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OC Rifle Club News 2009 |
These are the headlines for 2009.
Disclaimer: all the following material was written by the previous Hon. Sec. of the OCRC, Ted Eilley, and represents his views alone.
4th April - Short Range Practice
The turnout was seven for this first shoot of the season. It was a fine afternoon with quite a brisk wind which troubled some of us rather seriously at 600 yards. Two of us managed to record reasonably respectable scores of 96.10 and 96.9; the rest of us did not.
18th April - Short Range "Q" Match
We went to the Short "Q" Match at a strength of six. Some teams fell short of this, so, a hurried team captain conference delivered the news that the match would be decided by teams of four with three nominated before the start.
We enjoyed fine weather throughout, but, a troublesome east wind took its toll and the scores are a little worse than for the last couple of years; they are as follows.
| Old Old Lawrentians | 375.30 |
| Old Cranleighans | 374.23 |
| Old Framlinghamians "A" | 373.32 |
| Lancing Old Boys | 358.19 |
| KCS Old Boys | 353.19 |
| Old Albanians | 351.11 |
| Old Framlinghamians "B" | 349.23 |
| Old Alleynians (3) | 227.11 |
26th April - Long Range Practice
Five of us took part in the first long range shoot of the season. The weather was dry and sunny but we had to contend with a very difficult wind. The scores reflect this.
9th May - Long Range "Q" Match
So far the season has been marked by very agreeable weather accompanied by testing winds; so it was again for the Long Range "Q" Match. In order to include schools with lower turnouts than the OC seven, the match was decided on the basis of teams of four with three nominated before the start. The results are:
| KCS Old Boys | 383.30 |
| Old Framlinghamians "A" | 383.25 |
| Old Cranleighans | 374.21 |
| Old Framlinghamians "B" | 369.22 |
| Old Lawrentians | 352.16 |
| Lancing Old Boys | 342.8 |
| Old Albanians | 330.6 |
| Old Alleynians | 325.8 |
The pattern of shooting had to be changed from 2 sighters and 10 at both ranges to 2/7 at 900 yards and 2/15 for those nominated, 2/10 for the rest, at 1000 yards. The reason was that we had range space next to the GB Palma Squad and they needed to complete one shoot at 900 and two at 1000. For obvious safety reasons we had to comply with this arrangement and move back before the half-way point in the afternoon. From a review of all the activity on the Stickledown Range, it seemed that a minor change to the target allocation would have accommodated the needs of the Palma Squad and allowed us equal time at both ranges. This is all rather regrettable.
6th June - Cranleigh Tankard and Match v. School
The afternoon started off rather damp and progress was hampered by slow marking. In fact two of the OCs failed to finish their 500 yard shoots in the allotted time. Nevertheless, we did achieve some results, the Cranleigh Tankard was won by Simon Hayton, left, with a score of 95.6; the match against the School, because of disparate numbers, was decided on the basis of an average score per shooter ex 70, ignoring "V" bulls, as follows:
| The School | 60.8 |
| The OCs | 63.0 |
Abi Meaker (an '08 leaver) was shooting with the OCRC for the first time and put in a very creditable score - we are very pleased to welcome her to the Club. We are also very pleased to hear that there are two '09 leavers who have shown strong interest in joining the OCRC - James McEntee and Kyryl Popov.
Report will appear here.
15th August - Long Range Shoot
Report will appear here.
20th September - The Annual Prize Meeting
The programme for the day will be:
Report will appear here.
Report will appear here.
The AGM will take place after this event.
For more information contact the Hon. Secretary, Rob Pile:
R J Pile
rob.pile@btopenworld.com
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