{"id":416,"date":"2018-08-16T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T12:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/?page_id=416"},"modified":"2019-01-22T06:10:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T06:10:17","slug":"anton-aspin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/the-team\/anton-aspin\/","title":{"rendered":"Anton Aspin &#8211; Armourer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Anton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1243 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Anton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"1243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Anton.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Anton-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Anton-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anton started shooting at Terra Nova School in 1958 and full bore shooting with Manchester Rifle Club in 1973. Has been hon. secretary of Manchester Rifle Club for 40 years and a member of the Altcar Range Committee for 25 years representing civilian rifle clubs. Anton is a co-opted member of NW RFCA. Anton shoots for Cheshire and has shot for England in the National, MacKinnon, and Lawrence matches. He has captained England in the National and MacKinnon and Great Britain in the Kolapore, has toured with GB on 5 occasions and was vice captain of the Great Britain team in 2003 and a member of the 2007 and 2015 GB teams to the World Championships. Individually has won the Prince of Wales, Sunday Agg., Georges 2nd stage and the Scottish Grand.<\/p>\n<p>As a manufacturing engineer Anton is mostly required nowadays for his armouring skills and has attended over 30 international matches during the Imperial Meeting as armourer. As a non travelling reserve Anton will be assisting team members with their rifles before they travel. For reasons he cannot understand Anton finds that his caravan at Bisley has become a form of social hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton started shooting at Terra Nova School in 1958 and full bore shooting with Manchester Rifle Club in 1973. Has been hon. secretary of Manchester Rifle Club for 40 years and a member of the Altcar Range Committee for 25 years representing civilian rifle clubs. Anton is a co-opted member of NW RFCA. Anton shoots for Cheshire and has shot for England in the National, MacKinnon, and Lawrence matches. He has captained England in the National and MacKinnon and Great Britain in the Kolapore, has toured with GB on 5 occasions and was vice captain of the Great Britain team&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/the-team\/anton-aspin\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbrt.org.uk\/palma19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}