ECSC Shooters Cathal C and Sandy W attended the fullbore Irish Open at the Ballykinler ranges in Northern Ireland on the weekend of 23rd – 24th June 2018. Cathal was shooting in the as-issued Classic Service Rifle class. He was unfortunately not able to repeat the great success he had in this event last […]
COMPETITION RESULTS MONTHLY SHOOT 24th June 2018 A good turnout to-day on the day when Ireland officially transitioned into a heatwave we enjoyed a competitive shoot with eighteen entries to shoot the Small Bore Pistol Multi Target format in pistol and gallery rifle, with mixed firing lines featuring. Shooters continued to enter two or […]
The 2018 Championship was won by Dave C. of ECSC, taking a comfortable first place. Dave was shooting a No. 4 Mark 2 .303 Lee En-field. This was his first time to enter this competition in which the competitors use an ex military Rifle (not on issue today) which can be bolt action or […]
COMPETITION RESULTS MONTHLY SHOOT 27th May, 2018 A good turnout to-day with fifteen entries to shoot the 25 Metre Precision format in pistol and gallery rifle, with mixed firing lines the norm. Some shooters entered two categories which makes the whole competition more worthwhile!! The weather was kindly, a slight bit of drizzle for […]
COMPETITION RESULTS MONTHLY SHOOT 28th APRIL 2018 The weather continued to go easy on us this month and a much improved turnout registered for this month’s T&P 1 format competition, which is an inclusive format allowing for rimfire pistol, centrefire pistol and gallery rifle to shoot alongside each other. Congratulations to Cathal C. for winning […]
We are running a CPR course on the range between 10:00 and 13:00 hours on Saturday the 9th June. We have a modern CPR kit in the Rifle Range and this course will cover the use of such a kit as well as basic manual CPR techniques. A professional instructor has been engaged to run […]
COMPETITION RESULTS MONTHLY SHOOT 25 MARCH 2018 March’s shoot suffered from a bad case of the ‘winter blues’ with a low turnout of only seven entries for the pistol monthly shoot, and no interest in the gallery rifle. Well, it HAS been a long, cold, miserable winter!! Lets hope things get better in April. This […]
Last weekend the NASRPC were hosted in the “Kingdom An Riocht Shooting Club”, near Tralee in County Kerry. This is the monthly National Level shoot and is spread across a wide range of centre-fire and small-bore disciplines. Anthony F. and I traveled down and represented East Coast Shooting Club. The weather conditions were initially fine and […]
E.C.S.C. Spring 2018 Target Rifle Open The E.C.S.C. Spring ’18 T/R Open was held at the club’s range on Sunday 22nd April.There was a modest but select(!) entry. Results, which are set out below, were mixed, but we hope all who took part enjoyed themselves and/or gained some valuable experience from the day. Competitor […]
We received an invitation from the Carrick Glen club , to visit them for a friendly competition on their range which is only 3km from our range in Diamond Hill. They specialize in Clay Pigeon shooting and have an excellent layout including DTL, Skeet and Sporting clays. We were made feel very welcome on arrival […]