NRA News from Heather Webb - Cont...
Glyn Barnett of Old Greshams Rifle Establishment won the Grand Aggregate after scoring 75.10 in the Prince of Wales. This is his second Gold Cross and his score of 702.92 is a new record for the eleven match course of fire beating Parag Patel’s old record of 700.
The F Class
competitors were firing at the new, much smaller, targets this year.
Although they were a bit of a
shock to start off with, they really focused the mind when it came to wind reading. Even a slight mis- calculation would result in being heavily punished. However, we were all in the same boat and it did cut down on the volume of tie-shoots. On the upside, you could have what appeared to be a reasonable shoot and discover that you had actually done really well.
The F Class Open Queens Prize was won by David Kent (above) scoring 145.11 with Andrew Burgess winning the F/TR Queens scoring 144.9. David Lloyd won the F Open Grand Aggregate with 821.65 points whilst Paul Eggeman from Germany took the F/TR Grand Aggregate with 798.61 points.
In the midst of all this, one of the NRASC members had an idea, a good idea – ho hum, more work, albeit more pleasurable than some. How about the NRASC entering a team in the Historics (wooden gun) side of the falling plate competition on Pirbright range? We only needed four interested people to raise a team and we would be able to practise in the afternoon before the evening shoot.
Within a few days of sending out the email query we had over 30 people interested and eventually entered 6 teams in the event. Most hadn’t even fired an Enfield before let alone at falling plates but Richard Seddon did a magnificent job of organising loan guns and training them. After the practice session we had a picnic tea at Pirbright courtesy of the Old Sergeants Mess SC then watched the military and modern (plastic) gun rounds. Wow, were they fast, especially with a 100 yard run-down first. As several of our guys were tending towards the upper ages and most not nearly so fit we agreed that the Historics section would only do a 25 yard run. We didn’t want to need first aid services on our first outing! Richard had organised the NRASC teams so that the experienced shots were evenly spread. We didn’t expect to win any
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prizes and we weren’t disappointed but everyone had a great time and all said they wanted to do it again next year. That’ll be more organising then.....
Thursday 21st July saw a mass evacuation of the Membership Department to run our stand at the CLA Game Fair, leaving me all on my lonesome – aaahhh! This year it was held at Blenheim Palace. The NRA has a stand at the show each year to raise our image within the sporting gun world. This seems to have had the desired effect with the number of members who are sporting shots rising steadily over the last few years. They seem to appreciate the facilities we offer as well as our comprehensive insurance cover. Mind you, once they discover Bisley and all the other disciplines available, several have expanded their interests and do a lot more target shooting as well as their sporting shoots.
August 2nd saw the first organised outing of the NRA Shooting Club. We had a coach trip to see the SASC Weapons Collection at Warminster. Over 30 members joined us and had a great tour, guided by one of the collections very knowledgeable trustees, Maj (Retd) John Oldfield. He kept us informed and entertained over a three-hour tour with a wealth of personal experience and anecdotes. So much so that we didn’t realise how much time had passed. The collection houses literally thousands of firearms from air pistol to anti-tank weapons and dating back to earliest examples of muzzle loaded firearms. If you get a chance of a visit, it is well worth the effort.
The Altcar Open Day is looming fast, taking place on the 27th August. All details are available from our website
www.nra.org.uk. Registration can be made online or just turn up on the day. Although this is a lot smaller than the Bisley Open Days we still manage to offer a large range of disciplines manned by a great band of willing volunteers.
Then it will be all go for our first game fair, Bisley Live, being held over the weekend of September 30th to October 2nd. All details, again, from our website.
Heather Webb NRA Membership Secretary
memsec@nra.org.uk
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