About the City of Birmingham Rifle Club

The  City of Birmingham Rifle Club was formed on the 12th of February 1937. 

Achievements between then and 1987 were many and include the following highlights:

• National League winners Division One 32 times.
• Any Sights League Division One winners 25 times the last 5 consecutive.
• Twelve British Champions.
• Ten English Long Range Champions.
• Five Bisley Grand Aggregate winners.
• Twelve Scottish Grand Aggregate winners.
• Three Bisley Ladies Championship winners: Miss G.M. Clarke in 1937 and 1938, Miss B. Russel in 1961 and Mrs. I. Daw in 1979. 
• Six Daily Telegraph Cup winners.
• Six Daily Mail Cup winners.
• Four News of the World Individual Cup winners.
• Six times Astor County Cup winners.
• Nine times Lord Forteviot Shield winners.
• Six times New Zealand Shield winners (one of these by the "B" team)
• Five times City of London Trophy winners.

In 2002 the Club was given notice by Eley that they had to leave the Kynoch site by the end of the year and in January 2003 were shooting at Baldwin's Gate at the kind invitation of the Staffordshire Small-bore Rifle Association. 

Scottish 1975

At the Scottish National 22 Rifle Championships held last week in Stirling, local marksmen and women had a remarkably successful time.

Ted Watson (Sutton Coldfield) collected the top award of the event with a score of 1577 points out of a possible 1600. As well as the Grand Aggregate, Ted dropped only 6 points on eight cards to win the other major competition the "Any Sights". Mike Willcox (Solihull) shot 397 x 400 to win the "Daily Mail" Trophy.

Other local shooters who showed their capabilities included: Irene Daw (Great Barr), who shot her way into the English team - which won, and Joy Gavin (Sutton Coldfield) had an excellent shoot of 790 x 800 to win the "D" class "Any Sights".
A team of four - Ted Watson, Mike Willcox, Tony Walmesley (Sutton) and Ernie Spiriti, from Great Barr, brought back the Lord Forteviot Cup.

City of Birmingham Rifle Club members are pictured above with their collection of trophies and awards won at the 1975 National Scottish Championship meeting.

Front: Miss J. Gavin and Mrs. Irene Daw. Back. Left to right: Ted Watson, Alex Brown, Tony Walmesley, Stevie Poole, Mike Willcox, Cliff Walker, Ernie Spititi.