Shooting at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games was the second appearance of Shooting at the Commonwealth Games. The sport returned to the Games after missing the 1970 edition.
The events were held at three venues around Christchurch; the first was to the northwest of the city on a purpose-built range at McLeans Island. The second was the Christchurch Gun Club's new grounds at Yaldhurst, with the third 20 kilometres west of the city at the West Melton Rifle Range in West Melton.
Competition featured contests in six disciplines, an increase of one from 1966.
Canada topped the shooting medal table by virtue of winning four gold medals.
Medal table
Medallists 50m free pistol Jules Sobrian Norman Harrison Laszlo Antal25m rapid-fire pistol William Hare Jules Sobrian Bruce McMillan50m rifle prone Yvonne Gowland Bill Watkins Alister AllanFull bore rifle Maurie Gordon Colin McEachran James SpaightTrap John Primrose Brian Bailey Phil LewisSkeet Harry Willsie Joe Neville Robin Bailey
50 metres free pistol PosAthletePts1 Jules Sobrian 5492 Norman Harrison 5493 Laszlo Antal 5434 Donald Hadford 5385 Bertram Manhin 5386 Leonard Vivian 5367 John Cooke 5358 Gordon Forsyth 5269 Denis Ernest Remon 52510 Ken Stanford 52411 John Harun 52412 John Irvine52213 Robin Macdonald 52014 Brian Weld 51915 Noel Duquemin 51716 Robert Hassall 509 17 John Bridge 50818 Richard Cross 508 19 Ronald Guy 456
25 metres rapid-fire pistol PosAthletePts1 William Hare 5862 Jules Sobrian 5833 Bruce McMillan 5814 John Cooke 580 5 Ken Stanford 5786 Tony Clark 5787 Robert Hassall 5748 Ronald Trevorrow 573 9 William Edgar 57110 Peter Osmond Royals 56811 Brian Weld 56712 Denis Remon56413 Terry O'Dwyer 56314 John Howat 56215 Solomon Lee 55316 Gordon Forsyth 542 17 Murray Anderson 500
50 metres rifle prone PosAthletePts1 Yvonne Gowland 594 2 Bill Watkins 5913 Alister Allan 591 4 Ian Ballinger 5885 Reginaldo Remedios 587 6 Charles Trotter 587 7 Donald William Brook 586 8 Malcolm Cooper 585 9 Edward Corlett 585 10 David Smith 58411 Jack Scott 58412 Dismus Onyiego 58313 Colin Harris 58314 Bob Cheyne 58215 Maurice Le Mottee 58216 Simon Ekeno 58117 John Schofield 58118 Edson Warner 58019 David McTaggart 57920 Bertie Aitkin 57821 Clifford Mallett 57622 Frank Balcombe 57523 William Ward 575 24 Francis Napoli 56525 José Lei 463
Full bore rifle Queens Prize Pair PosAthletePts1 Maurie Gordon 387.262 Colin McEachran 386.273 James Spaight 383.354 Stanley Gray 383.285 Frank Godfrey 378.256 Keith Pilcher 376.237 John Vivian 375.25 8 Clifford Mallett 373.249 Philip Amy 373.1710 Michael David Ford 371.2211 William Ward 370.23 12 Ernie Neely 367.2013 Edson Warner 364.19 14 Peter Quilliam 360.2915 Robert Stewart 360.21 16 Alain Marion 303.28
Clay pigeon trap PosAthletePts1 John Primrose 1962 Brian Bailey 1933 Philip Lewis 191 4 Douglas Wilkin Smith 1885 Joe Neville 1865 Bruce Lassen 1867 Edward Wladichuk 1847 Ronald Bevan 1849 Warren John Charlton 1829 Louis Stewart 18211 Robert Carr-Hartley 17612 Frederick Rimmer 17413 Jim McKenzie 16514 Ian Williams 161
Skeet PosAthletePts1 Harry Willsie 1942 Joe Neville 1913 Robin Holway Bailey 1894 Alec Bonnett 1895 Ronald Bevan 187 6 Ally Ong 1877 Roger Rees 1858 Mark Edward Little 1819 Jim McKenzie 18010 Dennis Devlin 17811 Bruce Anderson 17412 Frederick Rimmer 16313 Robert Carr-Hartley 16114 Harry Hoareau 147
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