The 34th Annual Prize Meeting
It would appear from the absence of a report of the 33rd annual prize meeting (despite a thorough search for it), that it may not have happened. There was no sign of it in the Volunteer Orders during 1893 and there was the problem of the lack of a home range, which had not been resolved before the end of the year (see our report on the Nottingham Town Council debate in Dec 1893).
However, the following year the 34th annual prize meeting did feature in the Nottinghamshire Guardian of June 30th and in the Nottingham Evening Post of June 25th. The former report is transcribed here and the latter was word for word the same.
The meeting was held at Grantham so the proposed range at Trent was not ready for the occasion. The format of the match was now the standard shoot at 200, 500 and 600 yards with seven to count at each range. There is no mention of sighting shots. The prize money on offer was rather less than for the previous matches.
The 34th annual prize meeting of the Notts. Rifle association took place on the rifle range at Grantham (kindly lent for the occasion by Major Hutchinson, 2nd V.R. Lincoln), on Saturday when the Notts. Rifle Association silver medal, the National Rifle Association bronze medal, and the National Rifle Association recruits' bronze medal, together with money prizes amounting to £28, were competed for by the volunteers and yeomanry of the county. The following are the winners of the prizes:–
Silver medal of the Notts. Rifle Association and £26 15s., divided into 20 prizes:– 1st medal and £3, one of £2, one of £1 15s., two of £1 10s., four of £1 5s., and eleven of £1; ranges - 200, 500, and 600 yards, seven shots at each. Queen's conditions, 1894. Scores:–
| 200 | 500 | 600 | Tl. | |
| Private Bambridge, 4th Notts | 29 | 35 | 27 | 91 |
| Private TE Burrows, R.H.R. | 30 | 26 | 32 | 88 |
| Private Leavesly, R.H.R. | 31 | 24 | 32 | 87 |
| Sergeant Prattington, 4th Notts | 29 | 32 | 26 | 87 |
| Corporal Dyaon, 4th Notts | 26 | 32 | 28 | 86 |
| Sergeant Poole, R.H.R. | 28 | 31 | 27 | 86 |
| Corporal Simpson, 4th Notts | 26 | 31 | 27 | 84 |
| Sergeant Draycott, R.H.R. | 28 | 29 | 27 | 84 |
| Lieutenant Ashworth, R.H.R. | 29 | 29 | 25 | 83 |
| Private AJ Rushton, 4th Notts | 32 | 28 | 23 | 83 |
| Sergeant Loach (GC) R.H.R. | 29 | 29 | 25 | 83 |
| Sergeant Smith, R.H.R. | 30 | 29 | 23 | 82 |
| Sergeant HW Davis, R.H.R. | 27 | 29 | 25 | 81 |
| Sergeant C Wood, 4th Notts | 26 | 31 | 24 | 81 |
| Private W Ashby, R.H.R. | 30 | 31 | 20 | 81 |
| Sergeant Harris, R.H.R. | 28 | 23 | 29 | 80 |
| Sergeant Aldam, R.H.R. | 23 | 26 | 30 | 79 |
| Sergeant Allsop, R.H.R. | 26 | 29 | 23 | 78 |
| sergeant Savage, R.H.R. | 25 | 28 | 24 | 77 |
| Corporal Clayton 4th Notts | 26 | 28 | 23 | 77 |
The bronze medal of the N.R.A. was won by Private Bambridge, 4th Notts.
First prize, bronze medal and £1; 2nd . 15s.; 3rd. 10s.; ranges and conditions same as for the members prizes.
| 200 | 500 | 600 | Tl. | |
| Private Hargreaves, 4th Notts | 21 | 29 | 23 | 73 |
| Private Gregory, 4th Notts | 26 | 27 | 17 | 70 |
| Private Woolley, R.H.R. | 25 | 29 | 14 | 68 |
Transcript from Nottinghamshire Guardian 30/06/1894
British Library Newspaper Archive