As a club we take range safety very seriously, and the Committee view it as important to maintain safety awareness and for the club to provide training courses from time to time to enable as many club members as possible to become fully qualified in range safety matters. Following on from the success of running the previous NRA RCO course at our Boar Hill clubhouse back in 2017, the club has now arranged to run another similar course at our clubhouse in December. This course will be a NRA Range Safety Officer (RSO) course which is essentially the civilian private shooting club range version adapted from the NRA Range Conducting Officer (RCO) course which was primarily designed for military ranges.

Arrangements have therefore been made with the NRA Training Coordinator at Bisley to run a NRA approved RSO course at our clubhouse in Dorking on the weekend of 4th/5th December 2021. The course runs for two days from approx. 09:00 to 16:00 each day. The cost to those attending the course will be the NRA’s individual RSO course attendance fee of £78.00 (reduced to £47.00 for under-25s) for NRA members (these attendance fees are marginally higher if you’re not an NRA member). Separate to those individual fees, the DDRC Committee has kindly agreed that the club will pick up the costs of the NRA course instructors.

Spaces on the course will likely be capped at about 15 attendees and will be filled on a first come first served basis. If there are significantly higher numbers of members wishing to attend this course then the club will look arrange a further course in Spring/Summer 2022.  Those DDRC club members interested in attending this December course should email  dorkingr@gmail.com   and include their name, email address and mobile number. Please be aware that the list will close at midnight on 6th September 2021.