Mike Kettle. July 19, 2015
Just a reminder that coaching facilities will be reduced during the holiday period. Please bear with us if you need looking after.
Especially 15-25 August (NSRA National Meeting @ Bisley). Good luck to Malcolm Brain, Andy Meyers, Jim Howard, David White, and Laura Meyers who are the ones I know are going.
Mike Kettle. July 19, 2015
Apologies if there's a residual smell in the Armoury. One of the lights expired with a melting plastic / electric smell !
All fixed now with a LED replacement which uses less than half the power of the fluorescent.
Thanks to Malcolm for his help in fitting it.
Elaine Kettle. July 12, 2015
Check out the website for Andy and Malcolm's report on Scotland.....well their shooting anyway!!
Andy Bone shared a link. June 15, 2015
Spotting scope question: What spec should I be looking at for a good entry level scope?
Is this type of thing, [Link not available] going to be any good for 25, 50 & 100 yd shooting, or at least better at 100 than the ones from the 25yd range at the club.
Maginon Spotting Scope 20 - 60 x 60 in Cameras & Photography, Telescopes & Binoculars, Telescopes | eBay
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Christopher Phillips. Andy Bone I have a good scope for sale if your interested, there are pictures on the website, and I can show it to you this week if your down?
June 15, 2015 at 2:40pm
Andy Bone. Are you at the club on Friday?
June 15, 2015 at 3:42pm
Christopher Phillips I can be, yes,
June 15, 2015 at 3:46pm
Andy Bone. I managed to look on the website at your scope, and whilst I have no doubt it is a great piece of kit it is a bit more than I am looking to spend. Do not worry about Friday.
June 15, 2015 at 6:49pm
Christopher Phillips. How much are you looking to spend? You are more than welcome to try it out and see what you think?
June 15, 2015 at 9:51pm
Andy Bone. At the moment my budget is less than half of your asking price. Would be great to try it out, but if you are looking for a quick sale then I am afraid I would not be the customer for you.
June 15, 2015 at 9:55pm
Andy Bone. To pick up on my own question, I just picked up one of these Maginon scopes in Aldi for £19.99. Got to be worth a punt at that price.
June 24, 2015 at 11:09am
Christopher Phillips. The way I see it you get what you pay for!! I think Trevor Craig Wilde and sheena bought one of those, and I'm sure he can tell you if it's any good!
June 24, 2015 at 12:48pm
Andy Bone. Probably quite true, but I'm willing to chance it for £20 :-)
June 24, 2015 at 12:50pm
Trevor Craig Wilde. Andy Bone they are worse than the club scopes. Don't buy.
June 24, 2015 at 1:48pm
Mike Kettle shared a link. June 21, 2015
The trial for the International Dewar Match were held at Appleton Range near Warrington on 20th June.
Andy Meyers & Malcolm Brain from East Grinstead TSC were selected for the trial and Andy (with 783 ex 800) was selected for the main team and Malcolm (781) was first reserve.
Many congratulations to Andy and Malcolm!
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Sarah Collyer Well done guys.
June 21, 2015 at 9:21am
Mike Kettle. June 4, 2015
Just a reminder to everybody - this Sunday is the Sussex Rifle meeting. There is still plenty of room & I assume that Linda Smallbone will accept entries on the day.
Both the Air & Indoor ranges will be unavailable on Sunday.
Elaine Kettle. May 27, 2015
Any volunteers to help in the kitchen on the 7th June - Sussex Open Shoot. I'm shooting 10am and 12noon. All profits go to Club funds and keep your subscriptions down !!
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Peter Watson. Kitchen is that the place were food comes from. I think we have one in the house somewhere.
May 27, 2015 at 9:01am
Elaine Kettle. I guess you're not volunteering then!! :(
May 27, 2015 at 9:12am
Sarah Collyer. I'm off to Falmouth to look at the Uni that weekend or would have helped sorry.
