Local shooters ready to fire in Barbados in national team AIMING HIGH: David Gardiner and Gumdale's Kim O'Loghlen will shoot for Australia in The Australia Match in Barbados this May. Picture: Peter Cronin Source: Quest Newspapers Locals Kim O'Loghlen and David Gardiner are set to make the journey to Barbados in May but it will be no holiday as they compete in the historic Australia Match in the West Indies. Gumdale's O'Loghlen and Gardiner from the Natives Rifle Club will be a part of the Australian team doing battle for one of the country's oldest sporting trophies in long-range rifle shooting. The Australia Match has been held since 1907 when it was held as the Empire Match and sees Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the Channel Islands do battle. With competition more than a month away, O'Loghlen said the team is training hard to get the trophy back from reigning champions Great Britain. "They won it on our home soil two years ago so we have to get it back," O'Loghlen said. Our preparations have gone well. We've been training at Belmont in the humid conditions, which we expect in Barbados. We go into a camp this weekend in NSW, which will be great for us, but everyone is raring to go. Belmont range shooters Bill Baker, Tim Berry, Darren Enslin and his wife Gillian are also in the team.