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The next shoot is scheduled for Sunday January 25th at Severnside. More details to follow.

Saturday 27th December 2008 - Clay shoot in the Derbyshire Dales.

We had an excellent day at Ron's home in rural Derbyshire with several hours of clay shooting to varying degrees of proficiency. Other highlights included a barn barbecue and a demonstration of Colin's musket.

Many thanks to Ron and Brenda for their hospitality, to Lucy (who sadly couldn't be with us) for the mince pies and to everyone who contributed to the success of the day.

Here are some pictures and video.

A couple of short videos of the occasion, the first showing either beginner's luck or natural ability ...

and the next showing a demo of Colin's musket.

Sunday 30th November - Guest day at Severnside

Another really good day and well attended considering the icy blast coming in off the Severn.

This was a day of ancient and modern. Apart from the usual collection of members' guns we gave our club guns an outing. Below is Ron with our Accuracy International 7.62mm.

But the star attraction of the day was five and a half feet of reproduction musket made by Colin and eagerly fired by all club members and guests.

This has a matchlock firing mechanism which uses a smouldering cord to ignite the propellant. This method was used extensively in the early days of firearm evolution. A practised musketeer could load and fire at the rate of two rounds per minute. It was lucky we had all day.

And this is John using it to make his contribution to global warming while demonstrating the origin of the expression ...

... a flash in the pan!

And here's the whole thing on video.

Sunday 26th October - Guest day at Severnside

The meeting in October at our regular home at the Severnside range was again very successful with moderate weather for the time of year.
 

Thursday 28th August 2008 - Visit to Worcester Norton Shooting Club Five of us (the committee as it turns out) went up to Worcester Norton on Thursday evening. It was a fine evening and we spent a good couple of hours putting various guns through their paces.  Press the play button to see a short video.

Sunday 27th July Guest day at Severnside

What an excellent day!

Nearly every member of the club turned out on the hottest day of the year so far.  Our guests for the day all claimed to have enjoyed themselves even if the mercury was boiling out of the thermometer at 31º in the blazing sun (and this is South Wales we're talking about!).

The event was greatly complemented by an excellent barbecue, organised by Lucy and mucked about with by most of the blokes as is the tradition.

Here are some pictures:

Getting set up about midday.

100 yards is quite a long way isn't it?

Going for the authentic wartime feel. How to make a heavy gun even heavier.

Lucy's barbecue

Heather waiting her turn. I can't remember the last time anyone had to wait to shoot at one of our events. Such was the turnout on this occasion.

and even the webmaster risked getting sunburn!

Here are some pictures from Sunday 29th June. The weather was a major improvement on the May shoot but a strong crosswind made life very interesting!

The apparatus in the foreground is a chronograph which measures the speed of the bullets leaving this .223 rifle. This is important to determine the consistency of the ammunition especially, as in this case, when the ammunition was loaded by the shooter himself.

The 'Guest Day' at Severnside on Sunday 25th May 2008 was a resounding success !

It was an excellent turnout, especially considering that the weather so damp and gloomy. We even signed up a couple of new probationary members.

Thanks to John for the photos and to everyone who contributed to the success of this Guest Day.

And with somewhat better weather, a couple of photos of new probationary members under instruction Sunday 8th June 2008