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Shooting is a very popular activity with the boys. Not all schools have ranges, in part for safty reasons. Quite a number have set up ranges and many of the boys want to partiipate. It is normally done as an optional activity, coomonly reserved for the older boys for both saftey reasons and to limit the number of participants to manageable levels. Some schools use BB-guns, but other schools use 22s and other small bore weapons..
Forty-two boys attended the shooting sessions each week of the term and the standward of accuracy was maintained, especially by those who were firing fot the third year. The Shooting Cup was won by Fairfax Hall with an outstanding score of 207 points; the runners-up were Robin Davies (198), Robert Shove (196) and Thomas Wright (194). The match against two balanced staff teams resulted in a win for the chool VIII, the scores being 351, 340 and 338. On the Royal Citadel minature range, entertained by the 29th Regiment Royal Artillery, the team shot well with the sadapted SLR weapon and the instructing Staff were suitably impressed. The following Friday we again visited the Royal Marines at Stonehouse but this time we fired on the 30m open range, again with the SLR guns. That very fine and entertaining instructor, Sergeant Gilchrist, kept everybody on the move and we all thoroughly enjoyed the afternoo, especially going down the range firing at differently directed targets. Seven out of the eight scored maximum points. We had the advantage of having the same team as last year, with just one exception. Suitable letters of thanks were dispatched to the two Commanding Officers by Sam Perowne.
Ken Cloud, Fanfare (Mount House School), Autumn 1988
All participants throughly enjoyed firing their rounds, albeit at intimate targets. Some were excellent, scoring about 40 or more out of 50 consistently. Stephen McNeil (181 points) won the cup, Lance Gerrard-Wright (174 points) was second and Pupert Kruger (171 points) was third. Bowes, Moorhouse, Buraby-Atkins, Everard, Johnson i, Wilde i and MacMillan were close behind. The staff match could not have been closer, the staff victorious with 340 points, the boys unlucky with 339. G.G.F., outstanding with 49 out of 50, and five members of staff in the forties, proved sufficient to keep the enemy at bay! All the boys (and girls) shot against the staff, the best nine scores being counted. In order of merit the nine were: Burnaby-Atkins, Wilde i, McNeil, Chittenden, Fedrik, Moorhouse, Tress, Johnson i, and Reed i.
AMCB, Lambrook Chronicle, 1980.
Several factors have conspired to limit the activities of the Shooting Club this term, not least the shortening of the days. Indeed on one Thurday at the end of November the quality of daylight at three o'clock made it impossible to discern knock-down targets at fifteen metres with any clarity. The school is now the proud possessor of two fine BSA Meteor air rifles and two Webley Hurricane air pistols. ll these enable those without their own weapons to take part in shooting duing club sessions and the later will serve the additional purposes of teaching pistol shooting to those who have finised their C.E. exams next summer and providing pistols for use in the competition on Open Day. They are in .22 and .177 calibres and have already made an impact upon our shooting, and the targets! The cup for the highest average was awarded to Angus Newby Grant (average 50; highest score 63/75). Runners-up were Stephen Mitchell (average 35), Simon Reinhold (average 31) and Campbell Coe (average 29). Next term we hope to have a shoulder-to-shoulder match against Taverham
MRNG, Surge (Beeston Hall), Autumn 1988.
It amazes me that this hobby continues to be ever popular and each Tuesday morning during the Autumn nsd Lent term there is a rush to get one's name down on the shooting activity list. Anthony Watkins kindly provided us with a new range of targets with pictures of terrorists to aim at, although some people seem to shoot the hostage more than the terrorist! I hope they don't join the police force! Some people that deserve a mention are Peter Baker, who scored 50/50 on one target and Daniel Pullan who consistently scored more than 80/100 and often got over 90 and this earned him the shooting cup for the year.
RJK, Great Walstead Magazine 1987.
I think shooting is good fun. Mr Kay cracks awful jokes which really put you off. At the moment I asm in competition with Smith T. He is a good shot as well and every time we look at each other, we growl. Mr Kay laughs at everything, including shooting. If I say, "Oh no, I've missed," there is a great laugh behind my back. Of course that is Mr Kay. I got the highest score in house shooting which was 88/100. Also I got the highest score last year. I can't wait to get on that platform in the chapel at the end of term if Smith has got a lower score.
Daniel Pullan, Great Walstead Magazine 1987.
The activities of the club were even more varied this year. We continued to use the .22 range under the house on dark winter evenongs but preferred to use the yard near the stables where up to five boys could shoot at the dame time. with air rifles or pistols. The triathlon competition, mentioned elsewhere, led us to buy a .177 target pistol and several boys proved adept at this discipline, notably Clapham, Henriques and Derby..
Beaudesert Park Magazine, Autumn 1978.
