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Wellington shooters were in action again this weekend but with a mix of Cadet Rifle shooting and pure Target Rifle shooting.

The junior element competed in the Sawyer Cup run by the Council for Cadet Rifle Shooting (CCRS) but with only 7 shooters when a team of 8 were required they were up against it. Despite this they shot extremely well and a mediocre 8th man would have got them second to the Epsom first VIII showing the strength of new blood that Wellington has.

A different story in the U16 pairs events where Daniel Leitch (R) and Mason Rainier-Kirkwood (S) dominated the opposition taking first place by 3 clear points. The other junior pair of Henry Martin (Bl) and Alex Innes-Whitehouse (Bl) took bronze position. Hugo Sutton shooting in the Reserve match narrowly missed out and came4th.

Sunday was the Berkshire Open Target Rifle Championships and time for the senior element to perform. The course of fire was 10 to count at 300, 600, 900 and 1000 yards in very tricky wind conditions. Harry Orpen-Smellie (Bl) showed why he had been selected for the Athelings this year and won 2 trophies at short range, he would have won more but Mr Ball denied him by winning the Open short range championship. The novices of Francesca King (A), Oskar Graziosi (M) and Leo Sutton (R) won the Tyro team prize. At long range fortunes were mixed but Nick Bass (M) in his first 1000 yard uncoached shoot came 2nd and helped his team win the long range tyro prize. Mr Ball meanwhile won the open championship.

All in all a good day, lots of individual medals and 7 more trophies for the cabinet.