May 27, 2015 at 10:43am
Elaine Kettle. Thats OK - Sam would recommend Falmouth I'm sure!!
May 27, 2015 at 5:10pm
Elaine Kettle. There must be someone out there who can make tea? Or with a wife who would love to spend time in our kitchen. Julie has kindly volunteered but if it gets busy 2 people are useful!!
June 3, 2015 at 11:53am
Andy Bone. May 27, 2015
Big thanks to Malcolm for organising the batch testing last weekend. Was both a fun and informative exercise. I for one was surprised at the differing performance between batches.
Now all I have to do is get my grouping to match the test.
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Peter Watson. Interesting all round strange that no misfires happened in the batches for test.
May 27, 2015 at 12:29pm
Elaine Kettle. I had a batch where the lead was loose in the brass - they didn't seem worried!
May 28, 2015 at 8:33am
Mike Kettle. There's an article on the website here.
May 29, 2015 at 10:44am
Elaine Kettle. May 24, 2015
Well I've just wasted £20 finding out that it's me that's rubbish rather than my barrel ...... :)
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Trevor Craig Wilde. What was your group size.
May 24, 2015 at 5:37pm
Peter Watson. No you have not wasted time you have just eliminated another factor.
May 24, 2015 at 6:44pm
Mike Kettle. May 24, 2015
Just finished the batch testing. Now to the sofa!
Mike Kettle. May 17, 2015
Eley Testing
A reminder about the Eley Batch testing on Saturday & Sunday (23rd/24th) - there are still a few slots available so if you want to buy Edge ammunition that suits your barrel - or if you just want to test your rifle to see how straight it shoots, contact Malcolm Brain for more details.
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Elaine Kettle. I gather Eley are only using 3 firing points so normal shooting is available!
May 17, 2015 at 9:02am
Mike Kettle. May 17, 2015
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Subscriptions were due on 1st May so if you have not yet paid, please do so shortly. £90 for adults, £45 for juniors & £20 for lockers.
That reminds me...
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Mike Kettle OK. Done it now!
May 17, 2015 at 8:56am
Mike Kettle. May 17, 2015
Bank Holiday Opening
The club will be open on Bank Holiday Monday so if you want to come along, please be there by 10:00 as the front door will be locked at that time. The normal restrictions apply - we will not be able to offer training or supervision.
Trevor Craig Wilde. May 9, 2015
Can any body help. I bought raiser blocks front and back for my fwb. 12.5 mm. Will the sights still be the same setting for 25yrds. Or will I have to adjust my sights by 12.5 mm.
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Mike Kettle. If I've got my geometry right you will need to raise point of impact by 12.5mm. Assuming a sight base of 1m, your rearsight will need to go up 0.5mm.
May 9, 2015 at 8:06pm
Trevor Craig Wilde. Ok, so if the block is 12.5. Then I need to come up 6 mm.
May 9, 2015 at 8:10pm
Mike Kettle. The barrel is depressed 12.5mm front and back so the point of aim will drop 12.5mm as is parallel to the original but 12.5mm lower. Moving the rear sight has a 25 to 1 affect because it operates over the sight base (1m). So the rear sight needs to move 12.5mm/25 = 0.5mm.
May 9, 2015 at 8:20pm
Trevor Craig Wilde. Thanks Mike Kettle.
May 9, 2015 at 8:25pm
Peter Watson. I could be wrong but It should not make any difference.
May 9, 2015 at 8:54pm
Mike Kettle. Only one way to find out!
May 9, 2015 at 9:52pm
Trevor Craig Wilde. Will try tomorrow. Didn't want to shoot the lights or Andys elastic
May 9, 2015 at 9:53pm
Peter Watson. Correction rear sight will have to up about 6/8 clicks
May 9, 2015 at 10:30pm
Elaine Kettle. May 4, 2015
Congrats to all EG winners at the Thwaites: -
- David won Class B
- Graham Rowcroft Class C.
