London Revolver Club

Chas

Chas

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The pictures arent about my shooting ability, but rather about the targets.

Still going through stuff from my fathers estate. I know he was an active handgun shooter after he was married and I have come across and been using his old targets at our club. They are marked London Revolver Club and we moved out of London Ontario in 1960-61, so you get an idea of how old the targets are. I know there is a pin on button with London Revolver Club and his name with his revolvers.

I did a google search and found no information on the club, so wondering if anyone here knows anything about it and if it closed up.

The guys love scoring them because the bond of the paper (or maybe the age) makes nice clean scoring holes to mark, versus the heavier bond targets we use at my club which the bullets tend to tear.

Only have a couple of timed / rapid targets left but will be shooting the slow fire targets for quite a while - I have quite a stack of them left.

Regards

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I shot at the London Revolver Club in the mid-'60s.
It was located off Richmond Street, adjoining a lawn bowling club. Near the CPR tracks.
 
I pulled up a map of London. Looking at where the tracks cross Richmond Street, there is a green patch which I assume is a park. That is probably where the lawn bowling green was. LRC was a "key" club. A member let himself in to try his deer rifle, the bullets went through the angled plate backstop, and dug up fissures in the lawn bowling grass. Did not go over well.
At the rail/Richmond St. crossing, the CPR station was on the SE corner, the CPR Hotel ("The Ceeps", a popular beverage room) was on the SW, and a tannery on the NW.
 
Great targets your Dad shot.
With wad cutter38's or semi wad cutters , I get neat holes like that in most paper, I use regular printer paper most of the time.
with stuff , like a round nose 9mm ,it will shred the paper .
 
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