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Competitions & Results

The Association provides a wide-ranging selection of competitions for its affiliates.  All take place in the winter indoor season (October to March).

Competitions overview
County teams
Shoulder-to-Shoulder League
Team Postal League
Individual Postal League
Championships
CYOH
Air Rifle & Pistol
3P
World Cup
 

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Archive material
Centenary

Scottish Meeting and
combined SSCA &
SSRA meeting (2007)

This League was originally for teams of six, one card each.  Starting with the 1999-2000 season it was changed to be teams of four, two cards each.  This was due to the falling numbers of participants in the sport and the difficulties some clubs had in raising six-person teams.  This retrenchment has continued as clubs fall by the wayside, and is reflected in that we only run two divisions with seven teams altogether nowadays, and that's with one club fielding a B team.  The Matchplay league which is run concurrently was introduced at the same time to add more interest.

Division 1                  (for the Younger Shield & the  Div 1 Matchplay Trophy)
Division 2                  (for the Evening News Cup & the Div2 Matchplay Trophy)
Division 3                  (for the Maule Targe)
Division 4                  (for the Aitchison Cup)
Division 5                  (for the Mortimer Trophy)
Division 6                  (for the Scotsman Trophy)

Click here to see the winners of the Hayhoe Cup for the highest average in the league.
Click here to see the winners of the County Silver Medal, awarded to the shooter with the highest average in the league who has not won it before.

In 1976 another Shoulder-to-Shoulder league was introduced, shooting in the indoor range at the newly built Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.  It was for teams of three, and was shot at 50 yards initially but changed to 50 metres in 1980.  Due to the dearth of equivalent facilities elsewhere, this competition was unique certainly in Scotland and possibly in the UK and attracted teams from a wide area (eg Stirling, Dumfries, Berwick).  The competition was discontinued in 1991 because the range was closed due to safety issues and it proved too costly to upgrade it.  Here are the lists of winners of the three divisions which were run during the relatively short existence of this popular league -

Division 1                  (for the Mortimer Trophy)
Division 2                  (for the Scotsman Trophy)
Division 3                  (for the Division 3 Plaque)

Click here to see the winners of the Coronation Cup for the highest average in the league.