Centenary Competition – Stage One

Posted on August 5, 2011 by colrpc

Stage One of our competition is now over. The final few clubs are returning their cards and then the marking will begin. We intend to mark the cards the week after Bisley.

Note: Colbury members’ cards will be marked externally by the Secretary of the Southampton & District Rifle and Pistol Association.

Round Two stickers will be out before the end of August for completion before 31 October 2011.

Colbury has two finalists in the NSRA-Eley competition and we will be out in support on 14 August. You know our logo! Look out for us on Century Range or loitering around Jenny’s – mine’s a double bacon, bacon butty.

We also give VOLUBLE support during the prize-giving!

As we’ve had no reply to our three written representations to Eley for support for our Centenary Competition prizes of Eley Match, we shall talk to them on the day. Maybe we can elicit a response face-to-face. Whatever the outcome, the prizes stand. We’ve had tremendous support from the shooters in the target rifle community, so thank you.

 

 

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Centenary Competition Update

Posted on June 17, 2011 by colrpc

Date – 17 June 2011

Colbury Centenary

Colbury Centenary

Colbury Centenary Competition

We have received 292 entries from 57 clubs across the length and breadth of Britain, from Orkney to Jersey and Helston (Cornwall) to Basildon (Essex).

We have increased the Classes to six with approximately 50 shooters in each Class.

We have an article in the NSRA magazine, due to be published at the end of March, which arrived – last weekend.

Because of this we have put back the closing date for entries to 31 May and the last day for completion of the first round is now 31 July 2011.

We will accept entries until the end of June.

Details on our Competition page.

For speed, e-mail entrants details to colburyrpc@yahoo.co.uk

40 shots at short-range for a chance to win 500 Eley Match, a medal and commemorative brooch.

Why not have a go?

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Posted on March 9, 2011 by colrpc

Nestling in the woods on the eastern edge of the New Forest, the Colbury Rifle and Pistol Club is celebrating its Centenary this year.

The Club was formed in 1911 at the suggestion of the local landowner, William Claude Vaudrey Barker-Mill, whose family gifted the land and gave a generous donation towards the building of the clubhouse and range. In fact the estate’s continued support has ensured our survival, most recently when, in 2009, we rebuilt our very dilapidated clubhouse, thanks to members’ contributions and DIY skills as well as much appreciated grants from the Peter Barker-Mill Memorial Charity and our local Councils.

With an initial membership of 24 growing to 89 within 12 months, the club was popular and well supported. In fact, the Minutes of the First Annual General Meeting state -“…that the sociability of the members was a pleasant and marked feature of the club.”

This is still true today.

We enjoy our sport!

Over the last few decades, as other local clubs have struggled with numbers and facilities, we have been delighted that the remaining members of the Romsey, Eling and Lymington clubs chose to join us and today we have a healthy membership of 50.

Colbury is represented in an ever wider range of local and national competitions and is enjoying a growing reputation again. Two years ago we also started entering LWSR competitions and members enjoy this as “light relief” from the serious business of prone target rifle shooting.

We now invite you to join our celebrations and enter our postal Centenary Competition.

Once in a lifetime opportunity!

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