be very competitive.
(PH)
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