Clay Target Shooting in Cambridgeshire
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.
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.
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
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.
Your webmaster is still playing catchup, but at least you’ve now got an updated Committee page, and an updated but sadly depleted Grounds page – we’re down to 3 CPSA grounds in the county now. Two competitions (OT and ABT) have been shot, with UT coming up this weekend at Nuthampstead – sign up in advance via nicky@clayshoot.biz. OT/ABT reports coming shortly, along with an updated fixtures list – once again apologies from your webmaster for slow progress.
10th March 2024, Nuthampstead Shooting Ground
We were greeted with some foul weather for our second Cambridgeshire Shoot of the season – 100 ABT at Nuthampstead Shooting ground on Sunday – and it didn’t ease up all day.
Despite the weather conditions however, 13 Cambridge shooters took on the challenge and after some fine shooting Philip Barnard once again came away with the ABT Championship Trophy. Scoring 91 ex 100, Jane Bell shot well to win the ladies trophy with a 77 and Gary Thatcher took the Veterans’ and Mens’ title with an 89.
We had no juniors or colts shooting the competition his time, perhaps next year some young shooters will take up the challenge?
Our collective thanks go to the team at Nuthamsptead for looking after us all so well and keeping us dry.
Full results here.
Well that’s the first of this year’s championships completed. The day started with heavy fog to start with, raising doubts about whether you can see the targets at all, but within an hour if seemed to lift into a reasonable day for February. All the water around made it somewhat damp under foot.
Not a high turn out for Cambs, but with there being 4 counties contesting their own championships, it made for 9 squads for the day so as not a bad turnout for the ground (with additional shooters for the sporting as well). The scores were a little wayward and most not knowing what the course was, but we all kept plugging along hoping it will get better! It was a close run thing by the end of the day as most of our scores were very close to each other. Our results were:
Cambs Champion: Christopher Cheng 75
Vets’ and Mens’ champion: Tim Jones 72
Unfortunately no ladies juniors or colts were in attendance. Full scores here.
Our thanks to Ed and Nicky and all their staff for looking after the shooting and the food side of the day. We look forward to our next visit in 2 weeks’ time for the ABT on 10th march 2024 get booked in to come and join in.
Date for your Diary – 2024 AGM
The 2024 AGM will take place on Tuesday 9 January 2024 at 7.30pm at Haddenham Sports and Social Club. (Haddenham Sports And Social Club – Google Maps)
The evening will include the presentation of keepsake trophies to the 2023 Championship winners and Supreme champions.
Those attending will be entered into a free raffle, with three prizes each of one entry fee (birds only) for a standard 2024 Cambs Championship shoot (ie excluding FITASC and Helice) of the winners’ choice.
The bar will be open throughout the evening.
The Committee look forward to seeing as many of you as possible