This year Target Pistol Australia has put together an online competition to allow for local clubs to compete against each other, all across Australia.

It’s a shorter version of 10m air and 25mp which is live-streamed on YouTube. Two teams go head-to-head in these competitions. Teams are ‘handicapped’ by being given 14 points to spend on shooters. Shooters have different values depending on their grade: A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2. Shooters can change throughout the tournament so long as the overall handicapped is not exceeded.

This year Toowoomba has put forward a team and you can watch them live (or whenever you can as the videos are saved on YouTube) and watch all of the other team’s competitions here.

TPC will be competing live 10 May at 1:30pm. Cheer on your club!

Thanks to the members who helped make the 2025 ISSF Open a resounding success. Around 45 competitors competing across 120 individual match entries.

Weather proved favourable for a good weekend of competition and we were only short of range staff on a couple of details which was soon rectified ensuring a professional competition shoot where competitors cold concentrate on their performance in each match. We had more club helpers than any event in the last 10 years.

Well done and congratulations to the 20 club members who picked up grade medals and regional championship medals. This included two members competing for the first time – while still working towards their pistol licences.

A big focus of the club next year will be the Action Nationals and Worlds in October but we should still manage an ISSF Open in the first half of the year.

Our modified ISSF Open program ran well with all matches conducted last Friday and Saturday. Many thanks to those club members who helped prepare the range, equipment and provided food, range duties and other help during the competition.

Congratulations to around ten club members who participated in the competition, several for the first time, and several also achieving grade break scores.

Having a go at our home Open is really no different to a weekend club shoot, your score isn’t as important as having a go. And it’s a rare chance to shoot and have someone else do the scoring and patching! But you do have to take your turn on range duties in other matches.  

Special mention to new junior member (PSQ membership approved just days before the competition) Sinead for breaking grade in Junior Women’s Air in her first competition. And special mention also to Sinead’s grandfather Ian for investing the time and effort to bring a new junior into our sport. That’s three juniors now competing at our club

More than 60 competitors were greeted with bear perfect weather for the 2017 ISSF Toowoomba Open and South West Regional Championships held recently at the Club’s Helidon range.

ISSF pistol competitions involve traditional Olympic and International disciplines including 10 metre air pistol, centrefire, 25 metre pistol, standard match and 50 metre pistol.

The variety of matches within ISSF, and individual gradings based on past performance, means there are opportunities for everyone to compete with others at their level. Men, women and juniors are all well represented.

The Club was pleased to have the Honourable Mr Ian Rickuss, Member for Lockyer on hand to congratulate the winners and hand out medals for the match placegetters as well as regional champions and aggregate winners.

A recent grant from the Department of Sport and Recreation to help build up the club’s participation in the air pistol discipline proved a success with 11 club members competing in this event and four first placings achieved across men’s, women’s and junior men’s events.

ISSF pistol shooting is a sport that favour those with good concentration, a steady hand and the ability to maintain focus over events that can last up to several hours. But it is also a very inclusive sport, with opportunities for those who may not excel at fast moving sports and competitions regularly conducted for IPC (Paralympic) competitors. Many club members take up the sport in retirement while others find it’s a great sport for when running around a field is no longer appealing. Strict safer protocols and procedures ensures a safe and relaxed activity for everyone involved.

With most competitors travelling to attend from around Queensland, New South Wales an even South Australia, the event provides a valuable boost to the local economy with accommodation and retailers in Helidon and Toowoomba benefitting.

The success of the event relies heavily on the volunteer time of club members who organise matches, ensure they are conducted safely and in compliance with the rules, provide food and hospitality and put in many hours getting the range facilities up to scratch before the event.

The 2016 ISSF State Titles proved to be one of the best in years for the Toowoomba Pistol Club.

With three members competing we didn’t have the numbers of many other clubs but each shooter came away with some good results.

Our results and the overall winners are provided below. Full results available from the Pistol Shooting Qld website.

10m Air Pistol

Greg was in the Men’s Air Pistol Final, which was very exciting – finished in 8th position.

50m Pistol

Greg was in the 50m Pistol Final and finished in 4th position

25m Rapid Fire

25m Centre Fire

Rennie was also 3rd in the Veteran’s Aggregate.

Other results: