Haverfordwest Target Shooting Club

Marek took the full bore honours with a score of 247 (out of 300) in the latest competition, with Pete B winning the small bore on 257. A pleasant Sunday morning break in the Pembrokeshire summer weather saw the usual mix of great shooting and typical mishaps!

Our competitions secretary, Tom Davies, is kindly arranging with the military range at Penally for us to have the opportunity to shoot there. Hopefully we will be able to arrange a club day out in the next couple of months - the date will be confirmed as soon as possible.

There will be some requirements for members to demonstrate ability to shoot reasonably accurately starting at 200m range and this can be done via the club. It will be a great opportunity to use guns which are too powerful for our own ranges.

The 1500 competition continued on Sunday 27th June, with the small-bore round and some additional LBR competitors weighing in.

As always, there was close competition and plent of talking points: the usual calamities - shooting on the wrong target, dropped magazines in the middle of a very short duration course of fire and even an LBR which literally fell to bits during a reload!

But pride of place goes to a new member taking part in his very first competition with a borrowed gun - Ian McCallan managed a sensational score of 747 points in the .22 to take overall 1st place! Very well done, Ian. There'll be a few shooters with an eye on prizes this year looking over their shoulders now!

The Club has been able to arrange access to the shooting range at Penally and we are currently putting together a day trip for the club to go shooting full-bore rifle (black powder and nitro). The date will be announced as soon as it is confirmed.