City of Newcastle Rifle Club

County Short team @ Bisley 2021

Hi All ,
reminder to use the club website for info .

www.cnrc.co.uk

cheers
Guy

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Dear All
we are back on Ponteland.
Go to the website for details .

cheers
Guy

New CNRC and County Clothing being offered. Please visit the club website at www.CNRC.co.uk

A message to all and sundry.
Pre emptive happy new year wishes to all.
Hope 2020 goes well for you all and you shoot well.
Contact us at :
Www.cnrc.co.uk for our shooting dates in 2020.

Regards
Hon Secretary.

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Monday 23rd July – feeling hot, hot, hot!

Monday dawned and it was clearly destined to be a beautiful day. Indeed, there was a Met Office amber health warning telling Britons to stay out of the sun between 11am and 3pm. So, naturally, the denizens of Bisley go out at those times to lie in a field for 45 minutes at a time in a leather jacket, hat, ear defenders etc. Today they would do so for the Times at 300 yards, the Wimbledon TR at 600 yards and what has often been known as a Grand-killer, the Corporation at 1000 yards. This year, of course, it is not the only 1000 yards shoot, with the Lovell having been added to Wednesday’s schedule to replace the Conan Doyle, which has already been shot on Saturday.

Your correspondent was on the first detail of the Times at 300
yards at 08:30, which might normally be expected to be cool and calm… but it was already getting fairly hot. For some reason we are all squadded from ranges 14 onwards, i.e. towards the right hand side, which means more walking in the sun for those not using car or golf buggy to get around camp. The 8:30 detail was followed, for many of us, by a 10am Corporation, meaning a long walk from the right hand side of Century all the way up to Stickledown straight from one shoot to another.

And the early indication, confirmed by our detail and the ones after it, was that the ‘Corp’ was living up (down?) to its reputation, with magpies galore and lots of scores in the low 40s and below. One Jersey shooter, realising that he might have missed a wind change, prayed while the target was down for it not to be a magpie. “Please don’t be a magpie, please don’t be a magpie.” He got his wish – a hit, scoring 1! Your correspondent was one of many who were well and truly ‘corped’ in winds that shifted between about 3 and 11 left.

The afternoon brought the Wimbledon TR at 600 yards, which followed today’s pattern of hot, sweltering weather and fast wind changes. Members of the GB Palma Team, along with the Veterans and Under 25s/21s, consider the current conditions, with their quick and frequent wind changes and sweaty weather, to be excellent training for the World Long Range Championship in New Zealand next year. For some of them, it’s a timely wake-up call! You needed to be on the ball today, and to try and shoot tight as well as read the wind well. Some people are better at one of those, some are better at the other, some struggle with both when on their own, and then there are those who put it all together quite nicely.
Among those people are the two who have to tie shoot for yesterday’s Daily Mail: David Armstrong (Old Guildfordians) and Jim Jeffrey (Lyndhurst RC, Australia) both scored 75.13, ahead of half a dozen 75.12s.

In the Times today, there were sixty-two scores of 50 on the list, with eight of them going through to the tie-shoot with 50.9: Don Pitcairn (Canada), Will Broad (OERC), Jim Jeffrey (Lyndhurst), Jack Alexander (Dungannon), Chris Haley (OCRA), Alice Southall (again! - Rolls Royce Derby), Jonny Ahrens (Peninsula RC in SA) and Judy Scott Langley (LMRA).
In the Wimbledon, there were only 17 possibles scored, much fewer than in previous years, which helps reinforce the view that it was extremely difficult – there were recent Commonwealth Games medallists scoring in the mid-40s.
The three who will be tie-shooting later in the week are Steve Thomas (Central Bankers), Jim Paton (Canada) and Alfie Hellings, a schoolboy Tyro from RGS Guildford.

And in the all-important Corporation, only five people scored ‘possibles’ – Messrs Riley (ATSC), Golaszewski (Welsh RA), Woodger and Compton (both of Lancing College), but the winner was Jim Paton of Canada on 50.8.

The aggregates completed today were the Monday Aggregate (won by Jim Paton on 149.20 from Ollie Spencer and Bruce Logan), the Stock Exchange Agg (won by returning shot Paul Sykes with 175.21 from David Armstrong of OGRC, Ollie Spencer of Manchester RC and Bruce Logan of Wandsworth on 174.25, the Howcroft Newspaper Agg (won by Don Thompson of Natives RC, Australia, with 200.30 from the only other shooters to go ‘clean’ Will Broad and Bruce Logan) and the Young Rifleman’s Agg (won by Alfie Hellings of RGS Guildford on 173.20 from LCpl Keates of ATSC on 172.21 and Sam Cherry of RGS Guildford on 172.20). The Brigadier Aggregate, composed of the first three long range competitions, was won by the only clean score, 150.21 by Jon Underwood, from Jane Messer (NLRC) and Sandy Walker (Old Framlinghamians).

And in the Grand so far, Jim Paton’s great shooting today means he now leads by six whole points, on two off! He is on 448.62, with the rest of the top ten comprising Bruce Logan (442.54), Sandy Walker (442.51), Chris Haley (442.46), Jim Corbett (440.61), Paul Sykes (440.49), Matt Millar (440.48), Oli Russell (439.59), Tom Drysdale (435.45) and Matt Button (439.42). The board, amazingly, goes down to 17 off already.

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