**Event Cancelled** Gallery Rifle & Pistol Intro Course This course will introduce you to specific techniques needed for Gallery Rifle and Pistol shooting at a Club level, as well as providing guidance to those wishing[...]
The 2021 Spring Target Shotgun Festival @ Bisley The format for this increasingly popular weekend competition is: Saturday morning – T&P1 and Multi-Target (all classes), NRA Embassy Cup. Sunday, all day – Practical Shotgun. To[...]
** Event Cancelled** The 2021 Spring Action Weekend The first of three newly revamped Gallery Rifle Action weekends held at Bisley throughout 2021 to encourage Gallery Rifle action shooting to include Centrefire and Smallbore, Long[...]
**Event Cancelled** The Army Target Shooting Club Open Meeting The Army Target Shooting (ATSC) Club’s annual Club Championships and Open Meeting is at a mid April timeslot for 2021. The meeting contains a mixture Gallery[...]
**Event Cancelled** The Army Target Shooting Club Open ISSF Meeting The Army Target Shooting (ATSC) Club’s annual Club Championships and Open ISSF Meeting is at a mid April timeslot for 2021. The meeting contains a[...]
Budleigh Farm Speed Steel Challenge Falling plate target shooting competitions held at the Budleigh Farm Shooting ground in the glorious rolling hills of the Dartmoor National park in Devon. Designed to be both fun and[...]
The 2021 Basildon Open Another three days for again 2021 – however a week later over the (former) Early May Bank Holiday weekend. Basildon put on an excellent shoot with plenty of space to camp[...]
The MATTERSEY Gallery Rifle OPEN Competitions for T&P and MT for LBR, LBP, GRCF, GRSB and Target Shotgun including Classic. 1500 for LBR, LBP, GRCF and GRSB. Entry forms – Online | PDF | MS[...]
Joint Services Pistol Club 2021 Spring Open Shorts Championships Fully classified Matches for Timed & Precision 1 Multi – Target Phoenix A CentreFire and Small Bore Gallery Rifle and Long Barrelled Revolver and Pistol matches[...]
The 2021 Phoenix Meeting Something for everybody at the Phoenix. At its usual bank holiday slot at the end of May for the 2021 season Entry forms are available via the NRA web site. Enter[...]
**Event Cancelled** The 2021 International 1500 Match at the Phoenix The International head to head 1500 match between teams from Great Britain, Ireland, Germany and South Africa.Share this:Click to email this to a friend (Opens[...]
The 141st Aberdeen Wapinschaw To be held at: Drums Ranges and Black Dog Ranges Friday 11th to Sunday 13th June 2021 General Meeting Details and Full details of match specific Rules & Regulations are now[...]
The 2021 Derby Open 1500 and Shorts At the height of the Summer – a full event list of 1500, shorts (for all gun types) the HCNM match and, of course, the excellent BBQ. Overnight[...]
The Cottesloe Practical Shotgun Challenge The Cottesloe Heath Challenge (Bisley) will also be a round of the 2021 NRA Shotgun League. This match can be shot on either Saturday or Sunday with some places on[...]
The 2021 NASRPC Irish Open and IGRF Gallery Rifle Open CF Lever Action Rifle + SB Gallery Rifle – Individual & Team events Pistol & Shotgun Events Irish Leg of the IGRF International Matches in[...]
Scottish open Gallery Rifle Championships The 2021 Scottish Gallery Rifle and Pistol Championship will be held on the 10-11th July at JSPC’s Colmsliehill range where a series of short events will be held. The Championship[...]
** EVENT CANCELLED ** NRA Imperial Historic Arms Meeting. Original or spirit of the original welcome at this meeting. A plethora of events for Rifle, Pistol and Gallery Rifle. Don’t think this meeting is just[...]
The Gallery Rifle and Pistol meeting at the Imperial. The meeting contains a mixture of squadded trophy matches and unlimited entry events. The meeting will run from Wednesday to Sunday. Unlimited entry events will run throughout the meeting with[...]
The Welsh Open 1500 and Shorts Championships To be held at Haverfordwest Target Shooting Club – Pembrokeshire’s finest shooting ground. Free camping available – make a weekend of it. On-line entry now Closing Date for[...]
