August Sporting Rifle Monthly Competition Sunny, blue skies with a slight breeze greeted this month’s competitors for our monthly Sporting Rifle Competition. It was a quiet day at the range with holiday season upon us but still five entrants shot across three different disciplines – Sporting Rifle (prone with sling), Field Sporting Rifle (prone […]
We are hosting an Open Competition for the NASRPC on our range on Saturday/Sunday, the 13/14th of August. Competitions offered will include 50/100 Metre prone, 50 Metre Benchrest and three small bore pistol disciplines. The means that the Rifle and Pistol ranges will be fully used between 10:00 and 16:00 each day and will not […]
We are proud to be hosting a National Competition on our range on the 13/14th of August. This is an NASRPC competition offering all the usual Rifle and Pistol disciplines that we shoot on our range as a part of our regular monthly competitions. Some of you will have taken part in the monthly shoots […]
Since our club was founded over 50 years ago, we have had two mainstream Rifle disciplines. The first is the Olympic ISSF style , using jackets and slings, shot in either the prone position or in the 3 position style(Prone, kneeling and standing). The second is the sporting rifle style, shot in many positions, rested […]
Target Shooting Ireland Recently Opened the new National Airgun Training Centre in Wilkinstown Navan Co Meath . ECSC are affiliated to TSI and members can, by arrangement, make use of the facilities which are currently confined to target air pistol and Rifle. There are also Laser and scatt set ups available along with a first […]
Gallery Rifle and Pistol Monthly report 26th June 2022 Competition Results Eight ECSC members arrived up for the June gallery rifle and pistol competition. Holiday season and the dismal weather saw a slight reduction in the numbers attending. We used the ‘Timed and Precision (T&P1)’ target set at the 25mts and 20mts mark and […]
An Experiment on a new Cross over format ! Some of us are used to the rules for ISSF versus local Sporting Rifle which are getting increasingly blurred, so we thought we would try a crossover format allowing both types of rifles to be used in one competition. We are holding this competition on Saturday […]
A small but elite band took part in the East Coast Open target rifle shoot on Saturday 4th June .The Trophy was returned to the club having been previously won in 2019 by Ray K. DFTSC .So this marks our return to competition after a long absence due to C19 On this occasion the trophy […]
The first Sunday of the month can only mean one thing – our rifle competitions. In typical Irish summer fashion, it rained from dawn until dusk. Luckily, despite the wetness, near calm wind conditions prevailed for the seven competitors. Three disciplines were shot, 50m Precision shot from a standing position at 50 metres and two […]
Gallery Rifle and Pistol Monthly report 29th May 2022 Competition Results The sunshine welcomed us on the range this morning as twelve ECSC members turned up for our monthly gallery rifle and pistol competition. The mornings competition was a complete change from the usual formats. We used the ‘25mts Precision (SBP25P)’ target set at […]