Queen's Prize

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The final stage of the Queen's prize will be shot at Bisley on July 23. The Queen's prize is shot over 3 stages. In Queen's stage one this year there were 714 shooters from all over the commonwealth. Course of fire is 2 sights and 7 shots to count at 300, 500 and 600 yards. HPS of highest possible score is 105.21V. The cut off score to make it into Queen's II was 101.10V this year.

In Queen's stage II only the top 300 shot and the course of fire is 2 sighters and 10 shots to count at 300, 500 and 600 yards. HPS 150.30V. Only the scores from Queen's II are carried forward to the Queen's final and only the top 100 shooters shot for the Queen's Prize. This year to make the cut the score was 147.10V.

This year 6 shooters from the Canadian Rifle team have made it to the Queen's final and will compete for the Queen's Prize. The winner of the Queen's Prize receives the huge prize of 250 pounds.

There might be a live feed on the NRA UK website for the final.
 
The Queen's Final was won by a 23 year old young lady, Miss AP Good. She is a member of Cambridge University Rifle Association. This is only the third time The Queen's has been won by a woman, the last time was in 2000. I can't help to notice that 5 of the top 25 are listed as either Miss, Mrs, or Ms.

Great shooting by all the Canadian on a very difficult range.
 
Just read the list. See Calvert took V count, Kimberly was in it. Didn’t see any of the other irish peeps.
 
This was a note from the Queen's prize winner posted on the UK Fullbore Facebook page.


Alice Good GM.
What a surreal experience.
When I first picked up a target rifle back in 2018, something clicked.
Saturday afternoon, 4 and a bit years later, on a windy day up on Stickledown range, I shot at 900 and 1000yds and won HM The Queen’s Prize, one of the most prestigious shooting competitions in the world.
My rifle was the result of weeks of hard work from a number of people. Thank you to Gareth James for finding me the action, and to the family who’s deceased relative it belonged to. Thank you Tom Rylands for barrelling it, for providing me with sights, and for being there for any alterations, no matter how last minute. You have been an invaluable source of expertise for both my own shooting and all of CURA’s successes. Only 1 week before the target rifle imperial began, my rifle still did not have a stock or v-block to complete it, nor had the barrel been run in. A kind donation from an old friend of a friend, Alistair Coakes, fixed the former, with a rifle stock he had picked up at the RAF sale for £5, years before. My lovely boyfriend, Jacob-Jude Parsons, then handmade a v-block from scratch, and everything fit together. This was the first he had ever made (and I’m sure it will not be the last!). Thank you to Nick Tremlett, Ed Compton, and so many others for all of the wind reading and shooting tips you’ve provided me with, and to Nick for taking me aside after 900 yards to have a word and advise me that I should not look at the leaderboard (ignorance was indeed bliss).
Thank you so much to Cambridge University Rifle Association for introducing me to this amazing sporting community, and for lending me so much kit over the last few years, its been a privilege to be the captain in such a successful year. And thank you to Kurt Thune for making such excellent off the shelf jackets!
Thank you lastly, to Ashley Abrahams for organising my chair party and for making sure everything ran (almost) on time. I promise to teach you my target rifle ways if you teach me your match rifle ways. And of course, to all of my amazing friends from CURA and beyond (and the odd good one from Oxf*rd), for carrying me all night, and I’m sorry your shoulders were so sore the next day…
 
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