There are about 100 members in Target Shooting Southland across five associations — Invercargill, northern, southern, western and eastern.
Two of the members were keen-eyed enough to make South Island teams for the most prestigious event of the year — the North/South match, held in Nelson last month.
All of the country’s top shooters were at the event.
Mossburn’s Ben Neumann made the South Island men’s team and the open team for the sixth time.
He first started shooting at 13 and had also been selected four times for the junior team.
Neumann has been to about 10 inter-island matches and said the thing he enjoyed most about shooting was the people.
Flyn Russell, 18, of Invercargill, made the South Island junior side, the South Island men’s team and was on-call for the South Island open team.
He was also selected for the national junior team.
A former James Hargest College pupil, last year he received top individual and top boy in the Secondary Schools Postal Challenge Match.
He was third-top in the New Zealand junior grade this year during the national district champs series. — Allied Media
