The Derby Handgun Challenge The Club is pleased to announce that for 2022 there will be a new event in the Gallery Rifle calendar, the DERBY HANDGUN CHALLENGE, to be held on Saturday and Sunday[...]
The 2022 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[...]
The 2022 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[...]
JSPC 2022 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 141st Aberdeen Wapinschaw PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE General Meeting Details and Full details of match specific Rules & Regulations are now available Please be invited to the Wapinschaw competition which is[...]
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, 50m Precision, Precision Aggregate, Multi-Target, and Timed & Precision 1 Registered event for National Gallery Rifle Ranking tables 25m Precision 50m[...]
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 to progress[...]
The 2022 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 2022 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 IGRF Gallery Rifle Championships (and 2022 German Open) Held at the Leitmar Range Complex in Germany. Also including Shorts and 1500 matches. Share this:Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to[...]
The 2023 Cheshunt Open Cheshunt RPC will again be holding a one day Open competition on their indoor range on the 11th February 2023. On offer will be a T&P 1, T&P3, MT, WA48, 1020,[...]
The 2023 Chelmsford Spring Action Weekend Enter on Line The 2023 CRC Spring Action Weekend @ CHELMSFORD (1944) RIFLE CLUB – March 4th / March 5th 2022 Chelmsford Rifle Club is hosting two weekends of[...]
The 2023 Chelmsford Winter Action Weekend The 2023 CRC Winter Action Weekend @ CHELMSFORD (1944) RIFLE CLUB – November 5th / November 6th 2022 Chelmsford Rifle Club is pleased to announce that it is hosting[...]
With the royal mail producing 1st class stamps for all gold medal winners now is a great time to stock up on them. Clubs could buy years of stamps, which will only go up in value unlike money in a bank account. Have the pleasure for years to come reminding recipients of the shooting gold medal winner
Entry forms for the Gallery Rifle National Championships held at Bisley over the weekend of the 25-26 August are now available on the NRA Web Site. No on-line entry available as yet.
Results of the HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Imperial Pistol and Gallery Rifle (P&GR) meeting held between the 11th and 15th July are now available on the NRA Website.
The results of the HM Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 2012 Imperial Historic Arms Meeting (IHAM), held at Bisley over the weekend of the 7th/8th July, are now available on the Results page.
All the challenges to the 2012 Phoenix results have now been dealt with. A new version of the results and prize lists are available on the Results pages.
It is with great regret and sadness that we have to tell you of the death of Alan Whittle who passed away on Sunday the 1st July 2012. Alan was attending the Derby Open meeting when he was taken ill and collapsed.
For many years Alan was a regular at Gallery Rifle shoots throughout the country and was well known and admired by all.
He will be sorely missed by all his friends and shooting colleagues in the community – his death has come has a great shock to us all. Our thoughts are with Alan’s family at this difficult time. RIP Alan.
Alan Whittle, Great Britain Gallery Rifle shooter 1955 – 2012
A searchable highest scores and classifications database has been added to easily locate GRID numbers, classifications and highest achieved scores. At the moment X counts are not recorded in this format. Maybe the next version.
Taking a calendar slot in the season shortly after the Phoenix the Wiltshire open is usually an all day affair with up to 6 competitions being available in previous years. Due to range commitments from the military we had to settle for a Sunday morning outing this time out but still managed to squeeze in 4 events – T&P1, T&P2, Multi Target and a Multi-Target 3.
In the nine years this meeting has run we’ve never been rained on and this year was no exception. Believe it or not as the day progressed the weather got better. We have the photos to prove it.
Congratulations to Ash and Chris , Wilts and Open winners for 2012 (again!) . Full set of results available on the results pages.
See you all next year for the 10th anniversary shoot. Weather always guaranteed!
The UK Gallery Rifle Leagues will commence at the first event after The Derby Open 2012 (The Welsh Open) and will finish at the Derby Open in 2013.
You do not need to do anything to take part except enter the events the league is offering – namely:
The 1500 -|- Timed and Precision 1 -|- Multi Target
The events listed above will be available to enter in the following gun types
GRSB
GRCF Standard
LBP
LBR
The four highest results throughout the year will be used to determine positions. At the end of the year the league will be split into appropriate classes – X, A, B, C, D as appropriate
Only individual UK scores will be used for the league – therefore no international match scores for 1500 will be considered.
All league results will be updated after every meeting and will be published on this website.
As the Phoenix meeting came to an end for 2012 we received the sad news of the death of Chris Lewis who passed away peacefully after his ongoing illness.
Chris was a regular shooter on the Gallery Rifle circuit, as was his wife Laura. He was well known to many of us. He was also a member of the Welsh Gallery Rifle team and competed regularly at Bisley.
He will be greatly missed by all his friends and colleagues in the shooting community. Our thoughts are with Laura and family.
A justgiving page in Chris’ is name has been set up to enable donations to the Marie Curie Charity.
Chris Lewis, Team Wales Gallery Rifle shooter. 1970 to 2012
Chris Lewis Shooting for Wales
Chris Lewis - Winning at the County of Wilts Open
Chris Lewis Trying to shoot Multi-Target 🙂
Chris Lewis - Team Wales Gallery Rifle Shooter
Chris Lewis - Relaxing at the County of Wilts Open
Pushed back a week this year to keep the meeting aligned with the traditional end of May bank holiday weekend it was unclear how the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations would affect this annual celebration of the shooting sports.
Member of the German team shooting the International 1500 match
The organisers need not have worried. Although slightly down on actual physical shooters compared to 2011 the number of competition cards shot was about the same. The miserable weather would not have helped on the Sunday morning but the worst of the weather was actually reserved for the International 1500 Match on Monday morning. Not only wet but turning pretty cold.
Regardless of actual numbers shooting the Phoenix meeting always feels busy due the trade show which always coincides with this meeting at the Pavilion and brings in lots of visitors in its own right.
The Bianchi Ranges and Speed Steels on Stickledown
As far as the shooting went most things ran smoothly – as much as can for a meeting this size. As is always stated – no meeting can run without the enormous amount of time and effort put in by numerous groups of people looking after the ranges, stats and reception – to name but three. We are always looking for volunteers to help run not just the Phoenix but other Gallery Rifle meetings we run at Bisley and elsewhere. Contact us via this web site for details.
Results (and Prizelists) and photos taken throughout the of the course of the meeting [Shooting and Relaxing]will appear elsewhere on the web site. If anyone has anything to contribute, photos, videos, stories or feedback please send it in.
The next meeting in the Gallery Rifle Calendar is the County of Wiltshire Open held at the Warminster Range complex on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
The next meetings at Bisley are the Imperial meetings of IHAM followed almost immediately by the Imperial P&GR. As always – volunteers are required for both these events.