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Cambridgeshire STR Championship 2017

Cambridgeshire Sportrap 28^th/29^th October – Cambridge GC

This was tough but fair, the wind made it tough but it was windy for all taking part but, as usual you can’t stop the cream from rising to the top and that it did with two of the country’s top men Mark Bowes and Harry Seal finishing on 87. Only one person bettered that but he was a Suffolk shooter, Richard Bunning (89). Vets won by Michael Fryer (79), Juniors Taylor Hedgecock (84) and Ladies Holly Duggan (73), and Colts Kieran Carter (71). Well shot to you all.

Details of who actually won to follow once provided by the committee!

Cambridgeshire results shown below. Full results including non-county shooters here.

Name	CPSA No.	Hits	Class	Category
Bowes M	109720	87	A	SNR
Seal H	107556	87	AA	SNR
Hedgecock T	116977	84	A	JNR
Allen R	120278	80	A	SNR
Fryer MP	39268	79	A	VET
Stronge AJ	89952	78	A	VET
Jones T	29151	77	A	VET
Grant S	80383	77	AAA	VET
Bedford M	99093	75	A	SNR
Lambert S	88770	75	A	VET
Bladen JL	73741	74	A	SNR
Valentine GW	91250	74	AAA	SNR
Duggan H	132444	73	C	LDY
Nunn C	123558	72	C	SNR
Leonard T	88361	72	A	VET
Harding J	72207	71	AA	SNR
Carter K	134539	71	C	CLT
Simpson PA	23089	71	B	VET
Webster G	56662	70	A	VET
Garrod P	48264	70	A	VET
Tyte AP	118844	69	B	SNR
Morris R	111934	67	B	SNR
Malyon SJ	100021	67	B	SNR
Barnard PJ	34389	66	AA	SNR
Barnard C	120378	66	C	SNR
Bailey J	133354	63		SNR
Morris CAJ	103791	63	B	SNR
Grant JR	90057	62	B	VET
Hedgecock A	132337	60	C	LDC
Moore P	97684	59	C	VET
Wong WK	74081	59	C	SNR
Wan JWW	73955	57	C	VET
Gordon ER	49332	56	B	VET
Randall TR	71003	53	B	VET
Challis F	134838	51		VET
Adams M	126882	51		SNR
Whitworth M	134623	44		VET
Pereira J	128244	43		SNR
Conway M	1000	39	C	LDV
Cook E	128251	29	C	LDY

Cambridgeshire ABT

The Cambridgeshire ABT held on the 1/10/17 this was held at Cambridge Gun Club, This was a hard fought battle and didn’t sort itself out until the later stages of the day. Only 4 targets separated the top 5 shooters at the end of the day but the top man was Chris Morris with a 93 The runner up on 91 Philip Barnard even shot a 20 to help Chris on his way. Only one 25 straight was recorded and that was by a previous Cambridgeshire Shooter Paul Neal just to show he doesn’t just do DTL.

Well shot Chris again.

Name	CPSA No.	Targets	Hits	Class	Category
Morris CAJ	103791	100	93	C	SNR
Barnard PJ	34389	100	91	A	SNR
Morris R	111934	100	89	B	SNR
Cheng C	132838	100	87		SNR
Whiten H	111933	100	85	D	LDY
Collins MD	111404	100	81	C	VET
Jones T	29151	100	81	C	VET
Russell JD	11796	100	79	C	VET
Christensen D	106106	100	77	C	SNR
Randall TR	71003	100	73	D	VET
Manchett S	110886	100	72	D	SNR
Barnard C	120378	100	71	D	SNR
Adams M	126882	100	71		SNR
Whitworth M	134623	100	69		VET
Pereira J	128244	100	65		SNR

Full scores including non-Cambridgeshire shooters are here.

