SSAA NSW

8 Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (NSW) Inc. Tumut's shooting dynasty daughters Brooklyn Randall and Rebecca Dean both show exceptional promise They are friends and compete together: two SSAA NSW Tumut Branch junior members who have shooting skills in their DNA. They recently proved the point at the 2017 True Grit competition hosted by SSAA NSW Southern Highlands Branch, designed to test accuracy and consistency over two days of events. Brooklyn's combined score over the two days in pistol calibre and rimfire, competing in AA grade, was 148/240, winning her first place for Under 15 Years Junior, while Rebecca's final score in AAA grade was 180, which earned her the Under 18 Junior Trophy. In the open competitions Brooklyn competed against her dad Brett, and Rebecca with her step-grandfather Graeme Whatman. It's no surprise to Brett that Brooklyn, 14, achieved an A grade classification in her first pistol calibre event, at the ACT State Titles last year using her dad's 44/40 Winchester rifle and shot straight into AA grade using a 30/30 Winchester lever action rifle. He himself represented Australia at the first International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union World Championships in France in 1994, coming home with a trophy haul, and competed at three IMSSU World Championships, winning in Brisbane in the high-powered hunting rifle metallic silhouette event. "All of that was BC, before children!" he adds, laughing. Brooklyn has inherited his silhouette shooting skills. "I mainly shoot Cowboy Lever Action Silhouette because I like the open sights, the targets are bigger, that's what I like best," she says. Brooklyn's Under 15 Junior Trophy joins the 2016 Tumut Daylight Saving Shoot trophy she won last year and again this year when she came first in the club competition overall. She wants to keep adding to them. "Metallic Silhouette isn't in the Olympics but there are other places I can go with it," she says.

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