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Service Rifle 5

Weather looked a bit dodgy first thing and improved once we got started. It was damp but not wet so given the time of year we got away with it (just).

An excellent turn out of 27 shooters and some excellent scores put in by most. Some seem to think that the target is the number on the front mantlet and managed to shower the butt crew with sand. I think the future penalty for that is to carry the replacement sand up the range!

There was an excellent winning score in the classic category put in by Andy Littler with his (brand new) M1 Garand scoring 179 Our leader followed closely second with 151. Clearly time in the southern hemisphere has agreed with his shooting.

The modern class was dominated by Matt Giles with a (highest score ever recorded in a SR comp at Dorking) of 221. I am generally on my own in the modern category but the competition busted me down to third place (at least I beat Bally and thats what counts).

See you at the Christmas Shoot on the 20th. Remember you will need a Service Rifle and a Scoped rifle. Entry is a wrapped gift to the value of £5.00. We may well shoot in pairs so be prepared to share etc. If you feel like contributing some Mince pies and / or sausage Rolls we can see if we can get the oven working and have them hot at 600. Sounds like a plan, see the last post for the course of fire.

Just another thing. I have added the Results for today’s shoot to the results page and after putting it off for a while I have sorted out the overall results for the last two years. These are on the page as well.

In short the results are the total of all the scores shot for the year

2014 Classic Winner-  G Porter 498          Modern  – M Ball  560

2015 Classic Winner C Christophi 670     Modern – G Porter 782

Well shot everyone and thanks for supporting the club.

Service Rifle 6/12 and Christmas Shoot 20/12

We have nearly made it to the end of another year! The weather has turned wintry so it’s a good job we have the club house to retreat to when the weather turns bad. However there is no chance to do much of that for the next two shoots as they are mostly ‘up the other end’

On 6 December we have the final Service Rifle shoot (No5) and the course of fire has been posted to the Course of Fire page. Read it and get ready. Bring your ammo (at least 52 rounds) and a bayonet. You should all by now know the drill for these events so come along and enjoy yourselves.

Then on the 20th we have the Christmas Shoot. There is an entry fee for this shoot and its a gift to the value of £5.00 wrapped and then everyone gets a prize at the end.

The course of fire will be in three stages. At least 34 rounds

Stage 1  – Service Rifle Snaps at 200 yards 10 rounds (Sitting)

Stage 2 – Santa McQueen at 200 yards 2 sighters and 10 rounds to count (Prone)

Stage 3  – Scoped Rifle 600 yards 2 sighters and 10 rounds to count (Prone)

This may well be the return of the Pairs so you need to pair up with a mate and the scores will be totalled for the two. The pairs will shoot at the same time so we will get through the numbers and not hang about too long in the cold and or wet weather. We should have the club .303 and AI available.

So you will need ammunition and a Service and Scoped rifle. I am sure you can share with a pal if you don’t have both. It’s about having some fun so don’t be shy and come along. If you want to donate some mince pies etc then all the better.

Handicap Cup

After Saturdays rather extreme weather we had a crisp & chilly day on the range.

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The Clubhouse was well used and the availability of Coffee and warmth was welcome by all.

We had a decent turn out but not everyone shot both distances. The wind died down and the main handicap was the low sun that was a challenge at some times.

Mark P was the best shot in the TR with 142.11 and the Scoped Section was won by Barry S with 150.25. Good shooting and a pleasant day overall. The full results are on the relevant page.

The next shoot is the final Service Rifle of the year and after that its the Christmas shoot.

The course of fire will be posted soon (when I sort it out!)

Handicap Cup November 22

This shoot is in the program as a 2 x 15 at 50 and 600 yards. We are not going to be operating a hadicap system and it will be a standard TR scoring shoot with a section alongside for Scoped Rifles so all are welcome.

We will segregate muzzle breaks as normal and you are welcome to shoot both types if you want. It you want to shoot it as just a practice then thats fine but you will have to stick to the course of fire.

Not sure about the weather as yet but we will see how we go.

The Boar Trophy

We held the annual Boar Trophy Team TR shoot today with teams from Horsham, Bookham, Chichester, Wandsworth and of course the home team Dorking. It was an overcast and, at times damp day but it was well supported and we raised about £265 for the Royal British Legion’s poppy appeal.

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After the shooting at 300 yards we held the traditional two minutes silence to respect the fallen of conflicts past and present.

IMG_0488The 300 Yard Shooters.

Instead of the usual 500 yard shoot we moved it to 600 yards to make better use of the club house in the damp weather. the club house was as usual very much appreciated with it being warm and dry with proper facilities and a hot cup of something.

The tem shoot was won by Horsham with 291.27, Wandsworth with 284.28 second. the results are on the page for the team shoot. We were delighted to welcome some new shooters for this TR event.

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Of course the catering was once again provided by Barry who not only shoots the deer but makes the sausages himself (they are to die for) and provides them for the club members and our guests at no charge. He has provided this many times of late and we very much appreciate his effort and (very tasty) contribution.

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So Thank you to all of you who came along, those who helped, as you contribution no matter how small (and many well above and beyond) who made the event possible.

Enjoy.

Scoped Rifle Shoot

Nice day for a shoot and a some good scores put in. We made it difficult by shooting 300 and 600 yards on 200 and 500 target centres. This may not sound like much of a difference but it makes a significant impact on scores. There were two 75’s, one from each of the Springers – there is definitely some sharp competition between those two.

The results are on the relevant page and I have included to overall results from the two scoped rifle competitions

Well done to Barry Springer who won today with 147.18

The overall winner for both shoots was Alistair Springer with 294 for both shoots. Well shot!