Cambridgeshire Double Rise

The Cambridgeshire Double Rise championship was held at Cambridge Gun Club on 10th September 2017. This was a windy old day that made it fun to watch if not to shoot. This was a close match and could have gone any way, with 3 shooters not that far apart: Phil Barnard, Richard Morris and Matt Sheldrake. At the end of the day Phil Barnard came out top with 84. Hazel Whiten won the Ladies and Tim Jones the Vets:

Name	CPSA No.	Targets	Hits	Class	Category
Barnard PJ	34389	100	84	AA	SNR
Morris R	111934	100	81	AA	SNR
Sheldrake M	129704	100	79	AA	SNR
Jones T	29151	100	76	AA	VET
Wright PR	48500	100	73	A	SNR
Pereira J	128244	100	67		SNR
Jacobs BJ	56060	100	65	B	VET
Morris CAJ	103791	100	65	AA	SNR
Whiten H	111933	100	64	A	LDY
Grant JR	90057	100	62	C	VET
Randall TR	71003	100	54	A	VET
Wan JWW	73955	100	50	B	VET
Whitworth M	134623	100	49		VET

Full scores including non-Cambridgeshire shooters are here.

Cambridgeshire Olympic Trap

The Cambridgeshire Olympic Trap was held at Nuthampstead Shooting Ground on Sunday 10th September.

A total of 39 shooters took part, including 9 from Cambridgeshire – more than the usual turnout!

As usual, James Sole won with an impressive score of 94 – he has now won 10 of the last 11 years. Sarah Christensen took the Ladies’ Trophy. Veterans’ High Gun was Graeme Carter on 86, with Colt Ollie Cheng taking Juniors’ High Gun.

The Cambridgeshire results are:

Name	CPSA No.	Hits	Class	Category
Sole J	82030	94	A	SNR
Carter GR	118210	86	B	VET
Cheng C	132838	84	B	SNR
Christensen D	106106	80	D	SNR
Waller PC	7677	78	B	VET
York AW	117142	77	D	VET
Cheng O	134989	66	D	JNR
Christensen S	106394	64	D	LDY

Full results including non-Cambridgeshire shooters can be seen here.

Thanks to Nuthampstead for putting on a fine shoot, with full use of all four layouts!

Cambridgeshire FITASC

From the county chair:

The County FITASC Championship which was held on the 26/27th August at Grimsthorpe. I went on the Sunday to get some pictures but being held over 2 days the County winners shot on the Saturday so no pictures of them. But the Cambs Championship was taken by Harry Seal with a 86 the Vets went to Steve Grant with 83 and the Ladies went to Holly Duggan with 68. These are very good scores indeed judging by the score board only two people shot better than Harry over 2 days.

Name	CPSA No.	Hits	Points	Class	Category
Seal H	107556	86	0	B	SNR
Stevenson M	85061	84	0	A	SNR
Grant S	80383	83	0	A	VET
Harding J	72207	80	0	B	SNR
Dunbavin BJ	84275	79	0	B	SVT
Mennie D	113616	79	0	C	SNR
Spalding GR	107153	79	0	B	SNR
Simpson PA	23089	78	0	C	SVT
Leonard T	88361	75	0	B	VET
Valentine GW	91250	75	0	C	SNR
Garrod P	48264	73	0	C	SVT
Duggan H	132444	68	0	D	LDY
Floyd T	133928	68	0	D	JNR
Webster G	56662	66	0	C	VET
Grant JR	90057	63	0	D	VET
Curtis T	135357	56	0		VET
Randall TR	71003	47	0	D	SVT

Full scores including non-Cambridgeshire shooters are here.

Cambridgeshire DTL

The 20th Aug was the eagerly awaited Cambs DTL Championship held over 4 layouts at Cambridge Gun Club. Cambridgeshire fielded its top shooters, all looking to be the next DTL Champion. But there is only room for one and it was soon evident that the early score of 299 put in by Richard Morris was going to be enough to crown him Cambridgeshire DTL Champion for 2017. The other places went to Chris Morris (Richard’s Dad) taking the Seniors and A class with a 293. The Ladies went to Hazel Whiten with a 286, so far all the honours are going home in the same car! The Vets went to Gordon Webster 287, Junior title to Taylor Hedgecock 287 and Colts to Archie Bowman 252

Champion Richard Morris 100/299

Senior Champion Chris Morris 99/293

Vets Champion Gordon Webster 97/287

Junior Champion Taylor Hedgecock 98/287

Ladies Champion Hazel Whiten 97/286

Colt Champion Archie Bowman 90/252

Class winners:

