Tidworth Rifle and Pistol Club

Welcome To Tidworth Rifle and Pistol Club

Posted on August 20, 2015 by FTR

The Club holds regular Fullbore Target, ‘F’ Class and Sporting Rifle shoots on local MOD Ranges. Smallbore, Gallery Rifle and Black Powder shoots, including benchrest, precision and speed which are held on two local Ranges, one out to 100m and the other a 25m Barrack Range at Old Sarum.
Members also travel to the National Shooting Centre at Bisley to shoot practise and competitions, at the longer distances.
The Club permits the use of any firearm held on a member’s certificate, providing local Range regulations are adhered to. Some competitions however restrict the eligibility of the scoring. The Club holds centrefire and rimfire rifles both target and sporting, for use by our members and holds a maintained stock of ammunition.
The club enjoys affiliation to the National Rifle Association and to the National Shooting Centre.

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Latest News

Posted on June 15, 2016 by FTR

Scores from April to May are up on the Results page.
New meeting dates to September are up on the Meetings page.
Newsletter for April – June 2016 is available on the Newsletters page. Note you will need a members login for this so get in touch with Ian Smedley if you don’t have one.
If you want anything advertised for sale to club members, let Ian Smedley know Tidworth RPC and the Barbarian Horde have a private Facebook group where we arrange adhoc events for members. If you have a Facebook account let us know so we can add you to the group. If you aren’t on FB then consider getting an account so you don’t miss out on the various extra clay shoots, NRA Bisley outings and our Practical competitions.

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Next Meeting

Posted on March 6, 2016 by FTR

2 Oct Sun Old Sarum 0930-1500 Mick
Gallery Rifle (CF) ‘Offhand’ 25m. Zero, then 10 shots in 5 mins (x3). Targets – PL 12s.
Gallery Rifle (CF) ‘America Match’. 30 shots.
22 rimfire ‘Benchrest for score’ at 25yds. 25 scored shots and unlimited sighters in 20 mins. Any rifle.

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Membership is now closed

Posted on March 6, 2016 by FTR

The club is currently not accepting new members. We will be working through those who have already applied but no new names will go on the waiting list.

We may re-open membership later in the year so if you are interested then please keep a watch on the front page of the website where it will be advertised.

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Firearms Fee Increase

Posted on July 21, 2015 by FTR

As from 6th April 2015, the cost of firearms grants and renewals have increased.
New fees in full:

Firearms Act 1968

Section	Type	Previous Fee	New Fee
32(1)(a)	Firearms Certificate Grant	£50	£88
32(1)(b)	Firearms Certificate Renewal	£40	£62
32(1)(c)	Firearms Certificate Variation	£26	£20
32(1)(cc)	Firearms Certificate Replacement	£9	£4
32(1)(d)	Shot gun Certificate Grant	£50	£79.50
32(1)(e)	Shot gun Certificate Renewal	£40	£49
32(1)(f)	Shot gun Certificate Replacement	£8	£4
35(1)	Firearms Dealer Registration	£150	£200
35(1A)	Registered Firearms Dealer Grant for Game Fair etc	£12	£13
35(3)	Firearms Dealer Renewal of Registration	£150	£200

Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988

Section	Type	New fee
11(3)	Co-terminous grant of shot gun certificate and firearm certificate	£90
	Co-terminous grant of shot gun certificate and renewal of firearm certificate	£90
	Co-terminous renewal of shot gun certificate and grant of firearm certificate	£90
	Co-terminous renewal of shot gun certificate and firearm certificate	£65
17(8)	Visitors’ Permit	£20
17(8)	Visitors’ Permit for Group	£100

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Practical Shooting Association

Posted on November 4, 2012 by FTR

There is growing interest in Practical Shooting competitions in the club.
A few members have joined the PSA http://www.ukpsa.co.uk/ and have attended the Basic Safety Course. I attended the on one in Harlow at the end of November 2012 and had a great weekend of tuition and practise.

The course starts with a morning classroom session with an overview of the sport and then a very detailed safety briefing. You then go to the range, split up in to groups and are assigned an instructor. The instructors take you through the various courses of fire, each time fully reviewing all the safety points. You repeat various exercise shooting steel targets at ranges from 5 to 15m. You get to practise speed, precision, different shooting positions including lying on your back and shooting from you weak shoulder (an interesting experience).

The next day starts early at the range with more exercises and then a mock competition shoot with a UKPSA Instructor and competition judge. This gives you a real feel of the pressures of a competitive shoot.

You are under continual assessment and any safety infringement will result in a fail but the level of instruction was so high that no one failed the course. The most popular shotgun used was a semi-auto but my pump action easily kept up and never had a mis-feed.

I can easily say it was one of the best shooting weekends I have ever had and would thoroughly recommend it. I passed the course and was also awarded an international competition license. I am now waiting until the weather warms up so I can go and enter some comps.

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New .308 FTR First Shoot

Posted on October 8, 2012 by FTR

Picked up my Dolphin Gun Company FTR on Saturday. It has a 32″ 1 in 10 twist barrel which is spiral cut with a Barnard S action and Jewel trigger. The stock is Dolphins own which they CNC themselves. Mounted on a Dolphin Trakker bipod with a Sightron SIII 10-50×60 scope. Had it’s first outing on Sunday at Bisley and once sighted in was dropping rounds nicely in the 5 ring at 600 yards.