October Competition

The October competition is Arnold Kalin Competition - freestanding pistol

10 shots

Rimfire (PL 15 target)
Centrefire or Black Powder (PL12 target)

Beckingham - change of date

We will not be shooting with Hull at Beckingham on 7th October.

The Sunday Club (Lincoln & District) have booked the 600m range at Beckingham for Sunday 28th October and we are invited to join them.

You will need your FAC, Safe Shooter Card and Club membership card with you

Please let me know asap if you are interested so I can let L&D know as they will need to get the names of guests approved by Beckingham in advance.

UPDATE: The shoot on 28th October has been cancelled as not enough people were interested 

Sporting Rifle Comp

Saturday's your last chance to enter the .22 Sporting rifle competition

Kneeling/sitting at 75m (rabbit target)

Junior Challenge - deadline extended

The deadline has been extended to 24th November

For the under 25s only

Multiple entries permitted - so if you don't shoot very well you can have another go!

Club rifles only

.22 and .357 at 25m
.22 and .223 at 75m

Sportivate Newsletter

We have an article in the October Sportivate Newsletter

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L&D Interclub Competition

It was the L&D Interclub today. Unfortunately we didn't know until the last minute so we were't able to let everyone know.

However, we managed to get a team of 4 together ... and the good news is that we won!

Ten shooters took part from L&D and Reepham

Reepham   385
L&D         344

with Andy T getting the highest score of 98 - well done

We'll be presented with the Club Trophy when it's returned from North Cotes

Well done to Andy A, Andy T, Jacqui & Janet and thanks to L&D for organising it.

Sportivate Week 6

This is the final week of the Sportivate Course, but some of the participants who started late due to family holidays will continue for a few weeks more.

We had another 'Polo' success, with Emma successfully shooting the hole without breaking the Polo

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Shooting the .223 has been popular 

and so has the clay shooting

And everyone has got on really well with the .22 shooting

Certificates were awarded this week and we hope to see them back soon as members of the club. 

Thank you to all the members who have helped with this project and given their time to make it a success. It has been very hard work, but it's been great to see the enjoyment the youngsters have had.

All the photos are on Facebook 

Sportivate Week 5

Another great day. More practice with the .22 rifles and .223 fullbore rifles. Some had a go with the black powder pistol!

One week left to go ...

Forest Lodge Guns Anniversary Shoot

Three clubs took part in the interclub shoot on August Bank Holiday.

Congratulations to North Cotes Butts who had the winning team and won the CZ Rifle

The top 3 shooters were

1st J. Rhodes (North Cotes Butts) (128) - Forest Lodge Voucher
2nd C Scott (Repham Shooting Centre) (123) - two gun slips
3rd R Sullivan (North Cotes Butts) (118) - boxed penknife

Prizes were presented by John Workman from Edgar Brothers and Chris Comins from Forest Lodge.

Thanks to Mike for doing the BBQ and Fred and Ray for the scoring.

A raffle was held to raise funds for Help for Heroes and brings the total raised to date to £276.84. This concludes the fund raising for this year and a cheque has been sent to H4H.

Clay Target Shooting

If you are interested in Clay Target Shooting you may like to have a look at www.clayshootingsuccess.co.uk/

They have produced this booklet on the psychology of clay target shooting (a lot of the advice is applicable to all forms of shooting)
Click here