Congratulations to Nick for being the Best Improver at this Winter League. Kingswood achieved a well deserved second place in the final handicap. Overall we were fifth.
| Club | Total points | ||||
| Akeley | 62 | 1st | |||
| Crown | 54 | 2nd | |||
| White Lion | 49 | 3rd | |||
| Nags Head | 38 | 4th | |||
| Kingswood | 26 | 5th | |||
| Marston Marauders | 21 | 6th | |||
| Handicap Final | |||||
| Club | Total | ||||
| Akeley | 621 | 1st | |||
| Kingswood | 598 | 2nd | |||
| Nags Head | 585 | 3rd | |||
| White Lion | 585 | 3rd | |||
| Crown | 569 | 5th | |||
| Marston Marauders | 556 | 6th | |||
Shoot on a lovely warm day at Quainton.
It felt that summer has at last arrived. Cloudless sky, lush green grass and a very light wind. We were entertained by a Spitfire performing some aerial acrobatics at the coffee break. A big change from the previous Sunday’s league shoot which was bitterly cold. We had some 31 shooters turn up creating five squads.
The White Lion leg of the league shoot was held on the 29th April on a bitterly cold day. Congratulations to Jennifer for winning the Ladies High Gun.
I thought that I would update you all on the success of the Welsh shoot down at St Brides on Sunday.
I think for the first time ever the club did not need to hire a minibus as everyone drove down independently with many lift sharing to all meet at the Fox and Hounds car park for 10:00am. There were a record 21 shooters in total from Kingswood along with club friends. We then drove to the quarry and were warmly met by Gerald and the club. As usual the format was a 72 bird shoot held over 6 stands and we were split into mixed squads with one of their shooters heading each squad.
Shooting in a quarry has many challenges as there is no blue sky but a rock face. To assist in spotting the clays, orange coloured ones are used, and this helps. The shooting was challenging but nothing was impossible to hit even if the kill rate of each target varied.
The high score for the day was 56 and our high gun was 53.
After this we all went to The Star Inn at Wick for a great lunch where the results were announced, 460 to St Brides and 448 to Kingswood. So we lost by a mere 12 birds. We are looking forward to overturning this when they attend the return leg with us in August.
Great day shooting yesterday and very good turnout.
We welcomed a new member in George and two guests in Geoff and Brock, both of whom have expressed a desire to join the Club.
The results:-
Callum 42
Dan 42
Keith 42
Brian 42
Paul B36
Geoff E 36
Eli 35
Dawn 35
Tod 34
Nick 32
Brock 32
Wally 30
Shirley 27
George 25
Amanda 24
Mark C 23
Richard 23
Celia 21
Bill 18
Geoff W 13
Anthony 12
Many thanks to Dawn and Brian from DB Guns for supplying the coffee and tea. Also Dawn for the bread pudding and Amanda for her cakes – very much appreciated.
Also thanks to all those who helped to set up and to clear away afterwards.
Have a great week everyone and good luck in Wales to all participating.
Results for the Day
1st Crown 331 12
2nd Akeley 329 10
3rd Nags Head 317 8
4th Kingswood 291 6
5th White Lion 274 4
6th Marston Marauders 250 2
League Total Points
1st Crown 12
2nd Akeley 10
3rd Nags Head 8
4th Kingswood 6
5th White Lion 4
6th Marston Marauders 2
Good turnout today with 1 new member and 5 guest shooters.
Scores were as follows
Dan 43
Pete 42
Keith 42
Jennifer 39
Nick 38
Sandra 36
Wally 36
David 35
Todd 34
Callum 32
Amanda 29
Eli 29
Shirley 29
Bill 27
Celia 24
Next sunday is kingswood league shoot.
Please can we have all available members to help.
As its mothers day i know some of you will need to get away early so please make sure you go and shoot early.
An enjoyable shoot today at Quainton
Scores are out of 40
James 34
Paul 32
Jennifer 31
Pete 31
Dan 30
Adrian 29
Nick 28
Geoff 25
Mark cox 23
Mark cooper 22
Tom 22
Sandra 21
Jim 20
John 18
Guest
Sam 15
To finish off we had a 2 man flurry which was enjoyed by all although the scoring was a bit adrift so i have not counted them in.
Next shoot sunday 4th March.
