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SOF Rifle Club - All Day Shoot match report Share Last Updated: Tuesday, 17 June 2003
Saturday 7th June 2003
This is a long day, consisting of four shoots at 300, 600, 900 and 1000 yards. It is a three way match against our chums the Old Lawrentians, and also our younger brethren at the College. So there is a lot to get done before the first shot goes down the range at 8.30 am promptly. There were a lot of tousled heads, particularly among the boys and girls from Fram, who’d had to leave at some ungodly hour to arrive at Bisley. That’s the sort of dedication shooting requires, particularly at the height of the exam season!

The skies threatened rain, but layers of wet-weather gear ensured that the sun soon broke through, and a lovely day developed. The OF team was short of some regular members, whose absence we were to regret.

Mediocre scoring at 300 yards allowed an advantage the OL’s that we were never able to recover. Eventually we succumbed to a 47 point defeat. However, we know that the OL’s worked a three-line whip to field their best firers, so anxious were they to avenge last years Q Match defeat.

The match against the College was a nail-biter, and went right down to the wire. The College’s two-point lead after 900 yards was eroded by the greater experience of the OF firers at the extreme long range, and finally the Old Boys won by two points. However, an extremely creditable score from a young College team.

Time was when the OF’s would have beaten them by two points per man. The future looks rosey indeed for College shooting. The Medals for the day where awarded to John Halahan for the Old Boys, and Alex Walker for the College.


Nigel Burnip (Capt OFRC) presents the Medal to Alex Walker from the College
Not many people dwarf Nigel!

OFRC vs Old Lawrentians 2003
Name 300 600 900 1000 TOTAL
Nigel Burnip (Capt) 48 5 48 5 46 1 46 3 188 14
John Halahan 46 2 48 6 45 3 45 3 184 14
James Mehta 44 4 48 5 46 1 46 3 184 13
Andrew Horton 46 3 48 4 41 1 44 2 179 10
John Horton 44 3 44 2 45 1 42 2 175 8
Jason Michelow 42 1 43 3 45 4 41 1 171 9
Neil Joy 41 2 44 1 39 1 44 4 168 8
Brian Smith 42 4 42 0 43 0 40 1 167 5
TOTALS 353 24 365 26 350 12 348 19 1416 81
Old Lawrentians 377 28 365 20 366 25 355 21 1463 94

OFRC vs College (Teams of Five)
OFRC 910 59
Framlingham College 908 57


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    SOF Rifle Club - All Day Shoot match report
    Authored by: Peter Howard-Dobson on Tuesday, June 17 2003 @ 10:05 AM GMT
    Great report, James. It's so good to hear about these events. It would be great if you could also mention the names of people shooting for the OFs and for the College - sorry to ask for more! :-)

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    Peter Howard-Dobson
    Peter@HDhq.co.uk

    SOF Rifle Club - All Day Shoot match report
    Authored by: Peter Howard-Dobson on Tuesday, June 17 2003 @ 10:08 AM GMT

    Sorry - I meant the College shooters... You already have the OF team listed of course.

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    <b>Peter Howard-Dobson</b>
    Peter@HDhq.co.uk

    SOF Rifle Club - All Day Shoot match report
    Authored by: James Mehta on Sunday, June 22 2003 @ 01:57 PM GMT

    Thanks for your comments Peter. Please note the scores of the OF shooters above :-))))
    I did ask a lad from the College team to email their scores to me for inclusion in the report, but it hasn't been forthcoming.