Roger Phillips Trophy

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The Roger Phillips Trophy shoot was held at the Drayton Parslow shooting ground on Sunday 27th December.  The shoot was a hundred bird shoot over 12 stands, with a handicap shoot.  The day was damp with light rain, but incredibly warm for a December.  No wind to affect the flight of the clays.

The handicap was worked out thus.  Before we started the shoot, 6 stands were picked randomly, the scores for these stands were then added up. The person with the highest score over the six stands (Helena 43) was then used as the scratch score. So everyone below this score would then receive a handicap.

The handicap was won by Wally.

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The final overall scores out of 100 before the handicap was applied are as follows

Helena. 86
Andy. 82
Mark H. 78
Mark. C 77
Mark. P 76
Peter. 74
Wally. 70
Geoff. 68
Steve. 65
Jim. 64
Jennifer 64
Tod. 61
Adrian. 60
David. 35

With the handicap applied to the scores on the second set of six stands the results were as follows:

Wally. 51
Tod. 48
Jim. 47
Jennifer. 45
Peter. 45
Steve. 44
Mark H. 43
Mark P. 43
Helena C. 43
Mark. C. 42
Adrian. 41
Geoff. 41
Andy. 41
Dave. 36.

 

Practice Shoot at Quainton

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Practice shoot at Quainton, the last before Christmas, at last the ground has started to become wet, so much more person handling of the traps.  Rather late start to the shoot, the batteries had been forgotten.  Thanks to Andy for bringing some Christmas cheer.

Andy Evans 39 ( I did count this twice just to make sure it was right)
Peter B 37
Steve B 30
Brian C 30
Tod P 28
Jim G 27
Adrian T 24
Dominic D 23
Geoff E 23
Dawn C 21
Chris B 18

Practice shoot

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This Sundays practice shoot was held at our Doddershall shooting ground.  Dry, warm but windy day.   Andy’s teal (not Adrian’s) when first set up was, shoot or be hit.  Minor adjustment for the wind was made.

Results

Mark 39
Pete B 36
Brian 33
Andy 32
Jennifer 31
Adrian 30
Geoff 26
Steve B 25
Jim 25
Graham 24
Tony H 20
Wally 17

Our next shoot is the Winter League hosted by the Crown, then a practice shoot followed by the Roger Phillips Trophy at Drayton Parslow on the 27th December.

Do not forget the Christmas sale at D&B Guns from the 11th – 13th December.

 

 

Fred Dymock Memorial Shoot

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The Fred Dymock Memorial shoot was a 100 bird shoot held at Common Leys Shooting ground, Worminghall.  We started the day with a bacon roll and then attempted the shoot.  The results will be posted here when I receive them.  The shoot is a handicap shoot and was won by Dawn and Helena.

Club Practice Shoot Doddershall 15th February

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The shoot was at Doddershall in far warmer conditions than the last club practice, and no wind as well.  This made for an enjoyable shoot.  I see Brian and Mark are shooting consistently, Brian with his third 38 score this year and Mark with his second 41 score.

One small issue, if the coffee mugs get larger, or more people come to shoot we will need more hot water. 🙂

Our next shoot is 1st March at Quainton.

50 Bird Sporting

Name Score
Mark 41
Brian 38
Andy 33
Jennifer 28
Adrian 27
Steve B 27
Wally 25
Nick 25
Dominic 24
Geoff 23
Trevor 22
Dawn 21
Tony R 16

SSL 3rd Round clay target shoot hosted by Akeley on 8th February 2015

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The 3rd round shoot was held at Akeley in reasonable conditions, sun shone, and the wind was not at all strong.  It was though wet underfoot and a few shooters had difficulties extracting their cars from the field.  The two Steves having to receive a little shove to get up onto the road.  Kingswood managed a fifth position, we did though have two ladies contributing to our overall result.  Well done Jenny for winning High Lady.

The over all results club qualifiers where:

Paul (42), Mark (39), Brian (36) Steve C (34) Jenny(34) Jim (30) Adrian (29) Helena (28)

Full results

Some pictures from the shoot, Thanks Helena

Club practice shoot Quainton 1st February

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Despite threats of Arctic vortice, snow and general threatening weather, I reckon we got of quite lightly.  Yes it was 3C, and the wind was blowing and it was definitely a touch on the chilly side.  There did seem to be an excessive amount of sheltering behind horse boxes and vans while waiting to shoot.

Seems today was a rabbit practice day, One stand with a rabbit, and a crosser, then we even had a pair of rabbits crossing, one leisurely rabbit crossing from right to left, and then a small spirited rabbit running the other way.

Our next shoot is the SSL at Akely on Sunday 8th.  See you all there.

50 Bird Sporting

Name Score
Mark 41
Brian 38
Jennifer 33
Helena 26
Steve B 26
Adrian 25
Jim 25
Tony R 23
Wally 19
Steve 19

Club Practice Shoot Doddershall 18th January

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Our first practice shoot of the year was well attended.  The forecasts of rain, snow and general bad weather proved wrong.  It was a little bit damp underfoot, cold and overcast, though the sun came out at one stage and blinded Jim when he was shooting a high crosser.

50 Bird Sporting

Name Score
Andy 39
Brian 38
Pete B 38
Mark 37
Geoff 35
Jennifer 33
Simon 33
Adrian 32
Jim 27
Nick 26
Luke B 18
Steve B 17
Wally 17
Jenny H 14

 

The next practice shoot is on Sunday 1st February.  See you thhere

SSL 2nd Round clay target shoot hosted by Kingswood at Quainton on 11th January 2015

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Setting up the Kingswood shoot

Setting up the Kingswood shoot

Kingswood hosted the Sunday Sporting League shoot on Sunday 11th January at our Quainton shooting ground.  The shoot was set up on the Saturday by Jim, Mark and Bob Spademan.  Minor criticism of the previous SSL hosted by Kingswood was that there had been no targets at a distance, they had all been close.  Criticism taken on board, and the shoot was made somewhat more difficult.  There were stands where you had to be quick, many shooters missing all the birds, to prove that they were all hittable I saw Chris Cherry straight that stand.  Yes it was a testing 8 stand shoot with a few comments that the clays were unbreakable.

The weather was kind, during setup on the Saturday it was very windy, luckily the wind had died down a little for the Sunday shoot.  All the traps had to be reset and realigned for the new wind speeds on the Sunday morning.

There was no rain, the ground was still hard despite the previous weeks rain, the sun was shining (not in your eyes).  The catering van had arrived and was operational.  What more could we ask for? Two years ago this shoot had to be suspended when a snow blizzard made the orange clays invisible.  Difficult to hit and impossible to score.

Ready to shoot, 9.34

Ready to shoot, 9.34

The order of results by club were, Crown (272), Akeley (265), Kingswood (253), Nags Head (248), White Lion (242), Marston Marauders (203).  We are now tied 3rd with the Nags Head in the overall results.

Kingswood had success with our Jenny Goss tying with Lisa Luff to High Lady gun with a credible 26 on a demanding shoot.

Kingswood top 8 scores are

Graham Hill (41) Mark Hill (33) Peter Bickmore (31) Steve Cox (31) Geoff Ewers (30) Paul Thomas (30) Jim Goss (29)  Andy Evans (28)

Full results can be read here.

The next SSL shoot is at Akeley on the 8th February.