2021 AGM Date Announced

The covid-delayed 2021 AGM will be held on Wednesday 14th July 2021. If the venue (TBA) is available then it will be a physical meeting. If a physical meeting is not possible, then a Zoom meeting will be held.

ZZ Dates Announced

30th May is the day for ZZ shooters! Rugby and District Trap Club will be running an event combining the Cambridgeshire Championship, the East Midlands Championship, and the East Midlands Intercounties.

Fixtures for 2021

With lockdown measures easing, the committee and grounds are racing to finalise dates for the county championships. With the reduced amount of time, some clashes are probably inevitable, but everyone is doing their best to minimise this. The fixtures so far are shown here – please keep checking back for updates.

In Memoriam – Rod Gifford

Rod had always been around the county scene since the early 80’s, excelling in ESK and DTL.

He was so proud to qualify in 1989 to shoot for England and represent his country. In those days, we had some of the best shooters in the country in our teams and some very stiff competition.  

Rod also competed in all disciplines {15} to an extremely high standard. It was when he became a veteran, his medal tally really took off, winning our Supreme Championship 6 times from 2000 to 2007. 

Winning consecutively 4 years in a row was a huge accomplishment given the high all-round standards of the day.  

Rod served on the Cambridgeshire CPSA committee for a number of years, with his best friend and wife Lesley at his side who also played a major role in generating funds by running the raffles.

Over the last few years, although his health restricted the amount he could do, Rod always made an effort to help out and as a county shooter we have lost a great supporter to our sport. 

But to his family the loss is so much greater.

Rod will be remembered by so many as a friend, a man who gave so much help, encouragement, a top shot, and a true gentleman. Our sincere condolences to his family

2020 Supreme Champion Result

With the last championship of the year having been shot just before lockdown kicks in, we now have the results of the Cambridgeshire Supreme Championship. This competition takes shooters’ best 6 scores from the 9 domestic discplines to determine the winner.

Phil Barnard, Supreme Champion 2020
Phil Barnard, Supreme Champion

Phil Barnard has once again won the overall title scoring 540 points, 26 points clear of the Veteran champion Gary Thatcher. The Barnard haul of titles continued with Corbie Barnard taking the Senior title. Ethan Lord took the Colt title. Sadly no ladies or juniors shot a qualifying 6 competitions.

The Veterans competition was particularly close, being determined in the final, all-round, competition. Gary Thatcher’s 514 was closely followed by Richard Croft on 513 and Tim Jones on 512.

The full results table can be seen here.

Cambs All Round Championship 2020

Well that’s the last of the Cambridgeshire county shoots done for this year. We had a reasonable turn out even after the new lockdown rules that were just announced, and we were lucky to get all the shoots done this year. Thanks to Eriswell Lodge for putting this on for us. The day was a bit overcast and the wind played its part in the scores, and we even had a small amount of rain too.

ChampionPeter Simpson85
SeniorR Morris84
VeteranR Croft79
LadiesA Smith55
ColtE Lord70
Peter Simpson, All Round Champion 2020

And our thanks to all the shooters that have supported the county by attending the shoots all year thank you all.