Report

Our A Team in the Croydon and District League have just won their division. Well done to Sarah Collyer, Ian Farnell, Richard Nichols, Peter Watson and Geoff Davies.

The end of the Summer season and the results start to flow. Both our City of London teams have won their divisions, Team A, consisting of Dave Britchford, Sarah Collyer, Geoff Davies, Ian Farnell and Tim Green. Our B Team consisted of Jo Downing, Sarah Davies, Alan Lindsay, Peter Watson and Greg Waples.

Greg Waples won the Through the Ranges Competition held the other weekend with Geoff Gilbert a close second.

Peter Watson has won Class C of the Kirk Michael and District League and now finds he must travel to the Isle of Man to collect his medal.

Peter Lewthwaite has been hitting the target recently. Winning Class B in the Mens Prone Rifle at the recent ESSU meeting. He followed this up by winning Class B in the RAF (RF) SAA competition at 50m and 100yds and hence becoming top Air Cadet. Very Well Done.

A late team result, Geoff Davies, Ian Farnell, Mike Kettle, Ian Payne and John Powell won Division 2 of the Sussex County Indoor League.

Mark Wiles has won Division 2 of the Sussex County 10m Air Rifle League. Tim Green has won Division 4 and Ian Farnell has won Division 12 of the 100yds Portslade & West Hove League. Well done to all.

Sarah Davies, Ian Farnell, A Lindsay, John Waples and Peter Lewthwaite have won division 8 of the National 50m Winter League. Dave Britchford, Sarah Collyer, Tim Green, Mike Jarvis and Les Shilling have won division 6 of the National Short Range Winter League. Joanna Parfitt, Tim Green and Mark Wiles have won division 8 of the National 10m Air Rifle Winter League.

This years shoot provided plenty of challenges for more than 60 competitors from as far afield as Cornwall and Birmingham. Linda Smallbone of Eastbourne won Class A with a score of 779 ex800 and the Ladies Dewar competition.  Runner up with a score of 778 was Alan Anderson of Pinewood.

A tremendous performance from Toby Carter of Aldingbourne saw him winning both the Juniors Dewar competition (389 ex400) and Class B outright (775 ex800). Elaine Kettle of East Grinstead TSC won the Class D 50m competition.

Annual Prize Giving - 21 November 2008

The prize giving for 2008 was held at The Wiremill on 21 November 2008.

Following last year's successful event the club had the pleasure of hosting another South East Regional Training Day. There were two SCAT machines on the go, various talks on shooting and training techniques and various practice sessions both indoors at 25yd and outdoors at 50m. Remember, members are welcome to attend and can gain some very useful insights that will help improve anybodies technique.

For the first time ever, ladies took first place in all four of the main classes at the Thwaites on Sunday. A Class was won by LInda Smallbone (Eastbourne RC) with a score of 593, B Class by Sue Thomas (Carlisle) with a score of 577, C Class by Elaine Kettle (East Grinstead TSC) with a score of 557, and D Class by Julie Humphries (Eastbourne) with a score of 517.