![]() 177 Air Rifles shooting at an all Steel Bell Target at a distance of either 6 or 7yds. This site is dedicated to the education and promotion of this sport.īell Target shooting is an indoor sport using. Promoted by the likes of Lord Ednam and Baden Powell (Scouts Founder), by 1905 there was 1600 teams in Birmingham alone and 4000 nationally. It started in the 1890's after Queen Victoria was advised about the poor standard of shooting during the Boer War. Thanks to Walton Lions ARC of the Birmingham League for its continued sponsorship, keeping the light on as it were. This is the definitive site for information and has taken many years to complete. so much regret that the world lost Tom.Bell Target Air Rifle Shooting is amongst the oldest Pub and Club sports in the country. ![]() So, yeah, every single time, I learn something new about, and it's really fascinating. I couldn't talk to anyone who had been there. I laid there the 90 minutes, but since I was the first one outside that was shot, I didn't know what was happening. On why she likes watching Tower (and has seen it 18 times and counting) That was one of my strong reactions is that I can say what happened to me and try to talk about it, but nobody has any idea about it, but I thought, "Those people are going to get some help." They're going to be able to talk to each other about it. I felt somebody's going to talk to them about it. I feel really guilty, to tell you, to be honest, but I have to: I just felt like, well, of course it was so tragic, but I felt those people, somebody's going to pay attention to it. On her reaction to the Columbine shooting in 1999 I asked somebody, "Why didn't we ever talk about this?" and he said, "Oh I figured if you wanted to talk about it you would bring it up." But I was always kind of embarrassed with my family, with anyone, like they would think I was trying to get attention. I was really messed up from that on my torso. I asked somebody else, an old boyfriend, if we had ever talked about it, and he said, "Well, it just never came up." I always kind of wondered what people thought, because it was obvious - I mean, I had a lot of scars in deep places. On not talking about the shooting with anyone There's a big canyon from my waist to my pubis where they cut out, it was very unusual, but the doctor lobbied so that they could do this operation where they took out the bones that probably would've killed me from infection. My ovary, my uterus was just ripped apart, and the baby was hit in the head, and they had to take out the iliac crest, which connects some of your muscles. went into my side, just along the same line as your navel would be, then it fragmented, as I understand it, so they had to take out five feet of intestine. On being shot by the sniper and her enduring health issues "I was always kind of embarrassed with my family, with anyone, like they would think I was trying to get attention," she says. In the years that followed, she rarely spoke of the incident. They just know they need to find a way to survive and get through what turned into over an hour-and-a-half tragedy.Ĭlaire Wilson James was the first person the sniper shot from the University of Texas tower on Aug. ![]() and he fell beside her.įrom that point forward our story unfolds, which is a story of dozens of people being shot, hundreds of people being in harm's way, and thousands of people watching this horrible situation unfold with no idea of what actually is happening, because the gunman, a sniper at the top of a 27-story tower, he can't be seen, he can't be heard, and nobody knows what he wants or why he's doing it. And then a second shot rang out, and it hit Tom. They needed to walk across campus to put a nickel in the meter, and while they were walking across the big, open plaza under the tower, the south mall, a shot rang out, and it hit Claire, and she fell. They just got out of an anthropology test. They're incoming freshman who are taking summer school classes. In our film we start with a story of Claire Wilson and her boyfriend Tom Eckman. On what happened on the day of the shootingīy all accounts, it was a typical hot, clear Monday morning. Director Keith Maitland says he wanted to create an "immersive experience" with the documentary.
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