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.

Taylor Hedgecock & Chris Morris
Matt Collins & Michele Conway

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.

 

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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
Points
Class
Category
Taylor A 118869 Cambridgeshire 100 98 0 A SNR
Morris R 111934 Cambridgeshire 100 97 0 A SNR
Allen R 120278 Cambridgeshire 100 97 0 SNR
Gaskin P 118880 Cambridgeshire 100 97 0 B SNR
Collins MD 111404 Cambridgeshire 100 96 0 A VET
Cook P 5051 Cambridgeshire 100 96 0 A VET
Morris CAJ 103791 Cambridgeshire 100 96 0 AA SNR
Kirby S 95341 Cambridgeshire 100 94 0 B SNR
Adams M 126882 Cambridgeshire 100 93 0 B SNR
Barnard PJ 34389 Cambridgeshire 100 93 0 A SNR
Bowman A 132368 Cambridgeshire 100 92 0 C CLT
Wright PR 48500 Cambridgeshire 100 92 0 A SNR
Moulding G 123498 Cambridgeshire 100 91 0 B SNR
Pilcher KDA 128398 Cambridgeshire 100 90 0 C SNR
Pereira J 128244 Cambridgeshire 100 90 0 C SNR
Valentine GW 91250 Cambridgeshire 100 89 0 B SNR
Jones T 29151 Cambridgeshire 100 88 0 A VET
Whitworth M 134623 Cambridgeshire 100 88 0 C VET
Webb M 132394 Cambridgeshire 100 88 0 SNR
Maguire JJ 52489 Cambridgeshire 100 84 0 C LDV
Randall TR 71003 Cambridgeshire 100 83 0 C VET
Green DC 121761 Cambridgeshire 100 83 0 C VET
Lambert S 88770 Cambridgeshire 100 82 0 C VET
Barnard C 120378 Cambridgeshire 100 82 0 C SNR
Wan JWW 73955 Cambridgeshire 100 80 0 B VET
Cook E 128251 Cambridgeshire 100 80 0 C LDY
Challis F 134838 Cambridgeshire 100 77 0 VET

 

Cambridgeshire Sporting

Cambridge Gun Club 21st May 2017

The day was a super day for shooting, and it was good to see so many top shots on a course that us mere mortals thought very testing.  The course setter Mick said he thought a 96 would do it but it’s always nice when a specialist course setter is wrong as he was in this case, as a 97 won it.

ESP Winners

Wow!! how do they do it, 97 that is fantastic, and this was achieved by A Harvey from Suffolk. As I said, many good shooters took part, but our eyes are, of course, on the Cambridgeshire contingent.  This was led By Phil Gray with a super 95 and this was enough to take the County title for who knows how

Brian Dunbavin

many consecutive times.  Phil was closely followed by Justin Bladen with 93, Harry Seal with 92 and Mark Bowes with 90.

The Vets came out in force and all showed their form, but it was Brian Dunbavin coming out on top once again with a fine 88.

A squad of Ladies were evident, always good to see as Cambridgeshire has a task to get a full ladies team together but I think we may be in luck this year. From the ladies, Holly Duggan shone out not only winning the County Championship but also was top lady overall with a 71 and there was some very good ladies taking part on the day.

The juniors, well, what a top performance from Dan Mawby he shot 88 not only taking the Juniors but also winning A class. Super job Dan.

The Colts also thin on the ground but a very good day for K Carter 74, what a good shoot for a Colt and now County champion.

 

So to round up .

County Champion Phil Gray 95

Senior Champion Justin Bladen 93

Vets Champion Brian Dunbavin 88

Ladies Champion Holly Duggan 71

Juniors Champion Dan Mawby  88

Colt Champion  K Carter 74

Cambridgeshire All Round

April 15th & 16th The Cambridgeshire All Round Championship.
This is the second Championship of the year closely following on from the Olympic Skeet but as expected this one was much more popular with the Cambs faithful.
The All Round as per its title consists of some of the most popular CPSA disciplines:
  • Single Barrel, derived from DTL, but only one shot is permitted
  • ABT two shots are allowed but only scored as one point whatever shot hits the target
  • English Skeet; and
  • English Sporting,

and so the total is out of 100.

As we know the cream will always rise to the top, so even on a windy cold weekend, that was what happened with a score of 88: just 12 away can’t be bad. This is what Taylor Hedgecock shot, to become County All Round Champion. There was a chasing pack lead by last year’s Champion Philip Barnard who shot 87, how close is that?

The ladies went to Elizabeth Cook (last year’s Champion) and the Colts to Archie Bowman (again last year’s Champion). The Vets went to Gordon Webster showing his class, and the Juniors also went to Taylor Hedgecock.

Many thanks to Cambridge Gun Club for a very good enjoyable day.

