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Before shooting commenced a somewhat over optimistic competitor suggested that “There will be a couple of 250’s today”.He obviously hadn’t studied the weather forecast – 14 mph winds with 30 mph gusts. And this was pretty much what we got for the duration of the competition. And the real fun part was that these winds […]

Almost all of the Dartmoor regulars gathered on a very cold Saturday morning to contest our third league shoot of the year. The wind conditions proved particularly ‘testing’ today, mostly from the east and probably around 12 mph with regular gusts of up to 25 mph. The initial low temperatures compounded the difficulty – I […]

The second round of our club BR league was very well attended once again, seventeen of us enjoyed a closely fought competition resulting in some very good scores and excellent consistency. A trio of 248’s deservedly placed Mike Foster at the top of the leaderboard, but no less than eleven of our shooters achieved totals […]

Dartmoor held the first benchrest match of 2025 on March 8th. Eighteen competitors were present at 8.45 – the appointed time for drawing numbered disks from a bag in order to determine the three person squads and to allocate benches. The wind conditions initially appeared to be conforming to the local forecast – a steady […]

Seven travelled up from West Devon to join nine Dartmoor members in shooting round two of our winter series.  Weather wise it was bitterly cold with fairly light breezes which constantly switched from right to left. The earlier details generally produced slightly higher scores, although Alistair Teague pulled a wonderful 249:12x out of the hat […]

Many thanks to everyone able to make it along today for Ashcombe’s first Winter league shoot, hope you had a nice day’s shooting. Despite early forecasts we we’re actually blessed with lovely dry, cool and unusually calm weather , making for a super day with some excellent shooting. The scores are now live FT: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1Fo4d3ShqBnq54K3e8pvjXWA-hk1gA_QlCtmhQYUgQ74%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing%26fbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2QS6qv_I110XgiYOBR-FVm8gAGcGLLSTzmzMUL6VcZBwK3MNpb14Po0Ns_aem_8mBTcVTETl8vljkrnqWyzw&h=AT2bakNSNDjOOufhKptlOAZlqzEdEsB9RAepK04ZJ8LwHHhT4XC2yXdbja__ANqUPw6fCJSshO73UGI1a360tApPgwrNUkLi8XgWfMPVHDXMbxMXwDTbNEiklOWy_Hb93WS57sbuew&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT1evs5cw88_OoZ61wiVs4XWdVuX2CAzOuzQCMj221tk7gwQdOV2isfcKWyK_5TxioXSeLLFMjADPxwbD_VgQtZqriQA__Wn7woBDApQZYRYdrk1V7t_8v83BlsFH7G4kzp0rnPCuCSKlB7C91RoueaQ615aj6KIzVlnkV9k6lsiF_cqls-B4Tnq-3anE4k8rWp0dqbfl3W5AU8go7JULjvpJty-XCQivPxBL4wvGQHfXYZ6RuRNyIfx0UGq […]

Dartmoor. The weather for our final round looked promising and everybody was predicting high scores. The first detail of the day appeared to confirm this with three excellent cards produced. Then things took a turn for the worse, the non-existent breeze became a combination of light, almost undetectable, air currents featuring some weird thermals which caused […]

19/10/2024 There were 22 keen benchrest competitors at the 2024 SWEFTA Benchrest Final, held this year on the new East Devon BR range. At the start of the day, I could be found wandering around like a bunny caught in headlights, never having attended a BR shoot this big, let alone run it. Fortunately for […]

West Devon. Final round of our summer BR comp, and I just managed a hatrick taking the win for the third month in a row but only just with Slippy chippy just one point behind. Laser Liam the lucky half of the chuckle brothers took best card with a 246 9x beating me by 1x. […]

East Devon Three hardy souls took part in the very first benchrest competition at East Devon. The equipment was varied. I was using my 9015 with a lab-lift front rest and a cheap as chips rear bag. Alan Burnham was using a trusty Air Arms S400, snuggled in a bean bag on the bench. Alan […]