Welwyn Phoenix Rifle Club

The National Rifle Association has very recently advised their associated clubs regarding the management of young people under their care during Club activities. They have advised us that we must meet the requirements of the NRA Child Protection Policy CP1 currently in force and have provided us with the full documentation enabling the clubs officers responsible for training young people to be fully aware of their responsibilities.

All relevant club officers have been provided with this document and following a Committee Meeting on 19 November 2009, it was agreed that WPRC would appoint a Child Protection Officer to meet the needs of CP1, if minors were joining in Club shooting activities.

An experienced Club officer volunteered his services in this respect as he had similar experience previously with the Scouting movement. He has subsequently been appointed as Club Child Protection Officer.

Welwyn Phoenix RC are very pleased to announce that they meet the requirements of the current NRA Child Protection Policy CP1 and are happy to continue accommodating minors at Club Guest Shoots, where they can take advantage of 1:1 training of the highest quality.

Welwyn Phoenix is very pleased to offer their facilities to all those interested in full bore rifle shooting. The invitation can be extended to complete novices, where careful training and skills coaching is provided and also to accomplished target shooters who are either considering a change of Clubs or possibly interested in trying out Full Bore shooting in addition to their existing discipline.

Our shoots take place in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere at a moderate cost. Safety issues are the first priority as always, particularly with guests who may not be familiar with our range procedures.

We meet in the car park behind the NRA offices at 0810am for a pre-shoot briefing and collection of equipment. Shooting starts at 0830. If visitors arrive slightly later, they need to find us on the ranges, details of which are posted on the notice board outside the NRA Range Office.

Details of our shoots can be found in the Shooting Program and range details can be found on the NRA website. Follow the links from the left of this page.

Applications to join us as a guest must be received at latest 8 days prior to the event. See further details on these Visitor Days here >>>

The 2009 Guest Shoot program can be found under the Shooting Programme.

Experience has shown that we need to limit the capacity of these guest shoots. If effective coaching is to be provided we ideally need to assign a one-to-one coaching regime. With this in mind it is unlikely that we can take more than four guests at any one shoot.
Please give any of the officers a call on their numbers shown on this site, or drop us an email. We do need a few days notice as we have statutory documentation to complete and submit to the Police Authorities before you can shoot with us. We absolutely cannot accept guests who just turn up on the day.

Alistair Bullen with yet another haul of Silver

Alistair Bullen took over as Club Captain in January 2006. He followed in the illustrious footsteps of Nick Verduyn who had held the office for many years and latterly combined it with the Secretaryship of the Hertfordshire County Rifle Association.

Alistair’s enthusiasm and dedication to the club and to the sport of target shooting is second to none. We all know that there is no substitute for time spent on the ranges if real progress is to be achieved in shooting and Alistair is the epitomy of this. He holds a first team squad place with his home County of Norfolk, shooting alongside some great international stars, which clearly has done him no harm at all.

His efforts within WPRC, both on the organizational and instructional fronts, have been immense and it is only fitting that he has recorded an excellent personal success in club competitions over the last few seasons.

Like every good captain he leads from the front. He maximised his winning form at the NRA Imperial Meeting in 2007 and brought home the silver, by winning ‘The Corporation’ long range competition ahead of over 1000 other competitors. A great personal achievement and one which Welwyn Phoenix is very pleased to acknowledge. A full report of the Imperial Meeting can be read in the Members Area – Shooting reports section.

In 2008 WPRC have followed up their winning form of 2007 with some excellent Individual and Team performances as can be seen by reference to other articles in this website.

A new season with new challenges awaits us in 2009, where we again hope to recruit new members to improve our strength in depth.

Guests as always have enjoyed their shooting with the club in an active and encouraging environment. Our program for 2009 is approved by the National Shooting Centre and we are able to offer nine Club shoots of which six are designated for guests to attend.