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Club News
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30 April 2020 Dudley Rifle Club - Covid-19 Update: 30/04/2020
With the inability to use our range, the committee recently received the question of whether we are to be offering a rebate for the time not able to use the club facilities. This was discussed amongst the committee and decided that there will not be any rebate offered to our members at this time, here ...
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02 April 2020 COVID-19 Update
It has been roughly 2 weeks since the club first went into suspension. You don't have to look far to see the ramifications of this deadly virus and the lengths that the government, businesses and health service are going to in order to minimise casualties. I'm sure we've all got itchy trigger fingers, how...
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17 March 2020 COVID-19 Announcement
With the latest Government advice to avoid Pubs, Clubs and Venues, and further suggestion to avoid social gatherings our committee faces the difficult choice of what to do with our club. Due to our club demographic, and the fact that we are an enclosed indoor facility, the safest thing for all of our membe...
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03 December 2019 75th Anniversary Bonfire Shoot
Our 75th Anniversary this year was celebrated with a bonfire and handicap competition shoot along with fireworks and a BBQ. We had a well attended event filled with lots of first-time shooters, all of whom were excited to try shooting again following their shoots. The levels of enthusiasm were a joy to be ...
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03 November 2019 Optics Warehouse Sponsorship
We recently acquired two new scopes for some of our Match 54 rifles to specifically use them for benchrest target shooting. This is to encourage everyone within the club to get involved with benchrest competition, but also to give everyone access to rifles that are easily possible to shoot 100/100. The sco...
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05 June 2019 Winter 2018/19 Hendon League Results
Dudley Rifle Club have managed a very successful season of competition within the Hendon Rifle League. One of our best ever results with 9 Divisional Winners and many close runners up. Going by Discipline we had; Lightweight Sporting Rifle Open Sights Division 2, M Forster Narrowly ...
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18 March 2019 2019 AGM Venue and Date
The AGM Date and venue has been announced. 11th April 2019 at 7.00pm at The Old Edwardians Social Club, Dury Lane, Stourbridge. There will be a finger buffet put on. Junior presentation at the end of the meeting. All members welcome and voting papers will be sent by the beginning of next week for ...
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02 January 2019 Annual Christmas Bench Shoot 2018
The results of the second of our annual Christmas Shoots are in, for this shoot the few members that shot at the end were not eligible to win the prizes which made it more exciting for non-members to compete. Non members winners: 1st Prize: Kirsty Moore 2nd Prize: David Batty 3rd Prize: Gordon Bowater K...
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28 December 2018 Annual Christmas Prone Shoot 2018
The Results of our Annual Christmas Prone Shoot are in... 27th December 2018. 1st Prize: Nick Jones 2nd Prize: Liam Cox 3rd Prize: Brandon Cooper. On behalf of the committee, Thank you to everyone that came and tried your hand at shooting at our club, we hope you enjoyed the chance to have a go and com...
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03 December 2018 2018 Bonfire Handicap and Guest Shoot
This November, Dudley Rifle Club held it's second consecutive Annual Bonfire Handicap Shoot, along side a guest shoot for friends and family. There was food, fireworks, festivities and of course competitions! This was our second annual bonfire handicap shoot, where members were shooting for the Handicap...
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20 March 2018 73rd Annual General Meeting
Our 73nd AGM took place on Thursday (15th March 2018) with 21 members attending. The meeting commenced with a minute silence for our former President, Mr Bill Newey, who passed away shortly after last years General Meeting. We elected our new president Mr Alastair Norman who resigned from his role of C...
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31 December 2017 Christmas Shoot 30th December 2017
The second annual Christmas Shoot (From the Bench) happened yesterday, and with it lots of new faces got to experience the joy of shooting and also the joy of shooting in a competition. We had 16 guests and members shooting for glory, and with the targets that were presented, it could have been anyones. ...
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27 December 2017 Christmas Prone Shoot 27th December 2017
Dudley Rifle Club today celebrated Christmas with a traditional Christmas Guest shoot. With 24 participants and a club room full of friends and family it was a fantastic day with food, shooting and lots of hot drinks to keep us all warm. We did a shoot at a 10 spot NSRA Competition Prone League Card, fo...
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09 November 2017 Offensive and Dangerous Firearms Consultation
By now, hopefully you have heard about the consultation for change in legislation affecting .50 calibre rifles and MARS Actioned Rifles. Essentially calling for them to be "banned" by moving them to Section 5. If you think that this "gun grab" does not affect you since they're only talking about .50 cal an...
