Oxford University Clay Pigeon Shooting Club

29/12/2023

Congratulations to our shooters who attended BUCS Clay Pigeon Shooting Championship 2023-24 at Orston Shooting Ground in December! We’re delighted to announce that our Men’s Team won, and our Women’s Team finished 3rd! These are the best results the club has ever achieved and demonstrates the positive development of our club over the last few years. We’re also very proud of the work our committee has put in, and grateful to those less experienced members who supported the teams while putting in great scores of their own at this tough event.
We’d like to thank our sponsor Browning for our guns, and also Fiocchi UK for their fantastic FBlack and TT One cartridges (supplied by Claverdon Cartridges Ltd) which helped us achieve these amazing results.
Thank you to British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) for organising this event. Now, we’re training for and looking forward to Varsity which should be a great contest this year!

29/12/2023

At the end of November, a group of 5 squads made the trip to St. Dials Farm near Monmouth for one of our annual highlights – the Christmas Cup. Luckily, the weather held out and the torrential rain held off until after the shooting. Despite this, the ground was slippery and a few of our friends from other unis suffered the consequences of this on the hill: falling in spectacular fashion! It was a really promising start to the year, with many new shots getting involved, and we hope everyone enjoyed the flush as much as we did.
Thank you to Hart Events for hosting this competition, and we hope to see you next year!

25/01/2023

Varsity 2023! We are looking forward to an excellent day of shooting against Cambridge at E. J. Churchill followed by fantastic food, wine and general merriment at The Crazy Bear Group in Stadhampton. Check your inbox for details on how to register. Students, alumni and guests are all welcome to attend. Message us for details.

16/11/2022

We are looking forward to hosting eight universities from around the UK for this weekend’s Oxford Challenge competition.

We have had a last minute table cancellation for Saturday’s (19 Nov) black tie dinner at voco Oxford Thames.

If you are a member, alumni or supporter of the club and would like to book in for a single spot, half or full table, please message us here or email the club at [email protected]

Tickets at £100 and include a sparkling reception, three course meal w/ wine and dancing until midnight.

09/10/2022

And we’re off for Michaelmas 22. Here are a few of our shooters enjoying 0th week at ! We look forward to officially kicking off our taster sessions next Saturday. The afternoon is already booked up so book now to secure your morning slot. Watch our instagram stories for updates on this week’s Double the Lead social!

18/08/2022

Congratulations to all on your A Level Results! Here’s hoping you got your first choice spot at Oxford! We look forward to seeing you at Freshers Fair and all our Michaelmas Term events! Check out our term card preview online. Link in comments.

02/05/2022

Good luck to our members competing tomorrow at the super final of The Handicap Challenge at Royal Berkshire Shooting School. Harry Goaman, our former president, shot the second highest score on Week 7 of the challenge, closely followed by our coach Matt Hance.
More information in the link below.

30/04/2022

Congratulations to club member .n.la on her third place in her category at the Ladies Cup at RBSS

14/02/2022

Incredible day at Barbury Shooting School competing at the University of Bristol Clay Pigeon Shooting Club competition. Forty of our members attended this event, including two full ladies squads and one alumni squad. Top 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th highest individual scores were from Oxford. It was great to see our new members proudly wearing their team kit. As usual massive thanks to our supporters: Eley Hawk Ltd for the softest fibre wad cartridges one could ever wish for, Browning Europe for the guns, Matt Hance for coaching and organizing embroidering of our kit, Sporting Hares for the beautiful hats, E. J. Churchill and Barbury Shooting School for helping us quickly train complete beginners into competitive shots and Consumables Solutions for the ultra-fast premium embroidery.

06/12/2021

Incredible results at BUCS 2021 Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition. As far as we know, these were the best results ever for Oxford University Sport at British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS). Men’s team (Ricardo Parolin Schnekenberg, Giles Murphy, Albert Williams and Robert Middleton) won 🥈 overall, and Ricardo was 🥉 best individual score. In the Alumni competition, our former captain Ethan Bosse was high gun 🥇. Despite the challenging course, cold weather, and windy conditions, we witnessed excellent shooting and great scores this weekend. We would like to thank our main sponsors Eley Hawk Ltd Browning Europe and E. J. Churchill for supporting the club throughout the past several years. This support has allowed us to develop existing talent and introduce hundreds of students to the sport of clay shooting. Massive thanks also to our coach Matt Hance who has been instrumental to this win, and to our supporters Sporting Hares House of Cheviot and Thomas Jacks Limited

03/12/2021

Please make sure you are all registered in our (new) mailing list. The contacts in the old GroupSpaces account were unfortunately lost. Subscribe at https://oucpsc.mailchimpsites.com. A very important email will be going out later tonight.

We aim to make clay shooting as accessible & affordable as possible. We provide a safe, friendly & relaxed atmosphere in which to try the sport. For those that continue shooting, we run lots of practice sessions. We organise taster sessions, hold regular practices, arrange coaching and take part in....

27/11/2021

Practice session in the snow today. E. J. Churchill was more magnificent than usual.