AA Matt Sheldrake
A Chris Morris
B Phil Barnard
C Gordon Tate

Name	CPSA No.	Hits	Points	Class	Category
Morris R	111934	100	299	AA	SNR
Morris CAJ	103791	99	293	A	SNR
Sheldrake M	129704	98	292	AA	SNR
Kirby S	95341	98	289	AA	SNR
Barnard PJ	34389	99	289	B	SNR
McLean DW	124811	98	289	AA	SNR
Hedgecock T	116977	98	287	B	JNR
Adams M	126882	98	287	B	SNR
Webster G	56662	97	287	A	VET
Whiten H	111933	97	286	B	LDY
Peacock RW	5074	96	284	A	VET
Eley S	125207	96	283	B	SNR
Collins MD	111404	95	282	B	VET
Tate G	48253	96	281	C	VET
Jacobs BJ	56060	93	277	B	VET
James S	11197	92	263	C	VET
Whitworth M	134623	89	263	C	VET
Jacobs FA	96394	89	261	C	LDV
Russell JD	11796	87	260	B	VET
Wright AW	100	88	260	B	VET
Pilcher KDA	128398	90	259	C	SNR
Pereira J	128244	90	257	C	SNR
Bowman A	132368	90	252	C	CLT
Barnard C	120378	87	243	C	SNR
Hedgecock A	132337	84	242	C	LDC
Manchett S	110886	85	232	C	SNR
Hegarty J	132723	72	204	C	LDY

Full results including non-Cambridgeshire shooters are here.

Cambridgeshire Double Trap

The Cambridgeshire Double Trap competition was held at Nuthampstead Shooting Ground on 13th August 2017. 1st and 2nd place in the overall competition were taken by Steve Scott and Tim Kneale, respectively, who you will recall came 3rd and 4th in the Rio Olympics.

Up against this competition, a mere 3 Cambridgeshire shooters entered: congratulations to all for having a go, and to James Sole for winning the county title.

Name	CPSA No.	County	Targets	Hits	Class	Category
Sole J	82030	Cambridgeshire	150	132		SNR
Cheng C	132838	Cambridgeshire	150	120	C	SNR
Randall TR	71003	Cambridgeshire	150	79	D	SVT

Results for the full shoot, including those Olympians, are here

Cambridgeshire Skeet Doubles

Skeet Doubles – 29th and 30th July -– Cambridge Gun Club

As luck would have it (bad luck) another very windy weekend was had and as all you skeet shooters know skeet is best done without the wind – or at least not so strong as to make the targets hit the ground shortly after passing the centre peg; but this it did on some occasions, making the word skeet redundant in the title as in fact much more like sporting for some of the time.

We had a total of 22 cambs shooters in all and for this type of shoot I would say not too bad at all. Some very good shooting took place over the weekend and for most of Sunday, Michele Conway was leading the way with a very solid 93 which was good in the conditions. The next squad out had Chris Morris and son (and Dog), Malcolm Collins, and Steve Kirby, none of who were strangers to winning Cambs shoots, although with Steve it is mainly trap type events, being the current Cambs DTL Champion. From this squad, Malcolm Collins shot a 93 to match Michele, both also Vets but Chris came in with a 94 so taking over the lead, for a while at least. The last squad of the day went out to shoot consisting of Taylor Hedgecock, sister Ami and Grandfather Gordon Webster, all very capable shooters . Well all of a sudden the targets became easier (not)….. just easier to watch, with Taylor doing what he does best just good solid shooting, he shot a 98. Well I can say that was excellent in the conditions and it was a pleasure to watch – as it was seeing his young sister Ami making it look much easier than it was.

So Taylor claims his second County Championship of 2017 to go with the All Round Earlier in the year.

Results
High Gun And county Champion Taylor Hedgecock 98
Senior Champion Chris Morris 94
Ladies and Shared Vets Champion Michele Conway 93
Malcom Collins also Shared Vets Champion 93
Junior Champion Taylor Hedgecock 98
Colts Champion Archie Bowman 84
(Archie will soon be needing a new skeet vest as it will be soon full of County champion badges)

I was there both days and I would say I saw some very good shooting from some very good shooters and also some bad luck from a very good shooter the current skeet Champion Albert Taylor with his Semi auto playing up and costing him targets. Many thanks to Rod And Leslie Gifford for their marathon scoring session and many thanks to Cambridge Gun Club for once again looking after us .

