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

Practice Shoot at Doddershall 5th May

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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

Saint Brides Major Shoot

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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.

Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major
Welsh Shoot at Saint Brides Major

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Practice Shoot at Ludgershall 22st April

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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 8

Practice Shoot at Doddershall 7th April

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Good 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 14

Practice Shoot at Quainton 17th March

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Thankfully 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 29

Practice Shoot at Doddershall 3rd March

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A 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

Practice Shoot at Quainton 17th February

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A good morning shooting. It was very Spring like weather today. Mark was wearing a tee-shirt!!!

Mark H 45
Pete 41
Todd 39
John F 38
Steve 37
Paul 37
James 36
Keith 35
Wally 35
Jennifer 33
Adrian 31
John 31
George D 30
Tom R 29
Logan 27
Bill 26
Joe 26
Geoff 26
Eli 25
Shirley 25
Sandra 25
Anne 23
Jim 23
Geoff w 23
Harry 21
Julian 20
Larna 19
Anthony 17
Chelsey 16
Michael 15

Practice Shoot at Doddershall 3rd February

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Thank you to Brian and the Team for a great set up (as usual) and thanks to Tony and Anne for the much-needed drinks and biscuits.
We had a wonderful turn out – 30 shooters. We welcome Michael and Simon to the Club and hope that they enjoy themselves. It was a cold frosty day, with a little snow still on the ground. The negligible wind made for a fine day. I did here another local commercial shoot in the area cancelled because of the snow!

 
Pete B                   46
Paul B                   45
Keith D                  42
John                     39
Eli                      38
Wally                    37
Tod                      36
Geoff E                  34
Tom R                    34
Anthea                   34
James C                  33
Bill                     33
Keith S                  33
Brian                    32
Shirley                  32
Steve                    32
Geoff W                  31
John A                   29
Logan                    29
Jim                      27
Anne                     26
Harry                    24
Celia                    23
Richard                  23
Simon                    21
Anthony                  19
Julian                   19
Daniel H                 17
Chelsey                  16
Michael H                11