About Us

Welcome to ICORE Australia. Our purpose is to promote organised revolver shooting, with an emphasis toward better knowledge of safe handling and proper care of firearms as well as improved marksmanship. Within our organisation we highly value the characteristics of honesty, good fellowship, self-discipline, team play and self-reliance. These characteristics are the essentials of good sportsmanship.

ICORE Australia was officially formed and registered in Australia on the 11th of October 2000. The first club registered with the Association was the
Bendigo Wheelburners located at the Bendigo Pistol Club, Victoria, Australia. Since then there have been many more clubs affiliate, with ICORE Australia developing further under the vision of each Board of Directors and the requirements of our membership body.

The first Board Members of the Association were, Howard MacDonald (Chairman) and Heather MacDonald (Secretary). Some of the very first members were, Ron Oliver, Vic Meek, John Meek, Des Jackson, Jeff Hobbs, Peter Gillahan, John Milic and Andy Beggs with hundreds since following.

The ICORE discipline is a revolver only competition and, on inception, consisted of Open and Limited Divisions. More recently, Limited 6 and Classic Divisions have been added. As our membership needs have changed and grown so has the Association.

The first Regional Championship match was hosted at the Bendigo Pistol Club by the Bendigo Wheelburners on the 18th – 19th August 2001 with 48 competitors, shooting 10 stages. From very humble beginnings the yearly Regional Championship held in various Australian State’s & Territory’s has grown in attendance throughout the years. In 2022 (Delayed due to COVID19) the Regional Championship returned to its origins to be hosted at the Bendigo Pistol Club for its 20th anniversary in Australia with 76 competitors, shooting 18 stages. In 2023 ICORE Australia became independent of the USA parent organisation through a unanimous vote of the membership body. This has now caused the yearly Regional Championship event to evolve into the ICORE Australia National Championships hosted in 2024 by the South Queensland Wheelgunners at the Metropolitan Pistol Club, Brisbane.