Torbay Fullbore Shooting Club
This thriving club meets near Newton Abbot in Devon
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Our Range and its History
The Denbury Range was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1942/3 and was used by a white Southern States regiment who were a combat medical element of the U.S. forces for D day.
Their nickname was the Dizzy Dicers. Their sister regiment was black and based in Stover; they used to allow them into Newton Abbot on Fridays and the whites on Saturdays to prevent fighting.
As they were destined for combat, the camp (now the prison) had a magazine rifle range built on next to the sewerage farm- also American built (its water dispersal conduits are very interesting).
The original firing point was where the childrens playpark is at the top end of the present football fields, shooting down to our magnificent backstop. Look at the top of the wall and you can see
where some Americans missed! They were equipped with the M1 Carbine and .45 ACP Colt Semi-Auto Pistol.
Over the last 10 years the Club has been constructing thick wooden barriers and steadily planting & enhancing the tree coverage at the Range in order to reduce noise interference for the neighbours.