Gunners (nearly) shoot to the top in BUPC

Anyone awake on the morning of Saturday February the twenty-second would be forgiven for thinking that they had walked onto the set of "Night of the living dead." A group of pale, dishevelled creatures staggered, as if in a trance, descended on the sports centre. In fact this was merely members of the IC pistol squad trying to make the seven 0’Clock start time for the British University Pistol Championships.

The IC rifle and pistol club was there this year and had high hopes to place well. Captain Rickee delivered us to Bisley just in time to begin the morning’s shooting of small bore target pistol. We fell immediately behind, but were no demoralised as .22 is for girls anyway.

The afternoon saw some superb shooting of full bore revolvers by all teams involved. After a day dogged by jamming guns and other technical problems, it was a credit to IC that all three teams still managed to finish in second place, yet again hammering our arch-rivals Cambridge (we’re not afraid of them. Grrrrrrrrrr).

After this sterling performance and the night’s revelries that followed, one would have thought that a Sunday lie in was in order. Instead, however, we all congregated in Hyde park (along with about twenty-five thousand others) for a sportsman’s association march and rally to protest against the new gun legislation.

This was thoroughly groovy happening, only slightly marred by the extreme ugliness of the Oxford pistol team, the winners of the BUPC.

The nest event in our calender is the Courtman Shield on Saturday March the eighth. This is an intercollegiate rifle competition