As the sun ticked past noon on a blustery day in March, a small band of intrepid adventurers descended upon the small camp of Bisley in leafy Surrey…

Due to a slight organisational hiccup, we can’t quite remember which of those intrepid adventurers actually arrived on the Friday, but suffice it to say it was the hardened, or rather, naïve few. We set up base camp in the Inns of Court clubhouse, with the satellite base in the adopted home of London University “Casa del Dash – The Finest Caravan money didn’t buy”. (more…)

The University of London Rifle Club will be present at the following freshers’ fayres this year:

• Queen Mary’s - 20th September
• UCL - 27th and 28th September
• LSE - 4th October
• ULU - 5th October

If you miss us at the fayres, please don’t hesitate to send us an email (ulrifleclub@yahoo.co.uk), or send us a message using the contact form.

The new committee was chosen at the club’s Annual General Meeting in June and is as follows:

Full-bore Captain – Freya Hinson
Full-bore Vice Captain – Dominic Lorquet
Small-bore Captain – Laura Colley
Treasurer – Luke Davison
Secretary – Sophie Clark
Webmaster – Tom Hunter
Social Secretary – Jenny Lau and Vera Radyugina
FAC Holder – Tom Hunter
PR Officer – Jessica McArdle
Head Coach – Isao Matsumoto

The outgoing committee wishes them all the best for next year.

A message from the outgoing Full-bore Captain.

I just want to congratulate everyone on what I think has been a pretty successful meeting for the club. We won the inter-universities short range (the Musketeers) by a whole 2 v-bulls in what was a ridiculously close match (the top three teams were level on points). We didn’t retain the long range but came a very close second (and higher on v-bulls!). I’m told that most of the Cambridge lot who beat us were doing the match rifle meeting beforehand, so considering the practice they had, I reckon we gave them a pretty good run for their money!

The ULRC Musketeers team on the 600 yard firing point.

With no less than 11 members shooting either the whole or part of the meeting (and Jess and Laura shooting their first full meeting), there are a number of individual highlights to mention: (more…)

By Jessica McArdle

The transition from indoor to outdoor shooting is like having the stabilizers taken off your bicycle and climbing onto a motorbike. Summertime for rifle shooters is all about full-bore, outdoor shooting so after six months of indoor 25 yard shooting at our Moorgate range the time came to get wrapped around a bigger piece of metal with a more impressive kick. To knock us into shape the Rifle club committee organised an Easter training camp at Bisley. No matter how laissez faire you claim to be, the decision to go camping with a crowd of rifle shooters in the cold of late March is not an easy one to make. As the alternative was a week in the library, I decided to take my chances.

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Our regular readers (!) will have noticed a lack of updates to this site of late, for which please accept our apologies. However, I can safely say that this was due to a shortage of time rather than a shortage of events upon which to report. Indeed the University of London Rifle Club have had a successful autumn term with membership numbers in the 60s, and a regular turnout in excess of 30 people at training sessions. (more…)

This year the University of London Rifle Club will be attending the following freshers’ fayres:

• Queen Mary’s - 20th September
• LSE - 28th September
• UCL - 29th September
• Imperial - 3rd October
• ULU - 6 October

If you are interested in trying the sport of target rifle shooting, please do come and visit us at one of the fayres.

ULRC is pleased to announce that the new committee for 2006/07, which was voted in during the AGM in June, is as follows:

• Smallbore Captain - Steve Turner
• Fullbore Captain - Tom Hunter
• Smallbore Vice Captain - Debbie Andrews
• Fullbore Vice Captain - Freya Hinson
• Treasurer - Alan Griffin
• Secretary - Liz Gardner
• Social Secretary - Lee Klungarvuth
• Chief Coach - Isao Matsumoto
• Team Dietician - Brendan Playford
• Smallbore Adjutant - Richard Peckett
• Fullbore Adjutant - Brendan Playford
• FAC Holder - Tom Hunter
• Website - Tom Hunter

If you have any questions for the committee, please don’t hesitate to contact us by sending an email to ulrifleclub@yahoo.co.uk

The 2006 Imperial Meeting saw another strong performance from the University of London Rifle Club. Although we weren’t able to set any new records (as we had last year), the University of London ‘A’ team secured confident wins in both “The Musketeers” and the “Universities Long Range” team competitions, as well as the “Universities Aggregate” (shot concurrently with the Grand Aggregate). (more…)

By Mark Westmoquette.

The University of London Rifle Club (ULRC) enjoys a distinguished history with many notable achievements since its founding in 1911. However the conditions that allow a university club to continue achieving are difficult to maintain. The average university degree length is only three or four years, meaning that the turnover in membership is rapid. The ability to maintain continuity in such circumstances is very restricted. However a good history, a dependable president (Peter Cullimore), a fairly aggressive recruitment ethos, and a pool of 125,000 students to choose from, has meant that ULRC has prospered. Since I joined in 1999 (yes, I know, for those who can do the maths, that means I’ve been at university seven years), ULRC has had their name on at least one trophy per year! (more…)

This was our first fulbore match of the season, and considering we had a few hitches we did pretty well. We had less people than hoped, which meant that we had too many targets, but that wasn’t a problem in the afternoon as the army hadn’t booked enough for Lloyds TSB RC at long range. (more…)