The Inter-Insular Air Rifle and Small Bore Shooting competition was held in Guernsey on Saturday 2nd of April 2011. The Air Rifle competition was held at Cobo United Air Rifle Club with the .22 small bore competition being held at Mont Arrivée in St Peter Port.

As in previous years, there were two trophies being competed for: The Grasset Neame and the Le Riche.

Jersey came out top in both competitions. The Guernsey Air Rfile teams defeated their Jersey counterparts, both in the Grasset Neame (by 21 points) and the Le Riches (by 59 points), The local smallbore teams however were not strong enough to retain the advatage over the Jersey shooters, losing both the Grasset Neame (by 44 points) and the Le Riche (by 131 points) .

This result has generally followed the same format over the past years with Guernsey Air Rifle shooters being stronger than the Jersey teams but it goes the other way in Jersey's favour in the smallbore events.

Lee Roussel an entrant in the Air Rifle event in the forthcoming Island Games was Guernsey's highest scorer with and excellent  total of 377 ex 400. The only other person to beat this in the competition was David Turner of Jersey the 2010 British Champion. Turner scored 386 and had just come from winning the Channel Islands Championship the day before. At that event, held at North United Air Rifle Club, Turner set a new record with a score of 586 ex 600. This is about 10 points above what people were expecting. When asked about the result Turner said "I'm feeing more relaxed, not trying so hard, just letting it come to me". Turner is also entered for the Island Games in June this year. On this form, hopes for a medal are high. In the last games in Aland, Turner just missed a bronze medal by 2.6 points. His CI Championship score on Friday would have comfortably secured him a gold medal in Aland. 

Medals are handed to the top visiting shooters in both competitions. David Turner was presented with his medal in the Grasset Neame event and James Rondel shot a comendable 340 to win the medal in the Le Riche competition.

Air Rifle Detailed Results below.

GRASSET NEAME- GUERNSEY

Names                 TOTAL
P Guillou 44 42 47 45 45 47 45 45 360
A Guillou 43 44 46 45 45 46 43 44 356
E Ozanne 45 47 46 43 46 47 46 47 367
J Le Page 45 45 46 45 37 41 42 44 345
M Creber 46 45 47 45 42 44 44 47 360
C Creber 43 45 42 45 40 43 46 45 349
M Cohu 41 41 44 45 45 48 44 46 354
L Roussel 46 49 47 48 47 48 47 45 377
                  2,868

GRASSET NEAME - JERSEY

Names                 TOTAL
A Bouchard 46 45 41 42 43 44 42 43 346
A Chapman 44 41 47 45 42 44 41 43 347
J Boydens 38 42 45 40 37 34 43 43 322
B Le Cheminant 44 45 45 47 46 45 44 45 361
J Bouchard 46 44 42 48 45 45 47 44 361
S Lopez-Rubio 44 45 46 44 44 43 46 44 356
D Turner 46 50 48 50 48 49 47 48 386
P Le Marinel 46 46 45 48 45 46 47 45 368
                  2,847

LE RICHE - GUERNSEY

Names                 TOTAL
K Bienvenu 33 43 42 43 39 44 38 45 327
B Allen 43 37 45 40 39 45 42 40 329
C Jackson 41 31 45 42 40 42 44 40 325
A Batiste 33 47 41 40 38 43 38 39 319
J D Mechem 44 45 40 39 44 44 43 44 343
P Batiste 40 41 41 41 44 39 40 45 331
K Tostevin 39 37 40 34 35 36 32 38 291
A Norman 41 45 42 47 43 42 41 43 344
                  2,609

LE RICHE - JERSEY

Names                 TOTAL
C Marett 43 42 44 41 39 38 39 40 326
M Norman 38 36 39 37 41 43 37 42 313
P Norman 35 29 27 33 46 47 46 47 272
P Carpenter 39 42 40 35 35 43 42 40 316
J Rondel 39 45 41 40 43 44 44 44 340
P Ahier 39 37 44 40 36 44 41 44 325
A Bouchard 43 46 40 42 45 41 41 41 339
D Chapman 33 41 44 39 40 38 39 45 319
                  2,550

Aggregate Totals

GRASSET NEAME

  Air Rifle Smallbore TOTAL
Guernsey 2,868 3,082 5,950
Jersey  2,847 3,126 5,973

A win for Jersey by 21 points

 

LE RICHE

  Air Rifle Smallbore TOTAL
Guernsey 2,609 2,967 5,576
Jersey  2,550 3,098 5,648

A win for Jersey by 72 points