The Reserves
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Hannah Fisher
The youngest member of the squad, Hannah is a student at the University of Cambridge studying
Veterinary Medicine. She learned to shoot with CURA after working on a deer farm in her first
year at vet school. Her experiences on the farm inspired her to want to work as a specialist deer
vet after she qualifies, so she justifies all her shooting by calling it work experience! She gets teased
by her fellow students for saying in her first week with CURA “I only want to learn to dart deer,
I’m not interested in shooting competitively!” Thankfully she has seen the light and is proud both
to have shot the Elcho for Scotland, and a day later captained a successful CURA Humphry team.
When not on the range, she spends most of her time avoiding studying, organising CURA’s socials
or waiting for the day when she can have a dog of her own, instead of stealing other people’s pets!
Chris Law
Chris is retired and one of the older members of the squad, making his first small-bore appearance
at Bisley over 50 years ago. Much later, he converted to full-bore and led a club team tour to the
USA in 1987, including Camp Perry and its maximum range of 1,000 yards. This coincided with
increasing interest in the longer MR ranges at Bisley, and his first appearance as a reserve for
the Elcho English team. His lifetime career as a ‘test tube’ chemist provided the stimulation to
handload for MR, after attending an NRA Training Course run by Roland Greenwood and John
Bloomfield in the 80’s. This further enhanced his enjoyment of MR, giving a more direct link with
efforts and success (or not!) on the range. When not on the range, Chris is an amateur astronomer
who set up a southern skies observatory at a game reserve in Namibia around 2004.
John Lindsay III
John Lindsay, son of John Lindsay, son of John Lindsay, began his shooting career in earnest after
going up to Cambridge University where he discovered the joys of match rifle shooting. During
his time at Cambridge, John earned a Full Blue and represented the University three times in the
Humphry Match Rifle varsity match against Oxford. John was also fortunate enough to make
reserve for England in the Elcho in 2009, the same year that he achieved his highest ever placing
of 21st in the Hopton Aggregate. Many said that this would be the peak of his shooting career.
However, he proved the doubters wrong when he burst back onto the scene as reserve for this tour.
Indeed, John views being a reservist as a vocation, having supported (but never been required for)
several high profile Great Britain Target Rifle tours.
John Pugsley
John started shooting in 1957 with an air rifle, progressing through shotgun to smallbore and
finally to fullbore in 1973, which he has pursued ever since. Well known for his no ‘faff ’, no
nonsense approach and preference for quick shooting partners, he is a shooting all-rounder who
has experi