General Notice

TA Disposal of Steel Cabinets

      The T.A. in Oxford has a number of
large heavy gauge steel cabinets to
dispose of. They might make good
range storage or even gun boxes.
      Please pass the word to anyone
or club that might be interested.

For more information contact John Lay.

NSRA Light Sport Rifle Inter-County Competition 2008  

Oxfordshire put up an excellent showing in this year's competition by coming first with a record score. In addition Mike Rudge was the highest scorer out of all entrants with a magnificent 398/400. The full results are available here.

Target Rifle Shooters note:-

Otmoor and Bisley Bookings for 2009  

John Winter has issued the shooting dates for Otmoor amd Bisley for the 2009 season.

For more information click here.


SmallBore Shooters note:-

INDIVIDUAL BENCH-REST COMPETITION - Winter 2008-2009

      Entries are invited for an Individual Bench-Rest Competition, which is being run for the second time this winter. The competition will consist of 10 rounds to be shot in two stages during the 08/09 Winter Season.       For more information click here.

Air Pistol Shooters note:-

ORA Summer 2008 20yd/25m and 10m Air Pistol Leagues

Final results for this year's summer Air Pistol Leagues have been issued by Colin Cooke.
Look on the Results pages for individual scores.

Download the details ( 20yd/25m and 10m) and the results of the 10m Handicap Shoot Off

Important Notice (particularly for SmallBore Shooters and NSRA Affiliates)

MOD Competency Certificates

      The NSRA have finally made a statement on the requirement for Competency Certificates
which have been demanded of shooters using MOD Ranges. The text of the message,
which can be seen in the origional here, is:-

Joint Press Release dated 2nd September 2008

      A recent review by the MoD of the safe use of their Ranges highlighted the fact that they had formal auditable systems in place to manage the risk arising from their own activity while affiliated civilian clubs shooting under the auspices of their National Bodies did not.


      The review concluded that any risk to the MoD lay in the use of full bore firearms fired by civilians on MoD ranges. The National Governing Body, the NRA, had only limited knowledge and control over the activities conducted in their name by Clubs affiliated to them.       As a result the NRA were required by the MoD to formalise arrangements with their affiliated clubs and to require the Chairmen of those clubs to accept responsibility for their members' safe use of firearms when shooting on MoD Ranges. It was further required that any such system should be auditable both by the NRA and the MoD. Such a system is now in place.
      The use of MoD ranges by clubs affiliated to the NSRA and firing only NSRA-approved .22 rimfire ammunition in single shot practices governed by the NSRA was not considered to pose the same risk, and the existing controls were considered to be adequate. The 'Safe and Competent' certification system adopted by the NRA does not therefore currently apply to NSRA members except where self-loading firearms are used on an MoD range in which case certification will be required.

      If any club has a problem with their local Range Warden please contact us (Geoff Doe 01483 485517 or email) and we will take the matter up on your behalf.

Last Updated ( Friday, 05 September 2008 )

Full-bore Shooters note:-

The Oxfordshire Rifle Association Target Rifle Autumn Meeting 2008

The Meeting will take place at the Otmoor Range on Saturday the 4th October 2008.

Download the full details and entry form here.

The Oxfordshire Rifle Association Historic & Classic Rifle Section 2008 Meeting

The Meeting will take place on the Otmoor Range on Saturday the 20th September 2008 starting at 10.00am.

Download the full details here.

The FB Summer Meeting 2008, held at Otmoor on Saturday the 14th June.

Download Prize List here.          The Millennium Cup Results are here.           Download Full results Table here.

The ORA Historic  & Classic Rifle Section Spring  Meeting 2008, 17th May at Otmoor

The results of the  Historic and Classic Rifle Section Spring Meeting 2008  with commentary by John Winter are available here.

and Small-bore Shooters note:-

The Wright Cup and Long Range Pairs Cup 2008, held at Otmoor on Saturday the 28th June.

      The results and commentary on the event are available here.

The Astor County Stage 2008

The Oxfordshire Astor County Stage, was held at Bisley on the 27th April 2008. The results and commentary on the event are available here.

Gallery Rifle and Light Sport Rifle Shooters note:-

The ORA GRCF and LSR Championships 2008

          The results of the 2008 Championships, held at the Wantage TSC on the 1st, 3rd and 4th of May are now available for downloading here.

How to waste £26m on the 2012 Olympics.

Kate Hoey slates the London Organising Committee for the misuse of money in temporary shooting facilities. Go to her Telegraph article.

Do not forget to respond to the Petition below.

But Shooting needs to 'fire up progress before 2012'

The UK Sport's Mission gives the sport a red light. See Tom Knight's article in the Telegraph

Air Pistol Shooters note:-

The Oxfordshire Air Pistol County Championships 2008

The Results the 2008 Oxfordshire Air Pistol Championships, held at Wantage TSC on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 March, 2008, are available here. (Colin Reed)


Two Oxford Shooters take medals at the British Airgun Championships at Bisley.

         Dan Rivers (Wantage) became the 2008 British Junior Men's Open Champion at the British Open Airgun Championships held at Bisley 22nd to 24the February. In a magnificent shoot, he won by a margin of 7 points with a score of 668.4. The win was all the more remarkable because Dan, having a National Classification of D, elected to shoot in a higher class because of his improvement over the last 12 months. He wound up in A class, where he finished 6th in the Aggregate. He was also elected "Sportsman of the Meeting"
        In the Women's Open Championships, Miss M S Singh (Oxford University) finished third, just missing out on the silver by a couple of points (466.5) but the competition was very tough, the winner Miss G S Geikie of Okehampton taking Gold with a New British Record shoot of 485.6.
        Oxfordshire's contribution to the meeting was underlined by the prizes being presented on the final day by our own ORA President, Hugo Brunner.

NSRA Air Pistol Report.          NSRA Air Rifle Report