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Introductory Gallery Rifle Training Day Saturday 12th March, Bisley Camp Cost £70 – which includes range fees, targets, scorebook, individual coaching and lunch The Introduction to Gallery Rifle (GR) Course will provide the fundamental skills for taking part in GR events and competitions, and will include individual coaching, positional shooting techniques, range procedures, match preparation, mental and physical attitudes, […]

The 2016 GR&P / Phoenix Booklets The updated 2016 GR&P rulebook and 2016 Phoenix booklet is now at the printers. Hard copies will be available and ready for collection at the NRA Offices from the end of the month and there will be a few copies available at the GB Shooting show next week. As a result […]

The 2016 Great Britain Gallery Rifle Squad Jon Avetoomyan and his team has named the Great Britain Galley rifle squad for 2016. The main squad and reserve/development squad are listed below. Matches in the UK at Bisley are planned as well as tours to Ireland and Germany. The GB Gallery Rifle team is an official […]

Melville Work

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Melville Work The work on Melville Range will affect the way all people use it and also how its used for national competitions. A few comments have been received but if anyone else has thoughts on how this will impact the Bisley GRAWS, Phoenix meeting, Historics and IHAM etc send them over. The work is […]

Classification Changes for T&P1 GRCF Its tight at the top and no more so than the Timed and Precision one event in GRCF. For all the classified events we have traditionally always broken divisional classes on bullet score. Up until now this has generally been an easy and acceptable way to achieve what we require. […]

The 2016 Gallery Rifle Captain Jonathon Avetoomyan has been appointed the Great Britain Gallery Rifle captain for the 2016 season. I’m sure the GR community and squad will wish Jon good and we are sure he will continue to but build on the success of outgoing captain Pete Cooper who took the team to victory […]

GALLERY RIFLE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 HELD AT THE LEITMAR RANGES IN GERMANY On Monday 16th November 2015 the second Gallery Rifle World Championships were held at the newly refurbished range facility in Leitmar, Germany. The order of the day had been agreed at an IGRF committee meeting held on Friday 13th November 2015 where it […]

Holsters and LBPs

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Holsters and LBPs The GR&P discipline do not make massive use of holsters. They are used in the following events within a course of fire: T&P2 1500 T&P3 1020 Phoenix A (although not really relevant as the start condition is always empty chamber) Holsters can be used in other events as convenient holding device – […]

T&P2 Timings

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Timed and Precision 2 Timings What is it with the Timed and Precision 2 event? Every year I get lobbied to change the timings because “they are wrong”. Here is what we currently have:   10m – Pistol, Revolver and GRCF – 8secs: GRSB – 5 secs 25m – Pistol, Revolver and GRSB – 105 secs ( 1:45): […]

Iron Sights Pistol Events At the Bisley GRAWS throughout the 2015 season separate iron sighted pistol matches were offered for the T&P1, Multi Target and Advancing Target events. Although we had some moderate take-up there is not enough people to justify continuing to offer these matches as independent and standalone events. What will happen from 2016 onwards is be a […]

Trafalgar and AAW Results The Historic Trafalgar meeting and the Autumn Action Weekend both happened at Bisley Ranges in October. The Trafalgar ran over the weekend of the 17th and 18th October and the AAW over the weekend of the 26th and 27th October. As always, the meetings relied heavily on many Range Officers and volunteers to […]

Man v Man at the AAW Roll up! Roll up for the Man v Man!  Step right this way… ! Below  are the results of the Man v Man at the AAW. This was held as an an informal event but the results have been recorded in the AAW results set for future reference. Some tweaks […]

The County of Lancaster LSR (GRSB) Open [Results now Available] The County of Lancaster Small Bore Target Shooting Association is please to announce a National Gallery Rifle Registered event to be held at Burnley Rifle Club on Sunday 11th October 2015. Competitions will consist of 25m and 5om Precision matches, a Multi-Target match and a […]

The 2015 Mattersey Bianchi [Results and Photos now available] For the first time in a couple of seasons the Mattersey Bianchi has a clean and clash free weekend for 2015. The main event day is Sunday the 4th October but shooting is possible on Saturday the 3rd by appointment. Just email Malc and let him […]

Sweden: 1500 World Championships August 2015 In 1997 the government of the day banned pistols from target shooters in this country, making it difficult if not impossible for many of them to compete in international competition. Eighteen years on with a lot of help from the organiser of this year’s competition 26 Brits made the […]