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.
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 11I 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
Pete B 45
Keith D 43
Paul B 43
Tod 40
John f 39
Keith S 38
Jennifer 35
Wally 35
Bryan 34
Adam 34
Logan 34
Dawn 34
Geoff 32
Jade 32
Shirley 31
George 30
Anne 28
James C 27
Amanda 27
Bill 26
John A 25
Joanne 23
Chelsey 20
Michael h 20
Celia 18
Anthony 16
Graeme 15
Mike 4
Guests
Steve S S 47
John W 32
We were lucky with the weather again this morning. A great turnout. Many thanks to Brian, Dawn and their assistants for such a testing set of stands.
Logan 40
Martin G 39
Nick C 39
Tod 37
John F 36
Adam C 35
Adrian 35
Wally 33
George D 32
Dawn 32
Annie 30
Jim 30
Joanna 30
James C 30
Shirley 29
Bryan 28
Dee 28
Geoff E 27
Joe 24
Mark B 23
Bill 22
Anthony 22
George P 22
Simon P 22
Celia 22
Geoff W 20
John A 20
Daniel H 18
Ross 17
Graeme K C 14
Mike C 9
Following a fantastic sunny shoot in the quarry in Wales today we finally beat the Welsh at their home ground. I can’t remember ever beating them in all the years I have been going down to Wales.
The High gun was Martin Beason from the Nags Head with a 54 and took the bottle of whiskey home.
The final result was 462 to Kingswood and 453 to the Welsh.
Thanks to the Kingswood shooters for making the journey and to the shooters from the Nags head who made the numbers up at the last minute who also had the top 5 high scores.
Hopefully we can get a good turnout at the home leg to finally get the trophy that we have never won.
The practice shoot was held at Ludgershall. Excellent weather, warm and sunny and no wind. As usual, a mixture of demanding targets, and some easier stands to build up confidence. Why oh why did this shooter, on a stand where 10 out of 10 was easily attainable and had been by most of the squad still drop one.
Congratulations to Dawn with the highest score of the day. Who needs a special woman’s trophy with her shooting like that.
Our next shoot is Sunday 28th At St Brides Major in Wales, so good luck to all those who make the journey across the bridge. It is time we won our trophy back. We intend to meet up at the Farmers Arms, CF32 0SE at 10 am and then move onto the shooting ground. If you miss the meetup, the entrance to the quarry where we shoot is located at 51.469455, -3.572402
Dawn 41
Martin 40
Pete b 40
John 40
Paul b 40
Jennifer 39
Wally 38
Mark c 37
Steve b 36
Geoff E 35
Logan 35
Jim 31
Bill 30
Josh 30
Shirley 30
Bryan 28
Geoff W 26
Joanna 22
Simon 22
Anthony 18
Jade 16
Mike c 8Good turn out at the shoot, cloudy and quite cool. This shooters bête noire were the right-to-left crossers, and the going-away teal.
Pete B 47
Nick 44
Keith S 43
Tod 41
Paul B 40
Jennifer 39
Dawn 38
Adrian 37
John F 37
Steve B 34
Geoff E 34
Shirley 33
Mark h 33
Wally 33
Julian 29
Logan 28
Celia 27
Bill 26
Larna 24
Geoff W 22
Jay f 21
Michael 19
Simon p 18
Mike C 16
Anthony 16
Jade 16
John A 15
Daniel 14Thankfully the rain of the previous days stayed away. Instead we had a windy day where some of the clay targets reversed their direction during their flight. We were introduced to a rabbit which bolted down the slope, leaping over the bumps in the grass, with an incoming crow which dropped seemingly out of range to many. Thankfully there were a few stands with some easier targets. My bête noire was stand five with the crosser which reversed its direction in the gale, and the on report bird which flew high overhead.
Good turn out with 32 members and 2 guests shooting.
Tod 45
John F 44
Nick 43
Keith 42
Pete 42
Jennifer 41
Wally 41
Shirley 39
Eli 38
Paul 37
Steve 35
Joanne 35
Geoff E 35
Dawn 35
Mark C 34
Julian 31
Joe 30
Logan 30
John A 29
Jim 27
Chelsey 25
George 25
Bill 24
Bryan 24
Josh 24
Graham 23
Anne 22
Jade 16
Celia 15
Daniel 15
Anthony 15
Mike 5
Guests
John 42
Charlotte 29A cloudy mild day with a little rain and a strong wind courtesy of Freya. Nice mix of demanding and easier stands with an unusual dropping crow with a crossing bird. My failed stand of the day was the sim pair left to right crossers. What was yours?
Many thanks to Brian and his team for setting up such a brilliant shoot. Many thank yous to Ann and Tony for the much-needed tea, coffee and biscuits served out of Brians trailer.
Pete 42
John 41
Mark C 38
Nicholas 38
Steve 37
Adrian 37
Keith 36
Wally 36
Tod 35
Shirley 34
Anthea 33
Eli 32
Geoff E 31
Jim 30
John A 29
Anne 29
Logan 29
Bryan 28
Dawn 27
Bill 25
Joe 25
Chelsey 25
Joanna 24
Geoff W 22
Julian 19
Michael H 17
Josh 14
Anthony 11
Daniel 7