[Thanks to Allan Wright for the report]

All Round Winners
Some of the All-Round winners, and the County Chair

Cambridgeshire results shown below.  Full results here

Name
CPSA No.
County
Targets
Hits
Points
Class
Category
Hedgecock T 116977 Cambridgeshire 100 88 0 A JNR
Barnard PJ 34389 Cambridgeshire 100 87 0 A SNR
Adams M 126882 Cambridgeshire 100 85 0 C SNR
Bedford M 99093 Cambridgeshire 100 85 0 B SNR
Valentine GW 91250 Cambridgeshire 100 85 0 A SNR
Webster G 56662 Cambridgeshire 100 84 0 A VET
Morris R 111934 Cambridgeshire 100 83 0 A SNR
Mennie D 113616 Cambridgeshire 100 83 0 B SNR
Hewitt-Hulin DJ 67137 Cambridgeshire 100 80 0 AA SNR
Mawby D 125318 Cambridgeshire 100 80 0 A JNR
Jones T 29151 Cambridgeshire 100 80 0 A VET
Kirby S 95341 Cambridgeshire 100 79 0 AA SNR
Morris CAJ 103791 Cambridgeshire 100 79 0 A SNR
Dunbavin BJ 84275 Cambridgeshire 100 79 0 AA VET
Collins MD 111404 Cambridgeshire 100 79 0 A VET
Kester NG 73738 Cambridgeshire 100 77 0 A VET
Wan JWW 73955 Cambridgeshire 100 76 0 C VET
Stronge AJ 89952 Cambridgeshire 100 76 0 A VET
Eley S 125207 Cambridgeshire 100 76 0 C SNR
Nunn C 123558 Cambridgeshire 100 76 0 B SNR
Barnard C 120378 Cambridgeshire 100 75 0 C SNR
Wong WK 74081 Cambridgeshire 100 73 0 B SNR
Cook E 128251 Cambridgeshire 100 73 0 C LDY
Pereira J 128244 Cambridgeshire 100 73 0 C SNR
Jacobs BJ 56060 Cambridgeshire 100 71 0 C VET
Bailey J 133354 Cambridgeshire 100 69 0 B SNR
Pilcher KDA 128398 Cambridgeshire 100 68 0 C SNR
Whitworth M 134623 Cambridgeshire 100 67 0 C VET
Allen R 120278 Cambridgeshire 100 66 0 A SNR
Bowman A 132368 Cambridgeshire 100 66 0 C CLT
Randall TR 71003 Cambridgeshire 100 63 0 B VET
Manchett S 110886 Cambridgeshire 100 62 0 B SNR
Bowman N 32252 Cambridgeshire 100 59 0 SNR
Boatman RD 85857 Cambridgeshire 100 39 0 SNR

 

Cambridgshire Olympic Skeet Championship

Priory Shooting Ground, 2nd April 2017

This year for the first time it was being held at Priory Shooting Ground at Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire.

 Not a shoot for the faint hearted, it takes a special type of dedication as with most Olympic disciplines. We have just that type of person in Cambridgeshire in Freddy Killander. The proof if you need any, is to look at the averages in “Pull” at the start of the year.
10 Cambridgeshire Shooters had booked in – well 11 if you count me, but I didn’t feel up to it so called off. 21 shooters in total, a very good entry for this shoot. It was also the East Midlands and Notts Championships. The Notts shooters found something else to do on the day and so were a no show.
Some Cambs shooters shot early and had gone by the time I arrived on the ground, but I was in time to watch Freddy in action and that was well worth the journey . He also had 4 other Cambs shooters on his squad including the skeet manager for this year, Don Green, without whom I doubt if we would have had such a good turnout as he worked hard to get them to attend. Don also did what he does best by entertaining the shooters taking part.
As expected Freddy shot very well, not just taking the Cambs Championship, but also the East Midlands – and not for the first time I might add. The next squad out included Philip Smith who took the County Vets title, as he did last year. Most of our shooters enjoyed the shoot, the ground was well run and is well worth a visit. Thanks to all at the Priory.
Freddy Killander – County and East Midlands Champion
Cambridgeshire results are shown below.  Full results here
Name
CPSA No.
County
Targets
Hits
Points
Class
Category
Killander F 118987 Cambridgeshire 100 89 0 A SNR
Smith PH 853 Cambridgeshire 100 66 0 D SVT
Baker R 8267 Cambridgeshire 100 55 0 C VET
Pereira J 128244 Cambridgeshire 100 49 0 SNR
Jones T 29151 Cambridgeshire 100 47 0 D VET
Adams M 126882 Cambridgeshire 100 39 0 SNR
Manchett S 110886 Cambridgeshire 100 38 0 SNR
Whitworth M 134623 Cambridgeshire 100 37 0 VET
Green DC 121761 Cambridgeshire 100 31 0 VET
Randall TR 71003 Cambridgeshire 100 30 0 D SVT