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%	Mark Dennehy
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Chief Range Officer's Report}}

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\section{Membership and Activity levels}


Membership of the club at the time of the AGM stands at
335 members. of which some 270 joined in October, 251 of
which joined during Fresher's Week. This represents an
increase of over a hundred members from last year, and a
huge improvement in the Fresher's Week numbers, but also the
third highest membership figure the club has had in the past
twenty-five years, and it makes us the fourth-largest sports
club in College. Looking at the membership figures for the
past two decades or so shows that this represents an upward
trend (see Figure~\ref{fig:membershipTrend}) despite a
certain amount of annual fluctuation, as well as a slump in
membership over the past few years caused by the departure
of a large group of our core shooters at the end of 1994.

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Of these 335 members, 110 have shot at least once, giving an active
membership of 32.8\%. A closer look at the activity
statistics shows that our most active term was Hillary term,
as per usual, but also that there were relatively few people
that only shot once - some 5 or 6 out of 110. This indicates
that if we can get people to come down and try at least once,
that they tend to return to try again - something to note for
next year.

Looking at the demographics, we see that we have
approximately a 2:1 ration of men to women in the club -
this has been the average for some time now, but given that
the lady shooters tend to be better than the gentlemen, this
is a situation we would like to see changed to a 1:1 ratio.

The most well-represented faculty was Engineering, with 50
engineering students as members, and a further 30 in various
management science courses, and another 32 in computer
science and ICT. Arts was the next faculty, with 50 members,
followed by Science with 36 and Medecine with 29. The other
members fall into the ``other'' category, including Alumni
and Staff members. In general, most of our members were
Junior Freshmen (a total of 147) with the Senior Freshmen,
Sophisters and Postgrads all roughly equal on approximately
30-40 members each. Our ages range from 17 (when joining the
club) to 55 years old - though the majority of shooters are
currently 18 or 19, with the next largest group being the
over-40s - a rather unique demographic amoung TCD's sports
clubs!.  

This year's has see us use a total of 19289 rounds of .22 ammunition, of 
which approximately 10,000 were shot on normal training nights and the 
rest in competition. This is up significantly on previous
years, but we still have a ways to go to meet the previous
record levels of 40,000 rounds per year (which were set in
1987-89)

Looking at the top ten of the ladder (the standard for
judgeing our performance for the year) shows an average of
92.89 : not as high as our halycon days, but very
respectable indeed. Looking at the last 12 cards shot shows a
better picture of our current standards though : 93.38 as an
average, with the top 8 having an average over 90. Also to
note are the three possibles shot this year : congradulations
to Ray Reilly, John Keeney and me. \smiley

\section{Safety}

Despite an incident John has mentioned, this has been yet
another incident-free year, with no injuries apart from the
odd bruised head thanks to the ceiling of the Range. This
means that for the past 39 years we have operated, we have
had a total of zero injuries.

\section{Courses}

This year has seen the introduction of two new courses run by the \ac{NTSA}
and the \ac{NRPAI}, which were lobbied for by \ac{DURC} and \ac{UCDRC}. 

A Coaching course was held in \ac{UCDRC} in early September, with UK 
National Coaching Director Dave Froggett as instructor. \ac{DURC}
sent four Range Officers to this course, which proved to be extremely
useful both for these Officers' personal shooting and for their ability
to coach the Club's Ordinary Members. A second course was scheduled to
focus on smallbore shooting, but has been postponed due to the Foot and
Mouth crisis. It will take place later this year.

A course for Range Officers has been lobbied for for several years by
both \ac{DURC} and \ac{UCDRC}, and more recently by WTSC. The
\ac{NRPAI} had run such a course in the past (in the eighties), but had
not done so recently, until this year. \ac{DURC} had been planning on
sending all Range Officers to this course for certification, but
confusion over the time and date of the course resulted in a very poor
turnout on the day. The course will be rerun later this year and it is
hoped that all Range Officers will become nationally certified before the end of
the next Academic Year. As it is planned for this course to
be an ongoing one run by the National Governing Body, it is
hoped that all future Range Officers will be sent on it
before they make the transition from Trainee to Full Range
Officer.

\section{Range Officers}

This year has seen the departure of several Range Officers, including
some of the old guard. Doctor Ian Marnane graduated early in 2000, and
left soon thereafter, though not before doing a night or two of RO
Duty, for old times sake. Leaving with him was long-standing member
Andrea Lazenby-Simpson, who graduated last year but volunteered to
assist \textit{in extremis}. Mark Treanor also graduated and decided
that it was a better idea to earn money in the real world than become a
postgraduate! The CRO at the start of the year, Willie
O'Connor, had to leave due to family and work committments, at which
time I took over as CRO -- filling his shoes proved a difficult task.
Eric Farrell also had to leave, due to the workload his studies were
imposing - hopefully he may decide to return at a future date.

This loss of ROs does happen from year to year, but this year proved to
be especially heavy and left us rather shorthanded - a larger number of
TROs than usual were recruited as a result. The new Range Officers this
year were David Gallagher and Shane Kelly (who had been Trainee Range
Officers the year before), Peter Byrne, Conor McDermottroe, Liam Murray
and Stephen Watterson. The Committee hereby offically welcomes them to
a long and happy period of servitude in the name of the Club \smiley.

