Bertram worked as a range officer, scored and patched on the Service events gaining lots of experience in the lead up to being awarded a national Services range officer qualification, and around that shot in the four Service events.

His highlight of the games was shooting a perfect 60 out of 60 points in the 50 yard prone section of Service pistol for the first time in his shooting career, and hopefully is the first of many to come.

Cruise worked as a national referee for equipment control for three days and as range officer/judge on the 25m ranges as well as being asked to train and coach a wheel chair athlete who was attempting to master the air rifle events for the first time.

In the ISCD Air rifle events the combination of Jeremy Long and Cruise managed fourth place in three events.

In Bertram’s first Arafura appearance despite some equipment problems, he managed to win a silver medal in the Teams WA1500 event with John Hopkinson and Richard Jamieson and three bronze medals in Teams Service Pistol (Ray Andrews and Richard Jamieson), Teams Centre-fire (Ray Andrews and Cruise), and Teams 25 Yard Service Pistol followed by a fourth place in Teams Unrestricted Service Pistol.

Bertram enjoyed his experience of competing and meeting shooters from Singapore, Macau, Indonesia, Aceh, and Taipei as well as learning from experienced Australian shooters.

For Cruise in Air Pistol, a very noisy and interrupted qualifying round saw a poor score.

Officials offered a reshoot to the competitors because of the disturbance but this was turned down due to the tiring nature of already having shot a full match.

Cruise placed fifth in the qualifying round, however a more focused 10-shot final saw him move up to fourth place narrowly missing the bronze medal by 0.5 of a point.

Centre-fire placing was fourth, this time one shot off the bronze medal.

In the 50 Metre Pistol, Cruise managed to come in third in the qualifying round and hold his position in the 10-shot finals to win the bronze medal.

In the Teams 50 Metre Pistol, Cruise teamed up with 15-year-old Blake Lee and 20-year-old Christian Boyle (he coached both interstate a couple of years ago) and formed the team of Younger, Young and Old taking out the gold medal.

Cruise also teamed up with Ray Andrews and Bertram to form Team ABC to win Bronze in the Teams Centre-fire.