- Graham and Sheena won the C&D pairs
- Charles won the Juniors
Well Done everyone.
Elaine Kettle. April 28, 2015
Don't forget it's the Thwaites on Sunday - English Match organised by Eastbourne. Last year the ladies won every class so hopefully we can repeat it!!
Trevor Craig Wilde. April 25, 2015
Well done Sheena. She shot 98 and 94 in the city final.
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Elaine Kettle. Did you
April 25, 2015 at 3:23pm
Trevor Craig Wilde. Beat Chris.lol
April 25, 2015 at 3:24pm
Elaine Kettle. Ignore that. Did she win the cup?
April 25, 2015 at 3:25pm
Trevor Craig Wilde. That was her score. We left before the end, so don't know yet.
April 25, 2015 at 3:34pm
Elaine Kettle. Ok. Tell her well done!
April 25, 2015 at 3:45pm
Christopher Phillips. April 22, 2015
All cleaned and ready to be returned for the next lucky soul to have the privilege of having their name next to mine!!
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Trevor Craig Wilde. First and last lol
April 22, 2015 at 9:35pm
Peter Watson Chris I have a sack of cup's and trophy's in the garden shed if you want one to replace this one
April 22, 2015 at 10:02pm
Christopher Phillips. Yes please! It will make me feel better about how poor my shooting has been!! Lol
April 22, 2015 at 10:07pm
Trevor Craig Wilde. He said he will clean them all.
April 22, 2015 at 10:07pm
Elaine Kettle. When you get to my age you realise you can't win everything every year or rather anything any year!! There's always next year!!
April 23, 2015 at 9:19am
Elaine Kettle. April 22, 2015
David White do you think you could check your winner's medal - I have the Class B one here so I'm guessing you were given the Class C one by mistake. Can you bring it back down the Club - thanks...
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David White Will do.
April 22, 2015 at 5:39pm
Mike Kettle. April 20, 2015
Open shoot results and news are now on the website. Looks like EGTSC took home a reasonable number of the prizes.
Elaine Kettle. April 20, 2015
Photo courtesy of Graham Rowcroft. Everyone was very impressed with the backdrop - well done Mike Barlow.
Elaine Kettle. April 20, 2015
Congratulations to all EG shooters who won at the weekend - clean sweep of the pairs and threes, Class D won by Sam, Class B won by David, Juniors by Charles, and I'm sure Sheena, Trevor and Graham collected prizes too.
Elaine Kettle. April 19, 2015
Bit cloudier than yesterday but a lot less windy so a good day to shoot. Still space if you haven't booked in yet!!
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Sarah Collyer. Was lovely to see you all again today.
April 19, 2015 at 8:37pm
Elaine Kettle. April 16, 2015
Mike's Ecology people urgently need 2 litre fizzy drink bottles for a newt counting job. If you have any empty ones, can you bring them down the Club - clean, unsquashed and no lids. We'll be there all weekend. Thanks.
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Trevor Craig Wilde. What about 1.75 litre and 1.5 plastic coke bottles.
April 18, 2015 at 7:59pm
Mike Kettle. Yes please.
April 18, 2015 at 8:03pm
Trevor Craig Wilde. April 17, 2015
Can someone help, can one put a side 500 match ammo for the weekend open shoot. We cannot get to the club before to purchase as the house was flooded . Been running around sorting it out. Will pay for it on Sunday. Cheers
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Mike Kettle. No problem. See you then.
April 17, 2015 at 7:53am
Trevor Craig Wilde. Thanks Mike.
April 17, 2015 at 7:55am
Peter Watson. Trevor I will do that tonight Friday. If there is a choice what do you wish faster or slower velocity?.
April 17, 2015 at 7:58am
Trevor Craig Wilde. If possible Peter the 1062. Otherwise the 1067 new stock.
April 17, 2015 at 8:00am
Trevor Craig Wilde. Thanks Peter
April 17, 2015 at 8:00am
Elaine Kettle. Can you save me some that goes straight on the middle!!