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06 November 2017 Dudley Rifle Club Bonfire 2017
This Saturday Dudley Rifle Club held a bonfire again for the first time in 6 years. There was bar-be-que, fireworks, drinks and so much "propa" black-country grub to shake a stick at (including groaty pudding, whatever the heck that is...!). We also held our first Benchrest shoulder-to-shoulder, handicap t...
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28 October 2017 W.O.S. Newey 1929-2017
Dudley Rifle Club announces with deep sadness, the loss of its President W.O.S. (Bill) Newey, at the age of 88. After National Service with the Royal Navy, aboard HMS Implacable, he married in 1952 and joined the club the following year. By the late fifties he was well entrenched as Hon.Sec. and a keen p...
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05 April 2017 Potential Junior Members Sought
Every year Dudley Rifle Club strives to bring new Junior Shooters into the sport in a professional and Nationally (NSRA) recognised way. We are approaching the period where we are looking for new potential Junior Members. Starting in September, we will be taking 6 boys and girls between the ages of 13 a...
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05 April 2017 Dudley Rifle Club at Capacity
As you may have seen from the banner that appeared last year at the top of the Dudley Rifle Club Website, our small club in the heart of the Black Country has gained popularity the past few years and has got to the stage where we are starting to out-grow our facilities. There has been an amazing surge in e...
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05 April 2017 72nd AGM
Our 72nd AGM took place on Thursday with 20 members attending. The Officials were re-elected for the coming year as were the committee and other officers of the club. We were glad to see our Presendent, Mr Bill Newey who is also one of our longest serving members, his knowledge is invaluable to us we progr...
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06 January 2017 Happy 2017! Christmas Results.
Happy New Year from the committee at Dudley Rifle Club. We had a great couple of Christmas Shoots at Dudley Rifle club introducing multiple new shooters to our sport. A great time was had by all and thank you to everyone that turned up to shoot, help out and make the day a success. We have the results f...
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02 November 2016 Club at Capacity
We are both delighted and apologetic that our club in the Midlands has become so popular over the last 5 years. We have doubled our membership in little over 3 years from 50 members to 100 members. It's fantastic to see how popular shooting continues to be and we're happy to provide a place for like-minded...
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04 September 2016 Junior outting to Bromyard
Bob Cooper and Ron Gough decided to take all six juniors to an outdoor range and let them have a go at prone shooting at 50 meters. We met at the Dudley Rifle Club house at 9.30 and we all left for the 40 mile trip to Bromyard ranges as Robin who runs Bromyard Rifle club had allowed us to use their range w...
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05 August 2016 Congratulations 2015/16 Juniors
From the End of September 2015 to the first week of June 2016 our six junior members were training for the NSRA Youth Proficiency Scheme. It is my pleasure to announce that all six passed with flying colours. Congratulations to Ivan Abbott, Jemma and Alex Payne,Source: Dudley Rifle Club -
24 May 2016 Winter 2015/16 Hendon League Results
Congratulations to our shooters who competed in the Hendon League for Winter 2015/16. We had some amazing results: Benchrest Bolt Action: R Gough took Top Spot in Division 1 with an average score of 299.57/300! D Fletcher took top spot in Division 7 with an average score of 295.85/300! Stuart ...
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04 March 2016 2016 AGM Notice
This years Dudley Rifle Club AGM is to take place on the 17th March 2016. Commencing at 7pm at the Fiddlers Arms, Lower Gornal. There will be finger buffet provided and drinks available. The Committee hopes to see as many members as possible.
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02 December 2015 European Union Attack on Shooting Sports
The following was an email received by a couple of our members who are also members of Worcester Norton Shooting Club. Since this is an important issue, I hope they don't mind me copying the content wholesale. Please read and sign the petitions to help save our sport, n...
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06 September 2015 Successful Weekend of Renovations
Thanks to all members, probationers and non-members that turned out and gave up their weekend to help with painting the range and club room. There is an amazing difference and everything looks much nicer and much cleaner. There's still plenty of work to be done to the grounds and within the club room and r...
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02 September 2015 Range Renovations
Following the Range closure in May, which was very successful and the butts have never looked better! (Photos to come shortly). We are taking this weekend to paint the range walls, and make some minor repairs to the clubhouse. All volunteers are welcomed to lighten the load, we will be there all day Saturd...
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28 April 2015 RANGE CLOSED 1st to 11th May 2015
Notice; Renovations to the range, predominantly the butts will be commencing the 1st May and continuing until the 11th May. Members wishing to help are welcomed gladly and are to contact Ron Gough (07738 614685) for confirmation of what times people will be at the range working. There will be carpentry,...
