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Team profilesMary BostonPaul CharltonMary is another member of the OldGreshamian girls only hit squad hired by Garyto add some womanly glamour to the team,and this will be her first full NRA tour to theChannel Islands.Having toured Canada, the USA, South Africaand Australia with Great Britain at seniorand/or under 25 level she is no stranger toshooting trips abroad, but does confess thatshe’s looking forward to travelling on a boatinstead of a plane, and thus not having toprune her shoe collection to fit into a minuteweight limit! Needless to say she’s lookingforward to the tour enormously, and hopesas much fun and success can be had this timeas has been in the past.Mary is a confirmed country girl at heart buthas now been living ‘temporarily’ in Londonfor about 5 years. Although there are noimmediate plans for a bid for freedom, the pullof the wild is steadily increasing. Eschewingthe tube in favour of commuting by bicycle,she prefers to see the city from above despitethe risk of marauding lorries and ‘ChelseaTractors’.She has also finally reached the conclusionthat doing it yourself really is better thandoing it for somebody else and thus, incollaboration with a friend, Firefly InteriorDesign & Styling has sprung into being. If yourhome or business needs Firefly you mustphone Mary immediately! See the advert onpage 7.Paul's fascination with rifle shooting started asa result of being useless at ball games atschool. If there had been such a vote he wouldhave been a contender for the person leastlikely to represent his county, let alone hiscountry, at any sport.He returns to the Channel Islands hoping totest his coaching metal. He has been in seriousacclimatisation training by working in Antigua,a 108 square mile island with a population ofabout 60,000, since January. The Antiguanfullbore range had no wind flags and allshooters fire in a kind of volley fire, as themilitary gallery target mechanisms do notfunction, so the marker emerges betweenvolleys to mark all the targets. He says itconcentrates the mind to have to fire a matchfull of sighters, but looks forward to coachingshooters who fire more quickly.Paul has represented Ireland in 14 Mackinnon,12 National, and one each for the Canada andCommonwealth matches in TR and 13 Elchomatches with MR. He has 4 Bisley Queen'sFinal Badges and 2 Grand Aggregate Crosses.He has a collection of finals badges fromaround the world together with GrandAggregate wins in Jersey and Guyana.He was the first person in the world to scorea 20 shot possible at 1200 yards in 2005 whenhe was coached by Gary Alexander.