Our season begins with our annual training week at Bisley during the Easter Holiday, which we ask all members to attend. Despite the notoriously awful weather this is great opportunity to train up novices and get in some valuable practice before our matches. As with nearly all our shoots, this is held at Bisley Camp - home of full-bore shooting - in Surrey. Living in a clubhouse on camp, it is a fantastic opportunity to receive first-class coaching from international shots, as well as to socialise with the rest of the full-bore community (this is highly important!) We will try to pack loads of shooting, many beers and some curries into these few days.

Following the training week, we have some weekend matches before the exams, usually on a Sunday. Unfortunately to get to Bisley on time for an 8:30am start we have to leave Cambridge pretty early! Our final match, just before the Imperial Meeting is traditionally against Canada. We have done well in this match in previous years, in 1999 losing by one V-bull, and it acts as a good warm up for the Imperial Meeting.

During the summer vacation we enter the National Rifle Association Imperial Meeting. This is the highlight of the year, and includes dozens of competitions, both team and individual. These are for all standards: last year, as well as several novices, a CURA member won HM The Queens' Prize, and several other members shot at international level. It is also during this period that the Match Rifle (MR) and Target Rifle (TR) Varsity matches, the Humphry and the Chancellors', are held. The 2004 Chancellors' team included several novices, so you should not be put off if you have not shot full-bore before. As any of last years squad will tell you, the Imperial is always a brilliant time.