The FDPC Rimfire Festival A Rimfire Festival held at FDPC’s Shepton Mallet range complex. Five matches – T&P1, Multi-Target, The Granet Match, The America Match and a 1020. Appropriate matches above will be classified. Entry[...]
The 2021 Gallery Rifle National OPEN Championships Continuing with the new date for the GR National Open Championships for 2020. To avoid clashing with the August Bank Holiday weekend this has been kept at the[...]
The 2021 Police Meeting @ Bisley A plethora of shooting events on offer for this meeting. To include On Melville Ranges – Advancing Target, T&P1, Multi target for both GRCF and GRSB Black powder matches[...]
JSPC 2021 Autumn Open Shorts Championships Fully classified Matches for Timed & Precision 1 Multi – Target Phoenix A CentreFire and Small Bore Gallery Rifle and Long Barrelled Revolver and Pistol matches available Details and[...]
The SLG Bisley 1500 and Shorts A return to Melville in late September for some 1500 and shorts matches organized by SLG Bisley. Just a one day event but cheap accommodation should be easily available[...]
The 2021 Autumn Target Shotgun Festival @ Bisley The format for this increasingly popular weekend competition is: Saturday morning – T&P1 and Multi-Target (all classes), NRA Embassy Cup. Sunday, all day – Practical Shotgun. To[...]
Budleigh Farm Rimfire Festival Falling plate target shooting competitions held at the Budleigh Farm Shooting ground in the glorious rolling hills of the Dartmoor National park in Devon. Designed to be both fun and challenging it[...]
The County of Lancaster LSR (GRSB) Open Held at Burnley Rifle Club 25m Precision, 50 yd Precision, Precision Aggregate, Multi-Target, and Timed & Precision 1 Registered event for National Gallery Rifle Ranking 25m Precision 50m[...]
The 2021 Trafalgar Meeting Shooters with a historical inclination will turn towards the Trafalgar Meeting as memories of the Imperial fade. “Spirit of the Original” is the ethos of the meeting so don’t be fooled[...]
The 2021 Autumn Action Weekend This is the last of the years main Gallery Rifle Action Weekends that encourages Gallery Rifle shooting for the Gallery Rifle community who visit Bisley. This meeting includes competitions for[...]
The 2021 Chelmsford Winter Action Weekend The 2021 Chelmsford Winter Action Weekend – 6th-7th November Chelmsford Rifle Club is pleased to announce that it is hosting two weekends of action shooting in 2021. Sadly no[...]
The full Calendar of Events is always kept up to date however the current situation we find ourselves in mean there will probably be cancellations and postponements. A number of events have been lost from the originally published calendar which some people may have from mid January.
Cancellations so far for 2021
6-7 Mar: CRC Spring Meeting – Chelmsford
27-28 Mar: Spring Action Meeting – Bisley
10-11 Apr: ATSC GR&P Open Meeting – Bisley
17-18 Apr: ATSC ISSF/BP Open Meeting – Bisley
31 May: IGRF International 1500 Phoenix match – Bisley
The 2021 Great Britain Gallery Rifle Gallery Squad is announced.
GB Gallery Rifle international matches are held at Bisley, Ireland and Germany on an annual basis. The team also traveled to South Africa in 2019 to compete in the IGRF World Cup.
The Great Britain Galley Rifle team has teamed up with EasyFundraising to raise some funds for the team. Whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you could be raising free donations for Great Britain Gallery Rifle Team with Easyfundraising!
There are over 4,000 shops and sites on board ready to make a donation – including well known retailers like eBay, Argos, John Lewis, ASOS, Booking.com and M&S – and it won’t cost you a penny extra to help us raise funds.
The 2020 Trafalgar results are now finalized and published. The historic Trafalgar scores database has also been updated. This only goes back to 2010 but this year’s results now mean there are 10 years of archive scores for the interested to peruse – over 11,200 entries.
Although the Trafalgar is a Classics and Historics meeting there is plenty of Galley Rifle shooting offered. The Spirit of the Original adheres of course but GR shooters should not overlook it. Some photos are shared on the Facebook platform for the Saturday and Sunday.
