Due to poor weather conditions, we have had to cancel the Christmas Competition. This will now be held on Sunday the 1st January starting about 10am. We will still have the Secret Santa with gifts exchanged (minimum amount is £5) so bring something with you. Please, no Allen key sets, I ended up with 3 of these one year and are now thinking of opening up a museum for all to view, lol. The competition will be taking a different format so that novices can compete on level terms with the more experienced shooters. Refreshments will be included, there is no extra cost for members, just the usual range fee.

The early part of this year, the club committee discussed the possibility of erecting a covered range that members could shoot from, all year round, without having to worry about the weather. Hopefully this would encourage new members to join the club which, essentially, is an outdoor pursuit. Once the plans, and finances, were agreed on, work started in June 2022 progressing through a very hot summer and finished October 2022. A few pictures are shown here of the work at various stages.

After nearly 5 months of working on our new covered range, we have finally finished what is undoubtedly a great facility for the club. The range offers all round shooting, whatever the weather, it even includes 20 mini hit zone targets set in trees and bushes at varying distances. These can be shot in any position you wish, be it at a bench, prone, kneeling, or whatever. The other side of this area is devoted to novelty targets where the action is "having fun". Thanks must go to Andy Winch, Richard Green, Barry Warren and Allan Dyke, our "builders". Thanks are also due to Terry Grant and Wayne Challender for sourcing and transportation of some of the materials. We must not forget Holly who held on to a piece of timber while we sawed it! Apart from the club paying for a lot of the materials, contributions were also received from Andy Winch, Richard Green and Barry Warren.