Busy day and only time for a short post. Chilly but dry and plenty of good shooting.
Results on the scores page – well shot all. I will work out the results for the year for Service Rifle when I get a minute.
Photos of the day below – see you at the Christmas shoot in two weeks
We are currently waiting for Essex police to renew our Home Office Approval. They are notoriously slow so we have no option but to wait.
The result of this is that we can only sell ammunition on the range to members who have a variation for that calibre and type on their certificate and the sale has to be entered on their certificate.
We cannot lend members and guests club guns either.
So if you are coming along on Sunday bring your own gun and ammunition or make arrangements with a friend. Sorry but there it is.
The course of Fire has been posted on the COF page. A further copy is here:-
It helps if you have read the course of fire and are ready for each stage. These shoots can get quite busy and if people are ready then it all moves along much faster and no one has to hang around for too long. Yes you will have to take a turn in the butts and possibly more than one!
The club rifles have been inspected by Fulton’s for safety and Tim has given them a loving coat of oil. Please look after them if you borrow one. We have ammunition and if you want to shoot the whole competition you will need to bring at least £40 to cover the 52 rounds you need.
If anyone wants to take some pictures of the event then I am happy to post them. I always have good intentions of taking photos but end up being too busy to take as many as I should. In general we try to avoid a clear picture of shooters faces – Security / DPA and all that!
So that’s all for now – see you next weekend. Pray for decent weather.
A fine day with over 35 shooters on the range. We welcomed teams from Wandsworth, Bookham, Horsham, Epsom, Sussex HG and of course our very own Dorking team.
The weather was kind and it was a great day. The standard of shooting was excellent and no matter how I tried to fix the scores I couldn’t make Dorking win. We felt it only fair that we didn’t beat our guests but we may not be so kind next time. We hope to run more by invitation team TR shoots next year so if you came along as a guest then you are welcome back – get in touch and we will sort something out.
The results were rather hurried as I did them on the range and I have updated the results and reformatted the report. The revised results are here. We did have to make up some of the teams to 4 members by moving some spares to other clubs so if you see your name under another club then that’s why. It was either that or make it teams of three. This only really affects Horsham who only dripped one point with their top three and would have easily won. sorry chaps! – you could have shot for Dorking.
We held the shoot in aid of the Royal British Legion and raised £190.00 for charity along with observing a 2 minutes silence at 11am in memory of the fallen.
Barry was on hand with his famous venison sausages that are home-made and are delicious!
Some of the shooting
The scores are on the results page.
The winners were : Wandsworth with 392.47
The top shooters were G Palmer and M Woolger both with 100.15 Well shot.
Thanks to all who turned out and made the day a success. We cant do it without you. Massive thanks to Barry for the catering.
The next shoot is Service Rifle in two weeks.
We have added a For Sale page so that members can offer items to other members. It is offered as a means of connecting members with something to sell and those who would like ot buy it. The club takes no responsibility for the content or any of the transactions. Contact the club at the usual email address if you are interested and we will pass the message on to the seller. The remainder is up to you.
If you want to sell something (within reason – this isnt ebay) then please contact the club with the details. The For sale will run for a trial period only.
Great day but a little chilly that cam as a bit of a surprise after the mild weather of late. Lots of different stuff on the point today from .22s to 577/450 Martinis and much in between. A very rare beast was on show. I never thought I would see a street legal one of these. For those of you who don’t know its a famous BAR, Browning Automatic Rifle that served the US army from 1917 to the 1970’s Firing from an open bolt it is an odd sensation to shoot but a great experience.
These Gallery Rifle / Carbine shoots seem popular so we will try to shoehorn some into the program for next year.
The next shoot is the Rememberance Sunday Boar Hill Trophy – See you then.
The Gallery rifle shoot this weekend is not just for Gallery Rifles as you may find it an opportunity to use the day for zeroing other firearms so don’t feel excluded. These shoots are usually popular and are shot at 100 yards on manual targets.
The general idea is to shoot between 10 and 20 rounds and then the range is cleared and everyone goes and checks and patches their targets ready for the next lot. Our patches keep going missing so please don’t walk off with them. This will need the shooters to be prompt as it will hold the whole thing up if you are slow.
Dont Forget to bring a scope or binos to see how you are doing.
Next week is the annual TR Boar Hill shoot on remberance weekend.
Looking forward I have been thinking about the format of some of our Scoped Rifle shoots next year. We already have the McQueen Shoots and the others are simple TR with a scoped rifle so I think we should change the format of some of these as the current is a bit easy.
What I have in mind is to shoot the scoped rifles at Fig 11, Fig 12 and fig 14 targets at different distances. We use the Fig 14 (Huns head) at 300 yards already so how about fig 12 at 500 and Fig 11 at 600. We have some impressive rifles in the club so it might be nice to stretch them a bit. Anyway I have not figured out the format and organisation of this but if you are interested in this then let me know at some point and we will do some work to see if we can make it work.
The Gallery rifle was an experiment that seems to have been successful so I think we should try something different with scoped rifles.
Anyway that’s for next year – see you on Sunday.
Dorking & District Rifle Club 
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