League Shoots and explanation

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There are 6 clubs in the league including ourselves. Each club takes it in turn to host a shoot which is held the 2nd Sunday of every month. We shoot a summer and winter league.
Each club brings a team of shooters to shoot a 50 bird layout and the highest gun gets a bottle of whisky.  High lady gets a bottle of wine and high colt gets a free entry into the next shoot. 
It costs £10 per entry.  £5 for a colt (under 18)
After you shoot you can join in the presentations down at the local pub.
After shooting 6 leagues we have a final. The scores  from each club are entered into the spread sheet and then your score  goes towards the trophy shoot. 
You need to shoot 1 shoot per season (in summer or winter)  to qualify  to shoot the final. Your top 3 scores are used towards the handicap trophy. 
You can also win high gun for your team as well  as overall. There are also ladies and colts trophy’s.
All the locations are in the diary on our website. On the diary entry click or press the day, details of the event will appear.  Click see more details and you will see the diary entry.  Under Where, click map and google maps will open with the location of the event.
You can also contact any member of the committee and many other members  and  they will give you information and directions to the shoots.
July will be Kingswood league so come along  and  see what goes on. 

Practice Shoot at Doddershall – 4th June

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Another enjoyable shoot. A good turnout and some good scores.

Mark 43
James 42
Jennifer 40
Todd 40
Callum 40
Warna 40
Wally 40
Nick 39
Adrian 38
Tony 36
Jim 35
Eli 35
Graham 34
Geoff 34
Amanda 34
Mark Cox 32
Michael 32
Tom 32
Bill 32
Shirley 32
John 29
Phil 24
Ishara 23
Celia 14

Joe 12/30
Anthony 12/30
Chris 17/30

Next practice shoot Sunday 18th June

League Shoot 14th May

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On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank everyone who attended the Kingswood leg of the League. It was very well attended and great fun – tricky traps again Brian!!!

Special thanks go to those who gave up some of their Saturday to help set up the traps and stands, also those who helped fill the traps before the shoot and those who stayed behind afterwards to help clear everything away. Many hands make light work.

As agreed on Sunday, there will be a practice shoot at Doddershall this Sunday – I know that it is the League final and I hope that many members will attend. 

Practice Shoot at Doddershall and Welsh Shoot – 7th May

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Club Shoot

I hope that everyone had a good day in Wales, we certainly had a great and successful practice at Doddershall.

Many thanks to Brian, Dawn, Todd and Celia for setting up – it was all done when I arrived and I wasn’t late!!!! Also many thanks to Dawn and Brian for supplying the refreshments.

We welcomed Kim, Nick, Phil Goff and Jack Fisher as guests and hope that they enjoyed the morning.

Scores as follows:-

Callum 48
Phil 46
Todd 45
Pete 40
Nick 35
Brian 35
Shirley 34
Dawn 33
John 29
Chris 29
Jack 24
Kim 19
Celia 17

Welsh Shoot

There was a large contingent travelling to Wales with nearly 20 from Kingswood participating. We were met with a cloudy sky.  This soon broke and we had a lovely warm shoot in the quarry.  Tony H mentioned that in the 25 years plus he had been travelling to the Welsh shoot, it had only rained once, and that was a light drizzle. 

The shoot staged by St Brides was quite demanding, with many who score 75% at our normal shoots struggling to score 50%.  The Welsh only managed to do a little better.  From the 10 highest scores from each team, we were only 20 points behind on the first leg.  All to play for in the return match.  

Missing from the shoot this year was the high crossing pair from the top of the quarry.  Something of a relief!!

As was usual we ate lunch at the Fox and Hounds in St Brides Major.

Practice shoot at Doddershall – 2th April 2017

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A very pleasant Sunday morning club shoot was held at Doddershall.  Weather was warm, and no strong winds. New born spring lambs were in the fields. We had five stands set up, and a training stand for a group of novices.  The five practice stands were a mixture of demanding and not so demanding.  We had twenty club members shooting and a couple guests.  There was also the training stand where Mark was teaching a group of beginners.  If you want to learn to shoot clays, please contact the secretary or chairman and we will make sure there is a training stand for you.

For those of you who want to go to Wales on the 7th May I need to know  numbers by Wednesday. 

For those of you who want to go to Wales on the 7th May we need to know  numbers by Wednesday, so please contact Jennifer.
 
Pete B 42
Wally 42
Todd 39
James 37
Mark Cox 36
Adrian 36
Jim 34
Warna 32
Geoff 31
Jennifer  29
Steve B 28
Brian 26
Dawn 26
Celia 26
Bill 26
Shirley 23
John 22
Richard 20
Ishra 16
Phil 16
 
 
 
Guests
Paul 38
Eli  31

League Shoot at Marston – 12th March 2017

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Marston always puts on a good league shoot and we greatly enjoyed the shoot.  The scores were generally high and Kingswood managed a very respectable score with Adrian and Barry breaking 44 clays each to come third equal behind Chris Cherry (Crown) and  Chris Davis (Akeley). Not a bad result.

Pete B 39
Steve B 31
Barry C 44
Mark C 38
Shirley E 20
Wally E 38
Andy E 40
Jennifer G 41
Mark H 43
Ian M 34
Islara P 14
Warner P 27
Adrian T 44

Practice shoot at Doddershall – 5th March 2017

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Despite a rather inauspicious start to the day, rain (I had been constantly looking for the email announcing the cancellation of the shoot), a reasonable number of members attended the shoot.   The ground was saturated from the rain during the last few days. The rain stopped by 10, and the sun came out.  The wind did rise, resulting in some unpredictable flight patterns taken by the targets.  Brian set up a couple of stands with a demanding target.  Thankfully the other target on the stand was easier.  We must thank Ann for the Lemon Drizzle cake and cookies. 

Brian 39
James 39
Wally 37
Jennifer 36
Mark Cox 36
Steve B 35
Dawn 33
Jim 31
Shirley 31
Warna 28
Bill 28
Sandra 22
Amanda 22
Nick 17

Guests
Ely 28