The People Who Keep The Club Running. Clubs like ours depend on members volunteering to do work to keep the club operating. Some of these members offer themselves up for offices on the committee. Other members step up to the mark and attend work sessions on the range to keep it functioning. These work […]
A nice warm spring day called for a fresh approach to this year’s monthly Rifle competitions. Most people who are new to our sport are often a bit reluctant to enter a competition. They are quite comfortable spending an hour or two plinking away at a competition target(which is our default target) but they are […]
Each year in December, for the last 20 years, we hold a Christmas Competition to raise funds for Local Charities. We like to support local organisations and “Good Causes”, hence past donations have included Roundwood and Wicklow based schools, sports clubs, and Charitable Organisations. This year our donation has gone to the Dublin and Wicklow […]
Our Archery section recently introduced a new Grading system which signifies the progress made in developing accuracy with a bow on our range. There are 9 grades in total, which are shown in the table below, from lowest to highest. We aim to hold a grading shoot every month, and the scores from these grading […]
A cold and wet February day did not deter all members from taking part in the Monthly 50/100 metre prone shoot. 5 took part but one participant withdrew with equipment problems. There was little wind but ample rain and the ground was waterlogged. We all look forward to the return of light, balmy breezes. The […]
SOTY report 26th Jan 2025 T & P 1 I would like to thank the shooters who turned up today for the T & P 1 competition in what were horrendous conditions. The rain was torrential and the wind howling. Not very pleasant conditions for shooting. We were debating whether to go ahead with the […]
December 29-12-24. Monthly Pistol Competition Results. This was the last monthly competition in the 2024 calendar year, as part of the Shooter of the Year 2024/2025 competition. The discipline was 25m Precision. The conditions were very good with a little wind. The turn out was reasonable considering that we are still in the Festive […]
As before at this time of the year, the ECSC held it’s annual Charity Christmas shoot to help out local charities. We discuss which charities each year but we always come back to the community in which we operate our club and hence think it is most appropriate to “stay local”. The final decision as […]
Pistol Competition report 24th Nov Multi Target The monthly SOTY competition was held on 24th November shooting the Multi target course of fire. The weather was very cold but 12 hardy members showed up to shoot a total of 17 disciplines which was a good turnout considering the conditions. The most popular discipline on the […]
This is a visual report from the most imaginative section of the club. I have not yet received any results, but I must share the photos from the event.I must admit to being a bit spooked as I was not sure what day it was.Each time I looked over at the Archery range, I saw […]