Cambridgeshire Olympic Trap 27-2-22

It’s been a wonderful, bright and sunny day for our first championship of the season!

It was the Cambs Olympic Trap championship held at Nuthampstead Shooting Ground today, we shared this event with CPSA Hertfordshire and Essex CPSA.

The layouts were presented in a great fashion and the targets were flying wonderfully, and challenging as you would expect from Olympic trap!

There were 42 entries and it was a good shoot with some good battles going on in the county championships.

For Cambs the winners were,

Cambs Champion Christopher Cheng 80

Veterans’ Champion Graham Carter 75

Ladies’ Champion Sarah Christensen 71

Congratulations to the winners and we look forward to seeing you at the next championship on the 20th March, also at Nuthampstead, which is the Universal Trench Championship.

Thank you to Ed and the team at Nuthampstead for putting on a great event!

Tim Jones honoured at East Midlands AGM

Congratulations to Tim Jones (Cambridgeshire committee member, including Chair, for many years) for being awarded a trophy to recognise his services to shooting in the East Midlands region. Pictured is an almost-smiling Tim receiving his award from the CPSA CEO Ian Parker

Tim Jones (L) receiving his award from Ian Parker (R).

AGM and New Committee

Good evening all.

Following on from this week’s AGM we would like to share your new committee for the 2022 season.

Ashley Smith – Chairperson

Amelia Streeter-Smith – Secretary

Roger Fletcher – Treasurer

Theresa Fletcher – Committee Member
Marcus Lord – Committee Member
Hannah Lee Hall – Committee Member
Chris Hall – Committee Member

We will be getting the shoot dates for this year finalised in the near future and when we have the confirmed, we will announce them via Facebook and our Website.

If you have any questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to speak to any of us or send us a message!

We look forward to working for and with you to make our sport as enjoyable as possible!

Thanks Ash

AGM 26th Jan 2022

We hope you are all rested and well after the Christmas festivities!

We will be hosting our AGM on Wednesday 26th Jan at Haddenham Sports and Social Club – Chewells Lane Haddenham CB6 3SS

We would ask you to be there at 19:00 for 19:30 start.

This is subject to change within the current COVID situation.

We will be doing a trophy presentation to all championship overall winners and supreme champions.

We would also be voting in a new committee and if you feel you would like to be part of how the County is run for shooters please put yourself forward!

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Skeet Doubles Championship

7th Nov 2021: Today was the Cambridgeshire Skeet Doubles Championship at Eriswell Lodge shooting ground.

Another well run shoot and we would like to thank all the staff and the referees for today.

The wind, cold and lack of sun in the afternoon made the targets quite a challenge. The master of skeet, Peter Cook is this year’s Skeet Doubles Champion with 85. Close behind was the Veterans Winner – Roger Fletcher 83 and Senior Mens was Phil Barnard 83.

Winner of the Rabbit Skeet Pool Shoot was Marcus Lord with 23/25 Joint Second was Corbie Barnard and S Page on 21/25.

This was our last Cambridgeshire shoot for 2021 and we will be working to get dates for next years shoots as soon as possible.

May 2022 be a better year for us all.

All the scores

Peter CookEE5051Cambridgeshire85BVeteran, Mens
Roger FletcherEE105141Cambridgeshire83BVeteran, Mens
Christopher MorrisEE103791Cambridgeshire83AASenior, Mens
Philip BarnardEE34389Cambridgeshire83AASenior, Mens
Marcus LordEE138715Cambridgeshire81AASenior, Mens
James YarrowEE133250Cambridgeshire79ASenior, Mens
Chris HallEE133820Cambridgeshire78CSenior, Mens
Albert TaylorEE118869Cambridgeshire77ASenior, Mens
Jolian HarrisonEE140396Cambridgeshire77Senior, Mens
Timothy JonesEE29151Cambridgeshire76AVeteran, Mens
Richard CroftEE103839Cambridgeshire74BVeteran, Mens
Gary ThatcherEE136910Cambridgeshire15CVeteran, Mens

Many thanks

Phil

Success at East Midlands Intercounties ABT

Great Result for Team Cambridgeshire at the Inter-Counties ABT Competition at Nottingham Gun Club.