April 17, 2015 at 8:15am
Elaine Kettle. Hope your house is ok Trevor Craig Wilde
April 17, 2015 at 8:16am
Trevor Craig Wilde. Under control. Insurance company coming to inspect.
April 17, 2015 at 8:17am
Mike Barlow. Peter Those bullets Elaine wants are marked 'Bull Only' with no speed indicator - if you find some let me know.
April 17, 2015 at 9:33am
Elaine Kettle. I'm thinking if Peter Watson finds any he'll be keeping them to himself :)
April 17, 2015 at 10:18am
Peter Watson. Mike, these are very difficult to find. I know because Andy & Malcolm are having trouble finding them even with batch tested ammo.
April 17, 2015 at 10:27am
Peter Watson. Elaine would I do a thing like that to a lady. That's the sort of thing Cowboys and Car dealers do.
April 17, 2015 at 10:34am
Elaine Kettle. And how do you describe yourself?
April 17, 2015 at 10:35am
Elaine Kettle. April 15, 2015
Don't forget it's the Open Shoot this weekend. If you fancy frying bacon and making tea feel free to volunteer. Plenty of space for shooters too!!
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Rachael Stubbins. Hi Elaine, just checking, if I want to shot comp cards on Sunday morning is that still ok?
Thanks Rachael
April 15, 2015 at 1:58pm
Mike Kettle. There's plenty of space. You'll just have to fit in with the squadding.
April 15, 2015 at 2:26pm
Rachael Stubbins. Thanks - what time are you open from?
April 15, 2015 at 2:51pm
Mike Kettle. First detail starts 9:30. Club will probably be open from 8 ish.
April 15, 2015 at 3:28pm
Elaine Kettle. Hi Rachel - shooting starts at 9.30 both days
April 15, 2015 at 3:29pm
Elaine Kettle. You can shoot your competition cards as part of the Open Shoot so why not enter!!
April 15, 2015 at 3:32pm
Rachael Stubbins. Ok! Do I just do that on the day?
April 16, 2015 at 1:26pm
Mike Kettle. Yep.
April 16, 2015 at 2:08pm
Peter Watson. April 11, 2015
Eley have just caught on to the fact that we are not pleased with their Edge ammunition and I have just received an e-mail from their development manager. I replied we shall see how good their Customer service is.
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Trevor Craig Wilde. Well we hope we get an answer we're look for.
April 11, 2015 at 11:36pm
Elaine Kettle. Maybe some free ammo too!
April 12, 2015 at 8:48am · Like
Trevor Craig Wilde. Yes, 500 rounds per member.
April 12, 2015 at 8:51am
Mike Kettle. March 31, 2015
Rifleman has just landed. Interesting articles on shootng with software, local scoring (for those of us that are certified!), and secondhand rifles.
Elaine Kettle. March 31, 2015
Oooh Lots of new members - please feel free to chat!!
Elaine Kettle. March 10, 2015 · East Grinstead
Next Open Shoot is the Double Dewar on April 18th and 19th. Form is on the website or there are paper forms in Stats. The weather is going to be fantastic so it'll be a great weekend to shoot!
Mike Barlow shared a link. February 11, 2015
Everything you wanted to know about defibrillators but were afraid to ask
Using an AED - First Aid Training - St John Ambulance
Find out how to use an AED: http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/first-aid-advice/first-aid-techniques/using-a--defibrillator-aed.aspx
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Mike Barlow. Email a link to the page and put a link on the website?
February 11, 2015 at 10:21pm · Like
Mike Kettle shared his photo. February 1, 2015
Brand new backdrops!
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Mark Wiles. Really good, very professional, moves the club onto another level.
February 1, 2015 at 5:39pm
Elaine Kettle. I think whoever made this ought to do it for a living!
February 1, 2015 at 6:12pm
Elaine Kettle. November 14, 2014
Don't forget the Christmas Shoot is December 6th. The more, the merrier!!
