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Bideford Small Bore Rifle Club.
Bideford Rifle Club is probably typical of many clubs all over the country. It was formed some time before the Second World War- although little remains of any documented evidence of our early years. They have a membership of about forty shooters, with a wide range of ages and abilities, and they shoot .22 prone rifle at 25-yards, .177 air rifle and air pistol at 10 metres during the winter months and .22 prone rifle at 50-metres during the summer season. They have also started a Bench Rest section, which is gaining interest, and they shall be entering teams in leagues for this discipline this year ( 2008/2009 )

They welcome potential new members and introduce them to the sport by running a structured coaching programme, which enables Them to give them the attention and help they need from the start, and this has proved very enjoyable and successful to students and coaches over the last two years.

They also host Open Evenings for local groups such as Rotary and the Golf Club, which are always very sociable occasions and also help to premote our club and our sport. They enjoy a very good relationship with the local press who regularly print reports- indeed three of the local papers came to one of the Open Evenings to try shooting for themselves and gave an excellent write-up afterwards.

Some of the members have been or are of international standard and they have a very good representation in the County teams every year, but there are also many of the members who only shoot local leagues or even no competitions at all - the common factor is the enjoyment they all get out of the sport by belonging to a friendly enthusiastic club. www.bidefordrifleclub.weebly.com Mr Hornblower (talk) 07:16, 6 October 2008 (UTC)