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Welcome to the 2016 website for the Cambridgeshire Clay Pigeon Shooting Association.
December
And it looks like we've got a winner! The Supreme Champion scores have been calculated.The moment you've all been waiting for! Huge congratulations to Chris Morris as overall Supreme Champion, Phil Barnard Seniors' Category, Tim Jones in Vets', Liz Cook in Ladies', A Bowman in Colts' and Taylor Hedgecock in Juniors. And an enourmous thank you to all who took part as well as the grounds and staff for hosting the individual shoots. Awards will formally be made at the AGM. Friday 27th January 2017 Witchford Village Hall, Bedwell Hey Lane, Witchford, Ely, Cambs CB6 2JN. Doors open at 7.00 pm and the meeting shall start at 8.00 pm. It would be great to see you there.
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Cambridgeshire CPSA
November
The final Cambs championship has been shot: ZZ, for the report see hereOctober
East Midlands Intercounties ABT Nottingham Sunday 23rd October
| Squad time 12.20 |
| D Christensen 106106 Senior |
| S Christensen 106394 Lady |
| Squad time 12.40 |
| C Morris 103791 Senior |
| R Morris 111934 Senior |
| P Ward 47976 Senior |
| M Sheldrake 129704 Senior |
| H Whiten 111933 Lady |
| L Cook 128251 Lady. |
| Squad time 2.40 TBC |
| Philip Barnard 34389 Senior. |
Single Barrel results Now In!
Click here for the results. The raw results for Supreme Champion are now available. awaiting confirmation of final calculation before the winners are announced. if youwant to have a sneak preview, or want to calculate them yourself, full set of results here.CAMBRIDGESHIRE CPSA AGM
Friday 27th January 2017
Witchford Village Hall
Bedwell Hey Lane
Witchford
Ely
Cambs CB6 2JN Doors open at 7.00 pm and the meeting shall start at 8.00 pm. It would be great to see you there.
September
Results for Cambs All Round with report are now in see here. Also Double Trap report here.August
Cambs Sportrap results here
Latest Supreme Champion results now including All Round scores here.
Martin Barker
Martin Barker
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Martin Barker. He was a talented coach and passionate supporter of trap shooting, in particular Double Trap. His tireless work in ensuring that Nuthampstead Shooting Ground offered the best training facilities possible for our Olympic and Commonwealth hopefuls, both new and old, has helped numerous team GB and England team shooters; as well as those just starting out in the shooting world.
Our thoughts are with his family; Nicky, Edward and William, at this difficult time. Martin was a great man and he will be sorely missed.
The Thanksgiving Service for Martin will take place at 1.30 pm on Tuesday 6th September 2016 at St George's Church, Anstey Near Buntingford, Hertfordshire SG9 0BY. After the Service, refreshments will be served in a marquee at Nuthampstead Shooting Ground to which everyone is welcome.
Latest results including the Sportrap for Supreme Champion here. Sportrap results here.
July
Cambs ABT was shot at Northampton SG on 24th July report here. Cambs ESP now shot report here and ESK here. The latest scores have been added to Supreme Champ. Want a sneak preview? Look here.June
DTL has now been shot at Cambrdige Gun Club. Congratulations to the winners Derek McLean, Tim Jones, Hazel Whiten Steve Kirby and Archie Bowman. Full report here. This can only mean one thing! The CC Supreme Champion results have been updated here.May
UT at Nuthampstead has been shot report here. Double Rise has been shot, for the report please see here. Results are coming in for the new look Supreme Champion. For the new rules and results so far see here, or jump straight to leaderboard.April
East Midlands FITASC at High Lodge has been cancelled
It is with regret that the East Midlands FITASC to be held at High Lodge this coming weekend May 1st & 2nd has had to be cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience and ask you to please help word get round, by drawing this to the attention of shooters that could be considering attending.
Cambs FITASC
Cambs FITASC has been shot, congratulations toChampion Barry Simpson 82
Seniors' Champion R Allen 82
Vets' Champion Steve Grant 81
Ladies' Champion Holly Duggan 52
Juniors' Champion Taylor Hedgecock 77
Full report here
Olympic Skeet
Olympic Skeet was shot at Tythe Farm on 16th April report here.
FRIDAY 24th JUNE - NOTTINGHAM AND DISTRICT GUN CLUB
Safety Officers are qualified and trained to Advise, Inform and Assist.
They are insured and empowered by the CPSA to help us all make our sport safe. Every registered ground has to have a qualified Safety officer on Duty. Many have more than one.