Mark Wiles. November 13, 2014
I'm sure usage will pick up as more members get online with FB.
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Elaine Kettle. Another 10 years then
Elaine Kettle. September 14, 2014
Is anybody out there??
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Mark Wiles. We are now.
November 13, 2014 at 8:03pm
Sarah Collyer. November 13, 2014
Forgot this was here.
Elaine Kettle. September 14, 2011
Guess what!? It's the English Match this weekend and hail is forecast for Saturday - good job I'm shooting Sunday and we'll have plenty of coffee and bacon butties. Loads of space so do come along.
Elaine Kettle April 8, 2011
Don't forget it's the Dewar Open Shoot in a week's time - April 16th & 17th. There is plenty of space so get your entries in now!!
Elaine Kettle July 29, 2010
How is everyone doing in their summer shooting? Any interesting news?
Sarah Collyer. April 27, 2010
Eastbourne & District Smallbore Rifle League are holding their 50m English Match competition on 9th May at the Tunbridge Wells range. Anyone interested in entering should email secretary@eastbourne-league.co.uk for an entry form.
Sarah Collyer shared a link. April 26, 2010
If you are interested in finding out the latest shooting news, buying secondhand equipment and other shooting related topics you might find this forum of interest http://forum.stirton.com/ You have to register to see all of the forum areas.
Target Shooting Forum :: Stirton.com
Sarah Collyer shared a link. April 26, 2010
Scottish Rifle Meeting - 26th June-2nd July 2010 in Lauder. Entries close 26th May. Entry form available online
www.nsra.co.uk
Sarah Collyer shared a link. April 26, 2010
The British International 50m Rifle Championships 2010 - Lord Roberts Centre, Bisley 11th to 13th June. Entries close 4th June. More information see the NSRA website
British International 50M Championships
NSRA - National Small-Bore Rifle Association Governing body for smallbore rifle, airgun and crossbow target shooting in Great Britain, with headquarters at the Lord Roberts Centre, Bisley.
nsra.co.uk
Mike Kettle, April 25, 2010
Thanks Sarah. I've updated www.egtsc.co.uk for the open shoot, City and Eastbourne finals.
Sarah Collyer, April 25, 2010
Look what we won today.
Mike Barlow, April 25, 2010
Many thanks to Sarah for creating this Facebook page - this is could be a great addition to the club.
Sarah Collyer Do you think we should keep it as a closed group for Members only or open it up to everyone?
April 25, 2010 at 9:28am
Mike Barlow Personally I think at this stage a closed group for members only - but we could share parts of it like photos and info with a wider audience.
April 25, 2010 at 9:39am
Elaine Kettle I agree - thanks Sarah. I think keep it closed for now. We have the website for the outside world but they need to be linked somehow.
April 25, 2010 at 10:02am
Sarah Collyer Cool that's what I thought.
April 25, 2010 at 10:07am
Elaine Kettle, April 25, 2010
Sam won the Clayton Bowl yesterday. Unfortunately she knocked out Jo in the semi-finals but beat Beryl Wicker to win the cup and £25. Yeh!
Sarah Collyer Well done Sam :-) Does that mean she's a professional now?
April 25, 2010 at 8:46am
Elaine Kettle Covering expenses I think!
April 25, 2010 at 8:48am
Sarah Collyer, April 24, 2010
Today a team of 5 members competed for and won the Corporation Cup at the City of London Finals. EGTSC A Team won Div 2 over the winter season and were invited to compete against all the other division winners. We came out on top with some great shooting by all ;-) Congratulations to Tim Green, Malcolm Brain, Charlie Bird, Dave Britchford and Sarah Collyer. Also well done to Dave for coming 2nd in the individual competition. He equalled the winning score but lost out when a bigger gauge was used!
Mike Barlow Well done - congratulations!
April 25, 2010 at 1:50am
