The Rifle Club have recently returned from their Easter Training week, at Bisley. The team performed really well in very testing conditions. In total, 15 members of the team, along with three members of staff, headed to Bisley for the week. The first weekend of the Camp gave them perfect weather for training and the team embraced all that was asked of them. Despite the hope that these conditions would continue throughout the week, the winds grew in strength so that by Wednesday all shooting was cancelled for the day.

The weekend was spent shooting mostly at short range (300 and 600 yards) and involved classroom work in the evenings for the newer members of the team. There is no shooting on Mondays, so this was used as an opportunity to check shooting positions and continue the classroom work. The team enjoyed a hugely competitive Easter Egg hunt in the afternoon, followed by an equally competitive game of bowling in the evening. On the Tuesday, the team started the day at 500 yards before moving back to 1000 yards for the afternoon, just as the wind started to pick up. The conditions became very tricky, very quickly. 

Shooting is not just about firing the perfect shot, although this is clearly important, there is also a lot of personal admin required and record keeping to be done. Some evenings were spent continuing to learn the skills of plotting and wind coaching, which are both necessary skills to have as the wind can have a massive effect on a bullet even at short range, let alone at 1000 yards. Shooting was then cancelled for all of the Wednesday, which left the final Thursday for another shoot at short range.

The new members of the Rifle Team did particularly well during the week and if they can shoot as well as they did, in the high winds faced, then they can shoot well in almost any conditions. It was particularly nice to have a couple of parents come along to support and to learn about the sport their child is competing in. Very well done to all of the new shots.

This sort of trip does not happen without the assistance of other members of staff and thanks must go to Mrs Liberman and Capt. Scoles. It was a fantastically successful trip.