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Hello all, I have only just discovered this forum and as I was an avid and enthusiastic shooter for many years until I lost all my firearms in the knee jerk reaction to the tragedy in Dunblane all those years ago. My interest in all matters to do with shooting started before I joined and during my time as a regular soldier in the 1960's and on leaving the army in 1969 I continued to shoot rifle and pistol. After Dunblane I campaigned strongly for a more "lenient" approach to the eventual ban but was as is clear, unsuccessful. I used to shoot small bore pistol at County Level (Hampshire and Sussex) and was a regular entrant in Full Bore pistol at the NRA and NPA meetings. I was also a regular reloader. I had owned over time, several .22 target pistols until settling on the Unique DES69 UIT target pistol. My first full bore pistol was a Browning HiPower that I sold to my dentist and replaced it with a very nice S&W Mod 19. I did reloads for both but eventually I gave up with the effort of reloading 9mm Burden cases!! I also has a nice little .25 Mellior pocket pistol from around 1900. I gave up shooting after my guns had gone and never found the spark to get back into it, until now. I was a member of Chichester R&P club and a founding member the NovioMagnum Pistol Club and a member of the Aldingbourne R&P club for some years. At one time I organised pistol shooting competition and promotion for the Sussex County R&P Association. Well, that's that boring story out of the way and now I am back interested in the sport again.

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Hello and welcome to the forum

Alan

Welcome

I was down at the Chichester rifle club (smallbore) shooting on Saturday evening (Worthing & West Sussex vs Hampshire). Very nice range now although I certainly didn't do it justice :(

Hi Richard500, welcome

Salut & welkom !
Very nice part of the country you live in. I shot a little at Worthing pistol club before moving to London. I certainly miss it .

Hi Richard .... welcome to FBUK!

Hello and welcome

Hi Richard - Welcome!
I'm just along the coast as my handle might suggest. I recall shooting pistols once or twice on the Brighton Madeira Drive range and also at Patcham - Also thinking back to the 1960's (.303 days :)) shooting at Storrington, Stenning, Kithurst, Bo-peep, Alciston, Crumbles all long gone now :(.

Thank for the welcome chaps! Nice to see some Sussex "relics" here as well!! I loved the Brighton Range spent many a cold damp Sunday there! As for Patcham, fantastic in the summer with a nice long walk up to the Chantry and back....

Richard500 wrote:My first full bore pistol was a Browning HiPower that I sold to my dentist and replaced it with a very nice S&W Mod 19.

Interestingly my old dentist used to shoot a HiPower and always used to ask me how my shooting was going and then launch into a drawn out explanation of why he would never ever consider owning a firearm of any sort again, he would then go mack to reminiscing about shooting and the good old days before kicking me out of the chair until the next visit.

Welcome to the forum