Phoenix Shooters Association

FRIDAY 7th November 2025 Sealand A Range - Approved
2025-11-07 08:30 - 12:30 (Europe/London) | Sealand A Range, Rifle Range, Sealand Ranges, Weighbridge Road, Deeside Industrial Park, Deeside, CH5 2LL, United Kingdom
NB: FRIDAY.
Our bid for this date has been granted subject to the usual caveat about military units having precedence, although this should be unlikely. As usual if you need any equipment or ammunition, please let us know beforehand so that we can bring it along. Nowadays it’s important that we have a fair idea of the numbers attending, as we have to let The MoD know this in advance. It also helps us to work out the number of target lanes, and therefore the number of butts markers per detail.
A BIG “thank you” to all those who volunteer to do butts, RO and lookout duties !

SUNDAY 25th May 2025 - Altcar 500 yard competition
2025-05-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Altcar Ranges, L38 7JE
Keith has organised a competition at Altcar V our friends at Grange Rifle & Pistol Club.
We are sorry that not everyone who wanted to enter was not able to as places are very limited.
An e-mail has been sent to everyone attending with rules, timing, instructions etc etc. ….. and GOOD LUCK !

The Annual Prizegiving Dinner - WEDNESDAY 11th December 2024
2024-12-11 19:00 - 23:30 | Neston Cricket Club, Neston Cricket Club, Station Road, Neston, CH64 6QJ, United Kingdom
The results of the survey we set up earlier in the year made it clear that a Wednesday in December was the clear winner for the date.
We have managed to reserve the same room at the Neston Cricket Club, but we will need to know the numbers, as below a certain level the costs become untenable.
We have been looking into the catering options and we will leave the ticket price at £25 – the same as last year. This price has been heavily subsidised so that as many members and their family and guests can come along without breaking the bank!

Saturday 9th December 2023 Sealand A range ----- CANCELLED DUE TO "FLOODING" !!!
2023-12-09 08:30 - 12:30 | Sealand A Range, Rifle Range, Sealand Ranges, Weighbridge Road, Deeside Industrial Park, Deeside, CH5 2LL, United Kingdom
We are more than a little disapointed and annoyed about this, as I know you are, but It seems that the MoD have a better form of weather forecasting than the rest of the world, so they know that there will be flooding at Sealand in two weeks time.
I am typing this at 11:30 on Friday 24th November – the day that we would have been shooting there – but we KNOW that there are no floods at Sealand today.
We are not the only ones to be cancelled, and we have taken the matter up with Landmarc who run the ranges for the MoD, and who will be losing money due to these cancellations.
Exactly what the truth is, I have no idea. We have also asked the NRA if they can help.

Wed 6th December 2023 Our Annual C H R I S T M A S Gathering and Prizegiving
2023-12-06 19:00 - 23:00 | Neston Cricket Club, Neston Cricket Club, Station Road, Neston, CH64 6QJ, United Kingdom
[There are a few spare places left – if you want one, please let us know as soon as you can.]
This will be at the Neston Cricket club – who have been very good to us over the years, and has proved to be a most welcoming venue.
https://thenestonclub.co.uk/parkgate-clubhouse
The price (subsidised from club funds) will be £25 per adult, £20 for juniors.
This is the ocassion when we all get together without having to wear hearing protection! Please let us know if you will be coming, and how many guests you would like to bring as we have to book the room, the tables and food etc.
As a member, you can of course invite your family and friends as well, and we hope that as many as possible will come along.

Saturday July 8th 2023 - BRIMSTAGE - BARBECUE EVENT
2023-07-08 09:30 - 14:00 | Brimstage, Brimstage, Wirral, United Kingdom
There have been a number of requests for this sort of event to be held during the summer months, and (thanks to Alex!) we now have this date at Brimstage.
There are a few things to be confirmed yet such as the menu (including vegetarian options, general format and so on) which we’ll post here are soon as we know. The cost will be £10 per head, including the shoot beforehand of course.
We’ll need to know numbers before 18:00 on Wednesday 5th July so that we can buy the food etc. If you want a vegetarian option, please also let us know, as these will have to be booked.
This is an event at which your family and friends are very welcome, and always very informal.
Air rifles, air pistols, CO2 guns, softairs, paintball guns, crossbows, any form of bow and arrow, – all are welcome.
We’ll have plenty of targets – and you can bring your own as well. We will have a couple of club guns and a set of archery kit for anyone who wants to try it (although to reassure members, we are not becoming an archery club )