\section{Thanks}

The first thanks of this report belongs squarely with the Range
Officers who served this year, especially during Michaelmas and Hillary
Terms; the level of work that they accepted and the relative lack of
complaints were both quite exceptional The Club owes them a debt of
gratitude -- had they not stood RO Duty every week (or twice a week in
some cases), the Club could not have continued through Michaelmas Term,
let alone all the way to Trinity term. 

Next year's Range Officers won't have to work quite so hard -- but 
they are no less important to the operation of the Club and I'd like to
thank them for volunteering.

A few specific mentions shoudl be made for :
\begin{itemize}
\item Keith White, for his occasional small piece of DIY on the range
(ie, rebuilding it every so often), as well as for having written SCORP
and KADA, the programs that we use to score competitions and track
ladder scores throughout the year.

\item Our ``transport officers'', who volunteered to drive people
and equipment all over the country to competitions: Ray Reilly (who was
the sole transport officer last year), Mark Dennehy (yay me!), Jason
Sibley, Alan Smyth (despite a recent reduction in the amount of gear he
can carry), and our newest TO, Peter Byrne, showing how you can fit a
big guy in a tiny little kiddies car \smiley

\item The Range Officers who cleaned and painted the Range last October
so that it would be nice and clean for this year - it was a
\textbf{lot} of hard work, taking nearly a full fortnight to complete
under somewhat unpleasant conditions, especially when cleaning our the
targets' bullet traps. They were : Keith White, Mark Dennehy (yay me!),
Ben Jones and Alan Smyth.

\item All the Range Officers who worked on the Freshers Week stand - we
took in 279 memebers this year, which was a huge improvement over
previous years (and not just last year, when noone showed up).

\item John Keeney for his level-headed leadership throughout the year,
but more for his lack of delegation.

\end{itemize}

Thanks are also due to Tim Cooper and his Office; to the Chief Steward
Pat Moray; and to the Security guards, who were their usual friendly
and helpful selves throughout the year.

Thanks go to the Gardai, specifically Superintendent Dan Quill and
Sergeant John Rafter, who wrote up our Removal Orders and other offical
paperwork throughout the year without a minimum of fuss: and also to
the RUC Firearms division, specifically Hillary Orr, who put through
more than one rushed application for permits for competitions in
Northern Ireland: and to Pam Temple of the Isle of Man Police Firearms
Office, who managed to get two firearms permits sorted out with a total
of fifteen minutes remaining before the Office closed, allowing me to
go the Isle of Man easter shoot.

Both DUCAC and the College's Sports Department deserve thanks,
especially the Administrative Officers, Cathy and Geraldine, who have
been of enormous assistance whenever it was humanly possible.

And finally, the last word of thanks is simply to all of the Club
Members who showed up and shot during the year, especially if you shot
at a competition. This is what keeps the Club alive from year to year,
and I hope you will all be doing so again next year.

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\begin{acronym}

\acro{DURC}[{\textbf \sf D.U.R.C.}]{Dublin University Rifle Club}
\acro{UCDRC}[{\textbf \sf U.C.D.R.C.}]{University College Dublin Rifle Club}
%\acro{WTSC}[{\textbf \sf W.T.S.C.}]{Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club}
%\acro{FSC}[{\textbf \sf F.S.C.}]{Fassaroe Shooting Club}
%\acro{RRPC}[{\textbf \sf R.R.P.C.}]{Rathdrum Rifle and Pistol Club}
%\acro{DRC}[{\textbf \sf D.R.C.}]{Dublin Rifle Club}
%\acro{EARC}[{\textbf \sf E.A.R.C.}]{East Antrim Rifle Club}
%\acro{MRC}[{\textbf \sf M.R.C.}]{Midlands Rifle Club}
%\acro{QUB}[{\textbf \sf Q.U.B.}]{Queens University Belfast}

%\acro{BSSC}[{\textbf \sf B.S.S.C.}]{British Shooting Sports Council}
%\acro{NSRA}[{\textbf \sf N.S.R.A.}]{National Small-bore Rifle Association}
\acro{NTSA}[{\textbf \sf N.T.S.A.}]{National Target Shooting Association}
%\acro{ISSF}[{\textbf \sf I.S.S.F.}]{International Shooting Sport Federation}
\acro{NRPAI}[{\textbf \sf N.R.P.A.I.}]{National Rifle and Pistol Association of Ireland} 
%\acro{NSARC}[{\textbf \sf N.A.S.R.C.}]{National Association of Sporting Rifle Clubs}
%\acro{NSAI}[{\textbf \sf N.S.A.I.}]{National Silhouette Association of Ireland}
%\acro{IPCRA}[{\textbf \sf I.P.C.R.A.}]{Irish Pony Club Rifle Association}
%\acro{IOC}[{\textbf \sf I.O.C.}]{International Olympic Committee}
%\acro{ISC}[{\textbf \sf I.S.C.}]{Irish Sports Council}
%\acro{OCI}[{\textbf \sf O.C.I.}]{Olympic Council of Ireland}
%\acro{ESC}[{\textbf \sf E.S.C.}]{European Shooting Confederation}
%\acro{NGB}[{\textbf \sf N.G.B.}]{National Governing Body}

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