Mid year meetings 21st June 2017

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Chairman opened the meeting with thanks to everyone for coming.

  • It has been a successful first half of the year with good attendance and new members.
  • The treasurer gave us an update of accounts to date

Total Income £3561.50
Expenditure £2400.55
Profit £1160.95
Bank balance £4236.01
Float £1090.75

  • It was agreed we need more cages at the practice shoots.
    We will collect the ones we have from Graham and affix them onto the sides of the trailer.
  • It was discussed about trap maintenance. It was agreed that all traps were working sufficiently.
    The new remotes were a good investment
  • Adrian brought an image of a proposed Kingswood Gun Clun baseball cap.
    I will email this out to all members for feedback on whether people would be interested in buying one.
  • It was agreed that due to the increasing number of members we would increase the committee by 2.
    Brian (Nominated by Shirley and 2nd by Jennifer)
    Celia (Nominated by Callum and 2nd by Eli)
  • Trap replacement – Agreed we would visit this when it is required, as above all existing traps are in working order.
  • Insurance on the trailer and traps – Shirley has already done some work on this but has not found a suitable solution. I will contact CPSA and Adrian will contact BASC.
  • It was discussed if we should come out of the league – It was decided we will continue until the AGM in November and try and encourage more members to attend.
  • We also discussed starting our own league shoot.
    To start with it was agreed we would invite a local team to join us at one of our practice shoots to see how it would work.
    Brian will contact a club and we will fix a date.
  • It was also suggested that we use the 3rd Sunday as an informal shoot, no cards and the opportunity to practice on the stands you find most difficult rather than do 10 on each stand.

Shooting grounds

  • Doddershall will remain the 1st Sunday of every month
  • We will be able to shoot at Ludgershall after 1st July and then rotate with Quainton for the 3rd Sunday

Events

  • Welsh return – Adrian to contact Gerald and propose dates of the 3rd Sunday in August and 1st Sunday in September
  • It was also discussed that we would hold the Trophy shoot and club BBQ on one of these date.
    A family BBQ to be held at Quainton.
    Callum offered to get the sausages and burgers
    Wally will supply the Barbeque
    It will be bring your own drinks (Alcohol only permitted after the shooting)
    We will ask members to supply a bowl of salad
    We will set up a small shoot and some Air rifle targets for the kids to have a go
    A small charge will be made to cover costs.

Guests

  • It was agreed that whilst it is good to have new interest into the sport, it does question safety.
  • It was agreed if you bring a guest to the shoot you will remain responsible for them during the time they are with us.
  • You will need to email the secretary and let them know that you are bring a guest and advise if they are non-shooters that will need to borrow a gun and have a designated practice stand set up.

 

Overall a positive meeting and looking forward to a successful 2nd half of the year

Closing of meeting 9.40pm

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