I can't find the main batch of Palma material, but I did find some notes.
Canada started discussions about bringing back the Palma Match, in hopes of having a Palma in Canada as part of the 1967 Centenial. The 1966 Match at Camp Perry (USA) was a preliminary match to get the bugs out. The Americans supplied national Match M14s and it was shot with NM Ammo.
I have no notes on the 1967 Match in Canada.
In 1968 it was at Camp Perry again. Winchester M70s were supplied, equipped with Redfield 1/4 minute sights. The sights were poor. The Americans knew this and used an elastic band on their sight to take out the backlash. To this day, Canadian and Brit Palma Team members wear an elastic band around their team tie, as a sort of protest. The Americans were seen as "gamers".
E.L. Dunlop was a member of the Canadian Palma Team in '68, '69, 70, 74 & 79. I have his scores for some of those years.
The concept of host nation supplying rifles got dropped along the way. It was difficult and expensive to come up with so many rifles. In later years it was not unusual to have 6 or more teams, with South Africa, New Zealand and Australia becoming regulars.
In 1992 I was Captian of the Canadian Team at the Palma hosted by the Americans. We supplied our own rifles and they supplied the ammo. It was custom loaded in Winchester brass with about 48 gr of 4895 and the new Sierra 155 gr bullet. It shot very well.
Bill Ruger offered to supply target rifles to the USA team. This did not go very well for them. I suspect barrel quality was poor. In the end I don't know if any were used in the match, although I did see some guys using one or two in the preliminary matches. We beat the Americans by a wide margin, but the Brits beat us. The Brit Team Capatain was Colin C.C. Cheshire, know by all as C4.
