November Competitions

No one shot the Arnold Kalin competition in October, so it has been carried into November. It's a pistol comp (rimfire, centrefire or black powder)

So during November there will be 3 competitions to have a go at

• Arnold Kalin Pistol, 25m
• Running Boar, 50m (.22 rifles)
• Centrefire Benchrest, 75m

The final date for entries is 24th Nov.

In addition, the Junior Challenge (for the under 25s) runs until 24th November and the Under 25 Clay Shoot is on 3rd Nov at 2pm

Michael's Clay Challenge - Results

1st J Cook 49 ex 50
Runner up I Evans 48 ex 50
3rd J Lumley 46 ex 50
4th S Scott 46 ex 50
5th S Powell 41 ex 50
6th A Watkins-Groves 40 ex 50
7th D Williams 38 ex 50
8th E Abbas 36 ex 50
9th A Evans 32 ex 50
10th A Armitage 28 ex 50 (winner of the box of cartridges)

Changes to the ISSF Rules

The ISSF undertakes a major review of its rules once every four years with the intention of implementing the changes on 1 January of the year following the Olympic Games. A note of the intentions for changes for 2013-16 is available on the ISSF website click here.

The NSRA will be reviewing their rules in due course

Royal Mail Consultation

The NSRA website has some information about a proposal to prohibit sending firearms, airguns and component past in the post

For more information click here to go to the full article and click here to go to the consultation document

Oct 20th

There will be burgers for lunch on 20th October

We are running an RCO course on the 20th October, which means there will be limited access to the club room on that day during the training session. Apologies for any inconvenience this causes.

Michael's Challenge

For the clay shooters, Michael's running another challenge, running until the end of October. The remaining dates are 13th, 20th and 27th October.

All members are welcome to have a go. If you haven't got a shotgun, you can borrow one!

Results - .22 Sporting rifle

This competition was shot at 75m in the kneeling/sitting position at a rabbit target

1st J Taylor (61)
2nd A Armitage (55)
3rd G Nelson (34)
4th J Armitage (25

The October competition is the Arnold Kalin Pistol competition

Results - Club .223 Competition

This was the 'Summer Challenge' and ran from July to September. Members were allowed repeat attempts, with the best group to count

1st S Scott (28mm)
2nd I Evans (30mm)
3rd J Armitage (35mm)
4th J Taylor (36mm)
5th A Armitage (40mm)

Results - Military Rifle

The Military Rifle Competition was extended until the end of September

1st G Nelson (85)
2nd I Mace (42)
3rd P Coulson (25)

There was only one participant in the Modified Military Rifle competition

1st G Nelson (102)