The scores from today include the overall results and are on the Results page.

The next shoot is the Boar Hill so its likely to be a busy two distance TR shoot. We have had plenty of interest from teams from other clubs  so it will be a busy day. There may be some catering of sorts and all enterants will pay a £5.00 entrance Fee in aid of the Royal British Legion. There may be a seperate charge for food but we have not worked that out yet.

Oct 26 Scoped Rifle Shoot 2 2+15 @ 300 and 500 yards

Not much in the way of posts recently I see! Its been a bit quieter as the main project of the George Arnold Pavillion is initially complete. There are still however many (too many!) minor things to sort out and these are ongoing. Thanks to all of you who help out.

Anyway we have the Scoped Rifle Shoot on Sunday. The course of fire is 2×15 at 300 and 500 yards. We may well shoot the second stage at 600 yards so we can make better use of the club house. It doesn’t make much difference to the shooting but its less far to carry the gear and a cup of coffee between details is welcome.

We will not have ammunition or the club AI available as its carer has gone on holiday (lucky him) so sort your ammo out in advance and I will see you on Sunday.

We have the Boar Hill shoot coming up after this one and its a primarily TR shoot. We seem to have many promises of teams from other clubs so if you intend to enter a team let Mark now the numbers in advance so we can be prepared.

DONT FORGET THE CLOCKS CHANGE ON SATURDAY NIGHT.THEY GO BACK ONE HOUR. If any of you forget and turn up early the you can help the rest of us set up! 

Gravett / Marlow / Bookham / Sussex 13 September

Today we hosted the annual Bookham TR championship for Full Bore and also shooters from Chichester and Sussex County RA for their Autumn Meeting.   The course of fire was a full Queens 2  (300/500/600 2×10) with sufficient shooters for a teamcompetition alongside the individual (results on the page) so it was a good all round competition.

Not only did we use the club house we also had the return of the 600 yard point (and Barry’s BBQ).  We had some excellent shooting and two scores of 149 (16) that thought they had the top score in the bag. There was however a score of 150 (14) taking the top position so well shot by all.

The teams were 4 shooters from Dorking, Bookham, Sussex and Chichester with the team shoot being won by Dorking with 550.37.

Thanks to our guests for coming along and giving us a run for our money. After 5 years of hard work it is amazing to at last have full facilities in a club house with a proper loo, kitchen, hot water etc. The pictures below show the club house being used exactly as was intended. Members and guests enjoying the day, under cover with somewhere to sit etc. The 600 point is great to shoot on.

There are too many to thank individually as many helped the day go smoothly. Thanks to Phil for doing the bulk of the RO duties, Sid for making sure the targets worked (they all did with no hitches) and for Barry and Alistair for providing the BBQ and the excellent venison sausages.

George and Frank can be proud that their efforts to get this project from the drawing board to reality. I still can’t quite believe we have managed it.

Thanks again to all of you.

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Service Rifle 4 Results

Results posted on the page. Well shot Matt – with a K31 proving you don’t need a 10 round mag and if you manage your reloads and are accurate you get the results.

Some of the scores listed are low but there were a number of members who only got a few details in as they were working on the other projects going on that day.

Thanks to Jeff and Paul for spending most of the morning assembling chairs (we now have 24) as well as arranging for some of the domestic items to furnish the club house. More items are on the way.

Sid has manged to fish the data cables out of the water and fix the 600 yard firing point electronics. So as Mark had turfed the point and seeded what will be the BBQ area, along with the wiring we have 600 yards back in use just in time for the next 3/5/6 RT shoot.

Tim was on hand to sort out the ammo requirements and help set up the targets.

So a good day overall, it didn’t rain and many thanks to everyone who turned up and helped out.

Updates

Updates in no particular order:-

  1. Course Of Fire added for the Service Rifle Shoot on 30/8/15 on the COF Page.
  2. The club is looking to dispose of a P14 303 in a Target Rifle Format and a left-handed .22 rifle. These will be sold but are offered to members first. Contact Tim Brooking if interested.
  3. We are considering offering an RCO course at the range on a Saturday in the autumn. In there is sufficient interest we will take it further. Cost is £65 per head. Certification lasts for 6 years. Contact the Secretary if you are interested.
  4. Sid Smith has been co-opted onto the committee to serve as Electronics Officer. Sid is an expert in electronics and has fixed the targets several times already when no on else had a clue. He is a very valuable asset to the club and we are lucky to have persuaded (conned!) him to help out on a more permanent basis. Please join me in welcoming him.
  5. On the subject of targets the new ones have been delivered and are currently in the Club House Store. We will need to plan very carefully how these are rolled out.
  6. We have turfed the 600 yard point and (when Sid does the wiring) we will have that ready for the shoot on the 13th September. This is a fairly large team TR shoot against several clubs so its important that we get everything right.
  7. The club house has been handed over to us so it’s in use. We have to furnish the inside with chairs etc. It will be open on shoot days when we are at that end of the range. We will have the main doors locked when we are up the range but a key (when we have them cut) will be available for members to use the facilities. We need to be careful to prevent unauthorised access.
  8. George Arnold – We will be collecting the George Arnold memorabilia from Ted at some point then we have to sort this out  and then order the appropriate cases for display. It will take a while to sort this out but it is in hand.
  9. 2016 Program (programme – whatever) – We will have a complete reorganisation of shooting now we have a club house. We need to make use of it so we will be shifting things around. If the weather looks gloomy we may well change shoots at short notice and shoot at 600 yards so there is more shelter. Make sure the rifle you bring along and you can hit the target at 600 yards and if the weather looks iffy pack something that will go the distance.

That’s all I can think of for now, See you at the Service Rifle Shoot.