Category Archives: Information

Sunday 6 August Scoped Rifle 2 Update-Scores

Course of Fire added to the COF page. Read it and be prepared!!

The scoped rifle shoot is tomoprrow and I have created a course of fire to make it interesting. It will not be a spray and pray shoot and if you cant hold a decent zero at 300  you will not be allowed to continue. Fun though they are VZ 58’s are unlikely to qualify.

See you tomorrow.

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Sunday Update

Scores added to the results page – well shot everyone. It seemed to go well but we need to work on the COF to make it run a bit quicker. It is still work in progress but it was fun all the same.

A couple of notices:-

We have ongoing security concerns and there seems to be all sorts of additional threats to us and our sport.

For security Reasons We have removed all the historic results. In future we will post the results with the names as First Name / last initial. Previously this was first initial Last name. We have resisted password protection on the site to date as everyone forgets them. We will see how we get on with the current set up.

The results historic results are available on request.

There was an incident where a member was called by someone purporting to be a police FEO. Beware of spoof calls / emails and ensure you are not being fooled.

If in doubt check.

Sunday’s Scoped Rifle shoot will be a further experimentation of the hand-held Fig 11/12/14 targets at various distances. Last time it seemed to work well so come along and we will see what we can arrange.  See you then.

Sunday 11 June Knight Cup/Gellibrand Shield Results Added

The web pages seem to have been a bit quiet of late, a combination of travel commitments and lack of things to say in general. We have all been ticking over and often ‘No news is good news’.

Anyway we have the Knight Cup/Gellibrand Shield on Sunday and this a TR Queens 2 being 2×10 at 3/5/6 so a good all round days shooting to be had.

All are welcome and the Range Officers will make sure that no rifles with a muzzle brake will be squadded at the same time as the TR shooters and these can be a bit anti social. We all manage to fit in with a bit of organisation and care.

I did get a flyer from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust who have organised a ‘Shoot Walk over the land adjacent to the range hosted by the estate and the local game keeper.  The details are in the pdf attached if you are interested.

Surrey shoot walk-revised 5 June

Shoot well tomorrow and I will endeavour to update the scored when I get them. If any of you have any reasonable pictures of the days activities I am always happy to post them.

Enjoy

 

Update – Scores added to the results page

Kirby Cup & AGM

Sundays shoot saw the Kirby Cup with around 20 shooters in attendance (based on the number of cards I ended up with) We used the refurbished 500 yard point for the first time with good results and saw some decent scores overall (see the Results Page).

Those of you who stayed on for or attended the AGM, thanks for your support. We have had a good year and although progress in some areas is slow we still move forward positively and in a sensible direction. The current committee was re-elected and were joined by Andy Reed and Neil Butler. Nick Baulf has agreed to be our new accounts examiner.

Finances reflect the increased expenditure but we do not intend to increase the membership fees at this time so that’s good news for all.

We have some work to finish off on the club house still and then we move on to fixing up the target hit that needs some attention.

Plenty to do so if you feel like helping out we would be happy to hear from you. There will be a work party this summer at some point – details to follow. Dont Forget we are running an ACO course so if you have not advised PAul Upward of your interest then please do so. It looks as if we will aim to run this on a non shooting weekend in September.

The next shoot is Service Rifle.

Annual General Meeting

The General Meeting of The Dorking and District Rifle Club will be held at 2.00pm on Sunday the 30th April 2017 in the Clubhouse.

Draft Agenda

1) Introduction.

2) Minutes of the last General Meeting.

3) Committee Report.

4) Treasurers Report (including a provisional statement of Club Accounts and appointment of an Examiner of Accounts).    

5)  The election of the Committee members (see below), President, Vice Presidents and the appointment of an Examiner of Accounts.    

6)  Any other business

Beginners Reloading Course

A reminder from Graeme

Tthe reloading course for beginners starts 7 pm sharp this coming Tuesday evening 21/3/17. Any others that want to come please contact me but this is only for beginners as an introduction .
Many thanks Graeme

Reloading For Beginners

Graeme Cole has offered to run an Introduction to Reloading evening in March depending on the interest. I know a number of you are interested in this subject so if you are then contact Graeme at the address below and we will organise the details depending on the interest. It will be held at the club house.

graememcole@gmail.com

Graeme intends to discuss the following topics and get your started on the basics:-

 

1 . The advantages of home loading

  1. Basic principles of ballistics and reloading
  2. Safety principles . Manufacturers load recommendations. Black powder reloading differences.
  3. Demonstrate case preparation and single stage reloading.
  4. Advice on available products
  5. Handout on suggested suppliers of components.
  6. Adjourn to local pub for debrief

Starting at say 7 pm one weekday evening and finishing at about 9pm. Debrief after this.

Sounds like an excellent idea so contact Graeme to register your interest.

The next shoot is a Practice and it will be a Gallery Rifle style shoot at 100 yards.

 

2017 Programme

We have some provisional dates for next year. These are subject to change and we may well move things around depending on circumstances.

The AGM is provisionally booked for 12 March 2017 at 9.30 am. It’s a non shooting day but it is followed by a work party so there will be plenty to do.

The details are on the Programme page along with downloadable shooting records in PDF & Excel

The links to the documents are below:-

2017-shooting-record  XLS

2017-shooting-record

2017-shooting-program-prov

CLUB GUNS & Ammunition

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 Boar Hill Shoot Sunday 13 November – Update

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.

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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!

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Some of the shooting

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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.