Framlinghamian 2022 - Flipbook - Page 271
SOF | OF SPORT: RIFLE CLUB
with a solid 48. Geoff Houston, like he has
2000 people on the range. Neil looked
never been away, shoots a 49 and even
a bit sheepish at the ensuing round of
the Father of the House, Neil Joy, chips in
applause.
with a cheery 45.
So that’ll be an end to his nonsense then.
Of the 46 schools of veterans, the OFs are
Then comes our much-vaunted new bug.
one of the few able to come out in three
Surely the magnificent Ros can hold up
teams of five shooters. The OFRC get
the standard and wave it like a glorious
down to fire two sighting shots and ten to
debutante. Er no. Uncharacteristic
count at 500 yards, giving a maximum
elevation problems bring her in a score
score of 50 with a smaller, central ‘V’ Bull
on the low 40s causing much mumbling
scoring 5.1.
of apologies and the birth of her OFRC
nickname, World’s Worst Ringer. We lost
What follows next is very much in the
the Q-match. To the Old Lawrencians.
vein of our pre-Bisley shoots (ibid), i.e. a
Tsk.
concoction of post-Pandemic rust, various
injuries, evidence of advancing age and
And then we lost the All-Day match the
general incompetence. The ‘A’ team
next month. Boo! Hiss!
consisted of James WeeJimmy Mehta
Revenge can only come in September,
(48.2), Sandy Messiah Walker (50.8
with the Long-Range Q match. Given the
obviously), Kim Plungepool Pope (48.3),
OFs in their usual strength in numbers are
John Mullah O’Halahan (47.4) and Jon
heading for the Imperial Meeting at Bisley,
Red Leader Ford (50.6, of course).
maybe we’ll get to practise…
With McDowell in the coaching chair,
Tea and medals for the OFRC at Bisley
the team drops only seven points out of
2021.
a possible 250. Not too bad, we say to
ourselves. We came 14th.
Being irrepressible, Neil Joy appeared
on a crowded and sunny range at Bisley
Bear in mind the top three teams (Epsom,
on 15 July for the Public Schools Veterans
Greshams and Sedburgh) dropped two
competition. As ever, it was great to see
points between them, you can tell what
him, especially since, for the tenth year
kind of competition we are in.
in a row, he announced he was too old
Pantomime
to carry on shooting. He foolishly then
revealed this was his 69th consecutive PS
The B-Team of McDowell (47.2), Nigel
Vets shoot. So, we told the range officer
The guv’nor Burnip (45.2), Geoff One
who used the PA system to tell the other
small step Houston (48.2) and Will
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