Sussex Interclub HFT 2011 Round 2

[biggles]

'Official' Round 2 notice thread just posted HERE

Please save your banter for here

Just hope we can respond to the quality of Derek and the Horsham gang's quality hosting for Round 1.

As more than 5 times as many of you are reading this thread rather than the other notice, I thought I'd better replicate the info and 'rules' here

Next Sunday - the 1st of May - sees the 2nd Round of this year's Sussex Interclub. For this round the comp moves to Swallows FTC, just south of the East Sussex county town of Lewes and the village of Kingston.

Usual 'rules' - gates open at 08:00; booking in from 09:00 and intended kick-off time 10:00. You must be there in time to book in and attend the safety briefing, which will be around 09:50, if you wish to shoot.

And the other usuals for visitors to Swallows FTC - please behave yourselves and keep noise to a minimum (due to our sharing the venue with some serious carp fishermen) and be prepared for lumpy ground and a generous helping of nettles and thistles.

If you've not visited us before, the site is very close to (only a couple of hundred yards south of) the Lewes Garden Centre (BN7 3NE) and is signposted to the Swanborough Fishing Lakes. Please follow the signs and/or parking marshals directions to our field and do not leave your vehicle in the fishing car parks. You can also find us on the UKAHFT Club Finder list from THIS page.

We will be offering the full catering package during the day. Starting with breakfast fodder (bacon/egg/sausage rolls) prior to the shoot start, and burgers while Richard and I try to make sense of your score cards. Tea/coffee and soft drink may also be purchased all day. Ref the burgers, I am assured that we will NOT run out this year and that Mike's Buns are huge

Hope to see lots of you next week for a fun (and sunny) shoot.



Biggles

[Stormdancer]

Prepare for a monsoon

[blackscale]

looking forward to this one!!
Can't slip down this slippery slope any further....can i???

Spongey
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[Alegazmoz]

looking forward to this one!!
Can't slip down this slippery slope any further....can i???

Spongey
XX

There is a remote chance that you might get pushed ...

arf!

[biggles]

looking forward to this one!!
Can't slip down this slippery slope any further....can i???

Spongey
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Peg 1 could well have a particularly slippery slope. Should I allocate this to Spongey as his first, to get the dissapointment out of the way early on, or leave til later in his round to give him something to look forward to

So many options .....

Biggles

[Steve L]

Excellent, can't wait & lets hope the weather continues
One question....will there be nettles & wasps again this year Mike

[biggles]

Not seen many wasps ... yet, but the nettles seem to be particularly vicious at the moment. And there are plenty of fresh young thistles too.

We'll be doing our best to clear the woodland peg areas, but I would strongly advise mats and/or thick clothing.

Be it on your own heads (and knees, elbows, shins and many, many other places ) if this warning is not heeded.

Biggles

[blackscale]

There is a remote chance that you might get pushed ...

arf!

...I would never expect that...
Anyway, weren't it you fallin down the hill at LV (southern Hunters)

Peg 1 could well have a particularly slippery slope. Should I allocate this to Spongey as his first, to get the dissapointment out of the way early on, or leave til later in his round to give him something to look forward to

So many options .....

Biggles

Oh goody, another fan..

Try it see if i am worried....

Ardspongey xx

[Green Hobbit]

Hobbit Season is summer time,but you need a special licence to hunt them. It costs a SiHFT trophy,and we dont give them out too often,so keep going Mikeeeeey,maybe one day lol

[biggles]

Prepare for a monsoon

With thanks to bunny bopper for his input - when we were still suffering the heat of Easter - it's now looking as though his prediction may be partially true:

From Until Temp Feels Rain Cloud Speed Gust

01:00 03:59 8 °c 5°c 1.6 mm 87 % 16 mph 19 mph

04:00 06:59 8 °c 5°c 2.4 mm 87 % 16 mph 19 mph

07:00 09:59 11 °c 8°c 0.1 mm 89 % 17 mph 20 mph

10:00 12:59 13°c 11 °c 0.6 mm 92 % 17 mph 20 mph

13:00 15:59 14°c 12 °c 0.4 mm 31 % 18 mph 22 mph

16:00 18:59 14 °c 7°c 2.0 mm 66 % 17 mph 20 mph

19:00 21:59 10 °c 6°c 1.3 mm 99 % 17 mph 21 mph

22:00 0:59 9 °c 5°c 1.9 mm 99 % 18 mph 21 mph

..... a bit damp, and more than a tad breezy. The latter is something of a godsend and could well add back a challenge to the field lanes which was otherwise frustratingly and unexpectedly removed by our farmer some time yesterday.

We were out preparing the ground on Tuesday evening, expending much time, energy and petrol clearing nettles and thistles from the car park and zero area. We had to resort to manual (with strimmers and a small lawn mower) labour as had been told that the farmer was unable to spare his tractor. Had he been able, he was given the stricktest instruction to LEAVE the weeds at the north end of the field, which had some wonderful groundcover in which to bury targets.

Went back last night to find that the farmer did find the time, and in fact found time to ignore/forget out request and had mown the entire field , resulting in a very peed off Biggles.

Never mind. As long as he doesn't return today or tomorrow and take a crew with hymac and chainsaws to the woods (which he did the year before last; again without telling us and just two days before a comp !), those 20 lanes will be somewhat more 'interesting'.

Course setting tomorrow, hopefully in the dry. If any Swallows members happen to be reading this, and not already enrolled in the set-up team, please do join us - starting around 09:00.

For the rest of you SIHFT club members, see you on Sunday . Please remember that booking-in commences at 9:00, kick-off around 10:00, and you MUST be there for the safety briefing (09:50ish) if you wish to shoot.

Biggles

[blackscale]

Feels like we are going back in time!..
Break out the winter woolies and waterproofs then, time to give them wuzooks (Buxted boys) a bloomin hiding!...

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[lightning]

i noticed the scores for me and andy were put up in red was there a particular reason for that ?

[blackscale]

Yes mr Lightning sir!
You were the highest Buxted shooters on the day.
A score you may not be improving on come Sunday at Swallows

Look forward to 'The Oaks' giving you a hiding.....

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