The Christmas shoot will be changing so see the course of fire and be prepared. See you at the Service Rifle shoot tomorrow.
The Christmas Shoot
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Service Rifle Shoot (Malcolm behind the barricade)
The next shoot is Service Rifle and we are making some changes! We have new barricades to use and as this gives us more options we are running the shoot as part competition and part training.
So Malcolm Dalgleish is going to provide the course of fire around an introduction to barricades. The new barricades are more substantial and allow more shooting positions and rests so we feel some practice may be in order first.
There are options for Standing, Kneeling, Prone, Strong/Weak Shoulder, behind cover etc. This may be a bit complicated under a full competition so some practice is in order first. We hope you will find this a benefit and it may help improve some scores and reduce the number to holes in the target hut that is beginning to resemble a Swiss cheese!
There will be at least three courses of fire at 200 and 1 at 100 yards and so you will need extra ammo for practice. So bring at least 52 rounds and your chargers / Bayonets etc so make the most of this opportunity. We will have allot to get through so the range briefing will be at 9.15.
BRING EXTRA AMMO
DON’T BE LATE
BE PROMPT ON AND OFF THE POINT
HAVE FUN (DON’T SHOOT THE HUT)
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The Boar Trophy
Well that was quite a day. I must admit I have been worrying about this for weeks thinking about all the things that could go wrong! Well I whilst it pays to keep on one’s toes it went without a hitch. We had over 32 shooters and as far as I can tell everyone had a good time. We had teams from Bookham, Horsham, Sussex, Surbiton and Chichester.
We shot with teams of three and still had plenty of room for the scoped rifles to have a blast with some fairly loud in one case 300WM’s.
As this shoot is primarily our charity shoot in aid of the Royal British Legion we raised over £200 for the legion and held a 2 minutes silence at 11am. We had in fact made it back to 500 yards by then.
The shoot was capped in fine style by our South African contingent of Franco and Ian who cooked a fantastic Brai (BBQ here) with some stunning Venison Sausages that were well worth the price of admission on their own. Barry Springer kindly provided the Sausages so we will be sending him off hunting again fairly soon after that lot. The new Pavilion will have a BBQ area so watch out for these events next year.
We have to thank all the shooters who came along and all those who helped run the shoot and move things along. It was a great day and we also organised some fine weather as well.
The Team shoot was won by Horsham who fielded some top men including the individual winner George Cotton who shot a 99.13 closely followed by Martin Woolger with a 99.11 (always the bridesmaid etc) Full results are on the results page.
The pictures say it all!
The Boar Hill
This years shoot on Remembrance Sunday approaches and we are expecting a high turn out. As a club we will be welcoming teams form Horsham, Bookham and Chichester so please make every effort to make our guests welcome.
We will not be running any start of the shoot Zeroing due to the likely high turn out so please have your rifle set up properly before the shoot.
Dave Crispin is unfortunately not well so he will not be able to provide the Burgers and do the cooking. Fear not Barry Springer has co opted Franco and Ian our SA contingent to organise a Brai (that’s a BBQ in the UK) We will have some venison sausages so pray the sun shines and get in the Queue early to avoid disappointment.
The shoot is in aid of the British Legion and entry is £5.00 per head for all shooters (not just the competition) and you will have to pay for the BBQ as well. Sorry but its all in a good cause.
There will be a 2 minutes silence at 11 so listen for the whistle, hats off and keep quiet.
The Committee will on hand to keep it all moving forward as best we can but give us a hand by being ready and helping where you can.
See you there.
Odds and Ends
We will shortly be able to reopen the club membership as Chris Gordon has kindly agreed to become Membership Secretary. Chris is Joined on the Committee by Barry Springer who has also kindly agreed to help with running the club. We are grateful to both of these individuals as it can be a big task to keep everything going in the right direction. We are after all volunteers.
We will shortly be adding some signage to the car park in respect of legal notices but members and visitors are reminded that-
The users of the clubs car park and facilities do so at their own risk and the club or committee will not accept any liability for any accidents, Damage or loss Incurred.
The pavilion project is still moving forward along with the other range developments and we will keep you informed when there is progress to report.
