LBTSA County Teams – 2025-26
The County Captain has selected the team members and has asked me to publish a note of all the teams here. Please take this link to see a PDF of all the teams in the NSRA County Leagues for next … Continue reading →
Bill Hamilton
Entry forms 2025-26
The Affiliation and Entry forms for next season will be distributed in the next few days. If you want a sneak preview and to download them ahead of time, they are now available in the secure area of the site … Continue reading →
AGM report
The AGM was held last night. Earlier this week it was estimated that there might not be sufficient attendees to form a quorum (minimum of 12). The Chairman and Secretary had already given their apologies for not being able to … Continue reading →
Annual General Meeting
The Association’s AGM will be held on Thursday 22nd May at 7:30 p.m. at Balerno and Currie Rifle Club. Members of all affiliated clubs are entitled to attend. The agenda and the minutes of last year’s meeting have been circulated. … Continue reading →
Outdoor Individual Championships 2025-26
LBTSA has a trophy for an Outdoor Champion (The McLennan Medal) and a handicap equivalent (The Ettrick & Lauderdale Papereweight Trophy). These have been competed for for many years at the NSRA’s Scottish National Meeting, based on its Unsquadded Aggregate. … Continue reading →
Prize list
All our winter competitions have finished and the complete prize list for the season is now available. Take the Competitions/Prizelists link above to see it.
Continue reading →Individual Championship
The Final of the 2024-25 Individual Championship took place yesterday afterrnoon at Balerno & Currie’s range, once again making use of the club’s electronic targets. A full complement of 16 finalists attended, albeit including six reserves replacing original qualifiers who … Continue reading →
Team Postal League
The Team Postal League programme has finished. Take the Competitions | Team Postal League link above to see full details, but in summary: Congratulations to the divisional winners: Div 1: Balerno & Currie, taking the title for the first time … Continue reading →
Prize lists
I have just received the prize list documents from the 1991-2 and 1992-3 seasons which were found among the late Dougie Duff’s effects. These are now available to view from the ‘Prizelists’ link under the ‘Competitions’ menu item. There are … Continue reading →
Ken Greenaway – funeral
Funeral service in Ken’s Barn, Culross House, Torr of Kedlock, KY15 4PY (What 3 Words – Landings, Freely, Thousands), on Thursday 3rd April, at 12 noon, to which all friends are respectfully invited, thereafter interment in Kilmany Cemetery at 1.30pm.
Continue reading →S/S League
The Shoulder-to-Shoulder League has finished after a nail-biting conclusion. Hawick had the chance to overtake long-term leaders Watsonians if they could beat George Heriot’s at home in the last match of the season with a score of 29 off or … Continue reading →
Individual CYOH Final
The final of the Individual CYOH competition has taken place and the winner by one point was Robin Thomson of Watsonians. The runner-up was Phil Smithard of The Sands. Take the Competitions / CYOH link above to see the full … Continue reading →
Benchrest League
The Individual Benchrest League has finished and resulted in a very tight win in division 1 for Alan Anderson of Hawick, who thus retains the title. Robin Thomson (Watsonians) was runner-up (again), by just one point. Division 2 was won … Continue reading →
Club Pairs League
The Pairs League has finished, with the winners being: Division 1 – Edinburgh University A Division 2 – Prestonpans A Division 3 – Prestonpans F Congratulations to all. Take the Competitions / Club Pairs League above to see full details. … Continue reading →
Ken Greenaway
Some readers might have known, or known of, Ken Greenaway who passed away at the weekend. Ken was well-known in Scottish and British shooting circles. This writer knew him as members of Edinburgh University RC in the late 1960s. He … Continue reading →
Alex McConnell
Alex’s son David has written in to say thank you to all from the shooting community who attended hs dad’s funeral yesterday. There was a good turnout from shooters and his old police colleagues and it showed to his mum … Continue reading →
CYOH Rules
At a meeting of the Association’s Management Committee last night it was decided to alter the Regulations for our two CYOH competitions so that any card with fewer than ten counting shots on it will be disqualified. These new rules … Continue reading →
Individual Championships
The scores for the first round of the Open Championship and the winners of the Ladies, Veterans, Junior, the Inexpert A & B class and Benchrest Championships have been issued. The Open Championship Final will be held at Balerno & … Continue reading →
CYOH Teams – Result
The final of the Team CYOH competition has taken place and Balerno & Currie beat Prestonpans A. Congratulations to them on winning the magnificent Burton Cup. Take the Competitions / CYOH links above to see the full details, as well … Continue reading →
Alex McConnell – Update
I have just received this message from David McConnell of Redcraig: It is with the deepest regret I inform the association of the passing on my dad Alex McConnell on Tuesday 25th. Alex had been a member of Redcraig since … Continue reading →
Team Postal League
The results for the first four rounds of the Team Postal League are now available including the up to date averages reports. We apologise for the delay in publishing these. Talke the Competitions / Team Postal League link above to … Continue reading →
Watsonian Rifle Club Open Meeting
The Watsonian Rifle Club will be holding its annual Open Meeting over the weekend of 25th & 26th January 2025. The entry form can be downloaded from here. The meeting comprises one 60-shot competition in five classes, with concurrent competitions for … Continue reading →
Championships
The stickers for the Individual Championships have been posted out. There are 30 enties in the Main Championship (more than for some years) 11 in the Ladies, 7 in the Veterans, 8 in the Junior, 10 each in both the … Continue reading →
CYOH (Teams)
The results for round 1 of the Team CYOH competition are now available in the Competitions / CYOH page above. It’s unfortunate that only one of the four teams managed to field a full team of three. As there are … Continue reading →
Douglas Duff – update
*** There will be a memorial held for Dougie on Tuesday 19th November at 1pm at the Musselburgh & Fisherrrow Welfare Club, 253 N High St, Musselburgh EH21 6BQ. All welcome *** It’s just been revealed that Dougie Duff of … Continue reading →
Balerno & Currie Open Meeting
Balerno & Currie’s annual ‘Frank Gifford Memorial Open Meeting’ will take place on 16th & 17th November. There are both prone and air rifle and air pistol components, all shot on the club’s Meyton electronic targets. The prone part of … Continue reading →
Entries – deadlines extended
The closing date for entries to the Shoulder-to-Shoulder, the Team Postal, the Club Pairs, the Individual Benchrest, the CYOH Team & Individual Leagues was originally today, Monday 2nd September. However, due to the slow arrival of many expected entries the … Continue reading →
Where’s all the News?
The News page for the period September 2023 to August 2024 has been archived. Please take the News Archives link in the sidebar for a link to it and all previous annual News archives.
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