Month: April 2024

2024 Young Shooters Day

27th April 2024

The Young Shooters Day took place today at The Priory CTC. Not the warmest of days but an enjoyable one. The purpose of the day was to give young shooters the opportunity to try different disciplines to the ones they generally shoot. They started off with a round of skeet and then moved on to DTL and then tried their hand at ABT, with surprisingly good results for shooting this challenging discipline for the first time. The day finished with another round of skeet. All those taking part shot very well and the scores picked up through the day showing that they had taken on board the tips of those helping to run the day.

Thanks go to Marcus Lord and Ian Larman who very kindly provided all the cartridges for the participants. Thank you to all the coaches and helpers on the day and to members of the Cambs Committee for organising the event and to the CPSA who provided some merchandise which I added to with some towels and gun barrel sleeves. Our thanks also Natasha, Aaron and John at The Priory for hosting and supporting the event.

I hope that the young shooters who took part enjoyed the day and gained an insight and confidence in disciplines new to them and hope to see them at future shoots.

Tim

Cambridgeshire Skeet Doubles 2024

Priory Clay Target Centre, 27/28th April 2024

27th and 28th April saw Cambs back at Priory CTC for the SKD County Championship.  

There were some good scores despite challenging conditions particularly on the Sunday. 

Congratulations to Ethan Lord who won the Championship with an excellent 99.  Adam Hallybone won the Men’s and Albert Taylor the Vets’.

Full results on the CPSA website here.

A massive thank you to all at Priory for hosting the shoot and to the referees.

Ethan Lord

Cambridgeshire DTL 2024

21st April

Today Cambs were at the The Priory Clay Target Centre for a joint DTL county shoot alongside Norfolk. Familiar faces, and even the sun, occasionally, were seen out and about.

It was windy, which made targets very challenging, but some great scores were still entered by the end of the day, well done all.

For those who shot today, teams for the Intercounties DTL will be announced later in the year.

Congratulations to:

Phil Barnard Overall Champion and AA class
Gary Thatcher takes Vet’s,
Hazel Morris takes Ladies’, and B class
Richard Morris takes Men’s.
Chris Morris A class
Ian Larman C class

Full results on the CPSA website here

Massive thank you to The Priory for hosting again, as well as our thanks to the referees.

Gary Thatcher
Phil Barnard

Cambridgeshire ZZ/Helice 2024

Rugby and District Trap Club, 13th April 2024

On Sunday the 13th April we held the county Helice at Rugby – sharing the fixture with both the East Midlands championship and Lincolnshire’s, so a reasonable entry was always on the cards. The day was a nice sunny day with a few clouds about at times making some of the targets hard to see, but the dividing factor was the wind blowing from behind to make the targets very fast going away from you. An enjoyable day, if not a bit tricky for most.

Kevin Flitton took the Cambridgeshire and East Midlands titles with 18ex24

Jane Bell took the Ladies’ and Veterans’ titles in Cambridgeshire and the EM Ladies’ title with 13

Andrew Oakey was just one target behind to take Cambridgeshire Men’s and EM Vets’ titles on 12

Our thanks go to the staff from Rugby and D Jenkins for the running of the event and providing the trappers. Full results on the CPSA website here

Cambridgeshire FITASC Championship 2024

Sporting Targets, 5-7th April 2024

We held the FITASC sporting on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of April at Sporting Targets. For us as its a long time since we last held the championship there, but it’s an excellent ground for sporting disciplines.

Some very high winds which made some difficult targets a bit harder than was expected but at the end of the day some very good scores came out of the 3 days.

Thanks to the staff and scorers for all their work in making this event work so well and to the kitchen staff for keeping us all fed. Good shooting is far better if you all seem to enjoy it come what may.

Cambridgeshire Champion Mark Stevenson  89
Men’s & Vets’ champion Tony Leonard. 88
Juniors’ champion Harry Dickens 87

No ladies this year

Thanks to all that came and shot teams will be sorted and put up on Facebook (and possibly even here) later for the regional inter-counties and nationals.

Full results on the CPSA website here.