Ham and Petersham Rifle and Pistol Club

Shooting on a wintry day.	S&W 686 in .357 Magnum, very accurate, very reliable, well made, a great gun.	Count Stephen Ouveroff.	Peter Rooke, Built a lot of the club over many years.	Linda shooting a Manton 12 bore shotgun with a 6 foot barrel.
There was a Snooker Table in the club for many years, Gone now.	The Pot Bellied stove kept the club warm in the winter.	Very old photo inside the club.	A memento from The United States Marines.	The Trophy cabinet at rear.
The office rear left.	Inside the club	Inside the club taken from the front door.	Mr Hubble, responsible for building a 25 yard range, which was named after him, The Hubble range.	The clubhouse looking a lot better
The clubhouse a long time ago.	At that time the club only used single shot .22 rifles.	First cut new mower.	The Yates 50m range, first cut with new mower.	My new mower, 48 inch cut, does a great job.
This digger is used to do heavy work at the club, sadly it chews up the ground and grass	Track marks	Track marks	The Yates Range, 50m from firing point to target	The Butts
A bit of frost on the floor	The Firing Points	Inside firing points, it is changed a bit now	Inside Firing points of the Yates Range	The butts of The Lord Mancroft Range
Taken from outside the range	The butts being rebuilt	Looking at the firing point from the butts	The range taken from the gate	The butts on The Lord Mancroft range
Tommy guns, fire .45acp	Linda, with 2 Manton 12b black powder flintlock shotguns with 6 foot barrels	A .45 mushroom	Webley Nemesis .177 Co2, this is for John to show the Co2 cylinder	Gamo PT80 Co2
HK P30 Co2	Webley Mk 6 Co2	This can was hanging up on the targets on the 100 yard range	.22lr rifle single shot	44 Ruger old army
Colt Python .38, .38sp, .357 magnum	Pietta Remington 1858 BP .44 ball	Ready to shoot the Lepage black powder pistol	Albion .38	Colt 1911 Gold Cup .45acp
Le Page .38 BP pistol	Patriot .32 5 shot pistol, Harmonica magazine	Morini target pistol, .22lr single shot	Peter firing a black powder pistol	Des Unique 69 .22lr
Ruger 1022 rifle, .22lr.	S&W 686 .38, .38sp. .357 magnum	Browning Competition 9mm	Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum	Colt 1911 Gold Cup .45acp
Original Mod 5 in .177. Purchased new for £3.12s.6d in late 1950's	Feinwerkbau Mod-65 .177 air pistol	Geoffrey Household lives here. Whistle when you approach, or sing	The circle of damage is the size of the circle in the middle of the air pistol target	This was an odd bit of plate, you can clearly see where the pellets have struck
Half inch steel boiler plate, backstop for airguns, .177 only	Circled is a .177 lead pellet stuck in the pitted steel surface. You can see the rifling impressed on the pellet skirt	Aerial view 250 years ago. The outline is where the club will be about 1905	Google Earth view of the clubs ranges, I mow all the grass at the club, about 4 acres	Aerial view of club. The River Thames is just to the left of the fields
Aerial view in 1944	Wooden beam from the butts on the Yates range	Inert 20mm round	Often see the webs in the morning, never seen a spider in them.	:: Bisley ::
:: Ranges ::	:: R .I. P. ::	The very old furnace	Burning is a nice job on a cold day	Really hot
The hotter the flame the better destruction of diseased wood	Building heat fast	Driving out in the summer, a very green lane	It does not seem it is so close to London	Driving down the lane in the autumn
Entrance to club, the lane is 200 yards long	Pile of wood chippings	Old concrete blocks	Huge pile of wood chippings	Gas cylinder moved.
Photo of an old photo of a .22 rifle shooter.	Ham and Petersham ca1908	Possibly Bisley camp, between the wars.	H&P ladies team winning another trophy.	Ham and Petersham team firing.