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Club Feature
Portishead Shooting
Club is situated 8 miles
outside Bristol, it started
life as a quarry before it
became a range back
around 1946. Over the
years it’s seen many
changes in the different
kinds of disciplines that
have been shot there
like pistol which it was
well known for until the
handgun ban. But over
the years it has manage
to keep up with the
introduction of new
disciplines from .22
Rimfire, Gallery Rifle,
Air Rifle and Air Pistol.
Around 7 years ago a
new outdoor firing point
was built on the existing
50m, 50yd and 100y
range, it was built
with 6 firing points to
cater at the time for
Rimfire prone shooters
and incorporated an
office area that was
badly needed. The club
also has an Air Rifle
outdoor range that
members can shoot
up to 50yds with knock
down field targets.
The club itself has over
100 members and
currently has a waiting
list of 40 people wanting
to join us, which in these
hard times is great as
The indoor range with disabled access
we are fully aware that
other clubs around the
countryare struggling to
stay afloat. We offer new
members training within
the different disciplines
and have a number of
club rifles for them try
out with, you will always
find members are happy
to let new members try
their own rifles and try
and give them the best
advice when looking
to purchase their own
equipment.
The club is open
every night and
during the day at
weekends which
allows plenty of time
for our members to
shoot. We have always
been very heavy into
competitions whether it
being postal or
shoulder to shoulder and
you can guarantee that
at our AGM there lots of
medals handed out
from the competitions
held over the year. The
club uses the AGM as a
basis to deal with the
usual business but also
to allow all the members
to see what others have
done during the period,
you could say we are
very competitive.
When UKBR22 was
formed one or two
people at the club
decide to have ago
at Rimfire Benchrest
Shooting, just to see
what it was like. That
was back around 2006
and before we knew it
members at the club
were getting hooked
on the sport. With the
first Nationals held at
Budleigh Farm, in
Devon we manage to
put together a team of 6
members, two of which
were disabled. It was
a one day event with
about 25 competitors
from all over the country
including Ireland and
the club managed to
pick up hand full of
medals.
Since then the club has
made up a large part
of the British team that
has taken part in the 1st
Europeans and 1st
World Championships
which those that were
involved are very proud
of. With the introduction
of Air Rifle into the
competition there are
a lot more members
that have taken up the
sport and we now have
around 10 members
shooting some form of
Benchrest Shooting.
On the success of this,
the club has offered to
host the 2nd UKBR22
The club has access to 50m
and 100 ranges
Nationals later this year
in August. This is going
to be a much larger event
and is being held over
4 days and will include
100 Target Shooter