The scores from Purbeck Round 8 are now live: FT: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wlZX0hLsu3kXpDVsrMOsQH_x_N6-3kyAZhDtOybh7vs/edit?usp=sharing HFT: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1loeNBasTFPi8DogH021pSEpNzLIqWuWZxgMOVWh7x9k/edit?usp=sharing As usual, please let me know if you see something which doesn’t look right. These links will be valid all year, so please keep a note of them if you want to check at any time. However, I will take the sheets offline while I

We had a solid attendance of nine competitors to the last shoot of the 2026 season, not quite the most we have seen on the range, but a good turnout and all familiar faces, including regular Thursday attendee but first time competitor Dave. As we have three benches, then details are shot, unsurprisingly, in threes, so having nine shooters made for an easy allocation of benches. As always, conditions are key to scoring and today was not quite what any of us were expecting, wit

I have a little book in front of me titled 'Weather Whys', it was written in 1955. The chapter on wind states, "A wind from the SW blowing across a valley that runs SE-NW will give rise to all sorts of odd currents and updraughts in that valley". Well, seventy years later and that's still the truth! The Dartmoor BR range is at the bottom of a valley which runs NW to SE, and today's wind was blowing predominantly from the SW at around 14 mph with 25 mph gusts. This made for s