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PAGE 14, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17,1978, WHITBY FREE PRESS 1980 Olympics are his target By BRIAN WINTER Staff Writer Whitby resident Ron Alldred iý a champion in the sport of running game target SELBY, MADGETT, BOLER & HAAR Chartered Accountants W.A.D.Selby C.A.,M.C.A.B.V. C.J.Rôberts' c.A. B.K.Madgett C.A. A.D.Chapmanfc Offices 171 King Street East, Oshawa 1-18 Walton Street Sheridan Mall, Pickering R.W.Boler .C.A. C.W.Marlowe C.A. T.Haar C. .A. Telephones 579-5531 885-2335 839-0153 shooting, and has his sights set on making Canada's 1980 Olympic team in this sport. He placed second in the 1976 Olympic team trials at Montreal, but did not get on the team that time because only one person could be on Canada's Olympie team, and he was short of the Olympic standard. In running game target shooting, "95 per cent of it is all in the brain and the other five per cent is in condition- ing and equipment," says Mr. Alldred. The sport is one that definitely.requires skill and quick reflexes. A paper target with a picture of a wild boar on it runs on a track 33 feet long between two concrete walls. The target, with bullseye rings on it, is 50 metres (160 feet) from the shooter, who is in a standing position with a .22 calibre rimfire single shot riflo with a telescopic sight. He cannot mount the gun to shooting position until the "pig" appears from behind the wall, says Mr. Alldred. If the "pig" makes a slow runthe shooter has five seconds to fire his shot; if the "pig" makes a fast run, he has 2½ seconds. In competition, the shooter has 20 shots at a slow run, 20 at a fast run, and then 10 each at fast and slow runs. One shot is fired and scored on each run. . The top possible score in such a competition is 600 points, and Olympic Standard is 540 points. A Russian holds the world's top score of 579 points. Mr. Ron Alldred, of Whitby, shows off the plaque he won as provincial champion in 1976 for running game target shooting. He came second in the Olympic trials for this event in 1976, and is hopingto make Canada's Olympic team in 1980. Presently he holds second place in Canada to a man from Quebec City who beat him by only four points last year. Free Press Photo Championships in Soeul, Korea, Sept. 24 to Oct. 5. Mr. Alldred shoots at the Oshawa Skeet and Gun Club, north of Columbus in the winter, and in the summer at the Marksmen Club of Oshawa on Taunton Road East. He started a training pro- gram this winter with weights and calisthenics, and practices on the range once a week in the winter, and three or five times a week in the summer. He also practices at his home using a "dry fire" method which does not shoot any projectile from the gun. Mr. Alldred did three- position rifle shooting for seven years before he got into running game shooting. Alldred's highest score was 528 in August 1977, and he hopes to reach Olympic standard by this summer. Running game target shooting is 'a very difficult and technical sport, and there are only 30 Canadians who compete in it, says Mr. Alldred. Mr. Alldred has been participating in this sport for only two years, but he is already near the top in Canada after 10 competitions In October 1976 he got the civilian high score at a competition at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia. Three months earlier he had won the Ontario Provincial championships at Kitchener. In 1977, Mr. Alldred placed second in the Ontario Cham- pionships and second in the National championships, only four points behind a man from Quebec City. Mr. Alldred has a busy shooting schedule for 1978. On March 16 he competed as the only running boar shooter on the Canadian In- ternational rifle team at the Benito Juarez Invitational Shooting Competition in Mexico City. On March 4 and 5 he attended the Mid-Eastern U.S. Running Game Track Championship in Virginia, but does not know how well he did, as the results have not yet been published. Mr. Alldred will compete again in the provincial and national championships in Kitchener, and if he can reach the Olympic standard of 540 points out of 600, he would like to compete in the World Moving Target