Shooting

1. Manor 2. Queen's 3. School House 4. Grove 5. Rise 6. Temple Points 270k 252 236 223 218 1844

This term shooters have been divided into three categories, the object of this being to spread out opportunities for shooting more widely. As it turned out, the necessity of practising the "Country Life" landscape target meant that a disproportionate amount of time had to be devoted to List A, and the object of the three categories was largely defeated.

The School has a number of potentially good shots and the First VIII underwent several changes before settling down—as it happened, the same eight members as started last term comprised the "Country Life" team and were awarded their minor colours. The old difficulty of the "shifting group" has continued to cost us many points, and we seem to be as far off as ever from solving it. The other factor which has reduced our team scores has been the loss of form, sometimes for two or three weeks, by almost all members of the team at one time or another. The result is seen in the averages, which are mainly well below the shooter's true standard.

In "Country Life" we were only 3 points below last year's much more experienced team on the main shoot, and the first three pairs did very well in the landscape. The disaster which overtook the last pair was all the more disappointing and we cannot look forward to . a very good result when the official list is published.

Some members of the Second VIII have shot very well and their main shoot in "Country Life" was well above last year's, though again the landscape result was appreciably lower.

A curious event this term—indeed probably unique in the story of St. Peter's shooting—was that a bullet stuck in the barrel of a rifle, about four inches from the chamber. This is the most striking, but by no means only, result of the indifferent ammunition we have been obliged to use.

Postal match results and individual averages are given below.

POSTAL MATCH RESULTS

FIRST VIII. Match Opponent's Score

St. Peter's Score Result v. King's College School 736 728 Lost v. Mill Hill 701 717 Won v. Welbeck 709 737 Won v. Giggleswick v. Worksop 686 742 725 Won 725 Lost W v. Ampleforth 763 735 Lost SECOND VIII. v. Welbeck 676 717 Won v. Ampleforth 764 704 Lost