The Final Ranking Tables for (almost) all and classified events have been updated. Due to the social lockdowns the final bounding scores are Basildon 2019 and the recently completed AAW 2020 inclusive. This gives a maximum meeting count of 19 – about what we have in a normal season.
The final meeting of the 2020 season was the AAW 2020 at Bisley. The two November meetings at Chelmsford and Shepton Mallet (FDPC) have had to be cancelled.
The nominal ranking order list is still best 4 scores to count over a season. For all events this is sometimes hard to achieve as not all meetings offer all events. A ‘Raw Average’ column has been added which will indicate how people are averaging with 4 or less scores recorded. Note the RawAvg is an arithmetic average – not a <Score>.<Xcount> average which is the case in the in the ‘Best4‘ column.
By way of introduction to all you Gallery Rifle shooters out there….. I’m now the proud holder of the title “NRA Gallery Rifle & Pistol Rep” on the NRA Council. My aim is simple; to continue to promote and develop our sport, and represent you all in the Gallery Rifle discipline.
As some of you will know, I’ve been active in GR since it’s inception, and proudly shot with and Captained the GB GR teams. However, whilst remaining a competitor, I’m not as competitive as I’d now like to be and I’m happy to put my energies into a slightly different direction, supporting the wider GR community.
I’m going to be ably supported by a small but dedicated team in the GR Sub-Committee to focus on various aspects of GR including developing Juniors, and training more RO’s. I’ll be at Bisley for most GRAW weekends and other shoots. Feel free to hunt me down on Melville or Butt Zero, if you want to discuss any aspect of GR. In fact, as a starter for 10, please come and shoot the matches !
Remember – GR is our sport; we are the active element of the NRA, so please support our efforts to ensure GR remains safe, enjoyable and as popular as it can be, in a changing world.
Just to let you all know that the Rimfire Festival on the 3rd and 4th of October is still on.
As it is a private shooting competition with no spectators and we are using equipment which has been licenced by a public body (i.e. an FAC) we are exempt from the rule of 6. We will also be increasing our Covid 19 precautions in line with the current legislation and these will be emailed to participating shooters shortly before the event (as they seem to be changing on a daily basis)
The Saturday afternoon is almost full now but there are still spaces available for the Sunday, morning and afternoon, but to secure a slot you MUST book via the online form below:
Some of you still have a credit from the cancelled Steel Challenge which we will hold over, however, if you previously sent a Cheque these were not presented and are now out of date. So a new payment should be made.
I will email everyone with the final squadding list during the week before the shoot just in case any entries have been overlooked and so you can check if I have had to move you from your chosen day (I will try and keep those travelling together or from the same club together in shooting groups)
Please bare with us as we deal with the restrictions during these challenging times and remember that your safety, both on and off the shooting range, is our top priority and help us continue to enjoy our sport.
This course will introduce you to specific techniques needed for Gallery Rifle and Pistol shooting at a Club level, as well as providing guidance to those wishing to progress into competitive shooting. The Course will involve both classroom and practical range work with expert coaching from National and International level shooters.
The current Gallery Rifle Ranking tables stand as produced immediately after the Chelmsford Spring meeting. The next national competition is the GR Nationals – 5-6 September. The rankings traditionally show a full rolling season and this currently stands at 19 potential meetings to attend. With he loss of the majority of the 2020 season rather than remove the ten meetings that have fallen victim the situation we are in the rankings will be listed on the basis of 19 meetings until we naturally catch up with the natural schedule. This probably won’t be until the end of 2021.
Results for Nationals 2020 will be processed as usual and SAW 2019 will be dropped out. The next shoot is SLG Bisley 2020. When that results set is processed ATSC 2019 will be aged out.
Historically just three events were chosen to rank – T&P1, Multi-Target and the 1500. This was because these three events are used for national and international events respectively. More recently the 1020 has been added. There is no reason why results from all events can’t be processed and ranked but the simple formula if just taking the best 4 scores sometimes falls over due to the more limited interest matches not offering enough opportunities to register a score. If anyone has any suggestions how to fairly deal with these let me know.
The 2020 GR&P Nationals will run on the original advertised weekend – 5-6 September 2020. Various modifications to the format of the competition will be in place for obvious reasons and will be provided to competitors and Range Officers nearer the time.
