Crawley District Rifle and Pistol Sessions – 2016 Review

Crawley district has now got 10 young people in the Scout National Squad out of a total of 60 UK squad members. We open twice a week on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings for all Crawley District Scouts to attend and train. We need more new young people to continue our success so if you wish to join us please contact us here. 

Our successes last year (2016) include 4 of our members being invited to take part in the junior internationals at Bisley against teams from Europe and South Africa (one of these members, Harley Raine returning home with 2 silver medals).

During 2016 we took part in the postal league “Camelot”. After six months of competition we returned with 8 gold medals taking 1st place in division 2,3,4,and 5. We also took Gold in division one for 10 meter rifle (kneeling, standing and prone) and a gold in division one for 10 meter pistol.

One of our members has also won a silver at the English Open Sporter Championship and two silver medals (one for the aggregate ) at the British sporter open championships.

We also took first place in the West Sussex county inter districts championships for the third year in a row; our team being the youngest there. Congratulations to:

  • Amber Bereen
  • Finn Bereen
  • Eve Roberts
  • Mathew George

The Nation Scout Championships (out of 900 entries) – Results in 2016

10mtr.  Sporter air rifle 6th. & 10th
10mtr. 3P (team) 5th
10mtr.  Sporter air rifle 3P individual 1st
Chief scouts prize. 5th
HRH duke of Connaught junior (team) 4th
HRH Duke of Connaught senior (team) 9th
Full bore rifle class X. 1st & 2nd
Full bore rifle class  B 6th
Junior Field target 4th
Senior knock out. 2nd
Junior knock out. 1st
Ladies plate. 5th
Own rifle. 3rd
Junior pistol. 9th
Senior pistol 6th
Pistol trophy (team). 7th & 9th
Small bore rifle class X. 9th
Junior target spint.   A. 6th
Senior target spint.  A. 2nd & 8th
Six yard rifle. Under 12 6th & 9th
Six yard rifle. Under  18. 9th
Webly Scott 6yd rifle (team). 10th

Some photos of the squad at Bisley this year are available below:

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