Sport
Clay Target Shooting – Women In Shooting Day, 13 October 2021 Scribe: Cpl Joshua Ward
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inally, after months of patiently waiting and watching the news, our sports as we know them have finally started to resume, meaning we could finally get under way in planning the next events. One of these events was the Women In Shooting Day. The aim of this event was to showcase the sport of Clay Target Shooting and introduce more women within the Corps to it. The day was hosted at Lyneham’s local civilian ground, Barbury Shooting School. The team there know how to make you feel welcome, and this day was just that. Brews were laid on and the Café was the perfect place to meet and greet potential new shooters within the Corps. Once the days participants had arrived, Cpl Ward and WO2 Meager delivered the briefs on how the day would run and what exactly it is we do as a Corps team, before heading out to the ground and getting under way. The weather held off, and this was the icing on what would soon be a mega cake. 5 ladies turned up, and every one of them had smiles on their face from ear to ear. The Corps is fortunate enough to have a vast depth of knowledge and several instructors of its own. Some of these were able to give up their time and help with the day. Without these, the day wouldn’t have been so successful, so thanks team! The day itself consisted of two different disciplines. These were sporting, and skeet. Sporting clay shooting is shooting at targets which replicate types of animals, such as Rabbits and Crows. These differ stand to stand and can be in all sorts of patterns and pairs. Skeet is different, in the sense that it is only two traps, and these are in towers. You move around them in a horseshoe and they stay on their fixed trajectory. This is one of the disciplines you might see in the Olympics. It’s fair to say, all the ladies both thoroughly enjoyed both disciplines and there were many broken clays all round. Due to the success of the day, we are already looking at doing another next year. As with everything we do as a team, the next one will be bigger so watch this space! For any queries regarding the Corps Shooting team, or Women In Shooting in general, please get in touch with Cpl Joshua Ward or Sgt Craig Hill.
Sgt Hill explaining all about visual pick up points
WO2 Felton watches on as one of the ladies smashes the target
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