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BATattack · Post by **BATattack** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:25 pm

Excellent result boys and girls!! Hopefully we can hear a few stories over a bbq and few cold ones at the lower light club house on their return!

Hats off to the competitors and support staff BUT id like to extend a big THANK YOU to the partners and family's that have sacrificed time with their loved ones to enable them to dedicate their efforts to being the best shooting team in the world! :lol:

Post by **AlanF** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:06 am

To those of you who are attempting to publicise our win:

There will I've no doubt soon be a another report on accurateshooter.com/6mmbr.com. Paul McMenamin was at the FCWC taking photographs, interviewing etc. This will be good background material for any Australian reports. His contact details are accurateshooter@gmail.com, 805-390-1900. He may agree to supply photographs additional to those on the website. Any immediate reports will just need to be news of the results, which are available at several sites. More indepth articles about the Australian Team effort could possibly wait until our return? Sorry I can't be of more help. My main priority today is packing, and getting on the road to Dallas. I don't believe the publicity aspect has been discussed, at least at team meeting level.

Alan

RDavies · Post by **RDavies** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:32 am

Like Alan says, we are all a bit tired and busy over here at the moment. Ben, Cameron and Julie have been sick for a few days and the rest are just plain worn out after being on the range from 06.45 to 7.00pm each day, then reloading until midnight.
Once we get time to relax a bit, maybe some of us can get something written down.

higginsdj · Post by **higginsdj** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:27 am

In regards to media coverage - don't be suprised if there is little or no interest. Its a shooting sport..... For example, our shotgunners have been winning numerous gold medals at world cup events this year. AISL has been putting out press releases left right and centre - but how much media coverage have you seen! Bisely was covered because we beat the Poms at something when the Poms were beating us at everything else - that was the angle - not the fact that an Aussie won a world championship!

Cheers

David

higginsdj · Post by **higginsdj** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:05 am

AISL has some coverage.....

Cheers

David

macguru · Post by **macguru** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:02 am

I have tweeted the journalist who ran the Corbett story in the SMH a couple of weeks ago (winning the QP)... If he is interested ill put him in touch with Alan. I sent him a link to the Accurateshooter page as well...

ecomeat · Post by **ecomeat** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:07 am

higginsdj wrote:AISL has some coverage.....

Cheers

David

David ,
We are a long way from the ACT and are humble cattle farmers. What is AISL ?
OK ....just found it. Never heard of them before.....at face value looks like a good site !
Andrew, good work to make the effort and identify a way to the SMH and then just do it ! That is the sort of thing that we need more of from everyone.
Tony

jcinsa · Post by **jcinsa** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:42 am

Be careful sending people to the 6mmbr site

there are a few glaring inaccuracies on there at the moment

wrong photo / label

Best tell it to them yourself - and get it right

Regards

john

Post by **AlanF** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 1:15 am

Hello again. I'm sitting in a motel room in Decatur about an hour west of Dallas/Fort Worth. Will be going to the airport by taxi later, but have some time to spare, and at last, a respectable internet connection. There was a general internet reliability problem in the Raton area for our whole stay. I was told that lightning had struck a key wireless transmitter and the repair was a lengthy process. If that had not been the case, other team members could have e-mailed me photos etc. each night. Anyway, it obviously didn't detract from our performance, which was the priority (better getting good news late than ordinary news on time?).

I'll take the opportunity to post same photos that Steve Lazarus gave me quite early on. There are numerous others with photos in their cameras, but for various reasons, including how busy we all were, they never got onto my laptop. Anyway, here's some of Steve's :

I hope to get many more photos when everyone gets home.

Alan

Post by **AlanF** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 3:41 am

Taxi's late so time for some more photos.

These are courtesy of Paul McMenamin of 6mmBR. He's a nice fella and admires the way the Australian team has fun while at the same time doing very well.

higginsdj · Post by **higginsdj** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:19 am

ecomeat wrote:
higginsdj wrote:AISL has some coverage.....

Cheers

David

David ,
We are a long way from the ACT and are humble cattle farmers. What is AISL ?
OK ....just found it. Never heard of them before.....at face value looks like a good site !
Andrew, good work to make the effort and identify a way to the SMH and then just do it ! That is the sort of thing that we need more of from everyone.
Tony

I do find it interesting that AISL, who looks after the ISSF side of shooting, had better coverage than our own association!

Cheers

David

johnk · Post by **johnk** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:17 am

David,

They were there. So was the NRAA, but as Alan pointed out, the access for them was crap.

John

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:34 am

Alan,
Did you take that peice of old blue carpet all the way from Maffra to Raton?
Better keep it, it must be a Magic carpet.

Brad Y · Post by **Brad Y** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:39 am

I take it you went to "hooters" :lol:

DaveMc · Post by **DaveMc** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 12:21 pm

No brad, we stumbled into a sandwich bar called "twin peaks" for lunch and to our surprise were greeted by two very large .......... ales