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The centre was located adjacent to a 100yard small-bore range operated by Wolverhampton Smallbore Rifle Association and hosted local clubs but also provided a more central location for the British Air Gun Championships, which were held there between 1992 and 2001, moving to Bisley in 2002 following the opening of the Lord Roberts Centre.
The Malcolm Cooper 50-metre range at the Lord Roberts Centre, Bisley, the home of the National Smallbore Rifle Association. Smallbore shooting can be conducted either indoors or outside. Typically, shooting at ranges of 25 yards (23 m) and shorter is done indoors, while longer-range shooting at 100 yards (91 m) or more is almost invariably done ...
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Bisley / ˈ b ɪ z l iː / is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey, England, approximately 25 miles (40 km) southwest of central London. It is midway between Woking (to the east) and Camberley (to the west).
The National Shooting Centre, commonly referred to as Bisley, is the UK's largest shooting sports complex, comprising several shooting ranges as well as the large Bisley Camp complex of accommodation, clubhouses and support services. The centre is located between the villages of Bisley (from which it takes it colloquial name) and Brookwood in ...
The Stock Exchange Rifle Club was founded in 1901 by Colonel (later, Sir) Robert Inglis, [4] who responded to Lord Roberts' call to establish small-arms shooting clubs across the land. Lord Roberts, as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force sent out to put down the Boer rebellion , had discovered that the shooting skills of his soldiers ...
A road on Bisley Camp is named Marjorie Foster Way. Fulton's Gun Shop, National Shooting Centre. The Fulton family have the unique distinction of having three generations of winners. George Fulton used the proceeds of his 1888 win to found Fulton's Gun Shop on Bisley Camp, which still stands today.
Lord Roberts may refer to: Field Marshal Frederick Roberts (1832–1914), Anglo-Irish high commander of the British Army in the Victorian Era, and revered military hero Lord Roberts (electoral district) , a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba, named after the above