The Namaka Bench Rest Shooters Club was formed in the early 70's under the relentless energy of Al Murdoch and Terry McCracken. I was one of the 12 original members who each donated a concrete shooting bench. I will try and research/remember more.
The club was located on farmland east and south of Strathmore, Alberta on land owned by Eric Dirks. At first it was simply benches in the open shooting into 100 and 200 yard berms facing east. I forget when we got the firing line covered. The first recording backer was a battery powered rotisserie skewer with a roll of brown paper taped to it, invented and maintained by Terry. It was a chore. Sometimes if you had a bug hole going you had to wait for it to 'move'. You could see the hole in the backer slowly leave the group.
We held the first Super Shoot in Canada with the Forslund brothers cleaning up. First prize was a Remington 40X. Sadly I have no pictures to post. I was Match and Records Chairman for a couple of years and measured many new Canadian records as just about everything we shot made a new record. There were a few recognized US records shot as well.
I have been out of Benchrest Shooting since I mover to Victoria in 1979 but it is nice to see this forum and I will try and organize and add more information.
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