After the culmination of the nine-month competition, Brummell, 72, snuck home to win the title at the Majura Park Gun Club.

The competition adds entrants’ scores by the group scoring method at each event, where shooters take aim at five targets, either from 100m or 200. 

Shooters get series points based on where they finish in the overall field however if they are absent they receive zero.

Brummell was rapt to win it again after taking a risk and missing a shoot for the first time in her career. 

“I took the gamble at the end of October and went to Sydney to shoot so I had no points in Canberra,” Brummell said.

“I was thinking somebody was right up my tail but we both shot badly (in November), so it paid off this time.”

Brummell’s persistent travelling makes the ACT Trophy shoot a tiring event. 

“The endurance part is leaving here at quarter-to-six (in the morning), and in winter we sometimes encounter heavy fogs on the mountain, only to be greeted by snow flakes and minus temperatures in Canberra,” Brummell said.

“In the summer heat the mirage can be so heavy the target almost disappears.”

Brummell took the break from the ACT Trophy to shoot at the NSW Benchrest Championships in Sydney.

The championships are held over two weekends in September and October and she delivered a steady performance to win a gold medal.

Brummell used a 9lb sporter class rifle, a 10.5lb and a 13.5lb gun in the multi-gun event.

“The techniques for each rifle are different and I preferred the heaviest one as the lightest really talks,” she said.

She also came home with the bronze in the two- and four-gun divisions.

“The multi-gun events are very satisfying to me as competition is inclusive,” Brummell said.

“I find I am competing against men who are the offspring of shooters I took on in the early 1970s.”

Brummell, the earliest inductee to the Australian Benchrest Hall of Fame who is still shooting competitively, said the mental challenge was appealing.

“I’ve always said while I’m competitive I’ll stay,” Brummell said.

“It’s the mental challenge which I think becomes more important as you get older.

“I did contemplate giving it away when husband Tom had his strokes but for now he’s quite happy to trot along with me.”