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Support your local gun shop ‘South Yorkshire Shooting Supplies’ Back in the mid eighties South Yorkshire was fairly light on gunshops catering for pistol shooters, but Roger Francis was a very keen pistol shooter travelling all over the country to enjoy his sport. Some of the country’s top Police and Service competition shooters were also members of the same club and had noticed that Roger cast and swaged a pretty mean bullet. The upshot of this was that Roger was asked if he would make some bullets for sale …….. and the rest, as they say is history! So in 1985 Roger and his wife Sheila decided to start a small business supplying reloading components including of course their own brand of Ace bullets. The intention was to supplement Roger’s income as a microbiologist at a local hospital. In 1989 they made the decision to apply for the appropriate RFD to extend sales into ammunition and of course the firearms themselves. Slowly but surely, just like Topsy….things just grew. By 1996 Roger’s health problems had led to early retirement from his day job but the business was getting better each year….until of course the tragic shootings at Dunblane. This event saw 85% of their business disappear virtually overnight. At that time it looked as though the business would come to an end as the Government at first said that no compensation would be paid to dealers, a decision which only rightly was altered in due course. The easy way out would have been to take the money and run, but Roger refused to let the government finish his dream, and at this point he made what turned out to be a very, very good decision. This was to turn to the ubiquitous Ruger 10/22 which was seen by many pistol shooters as their saviour. Roger and Sheila had already been importing quite a few specialist parts from the US but now this became a vital part of the business. By 2005 the business had grown so much that it was becoming hard for them to cope, compounded by Roger’s need for two hip replacements due to a worsening of his arthritis, and they talked of cutting back or even retiring. Naturally, being as perverse as ever…they decided to expand and at the start of 2006 they took on a part time worker by the name of Dave Wylde (better known by many as his alter ego of “baldydave” on internet forums) Dave’s machining skills meant that the next phase in the company’s development could now begin….their foray into the world of centrefire rifles. Now, the order book is so full that Dave’s two days a week has become at least four, and Roger and Sheila have “cut down” to around 50-60 hours each per week! Last year saw an agreement with Surgeon Rifles to be their sole importer for their superb tactical actions, and this year has seen an approach by Lawton Rifle in the US to appoint SYSS as their sole UK distributor. The shop continues to sell most things for the Section One shooter and SYSS are also distributors for Volquartsen, Power Custom, Hogue stocks, Rifle Basix triggers, Barska scopes, Boyds stocks, Bell and Carlson stocks. Many other specialist items are imported, but the current difficulty in getting gun parts out of the US has led to the latest chapter in the history of SYSS and they now have more and more parts manufactured locally in Sheffield, including rimfire 10/22 style actions, bolts and a new trigger housing, muzzle brakes, scope bases, tactical bolt knobs, and a host of smaller parts are in the pipeline. The only problem now facing this family run business is that they are finding it extremely difficult to keep up with the demand for their products and services. A nice problem to have, many people would say …… Target Shooter 17
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