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| Red Faces As Newcomers Smash Fram Shooters - Part 1 |
Last Updated: Thursday, 27 May 2010
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Steve McDowell, OFRC Scribe, writes:
It’s a tricky business in these political times, looking for a scapegoat. Gordon Brown could be blamed for, well, hell, everything. And he is, which is satisfactory if not strictly accurate.
But the OFRC is not a blameocracy. Like any true autonomous collective we don't point fingers - we shoulder equal responsibility in the same way we all bend our backs to the team kit. I mean, it would be grossly unfair for me or any other sibling member of the OFRC to name our beloved Hon Sec as in any way responsible for the double reverse in fortunes our brotherhood has suffered this season.
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| Red Faces As Newcomers Smash Fram Shooters - Part 2 |
Last Updated: Thursday, 27 May 2010
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Steve McDowell, OFRC Scribe, continues his epic report:
LONG RANGE MATCH 8th May 2010
Grim weather, underdressed, and with nipples like bullets and hands like ice sculptures, we trudged in brutal wind from 900 to 1000 yards and attempted to see the greying targets half a mile away.
Marshal Zhukov, as usual not taking any prisoners, has convinced top wind coach Guy Larcombe (presumably threatening him with the gulag) to come and coach the A team. Our huge thanks go to him for his patience and expertise in weather which no fun for anyone. We are also privileged to welcome latest recruit Rupert "Virgin" Cherryman, a recent convert to full bore who claiming never to have shot long range before stays steady and shoots himself into the A-team at the first attempt.
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| Clay Pigeon Shooting Club - Inaugural Event |
Last Updated: Sunday, 26 October 2008
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 Bored to death with winning everything there is to win, the shooters of the Old Framlinghamians have formed their own splinter group just to give themselves someone with whom to compete.
This they proved by crushing the impudent college on the .22 range the previous day to scoop the fourth of four possible trophies this year. James Mehta finally finding his championship form with a monster 95 with the smaller gauge weapon.
Accordingly, the inaugural meeting of the OFCPSC – that’s clay pigeon shooting, to save you working it out, gathered on Sunday 21st September in the bucolic surroundings of the High Lodge Shooting Ground at Darsham – just up the A12 from Yoxford.
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| Yet Another Bumper Bisley |
Last Updated: Friday, 8 August 2008
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 FRAMNGHUM KOLIDGE MOQUE INGLISH TEST (GRAMMER):
1. WHAT is the collective noun for a group of OF shooters?
a) A ‘Fram’ b) An ‘Albert’ c) A ‘Pleb’ d) A ‘Matron’ e) A ‘Dingly’?
The answer, of course, is e) A “Dingly”.
The reason for this is that, not counting the odd decent-sized dining room, the largest collection of Old Framlinghamians seen anywhere was observed at the annual OF Rifle Club barbecue in Campsite 7 at Bisley – otherwise known as The Dingly Dell.
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| OF Star Wins "BIG FOUR" Prize at Bisley |
Last Updated: Wednesday, 30 July 2008
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 James Mehta (OFRC Secretary) reports that Sandy Walker has won the much-coveted Prince of Wales Prize at Bisley.
Shooting Scribe, Steve McDowell, writes: "Rifle-wielding wunderkind Sandy Walker lifted one of the most coveted prizes in world shooting at Bisley’s Imperial Meeting last week, causing wild celebrations among the biggest-ever OF contingent.
At the tender age of just 20, 6ft 4in Sandy – who is nicknamed the ‘Gangling Metronome’ by his OF clubmates – has proved himself to be one of the UK’s best full-bore rifle shooters by winning the HRH Prince of Wales prize after a four-man tie shoot.
The "Prince of Wales" is one of the big four prizes at Bisley, which also numbers the Queen’s Prize and the St George’s.
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| OF Rifle Club Win Third Consecutive Treble |
Last Updated: Tuesday, 24 June 2008
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 Steve McDowell, shooting correspondent, is in fine song once again:
To the tune of “Ooops I did it again”:
BOOM!... We did it again.
We played for the prize, and shot out all the bulls.
Oh Nigel, Nigel
Oops... We hit one or two,
with a vee here and there, we conquered all the fools
But we’re not that gifted mate.
Boom! We did it again!
With apologies to Britney Spears, there’s so much to tell in so little space. Following another win in the All-Day Lizard Goblet and Club Championship last weekend (and that’s more of a mouthful than even Britney can manage), the OFRC is now unbeaten since 2005.
Except, that is, in the BIG ONE. The true test of how good we are will come on July 17th when we compete in the Public School Vets. Last year the A Team dropped only three points and came fifth, only beaten by the likes of ‘serious’ shooting schools Greshams and Epsom, which have between them supplied most of the international teams for a decade and more.
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