Calendar of Events
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The 2023 events are now being compiled – continue to check back. The calendar will be kept up to date as the season progresses when entry forms and additional information gets added – or removed.
The 142nd Aberdeen Wapinschaw
General Meeting Details
and
Full details of match specific Rules & Regulations are now available
Please be invited to the Wapinschaw competition which is following the same format as previous years and contains competitions for 5 of the GR classes as well as muzzle-loading rifles, pistols and revolvers.
Entry forms now available:
[Entry Forms – MS Word]
Entry forms and further information are also be available for direct from the Aberdeen Full Bore Gun Club website
The 2023 Derby Open 1500 and Shorts
Entry Forms here and via the Derby Website
Please find the entry form for the 2023 Derby Open
We are expecting a big demand so return your entry form quickly. If you can shoot some events on Friday, you will have a better chance of being squadded for all the events you want.
Please note:
- In T&P1 and Multi-Target there is a separate class for LBPs and LBRs with iron sights.
- For GR Classic the ‘spirit of the Original’ must endure.
- There are events for GR Open, however please note you are not permitted to use a GR Standard or GR Classic rifle to compete in this event.
All the sponsors from 2022 (see below) have agreed to support us again plus a couple more, and we will put on the best prize table possible.
A new sponsor, RELOADINGUK, will be giving every competitor a free ammunition box and powder funnel. You can pick these up when you collect your scorecards.
Squadding should be circulated about 10 days before the event so do not panic if you don’t hear back straight away, I will make every effort to accommodate your squadding preferences but no guarantees.
If you wish you can return your entry by email and pay by BACS – and please include your classifications!
Team Derby looks forward to seeing you.
We are very happy to have the following companies sponsor this event:
Wentworth Sporting Supplies
Reloading UK
Hannams Reloading
RWS
Brownells UK
Livens
MarlinSpares.com
The Countryman of Derby
The National Rifle Association
Praesidia
Shooting Supplies
Rude Fat Dog
Scottish open Gallery Rifle Championships
The 2023 Scottish Gallery Rifle and Pistol Championship will be held on the 7-9th July at JSPC Ranges near Galashiels where a series of short events will be held. The Championship for Rifle will be held concurrently with a Championship for Long Barrelled Revolver and Pistol.
This competition is open to all and is a NRA-registered event. Scores will be submitted to the NRA for inclusion in the Gallery Rifle Ranking Tables and Gallery Rifle Classification. RO day will take place on the Friday 8th July
Entry Forms – PDF | MS Word
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 for the historians and 19th Century aficionados. Plenty of events which can be entered with your modern day Marlins, Winchesters, Lee Enfields and Mausers.
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 Thursday to Sunday.
Unlimited entry events will run throughout the meeting with Trophy matches running on Saturday and Sunday morning.
Rules, schedules, events and timings are also be listed in the Bisley Bible/GR&P Handbook
Entry forms available for all Imperial events are also available via the NRA web site
The Mid Ulster Festival of Shooting
The festival will host registered matches for NRA gallery rifle championships and an NI region WA1500 registered handgun match.
Gallery competition courses of fire to include 1500, 600, T&P 1 and Multi-Target in the following categories GRSB, GRCF standard classic and open, LBR and LBP.
WA 1500 courses of fire to include 1500, 600 and 480. 1500 categories will be shot in pistol and revolver, open, optic, and distinguished classes. 600 and 480 pistol and revolver as qualified under WA1500 rules.
T&P1 and Multi-Target will also be shot in pistol and revolver categories, smallbore and centrefire, as per NRA rules. Club guns are available; please request them in advance.
This will be a perfect opportunity to visit somewhere new, try something different and meet new friends! First-time visitors, please email us to discuss travel arrangements or any other queries on:
Please follow the links below to enter; we look forward to seeing you there!
Enter on-line
WA 1500 | Gallery Rifle & Pistol
The Derby Handgun Challenge
The Club is pleased to announce that for 2023 the DERBY HANDGUN CHALLENGE will be held on Saturday and Sunday August 19/20.
This Open event will be for LBPs and LBRs and will offer eight events plus a Practical Shoot run by Team Smoothy.
The events will be: TP1, TP2, TP3, Multi-Target, Phoenix A, WA48, 1020, 1500.
There will be a pay once aggregate to cover all the events with one handgun or an entry fee for individual events for those who don’t or can’t do the positional shooting. The aggregate will require 494 rounds – quite a marathon, and it can be done in one day shooting many events back to back. Start reloading now.
There will be spaces for 64 competitors, perhaps a few more if the squadding can be tweaked.
Entry Forms here and via the Derby Website
Entry Forms – MS Word | PDF
The 2023 Gallery Rifle National OPEN Championships
A weekend to compete and be crowned a National Champion. This event is predominantly for Gallery Rifles, (Centrefire and Smallbore) and Long Barrelled Revolvers and Pistols. Competitions available for:
- 25m and 50m precision
- Multi-Target
- Advancing Target
- The 1500
- Bianchi
- Timed and Precision matches
- Speed Steel Challenge.
Also some short-range competitions for older military firearms and the McQueen shoot for any rifle.
Entry forms will be available via the NRA web site.
The 2023 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, GRSB, LBP and LBR
- Black powder matches
- Sport Pistol matches Lord Roberts Centre
- Prone rifle, 3P, Air Rifle / Pistol and 50m pistol
- On Century + Stickledown full bore target rifle/ FTR and F Open, practical rifle, and a McQueens Rifle comp
- Practical shotgun
More information on the PSUK Shooting website
Entry Forms – MS Word
Entry Form – PDF
JSPC 2023 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 Entry forms available from the Joint Servces Pistol Club website.
Entry form here
The County of Lancaster LSR (GRSB) Open
- Held at Burnley Rifle Club
- 25m Precision, 50m Precision, Precision Aggregate, Multi-Target, and Timed & Precision 1
- Registered event for National Gallery Rifle Ranking tables
- 25m Precision
- 50m Precision
- Multi Target
- Timed & Precision 1
Details and Entry forms now Available
The 2023 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 into thinking expensive original firearms are all that can be used here.
Don’t forget to apply for the well supported Trafalgar Dinner held on the Saturday night. And in addition to all the shooting the shooting there is an Arms and Militeria Fair held in Bisley Pavilion.
Entry forms will be available via the NRA web site.
The 2023 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 Gallery Rifles both Smallbore and Centrefire and Long Barrelled Revolvers and Pistols. There are also competitions for those of you who have an interest in Target Shotgun. For shooters who crave longer distances there are Fullbore competitions held simultaneously at 200 yards.
Entry forms available via the NRA web site.
The IGRF Gallery Rifle Championships
(and 2023 German Open)
Held at the Leitmar Range Complex in Germany.
Also including Shorts and 1500 matches.