Thanks to Allan Wright for the report.

Full scores here:

The Supreme Champion leaderboard has been updated here

Cambridgeshire Universal Trench Competition

Competing competitions led to a disappointing turnout for the Cambridgeshire UT on Saturday 8th July 2017. The shoot itself – shared with the Hertfordshire Championship – had 27 entrants, but only two of these were from Cambridgeshire.

David Christensen, the defending champion, got off to a poor start with a 17ex25 and from then on stood little chance of catching last year’s Vets’ champion, John Russo, who finished with an impressive 89 to take both the County and Veterans’ titles. David’s form improved, but only enough to finish on 81, and in Cambridgeshire UT, like combat, there are no prizes for second place.

Cambridgeshire Skeet

Day one of the County Skeet was a hot glorious day. However, there was nothing glorious about the very high winds causing some interesting targets. In spite of their erratic flight Albert Taylor put in an amazing first day score of 98 with Robert Allen and Peter Gaskin hot on his tail with 97’s.

Sunday morning dawned bright and cooler with a brisk wind increasing later into what one shooter said was a ‘mini hurricane’. Some great scores were shot by Peter Cook, Chris Morris, Malcolm Collins and Richard Morris, but nobody managed to pip our Albert’s score.

County Champion Albert Taylor (98) also won the Bev Waller Trophy.
Senior Men’s: Peter Gaskin (97)
Ladies’ Champion: Janet Maguire (84)
Vets’ : Peter Cook (96)
Colts’ : A. Bowman(92)
AA Class: R. Allen (97)
A Class: R. Morris (97)
B Class: P. Gaskin (97)
C Class: A. Bowman (92)

28 County Shooters braved the windy conditions so thank you and well done to all.

Our thanks also to Mick & Karen and their staff at Cambridge Gun Club for hosting yet another of our County Championships.

Cambridgeshire results shown below, full results here.

Name	CPSA No.	County	Targets	Hits	Class	Category
Taylor A	118869	Cambridgeshire	100	98	A	SNR
Morris R	111934	Cambridgeshire	100	97	A	SNR
Allen R	120278	Cambridgeshire	100	97		SNR
Gaskin P	118880	Cambridgeshire	100	97	B	SNR
Collins MD	111404	Cambridgeshire	100	96	A	VET
Cook P	5051	Cambridgeshire	100	96	A	VET
Morris CAJ	103791	Cambridgeshire	100	96	AA	SNR
Kirby S	95341	Cambridgeshire	100	94	B	SNR
Adams M	126882	Cambridgeshire	100	93	B	SNR
Barnard PJ	34389	Cambridgeshire	100	93	A	SNR
Bowman A	132368	Cambridgeshire	100	92	C	CLT
Wright PR	48500	Cambridgeshire	100	92	A	SNR
Moulding G	123498	Cambridgeshire	100	91	B	SNR
Pilcher KDA	128398	Cambridgeshire	100	90	C	SNR
Pereira J	128244	Cambridgeshire	100	90	C	SNR
Valentine GW	91250	Cambridgeshire	100	89	B	SNR
Jones T	29151	Cambridgeshire	100	88	A	VET
Whitworth M	134623	Cambridgeshire	100	88	C	VET
Webb M	132394	Cambridgeshire	100	88		SNR
Maguire JJ	52489	Cambridgeshire	100	84	C	LDV
Randall TR	71003	Cambridgeshire	100	83	C	VET
Green DC	121761	Cambridgeshire	100	83	C	VET
Lambert S	88770	Cambridgeshire	100	82	C	VET
Barnard C	120378	Cambridgeshire	100	82	C	SNR
Wan JWW	73955	Cambridgeshire	100	80	B	VET
Cook E	128251	Cambridgeshire	100	80	C	LDY
Challis F	134838	Cambridgeshire	100	77		VET