Smallbore shooting is a rifle discipline where small calibre .22 rifles are used to shoot paper targets over a distance of 20 or 50 metres. 

To shoot a perfect 110, Nagorcka had to fire 10 shots, with each shot worth 10 points, clipping or obliterating the pin head in the centre of the target.

Nagorcka defied the odds and scored 10 bullseyes, obliterating each pin head from a 20-metre distance. 

He achieved the feat in the final round of the 14-round pennant series.

Horsham is currently in the lead against teams from across country Victoria and South Australia. 

Club captain Paul Rudolph said the perfect score was exciting. 

“You might see one perfect score in Victoria every couple of years but most of us would never shoot one in our lifetime,” he said. 

“About five of us endeavour to shoot it, so to have Eddy do it is exciting.” 

Nagorcka started shooting when he was 12, won the Wimmera Regional Sports Assembly award in 2007 and competed at the world championships in 2006.  

“He is a determined person who has pretty high expectations of himself,” Rudolph said. 

“He has always endeavoured to try and reach those high level goals.” 

Nagorcka said he was stoked to have shot the perfect score. 

“It’s always something I wanted to do as a personal achievement but I didn’t realise it was a club achievement as well,” he said. 

“Dad took me out to shoot one night and I loved it and just kept going back each week.” 

Nagorcka said he took a break for a number of years after he failed to make the Olympics. 

“I started shooting again last year at the club level. Mum is pretty keen for me to shoot nationally and internationally again. It’s a bit hard with time and money and having a family but I wouldn’t rule it out,” he said.

Rudolph said luck played a role in his perfect score.

“If you are training a lot it probably would come easier but Eddy hasn’t been training much at all,” he said.