Team Diary Wednesday 25th March 2009 Picking up from last night, following the usual award ceremony for “mug of the day”, another presentation was made to Stuart Young. He had turned up on a training weekend a few weeks ago
Day 7
Team Diary Tuesday 24th March 2009 The day was dedicated to a practice shoot in target teams after some “zeroing” at 300m. The start was leisurely by normal South African standards; first shot down the range at 10 am, which
Day 6 – Travel to Bloemfontein
Team Diary Monday 23rd March 2009 As the team retired to bed in the early hours of the morning, the Captain, on walking into his room drew attention to an intruder. Much animated discussion and some screaming later, Mr Underwood
Day 5
Team Diary Sunday 22nd March 2009 The day started off rather more leisurely than yesterday since the Captain’s idea of loading the buses before 7 am breakfast had been vetoed and quite rightly so. We arrived at the range at
Day 4
Team Diary Saturday 21st March 2009 The captain decided that breakfast should be at 7am, so by the time we had finished, there was still 45 minutes until we needed to leave in order to get to the range for
Day 3
Team Diary Friday 20th March 2009 The effects of the previous evening’s wine samplings were felt by many this morning although the whole team turned up bright and early for breakfast to be met by an outstandingly large ham and
Day 1 & 2 – The Journey Out
Team Diary Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th March 2009 The England Rifle Team tour to South Africa 2009 started with the usual congregation in the English XX at Bisley. Our faithful baggage master, Stephen, did the stressing for all of