ALTON RIFLE CLUB – ECCENTRIC & ANIMAL FUN SHOOT
Each year we run a 25-yard indoor fun postal shoot intended to be shot between the summer and winter leagues. The competition was established as a prone shoot in 1982 as a modest fund raiser towards our new club building at that time. It has continued ever since, simply because those that shoot in it enjoy it as a light-hearted variation on our regular shooting and now includes a Light Sporting Rifle class in addition to the three classes for prone shooters. The competition consists of two target patterns, eccentric and animal, with 2 instances of each to be shot (see patterns below).
All cards are scored by inward gauging. On the eccentric target a bull counts as 10 and cutting the outermost ring 5. On the animal target a bull counts as 10, cutting the outermost ring as 7 and anywhere else on the body area 1. On either target a shot missing the target area entirely does not score and if there are more than 10 shots in total on any card we will score the 10 worst shots and deduct 1 point per excess shot.
“Possibles” on the eccentric pattern are not uncommon but getting 10 “clean kills” on the animal pattern is very rare! The targets are printed by us on the rear of standard 1989 pattern 25-yard cards, so they will fit normal prone card hangers and most accurate shots will fall in the normal 10 black target areas so should not cause damage to the hangers. (The animal cards will need to hang at 90 degrees in the LSR card hangers.)
Broadly, the timetable of the competition is as follows:
End of July, entry forms sent out and entries open
End of August, entries close
First week of September, cards are posted out
End of October, cards must be shot and posted back to us
End of November, results are issued
PRIZES:
An engraved shield is added to the trophy for each class which is then presented to each of the winners to hold until the commencement of the next years competition.
ROLL OF HONOUR:
| YEAR | CLASS A | CLASS B | CLASS C |
| 2015 | P Stoneman (Pinewood) 388 | R Churchill (Ringwood) 387 | P Hale (Ringwood) 375 |
| 2016 | B Cave (Pinewood) 389 | A Lidster (Pinewood) 392 | D Love (Colbury) 373 |
| 2017 | D Hartley (Alton) 386 | B Herrington (Ringwood) 385 | M Bicknell (Pinewood) 381 |
| 2018 | D Hartley (Alton) 389 | N Logan (Chichester) 386 | W Arnett (Ringwood) 378 |
| 2019 | R Forster (Alton) 392 | M Taylor (Wickham) 385 | S Winkworth (Wickham) 382 |
| 20/21 | Covid! | Covid! | Covid! |