Handicap Cup
Well it was a bit of a wash out and due to low demand and horrible weather the competition was cancelled. Some hardy shooters shot from 600 and dived back into the hut for shelter.
The targets didn’t play up in the bad weather so that’s a good sign and we will sort out some Gazebos at some future point once we have the pavilion built so we have somewhere to sotre them.
On a Brighter note Chris Gordon has agreed to act and Membership Secretary so once he has got his head round it we should be able to re open the club to probationary members as we have a bit of a backlog of people wanting to join.
As ever we will keep you informed.
Membership Secretary Needed
This is an appeal from the committee. We need a membership secretary to sort out the new membership applications and keep the records up to date. The current record is held electronically and it’s not too bad a job but we are all busy with other projects and could do with a hand. We have had a number of applications from new shooters and from friends of existing members that we have currently refused due to the need of an extra pair of hands.
Can you help?
We will support you with the tasks as much as we can so please think hard about how you can help the club.
Contact us using the contact form on the membership page.
Thanks for your support
Handicap Cup 13 October
The forthcoming Handicap Cup is going to be slightly amended to make it more practical and easier to administer. So instead of 300 / 300 / 500 and a strange handicap system that no one understands we are going to have a more normal Queens 2 shoot.
This will therefore be a 2 & 10 at 300, 500 and 600 yards. There will be a TR and a scoped Rifle competition. Depending on the turn out this year we may introduce a classification system for TR in the future similar to the NRA Classification (X,A,O & T). For now we are going to keep it simple.
If case anyone wants to know what is happening with the development of the hut this has been handed over to an independent project manager to sort out Building Control, Tenders, Plans and the Construction. This should ensure it is done correctly, transparently and no individual or body can be accused of exerting any undue influence on the proceedings.
We will keep you advised as and when we have anything to add.
If you have any questions then don’t forget to ask.
Practice Shoot Sunday 29 September
Well the forecast is reasonable so fingers crossed. We are at 500 yards for a practice so I expect it will be fairly busy. That being the case we will be asking for additional volunteers to help with Range Officer duties so please help if you can. We will show you what to do an if you have an NRA RCO Qualification that will help.
We will have some limited supplies of ammo but no club rifles as Mike is working. So bring your own (Zeroed) Rifle or chat up a mate and see if you can borrow one on the day.
See you there ( you might even want to try setting up or putting away!)
Well we had the shoot. It was a quick one with everyone having a chance to shoot what they wanted and all went off without a hitch. The attached photo shows that if you forget your breach flag then there are other options. I bet you wont leave this one on the point.
303 Trophy
We had a fair turnout for today’s shoot but not too many takers for the 303 TR competition. It should have been at 300 and 500 but, how shall I put it, (summons tact) the shooting with the 303’s didn’t warrant falling back to 500 given that we have just had all the targets refurbished. Mike and Andy from FSL would have a fit so we elected to stay at 300.
The possibility of rain was another factor. As it was there was room for everyone to have a shoot and we were all off the range before the rain came in.
We will have to re think this event for future years and update it to the more appropriate course of fire/ distance. The results are on the results page (where else) but don’t feel you have to look at them. It isn’t easy shooting a 60-year-old gun on a target sized for modern rifles but keeping them on the target was hard enough (That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it).
The next shoot is a 500 practice but please have your rifles properly zeroes before you come along. Whilst we can often (don’t count on it) have a couple of shots at the start of the shoot to make sure you are on this is not the same as having a proper centered zero.
You can only properly zero your rifles on a 25 yard zero range or at 100 off a rest (i.e. at Bisley) when you can take the time to zero the rifle to the ammunition, change the foresight heights / Blades etc. There is no substitute for doing it properly and it will save time and frustration on range days. We should have an update on the Pavilion project fairly soon so keep a watch on the web site.
We are going to have a for sale page for members to notify other members of items they wish to sell. The club will offer this to members but takes no responsibility for any part of any sale. it us purely up to you to deal with on a face to face basis.so if you have anything to sell then send details t:-
ddrccttee@btopenworld.com
And we will see what we can put on the site.
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