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26 February 2015 2015 AGM Notice
The Club AGM is to take place on the 5th March 2015. Commencing at 7pm at the Fiddlers Arms, Lower Gornal. There will be finger buffet provided and drinks available. The Committee hopes to see as many members as possible. Committee
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18 December 2014 Ian Jukes Photo Blog
Whilst googling for our Rifle club the other day I came across this rather good blog of a chap named Ian Jukes. It seems he came down to the club in order to take photos for a project named "Show Me A Secret". He went on to write an impartial opinion on our sport, and consequently our club, as well as ta...
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04 December 2014 Hendon League Past DRC Winners Added to Site!
I just spent the last hour or so going through the last 12 years of results from Hendon Rifle Club Postal Competitions. These can be seen reflected on the this website in the Lightweight Sporting...
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02 December 2014 2014 Christmas Shoot Announced - 27th December
Calling All Members. Whether you shoot on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays!Dudley Rifle Club Christmas Fun Shoot
Saturday 27th December
This will be a fun shoot open to all plus guests (friends/family - names to be submitted to the Secretary beforehand). 10 shots ...
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02 December 2014 Great Hendon Summer League Results for DRC!!
The Committee and LSR Captain Ron Gough would like to congratulate the following for winning there respective divisions in the Summer Hendon Rifle Club League Competition. Division 8 Winner Ethan Buckby (Junior Member) Points scoredSource: Dudley Rifle Club -
20 August 2014 Junior Enrollment - 23rd September.
Tuesday Junior activities are now in recess until 23rd September. We are restarting with an induction evening on our return at 19:15 for a 19:30 prompt start on the 23rd September. This will be for 13-15 year olds - firing air rifle only - eight selected prospective members will be enro...
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09 January 2014 Junior Nights Back!
Happy New Year to all! Quick notice to let everyone know that Junior nights are re-commencing at Dudley Rifle Club. Junior nights take place on Tuesday nights. Please get in touch first timers to make sure that the night is on when you intend on coming.
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03 October 2012 Junior Nights Suspended for Foreseeable Future
Unfortunately we are no longer holding Junior nights for the foreseeable future. We are hoping to start up taking on new junior members in the new year (2013), so please check back with us periodically, if you are wanting to join as a junior member, for updates! We are sorry for the inconvenience.
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01 August 2012 Good Luck to Team GB Olympic Hopefuls!
We're around half way through the Olympic Shooting events at the time of posting, and as yet Team GB have yet to gain any medals. Best of luck to those competing from around the country, we're all rooting for you! If you have found us from looking for the differing disciplines of shooting taking part in...
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01 June 2012 New Club Website Goes Live
After a long time in development, the new Dudley Rifle Club website has gone live. There are a few pages where content is still required, and we will resolve this swiftly, if there is anything missing and you are unclear of anything we offer, please don't hesitate to contact the Club Secretary (details on ...
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16 December 2011 Christmas Shoot Announced - 27th December
Dudey Rifle Club CHRISTMAS SHOOT is being held this year on Tuesday 27th of December, (day after Boxing Day). Opening Time will be 9.30am until we finish, or until we have had enough. Everyone is welcome, mums, dads, brothers, sisters, friends. Any age, any abilities as shooting is a fully inclusive s...
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17 October 2011 Competition Results
After the Three Counties Cup this weekend, I am pleased to announce that our county (Worcestershire) won the competition by a clear 36 points. See this attachment for the scores.
Three Counties Cup Results 2011
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05 August 2011 Club Competitions Announced
After having the Wilco Cup postponed earlier in the year we now have a solid date to hold the competition. The Wilco Cup is a Full-bore competition for the members of Dudley Rifle Club. The 2011 Competition will be now held on Sunday 18th September at Kingsbury...
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16 June 2011 Wilco Cup Postponed
Unfortunately the Wilco Cup Competition organised by Dudley Rifle Club has been postponed due to Kingsbury Ranges being needed by the Army. An alternative date will be posted as soon as possible.
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24 May 2011 15th May Worcs County Open/Bromyard Results
The Results were published today for the Worcester County Open. Check them out here. Our own John Grove won 2 Cups - Class A County Cup and Best 100s, Alistair Norman won a Cup for the English O...
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11 May 2011 Sunday 15th May Worcs County Open at Bromyard
re Sunday 15th May, the main item for Worcs SBRPA Clubs is the annual County Open to be held at Bromyard RC. This is a Double Dewar event with good prizes for all Classes and all Club Members are encouraged to enter for a very good competition and show support for their County.
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