1st Place for the Open Team with a team score of 373 / 400
Richard the Machine Morris with an amazing 97 ( Personal Best )
Chris Morris – 94
Phil Barnard – 93
Matt Sheldrake – 89
Chris Hall – 84
David Christensen – 82

Veterans – 181/200
Tim Jones – 92
Gary Thatcher – 89
Richard Croft – 79
Brian Jacobs – 61

Ladies 150 / 200
Michele Conway – 75
Sarah Christensen – 75
Hazel Whiten – 75
Jane Bell – 74

Many thanks for all those who came and shoot and supported Cambridgeshire.

Look forward to winning more in 2022!

Success at the National Intercounties Skeet

Well done to all who competed this weekend in the National Inter-Counties English Skeet competition.

A massive achievement for Ross Elgie, Richard King and David Roling for all shooting 100/100, with David Roling winning the shoot off.

A further congratulations to:

Yorkshire for winning the Senior Team
Cambridgeshire for winning the Veteran Team
Cheshire for winning the Ladies Team
Hampshire for winning the Juniors Team

I would on a personal level like to congratulate Tim Jones and Peter Cook who took the Veterans Trophy for the second year in a row…. well shot both of you.

Also many thanks to Albert Taylor, James Yarrow, Gary Thatcher and Bob Eagle for competing for the Seniors Team with myself and all shot very well but were unlucky to not take the title this year. It was very difficult this year to even muster the two teams and many many thanks to those above for making the effort to travel to Bisley and shoot for the County, you guys all deserve a medal as far as I am concerned.

Again, thank you all.

Roger Fletcher
Skeet Team Manager

Cambridgeshire Shooters FTW!

Wow! What a great weekend for Cambridgeshire shooters, with a host of National and regional events taking place, it was a busy one for many.

It was the British Open Sporting and Sportrap held at EJ Churchill’s Swinton Estate, we had some great results. In the Sporting we had…

AAA class 3rd place Phil Gray
AA class 1st place Harry Seal
A class runner up Georgia Moule
Ladies 1st place Georgia Moule

In the BO Sportrap

Ladies 3rd place Georgia Moule

At the East Midlands Intercounties DTL

Cambs senior team won the competition with some great scores including 3x100s from Chris Morris, Richard Morris and Matt Sheldrake. Steve Ely and Chris Hall both put in great scores hitting 99, Philip Barnard hit 97 and Ashley Smith scored 93.

The Ladies team came 2nd pipped at the post by Lincolnshire. Our team consisted of Michele Conway, Jane Bell, Fran Jacobs and Amelia Streeter-Smith.

The Veterans team all shot well and came 3rd our team was Timothy Jones, Gary Thatcher, Richard Croft and Brian Jacobs.

Thank you to Team manager Timothy Jones you have done a great job of getting the teams organised!

Congratulations to all and next weekend we have the East Midlands Intercounties All Round, good luck to the teams.

Georgia Moule, British Open Sporting Ladies’ Champion. Photo: John Martin

Cambs Double Rise 2021

Today (Sunday 22nd August), Cambs were at The Priory for the Double Rise. Most shot theirs this morning before ‘shooting’ across to Northampton. Last squad was at 1pm. Weather was quite dreary. Overcast for the most part, not too windy. The Priory did a fab job of catering for our shoot as well as holding a skeet competition.

The results are as follows:

ChampionRichard CroftA terrific 85
Veterans’Tim Jones68
Men’sPhil Barnard77
Ladies’Hazel Lilly58
Colts’Ethan Lord48

Congratulations to our winners and a big thanks to those who took the time to shoot. Our massive thanks to Natasha at The Priory, for holding the competition.

Many thanks

Phil

Hazel – Ladies’ Champ.

Full results here