Practice Shoot at Quainton 15th September 2019

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A very successful shoot at our Quainton shooting ground. So many people out we had to have six squads. Unseasonably warm weather and dry ground. 

Tod 47
Paul b 43
Logan 41
Jennifer 40
Geoff e 40
Keith 39
Mark h 39
George 38
Steve b 37
Wally 37
John f 37
Adam 36
Dawn 35
John W 35
James c 34
John e 34
Eli 34
Bill 33
Shirley 31
Charlotte 31
Julian 30
Anne 29
Geoff w 29
Adrian 29
Graham 27
Jade 27
Joanna 27
John A 24
Lana 26
Mike h 22
Callum h 22
Chelsey 17
Celia 15
Lewis h 11
Mike c 5


Guests
Simon 32
Ray 35
Lee 45

Return Welsh Shoot

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This Sunday was the return leg of the Welsh Shoot. The day started off wet, with almost torrential rain, but as soon as St Brides Major turned up, the tap was turned off and the morning shoot was sunny and hot. Kingswood started the day in the lead, so it was ours to throw away. We didn’t and increased our lead. Let’s not be complacent, this was I believe the first time we have won the match.

The top 9 team members for each team were used for the overall result: Kingswood 554, St Bride Major 502. This gave an overall result of, Kingswood 1016, St Brides Major 955.

Afterwards, we met in the Crown and Tyford for some beers and a Sunday lunch, and then there was a game of Aunt Sally.

Kingswood High Gun, Martin B.
Saint Brides Major High Gun, Johnny G

Kingswood scores
Martin B   65
Del W      64
Tony S     63
Mark h     62
Ian R      62
John G     60
John w     60
John F     59
Dave R     59
James H    59
Paul B     58
John E     58
Tod        56
Dave O     56
Charlotte  55
Mark C     55
Jennifer   53
Graham     52
Steve B    51
Richard C  50
Jess C     49
Geoff E    48
Joe        47
Eli        42
Adrian     43
Bill       42
Lana       34
Celia      33
Geoff W    25
Mike H     18

A final thanks to Brian DB Guns and his team for setting up a good shoot.

Practice Shoot at Doddershall 4th August

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Mark h    42
Adrian    42
Keith     41
Tod       37
Charlotte 36
John e    35
Geoff e   35
Graham h  33
Shirley   33
Joe       32
Wally     32
Bryan     31
John A    31
Graham    30 
Logan     30
Joanna    30
Jennifer  29
George    28
Simon     28
Geoff w   24
Bill      23
Anne      23
Celia     21
Daniel    21
Tye       19
Callum    19
Lana      19
Mike h    18
Anthony   18
Richard   14 
Chelsea   14

Next shoot 18th August. Welsh return

Practice Shoot at Doddershall 7th July

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Nice sunny morning shoot, little wind with a couple of tricky stands including the pair of rabbits.

Keith       41
John E      41
Wally       40
Bill        39
Todd        38
Paul        38
Logan       37
Jennifer    36
Charlotte   36
Mark C      36
Steve B     35
Adam        33
John W      33
Bryan       33
Simon       32
Shirley     32
Joanna      29
Joe         27
Josh        27
Dawn        26
Anne        26
Geoff       24
Julian      20

Practice Shoot at Quainton 16th June 2019

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A good turn out today. 

Mark H   41
Tod      40
Mark c   40
Paul b   39
Graham   38
John f   37
Jennifer 36
Adrian   36
Geoff e  36
Logan    36
Dawn     35
James c  34
Bill     34
John w   33
Shirley  33
John a   32
Joanna   32
Jim      32
Adam C   31
Phil B   30
George   28
Bryan    25
Jade     25
Josh c   22
Lara     22
Celia    11


Guests 
Charlotte 39
John E    38
Gary W    33
Simon     30
Steph     23
John F    18

Next practice shoot is 7th July

Saturday 29th June, Charity Clay Shoot

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Philippa Stroud Charity Shoot in support of Brain Tumour.

Saturday 29th June

10am – 3pm

Oxford Gun Company


The story of an young girl extraordinary who overcame a brain tumour. Phillipa Stroud’s condition was discovered after a trip to the opticians and now ,after successful surgery, the shooting enthusiast will raise money for a cancer charity with an event at the Oxford gun company next month. There’s more in this report.

Practice Shoot at Doddershall 2nd June

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A lovely morning’s shooting with some tricky stands. Thank you Brian, Dawn, William and the Team for setting up the Shoot.

There were some issues and complexities in setting up the shoot. One field was out of action because of the long grass. On the second field, we also had the power people handing off the pylons and also driving up and down the road. The shoot had to be stopped on a couple of occasions to allow vehicles to drive up the road.

The work on the power cables is to allow two new towers to be built where the cables cross over the proposed HS2 line. These towers will be taller than the existing towers, raising the height of the power lines over the to be built line.. The work where we are is necessary because the tables need to be taken down and placed on some temporary towers while the new towers are built.

Mark Hill         44
Adam Carter       36
Tod               36
John Ford         36
Wally             35
Logan             35
George            35
Nick              34
Pete Bickmore     33
Shirley           32
Bryan             29
John Whittey      29
Anthea            29
Bill              29
Geoff E           28
Jade              28
Paul B            27
John A            26
Joanna            25
Lana              24
Dawn              24
Steve B           24
Julian            21
Anthony           16
Graeme            14
Celia             11
Mike C            11

New practice rate shoots

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I am writing to inform you that it is necessary for the club to increase the shoot costs as of 1st June as follows for all future practice shoots:

Members:                £10:00
Juniors (under 16):     £5:00
Non members:            £15:00

This has been brought about by a number of factors based on the continual rise in the cost of clays and the fact that we no longer partake in the League shots. Being in the league gave the club 2 benefits in that it raised a sum of money especially when the weather was fine which led to greater numbers attending so boosting monies raised on the day. We have also lost out in that we no longer have the benefit of the pick-ups from these shoots during the year, which has then been reused during practice shoots so keeping the number of clays that have had to be bought down throughout the year.

As you will be well aware the practice shoots have been fixed at £5:00 for many years and while we have been able to offset this in relation to the points above this is no longer viable.

It should be remembered that even with this revised cost the practice shoots still offer exceptional value even at £10:00 for a 50 bird shoot.

Adrian Thwaites
Chairman
Kingswood Gun Club