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Lothian Smallbore Shooting Association |
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Competitions & Results
The Association provides
a wide-ranging selection of competitions for its affiliates. All
take place in the winter indoor season (October to March).
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A Bit of History . . . Its original name was the Edinburgh and Midlothian Association of Civilian Rifle Clubs, which evolved into the Edinburgh and Midlothian Smallbore Rifle Association, and it changed to the current name in 1977 in order to widen its scope to include the whole of Lothian Region, which came into being at the time of a reorganisation of local government then, and additionally incorporated West and East Lothian. The opportunity was also taken to include air weapons in the shooting disciplines covered in line with a growing demand. Unfortunately not much is known about the early years of the Association up to the 1960s as records have been lost, but we have a history of regularly producing fine marksmen and women in both prone and 3P, and clubs whose stars have risen and waned on both the UK and Scottish shooting scenes. Edinburgh Citizens RC was a most formidable club for many years from the 1930s to the 1960s, as was EU Alumni some years later. Several of our trophies date from the early 1900s and are most impressive. The Association has no shooting facilities of its own, although up to the mid-1950's it had (or at least had the use of) an outdoor range in Blackford Glen in Edinburgh and many shooters in those days travelled there in the summer evenings by tram and foot (openly carrying their rifles and ammunition - nobody worried about that sort of thing then). This range was eventually abandoned after years of trouble and damage caused by vandalism. In later years the Association's outdoor competitions were held on Balerno & Currie R.C.'s outdoor range near Balerno and then at Musselburgh R.C.'s range, but, since these ranges became defunct, there has been no outdoor range in Lothian Region and that position still persists to this day despite efforts by the Executive Committee to find a new site. A potential site was identified in 1991 near Cousland in Midlothian, but after objections from one particular local resident who forced a sound test to be carried out, this regrettably had to be abandoned. Other sites have been briefly considered and rejected for one reason or another. We live in hope. If anyone reading this knows of a piece of flat or flattish land approximately 125m long by at least 30m wide, with or without a natural backstop such as a hill or a quarry face, within 20 minutes or so of Edinburgh which might be made available for a smallbore range, then please get in touch with the webmaster! Administration The Association is administered by an Executive Committee. This consists of the usual office-bearers of Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, plus the secretaries who run all the various competitions provided by the Association. In addition, the County Captain and Vice-Captain are also part of the Committee. There are also six Ordinary members elected from nominations from affiliated clubs. These members serve for three years each, and two of these positions come up for re-election every year. The Annual General Meeting is held in May, and the Committee meets at regular intervals throughout the year. To see a copy of the Association's Constitution, click here. (It's in pdf format, so you will need Adobe's Acrobat reader, or equivalent.)
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