DELUNGRA farmer Matt Taylor has been selected to compete on the Australian Rifle Team at the World Long Range Championships to be held in October in Brisbane.

Taylor will contest the main team event, the Palma match, where teams of 16 from across the globe go up against one another in a two-day shoot off.

He said the main teams to contest Australia would be England, USA, South Africa and New Zealand.

The championships will attract more than 500 shooters to Brisbane, and will be spread over three weeks. This isn’t the first time Taylor has represented Australia. Four years ago he travelled to Canada to compete in the same event.

“It was a good experience representing Australia for the first time and getting to go to Canada,” he said.

That year they came third, Australia hasn’t won the Palma match since 1988.

Taylor has been shooting since he was 18, and said his best achievements so far were being selected to go to Canada, and winning the Grand Aggregate in Brisbane last year.

Taylor said he enjoys the sport.

“I’ve always liked it,” he said.

“It’s good to get to meet all different kinds of people, and the travel as well.”

Before the World Champs in October, Taylor will compete in Warwick in May, Brisbane in August and Sydney in September.

© 2011 Inverell Times

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