Members on the firing range with the air rifles

Members using the air pistols

Analogous to the rifle competition, a similar competition exists for pistol shooters. The pistol resembles a handgun, and functions much like the air rifle. The rules are pretty much the same except you are only allowed to use one arm when firing the air pistol. Many members compete in both the air rifle and air pistol competitions.

The strain of one session is quite exhausting, and in order to achieve maximum points usually only one session is attempted to maximize efficiency and increase one's individual score throughout the competition. However, endurance through members vary, and some members may even attempt up to three session in a single day! In order to complete one season, the competitor must fulfill 25 sessions ('club rules') during the course of the season.

History of the Rifle Club!

The Rifle Association was founded in 1967. During a Club Loreley picnic, some members interested in shooting had the idea to form a Rifle Association with the German Club. Kurt Wagner took the initiative and created the "Loreley Rifle Association". He was elected chairman and held this position for two years. In 1969 Alfred Mühlbach became his successor. Ernst Stader held the position from 1970 to 1974, and Kurt Wagner again for the next three years. Rolf Rocker took over the position in 1977 for six years, then from 1984 Ernst Stader for another five years, and again Rolf Rocker from 1989 to 1994. For the last nine years, Ernst Stader has been in charge of the Rifle Club. The membership varied in those years, from a high of 40 active to a low of 15 members. At the present time we are looking at about 15 or so members, and are still active.

Our Rifle Club took part in many rifle competitions, either in Ontario with the Canadian Rifle Association, or matches in Canada. We also had matches with Clubs from as far as Australia and Germany. The highlight was a trip to Germany in 1974, we visited four well known Clubs with excellent shooters. One Club even had a German Champion among them, needless to say, we did not do to well against that Club!

Since 1973, our group has had competition shoot outs with "Club Maple Leaf Almrausch" from Ottawa for the " O'Connor Award". Many years later we added another Trophy which we called "Hermann Kassinger Wanderpokal". Still to that date, we compete with Maple Leaf Almrausch every year, once in Oshawa, and the next year in Ottawa.