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Introduction

Welcome to Scottish Target Shooting!  This Federation is the umbrella organisation responsible for the administration and development of target shooting in Scotland.  Much of this work is carried out by our four member associations, namely the Scottish Clay Target Association, the Scottish Pistol Association, the Scottish Rifle Association and the Scottish Smallbore Rifle Association.

Scottish Target Shooting is the point of contact for the sport of target shooting for various agencies and other bodies, such as sportscotland and the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland.  It also represents the interests of Scottish target shooters on the British Shooting board.

Scottish Target Shooting has direct responsibility for the selection of teams to compete at Commonwealth Championships, and nomination of athletes to Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland for participation in Commonwealth Youth Games and Commonwealth Games.

All queries relating to the Federation should be directed to Jacqui Dunlop.

Scotland's Oldest International Sport!

According to the National Museum of Scotland, Target Shooting is the oldest International Sport in the world.  The first International Competition held in the modern sporting era took place between Scotland and England during the National Rifle Association's inaugural meeting at Wimbledon in 1860.

Commonwealth Games Programme Changes

At the recent Commonwealth Games Federation Assembly in Sri Lanka a number of changes to the Commonwealth Games programme have been agreed:

• With immediate effect, Women's Skeet and Women's Double Trap have been removed from the programme.  This change is as a direct consequence of low participation levels at the 2002 and 2006 Games in these events.  Women's Skeet remains an Olympic event, and Scottish Target Shooting will continue to support athletes in this event who are pursuing Great Britain team selection.

• From effect from 2014, with the exception of Fullbore Rifle, all of the Pairs events, and the non-Olympic individual events, are to be removed from the programme.  The non-Olympic events are Women's 50m Prone Rifle - an event in which Scotland has won three Gold, two Silver and two Bronze medals since 1994 - Men's 25m Standard Pistol and Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol.  All three of these events have attracted considerably higher numbers of participants than a number of the Olympic events which are retained, and the Women's Prone decision in particular will mean that for the first time ever, Women will be unable to compete in the Prone event at the Commonwealth Games.

Scottish Target Shooting is fully committed to working with our partners and colleagues across the Commonwealth to appeal these decisions.

Scottish Institute & Area Institutes of Sport

We are delighted to announce that the following athletes are to be offered support by the Scottish Institute of Sport and the Area Institute of Sport network for 2008/9:

Scottish Institute of Sport:	Jonathan Hammond (Rifle), Shona Marshall (Trap), Sheena Sharp (Rifle); Neil Stirton (Rifle), Matthew Thomson (Rifle)
Grampian Institute of Sport	Oliver Barron (Rifle), Emma Cole-Hamilton (Rifle), Kay Copland (Rifle), Catriona MacGregor (Pistol)
Tayside & Fife Institute of Sport	Sam Adamson (Fullbore), Sian Bruce (Skeet), Robin Honhold (Rifle), Phillip Lucey (Fullbore)
East of Scotland Institute of Sport	Jonathan Borland (Fullbore), Fraser Cheetham (Rifle), Rory McAlpine (Rifle), Graham Rudd (Rifle)
Central Scotland Institute of Sport	Jennifer McIntosh (Rifle), Natalie Sarafilovic (Fullbore)
West of Scotland Institute of Sport	Dave Caughey (Rifle), Anja Hogben (Pistol)