SUNDAY 30th April 2023 ALTCAR 500 yard competition.
2023-04-30 10:00 - 13:00 | Altcar Ranges, L38 7JE
Grange R & PC have challenged us again to a 500 yard inter club shoot at Altcar.
For those of you who have not shot this before then you will need a scoped rifle for the best scores. It is a supported competition, and we will provided a full briefing nearer the time. Note that the times are currently PROVISIONAL.
If you would like to be one of the ten Phoenix shooters for this competition, please book your place with us soon.

Monday 14th March - Stan Mayne's Funeral
2022-03-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Landican cemetary, Wirral, CH49 5LW, United Kingdom
Stan’s funeral will be at Landican cemetary at 11:00, then on to the Bassett Hound.

Wednesday 15th December 2021 - the Annual prizegiving
2021-12-15 19:00 - 23:30 | Neston Cricket Club, Neston Cricket Club, Station Road, Neston, CH64 6QJ, United Kingdom
Now that the COVID19 regulations have eased, we can go ahead with our Christmas do, Annual gathering, Awards ceremony – call it what you will.
Again this will be in the Cranston Suite of Neston Cricket CLub – now re-named as The Parkgate Clubhouse – see below:
https://thenestonclub.co.uk/parkgate-clubhouse
We really hope that you, your family and any guests you wish to bring will be able to come along, as this is the one time in the year when we can all get together (without ear-muffs) socialise, and catch up with everyone and everything that has happened during the pandemic.
There will be a small gift for every member attending, as a tiny way of thanking you for all your support over this difficult time.
The tickets will cost £25 for adults and £20 for juniors – we’ve subsidised then as much as possible to keep the ticket prices as low as we can.
This is for members only, but of course you can bring any guests you wish – just let us know if you’ll be coming – OR NOT – as soon as you can so that we can provide the correct seating, tables, meals, gifts etc.

A TOAST TO BILL
2020-04-24 | Cheshire
Tonight at 8:00 pm we will be raising a glass to toast Bill Grint, as otherwise his funeral will go unrecognised by his friends and family due to the current restrictions.
Please send pictures to BillGrintsLife@Gmail.com
Please join us at this time in honouring Bill with a glass of your favourite drink (Bill was a great English Beer man), and if you could send a picture of you, glass in hand we ill collate the photos and any brief comments you may have for Bill. Please send pictures to BillGrintsLife@Gmail.com
We will ensure that his friends and relatives can then see this (yourself included, of course!) as a way to show that Bill’s passing has NOT gone unnoticed.
THANK YOU !
PS: Why this time and date? Because Bill used to meet his friends in the local pub at this time on a Friday, for what he described as “The Friday Night Debating Society” – which combined two of Bill’s favourite pastimes after shooting, namely beer and argument!

Ron's Funeral
2020-01-10 12:00 - 17:00 | Landican cemetary, Wirral, CH49 5LW, United Kingdom
Our friend Ron.
Ron’s funeral will be at Landican cemetery at 12:00 on FRIDAY 10th JANUARY 2020 and afterwards at the Dibbinsdale Hotel. If you are planning to go to the Dibbinsdale, (and the family have said they would be very pleased to see members of Phoenix) please let us know as soon as you can, but in any case BEFORE 5th January 2020 (Not 5th December as accidentally written in an e-mail) so that we can help Brenda with the numbers.

Saturday 19th October 2019- Sealand "B" Range shoot.
2019-10-19 08:30 - 12:30 | Sealand A Range, Rifle Range, Sealand Ranges, Weighbridge Road, Deeside Industrial Park, Deeside, CH5 2LL, United Kingdom
100, 200, 300, 400 yards? We’ll make that call when sufficient members have arrived at Sealand, and we’ll go with the wishes of the majority.
