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Corporal Ryan Steacy BCR
I just wanted to send PCDHFC a thank you for allowing myself and a few select other military individuals the opportunity to train at the PCDHFC range. I recently returned from Bisley, England where I was shooting as a part of team Canada with the Canadian Army Combat Shooting Team. This event is known in military circles as the "olympics" of combat shooting and is considered the pinnacle of combat shooting challenges in the world. Along with the shooting skills required, the month long event is extremely physically gruelling.
Participants are required to carry approximately 45-55lbs of gear including body armour and ballistic plates while running all the events in 30+ degree heat. Matches consist of some static shooting but generally involve either running/sprinting before shooting, carrying heavy objects like 175lb dummies and/or a combination of all of the above.Targets exposures are either quick snap type exposures, moving target exposures or rapid fire exposures. Many are shot on electronic ranges from non-prone positions like kneeling,sitting and standing. I have been on 6 Canadian teams but this was the first time I trained at a civvy range before deploying and I can say that without the training I was able to accomplish at the PCDHFC range, I would have had a difficult time shooting as well as I did. For that I offer my sincerest thanks!
This was one of the best years that Canada has had at this meet. In total the CACST came home with over 50 medals, both as a team and individual. I shot quite well and managed to place third overall in the English NRA service rifle championships amongst well over 120 of the best military marksmen in the world. I also won probably the largest individual match. The Queen Mary match is 5 other matches scored together and the winner receives a plate and chalice trophy that is over 100 years old and insured for (according to the English NRA) over 4 million British pounds. The trophies are the twins to the ones that are awarded to the winners of the Wimbeldon tennis championship. Apparently those trophies used to be shooting trophies when the town of Wimbeldon was the center for English and commonwealth marksmanship before Bisley, but went missing at some point only to resurface later to become the tennis trophies they are now.
Again, thank you, without PCDHFC team Canada and myself would not have accomplished as much as we did. Thank you for helping keep Canadian soldiers at the forefront of the world's best marksmen!
Cpl.R.Steacy
BCR
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