Sharp Shooting Success for 3HH Scouts **Update**
3rd Hampton Hill Scouts have enjoyed a whole raft of successes recently on the shooting front at various competitions. Last night we completed our annual YPS course with all students passing with at least a skilled shot rating.
At the Kingston competition a few weeks ago our team took best troop and group pistol, best troop and group rifle with a large number of individual Gold, Silver and Bronze medal winners. We didn’t leave much for Kingston I’m afraid; I did wonder if they’d invite us back, but they’ll have to if they want their trophies back!
The Richmond competition was held recently and we entered teams from both Talons and Claws. Claws kicked off with an excellent team score of 610 which proved to be unbeatable all week even by Explorer or adult teams, so well done to Will H, Lily (116), Jacob, Tom (118) and James H and Jamie S. Talons didn’t disgrace themselves with an excellent 3rd place so well done to Matt, Lucy, Ruth and Emily, Isaac and Will W.
The inter-county competition was held on the weekend of 20th and 21st March and three current or former 3HH members represented Greater London South West, Jacob and Sam H and Tate (brother of Annie in Claws).
At this point I’ll hand over to our start reporter Rob (Sam and Jacob’s dad):
In case you haven’t heard, the GLSW team (three-eighths of which was 3HH shooters) came away from the Inter-County Championships at Aldersley yesterday with SILVER MEDALS round their necks! 
They were in third spot after the morning rifle session behind Cheshire and Devon, with Hampshire snapping at their heels, but GLSW made up 101 points on the leaders in the afternoon pistol session to overhaul Devon and take second place!!
You may know that there are only three awards made at the Inter-County championships – a shield for the winning team and two trophies for ‘best agregate’ (overall best ) scores; one for U14 and one for all age groups. Well, Jacob took the U14 trophy – at age 11… and was immediately invited to join the Scout National Rifle Squad! His rifle score was 168 / 200 and 13th overall; better than the current British record holder albeit she didn’t have a great shoot. Jacob’s pistol scores (out of 50) were 40, 41, 43, 44, also 168 / 200…
Other GLSW achievements included:
* Mike B – overall ‘best aggregate’ trophy – so GLSW took both individual trophies
* Holly S – invited to join the GB Junior Pistol Squad
* Sam L (I think) – invited to join one of the national/ GB squads [it was all getting a bit confusing by now]
I’ve probably forgotten something – our guys & girls seemed to keep going up to the rostrum for awards – Jacob went up 4 times!
Our thanks and congratulations to Jean Jenkins who trained and selected the squad.