FASSAROE “F-50” 50th ANNIVERSARY OPEN SUNDAY 16th June 2019 At E.C.S.C. range, Roundwood. SMALLBORE TARGET RIFLE ENGLISH MATCH / PR60 60 shots at 50 metres Three-card system – no 10-shot final Details : First – 10.30am. Last time to start shooting 13.00pm. 25 mins shooting ; 5 mins […]
A bright and breezy day but not a busy one. We had 4 entries for each competition, but not the same for each! It was a Bank Holiday, which always reduces attendance, but the competitive blood was up and the motivation was fierce. The wind was very strong but fairly steady, so once the zeroing […]
COMPETITION RESULTS MONTHLY PISTOL/GALLERY RIFLE SHOOT 26 MAY 2019. A windy mild morning greeted the members to-day with sunshine developing throughout the morning time. We had a good entry of 16 shooters which made it a busy range with lots of good shooting. The format was the tried and tested NASRPC T&P […]
In a recent post, we recognised the recent success of club member Bronagh M. in winning her first medals at National level in an NASRPC competition. She has been steadily improving her scores since she took up Pistol Shooting two years ago. Starting with the club monthly pistol competitions and moving into the National arena. […]
It may have been the May bank holiday but that did not stop a dedicated group of serious accuracy fans from competing in the Monthly Rifle Shoot. Conditions were excellent, bright, with a slight steady breeze from the South West. 2 competitions were shot: 50 Metre Field sporter. This is shot in the prone position […]
We are finalising an education programme for this year. The Agenda would be similar to that outlined below. We can run this in one session on a Saturday in May or June, or break it into 3 or 4 modules which would be run on specified Sunday mornings, before the usual shooting starts. It is […]
COMPETITION RESULTS MONTHLY GALLERY RIFLE AND PISTOL SHOOT 28 APRIL 2019 Wet and damp weather greeted us on the range this morning for what was to be a challenging match in the monthly gallery rifle and pistol shoot. Multi Target was the day’s format with twenty four shots in strings of six rounds […]
The Shotgun section added a little sweetener to the usual Sunday shoot last Sunday, the 14th of April, by having a 50 bird shoot for a selection of Easter Eggs. Most of these shooters are slim and elegant and can afford to eat a few eggs so competition was fierce. Who would get the Cadbury’s […]
We hosted a major National Level competition for the NASRPC last weekend. Both the rifle and pistol ranges were busy on both days. Over 50 individual people from 11 clubs took part in the competitions.. 189 individual score sheets were submitted, showing that the average number of competitions entered by each individual was just under […]
Our current range in Roundwood is the third range we have been on since the club was founded in 1969. The first was in a quarry in Fassaroe, near Bray in 1969. Shortly after this we moved to our range in Enniskerry, also in a disused quarry, in 197X. We had two locations of firing […]