Range crew – as usual – will be required. Please volunteer if you can – its great fun
Published below are results for full team scores sent in. The current situation we find ourselves in means there is little point in continuing this at the moment. Full set of individual scores can be found here.
This was an aggregate of a T&P1 SB and a T&P1 CF. Individual shooter’s scores for both totalled and (for teams of 5) lowest score dropped. Max score per team 2400.240
1 2398.168 Aldershot Arthritic 2 2395.156 Team Sigma 3 2394.156 Ham and Eggs 4 2388.150 Frome Feathers 5 2386.132 Team Harbour House 6 2385.124 Aldershot Athletic 7 2381.137 Two Rivers 8 2381.123 JSPC Blue 9 2363.096 Bristol & District 10 2352.000 LMR A 11 2350.093 Ham and Chips 12 2342.092 Teignbridge and District 13 2339.102 Aberdeen RPC 14 2318.084 Louisa Centre 15 2313.000 LMR B
A pre season virtual club competition is proposed.
A team competition
We are looking for teams of 5 shooters from any local club to enter a friendly pre-season Timed and Precision 1 (T&P1) event which can be shot in the comfort of your own club. Each shooter to submit a GRCF T&P1 score and a GRSB T&P1 score. Scores from all shooters will be summed and the lowest score dropped to produce a total team score out of 2400 points.
Shoot your matches any time between now and the deadline (see below).
General rules below
Teams of 5 shooters from each club required. If a club can muster more than one team of 5 – even better
Each shooter to shoot a GRCF competition and a GRSB competition
Scores from each shooter’s GRCF and GRSB target will be summed to produce a score out of 600
All individual scores summed and the lowest score dropped to produce a total score out of 2400
Shoot the events any time between now and the deadline
Scores Submission deadline – 1st March 202025th March 2020
Moving into the 2020 season the GB Gallery rifle team has a new captain and Vice captain. Taff Wilcox steps down after two seasons which included a tour to compete in the IGRF Worlds in South Africa in late 2019.
Gary Bowden takes over as captain with Phil Wood as Vice. The 2020 season is considered a ‘standard’ season according to the new captain. Tours to Ireland in the Summer and Germany in early Winter will take place. The traditional Phoenix meeting home match will also take place at the end of May where we hope to host as many of the IGRF nations as possible.
The 2021 season sees the return of the biennial IGRF World Championships to the UK. Objectives for team GB for 2020 is to solidify and enhance all aspects of team interaction and performance to represent the nation in these world championships.
The Squad
The teams for our 3 International shoots in 2020 will be a selection from the following squad
Gary Bowden captain
Phil Wood vice-captain
Chris West
Jonathan Cormie
Jake Mossom
Rob Wheeler
Keith Kilvington
Andrew Summers
Norman Veitch
Mel Beard
James Starley
Taff Wilcox
Gerry Betteridge
Steve Lamb
Colin McMichael
Peter Watts
Mornè Van Dalen
Keith Cox
Fraser Hay
Robert J Tonner
David Guest
Supporting Committee
A slightly larger supporting committee for 2020 with a view to spreading the overhead of administration away from the team.
Jacky Lamb – Adjutant
Ashley Dagger – Coordinator
Neil Francis – I.T and Social Media
Jim Smith – Fund Raising and Marketing
Anita Bowden – Fund raising
Dave Holt – Armorer
Ted George – Gallery Rifle rep
Standards for various events shot at the Phoenix meeting have been reviewed for the 2020 season. There are various changes across the board. These will be published in the 2020 GR&P/Phoenix booklet and are also referenced at the link below.
Additionally competitor’s classifications are now decided on scores achieved over the last 3 seasons – not their complete historic record. The three year window will continuously roll forward on a competition by competition basis. So for the start for the 2020 season only registered scores from 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons are being considered
The chances are your classifications will have changed. Check them here. Or download a complete spreadsheet of everybody’s classifications here. Your classifications may look wrong – especially in the T&P, M-T and Advancing target events. Barring the odd glitch that may have crept in they chances are they are not. Changing to 5 divisions and bounding to the last three years of scores data will have changed things a fair bit. You can check the score that achieved the classification you are in at the historic scores database.