You don’t always see them and they’re not in your face. They are just looking after our Safety and being low key about it.
This is your chance to join and add your efforts and personal skills to this force of advisors and educators.
£99 INCLUDING LUNCH. Certificates and badges awarded on the day BOOK NOW AT:
www.cpsa.co.uk/courses/safety-officers-course/264
Any questions or problems, mail me at Johnm@CPSA.co.uk Tel: 07971 247281
Cambs Skeet Doubles
The Cambs Skeet Doubles has now been shot on 17th April at Eriswell Lodge. Congratulations to the winners Malcolm Collins, Liz Cook, Peter Cook (no relation) and Chris Morris. Full Report here.Cambs OT
The Cambs OT has now been shot at Nuthampstead. James Sole won with 96, Anita North won Ladies' on 85 and Nick Evans took the vets' on 81. For full report see here.New Format Supreme Champion
Cambs committee has introduced a new format for the Supreme Champion for 2016. The committee believe the new format will encourage more competitors to take part in the championship. The main change is that this competition will be shot over 9 disciplines with your 6 best scores to count. Full details here
February
Complete Calendar for all Cambs Fixtures as of 22nd February!
See full calendar for East Midlands and other fixtures here. This calendar *supersedes* any previous dates/venues. Please check that you have the correct date and venue for all fixtures that you are interested in attending, since some of them have been changed.
| OT Olympic Trap Nuthampstead 3rd April |
| OSK Olympic Skeet Tythe Farm 16th April |
| SKD Skeet Doubles Eriswell 17th April |
| FITASC FITASC Grimsthorpe 16th & 17th April |
| DR Double Rise Mayland 8th May |
| UT Universal Trench Nuthampstead 15th May |
| DTL Down The Line Cambridge 25th & 26th June |
| ESP English Sporting Cambridge 3rd July |
| ESK English Skeet Eriswell 17th July |
| ABT Automatic Ball Trap Northampton 24th July |
| STR Sportrap Eriswell 31st July |
| AR All Round Cambridge 20th & 21st August |
| DT Double Trap Nuthampstead 4th September |
| SB Single Barrel Cambridge 15th & 16th October |
| ZZ ZZ- Helice Rugby 13th November |
Obituary – Tony Manning
Tony Manning was an amazing natural shot, a CPSA member for over 80 years and was still shooting at the age of 95 – with a little help from his friends Rod and Lesley Gifford, who regularly went round the Sporting course at Cambridge Gun Club with him on many occasions including his 95th birthday. His real love was game shooting and when I last saw him, a few days before he died, he was talking about his love of game shooting and the many years he had been enjoying the sport of shooting.
He learnt to shoot with a hammer shotgun, which had been his grandfathers, and shot his first clay target in 1931, it was a Down the Line target from a manually operated Eley Plus trap, his shotgun licence had been bought from the local Post Office for ten shillings and the cartridges were £5 per thousand. In 1932 he bought himself a hammerless, auto-ejector model for £20/10/0 the first of many guns including a Browning A1 bought just after the war for £85. His keen interest in all things shooting was brought home to me by his memory for these details.
During World War II all recreational shooting was suspended and Tony was in the RAF flying missions as a WOPAG – Wireless Operator and Air Gunner. He said that Clay Shooting was used in initial training for potential air gunners to explain deflection shooting. Tony’s decorations include the Burma Star.
He joined the CPSA very soon after its formation and received the first ever ‘long service award’ from CPSA which was announced at the Cambridgeshire AGM in January 2014. He held his original number of 156 until his death on New Year’s Day 2016. He will be sadly missed.
Dates for FITASC and ESP have now been added to the calendar.
January
The new committee were elected at the AGM on 25th January and are as follows:| Name | Contact email TBA |
| Allan Wright - Chairman | |
| Karen Hodson - Secretary | |
| Janet Maguire - Hon Treasurer | janet@cambridgeshirecpsa.co.uk |
| Mark Adams | mark@cambridgeshirecpsa.co.uk |
| Tim Jones | tim@cambridgeshirecpsa.co.uk |
| Malcolm Collins - clothing | |
| Lauren Hodson | lauren@cambridgeshirecpsa.co.uk |
| Colin Fordham | resigned |
| Peter Brown | peter@cambridgeshirecpsa.co.uk |
| Joy Brown | joy@cambridgeshirecpsa.co.uk |
Supreme Champion Phil Barnard (centre)
The 2016 Committee