3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group

Following their outstanding performance at Bisley this year, Alex and Sam have have been invited to follow in Melanie F’s and Joe R’s footsteps.

They have been selected to join the National Scout Representative Squad.

This is a tremendous privilege and opens up greater vistas within shooting. When representing the Scout Association they will compete against other organisations such as the army cadets and, as with Melanie, may well develop onto much higher levels.

They will also benefit from further training opportunities with the squad and may now wear the highly coveted black squad shirt.

We’re extremely pleased for them and also very proud of their achievements. Well done indeed for this fabulous success and opportunity.

Well, what a weekend! Gorgeous sunny warm(ish) days coupled with literally freezing nights saw a smaller squad from 3rd Hampton Hill at our annual assault on the National Scout Air Rifle Championships held at Bisley’s excellent facilities, the world home of Small-bore shooting.

As usual we took part in the main event which comprised 6yd air rifle and pistol, rifle knock-out and field target, along with various of our team trying biathlon, own pistol and rifle and .22 small bore rifle and the 300m full bore rifle. This event has grown over the years and this year’s was the second biggest event in the NSRA’s history with 684 competitors, eclipsed only by the 2002 Commonwealth games for which the centre was built. How did we do? Read on…..

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