Sussex Interclub HFT - Round 4 Results

[biggles]

Hi All

Given the state of my body and mind – affected by physical overload with an added dose of head cold and a slightly above average temperature – even before the shoot started yesterday, I hope you’ll excuse me for failing (for the first time, I think) to get these results posted on the afternoon of the comp. After a full 12 hours of sleep, I’m now feeling a tad more human.

Very strange weather for the shoot, which course we set out when the wind had been a steady 10-15kt north easterly for well over a week, ended up with almost no breeze at all for the initial couple of hours, increasing to a stiff little westerly as soon as I reached the open field lanes. Doh!! The change in light too – from bright sun on Saturday to low cloud and light rain – certainly had its effect. I’m sure that was why so many of you appeared to overrange many of the woodland targets.

Lots (13!) of new faces to SIHFT for Round 4 were welcomed, many of those either totally new to the sport or who had never shot in competition. Wherever it was possible, these were teamed up with some of the ‘old’ hands. This is great news and one of the series’ main objectives.

I’ll repeat my personal thanks to our two top scorers – Steve and John – for showing respect and both kindly failing to drop one lane. In John’s case, plating the 45 yarder in the field was believable as an error. Steve’s ‘error’ – dropping a shot on the doddle of a free stander (a 20 yard full kill) – was, however, quite clearly solely to keep me a happy man

And finally …… a note of thanks to the Swallows back-of-house team, who managed the food tent/barbeque, including a successful mad dash to recover the situation when the gas tank ran dry. This included Stuart, Eli’s mum and grandmother, and Tracy. My apologies if I’ve missed anyone.

Here are the full results – in the usual format – and with the usual request to PM me if you believe you spot any errors or omissions :

Name Club Class Score Hscore % Badge T(eam place)
Steve Light Horsham O 59 59 100.0% Gold T
John McDonald Buxted O 59 59 100.0% Gold T
Eric Bynum Horsham O 58 58 98.3% Gold T
Richard Chase Ford O 58 58 98.3% Gold T
Mark Coshall Iden Fern O 58 58 98.3% Gold T
Charles Coxsedge Oaks O 58 58 98.3% Gold T
Charles Peal Oaks O 58 58 98.3% Gold T
Chris Silcock Horsham O 58 58 98.3% Gold T
Rob Appleyard Oaks O 57 57 96.6% Gold T
Mike Burgess Swallows O 57 57 96.6% Gold T
Rob Hobson Iden Fern O 57 57 96.6% Gold T
Paul Hopper Ford O 57 57 96.6% Gold T
Bob Pattenden Oaks O 57 57 96.6% Gold T
Chris Roberts Oaks O 57 57 96.6% Gold T
Nigel Tostevin Oaks O 57 57 96.6% Gold
Jason Wells Buxted O 57 57 96.6% Gold T
Tony Archer Iden Fern O 56 56 94.9% Gold T
Nigel Buchan Buxted O 56 56 94.9% Gold T
Darren Cruttenden Iden Fern O 56 56 94.9% Gold T
Ben Davies Buxted O 56 56 94.9% Gold T
Mat Edwards Swallows O 56 56 94.9% Gold T
Pat Fitzgerald Ford R 56 56 94.9% Gold T
Mike Byford Oaks O 55 55 93.2% Gold
John Carliell Iden Fern O 55 55 93.2% Gold T
Colin Davidson Iden Fern O 55 55 93.2% Gold
Beth Hughes Swallows J 55 55 93.2% Gold T
Sam Robinson Buxted O 55 55 93.2% Gold
Peter Searle Horsham O 55 55 93.2% Gold T
Graeme Cargan Oaks O 54 54 91.5% Silver
Tim Clark Oaks O 54 54 91.5% Silver
Paul Dugood Horsham O 54 54 91.5% Silver T
Jon Fairman Oaks O 54 54 91.5% Silver
Alan Moss Swallows O 54 54 91.5% Silver T
James Sellwood Horsham O 54 54 91.5% Silver
Simon Williams Oaks O 54 54 91.5% Silver
Rob Barter Swallows O 53 53 89.8% Silver T
Rudy Goldslade Oaks J 53 53 89.8% Gold
Eddie Phillips Ford O 53 53 89.8% Silver T
Rob Simpson Ford O 53 53 89.8% Silver T
Chris Gent Oaks R 52 52 88.1% Gold
Doug Harper Visitor O 52 52 88.1% Silver
James Parnell Horsham J 52 52 88.1% Gold
Colin Renwick Ford O 52 52 88.1% Silver
Mitchell Skinner Iden Fern O 52 52 88.1% Silver
John Herbert Oaks O 51 51 86.4% Bronze
Josh Long Swallows J 51 51 86.4% Silver
Ryan Stennar Buxted P 51 55 86.4% Gold T
John Turnbull Buxted O 51 51 86.4% Bronze
Adam Stennar Buxted O 50 50 84.7% Bronze
Kim Lum Buxted R 49 49 83.1% Silver
Derek Watson Horsham O 49 49 83.1% Bronze
Keith Crawley Horsham O 48 48 81.4% Bronze
Steve Mecrow Horsham O 48 48 81.4% Bronze
Terry Aiken Oaks O 47 47 79.7% Bronze
Philip Jacobs Horsham R 47 47 79.7% Silver
Steb Martinez Ford O 46 46 78.0%
Simon Thompson Buxted O 46 46 78.0%
Kyle Wood Horsham O 46 46 78.0%
Tim Watson Swallows O 45 45 76.3%
Conrad Wells Buxted R 45 45 76.3% Bronze
Gerry Jelicoe Swallows O 44 44 74.6%
Eli McCullough Swallows R 44 44 74.6% Bronze
Jon Tickner Horsham O 43 43 72.9%
Liam Watson Swallows J 43 43 72.9% Bronze
Jeremy Follis Ford O 42 42 71.2%
Jon Kelly Buxted O 42 42 71.2%
Kathryn Follis Ford O 41 41 69.5%
Dave Skinner Iden Fern R 40 40 67.8%
Codie Thompson Buxted P 39 43 66.1% Bronze
Reece Pumfrey Swallows O 38 38 64.4%
Adrian Barter Swallows P 34 38 57.6%
Linda Morris Swallows R 28 28 47.5%
Daniel Long Swallows P DNF

Team Results (in descending order of points achieved in Round 4). With just 12 points between highest and lowest team totals today, I think that rates this round as the closest ever in SIHFT history.

Club Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total
Oaks 261 265 248 287 1061
Horsham 250 242 267 284 1043
Buxted 250 247 260 283 1040
Iden Fern 250 240 141 282 913
Ford 240 255 256 277 1028
Swallows 219 221 143 275 858

Round 5 comes up in three weeks time – on Sunday 24th June – at Buxted. See y’all there.

Biggles

[Mog]

Pleased you're feeling better Mike, well done with both the results and the course, which imho is what a Sihft course should be, easy enough to give everyone a fair chance but hard enough that nobody cleared it. On a personal note, thanks for making every lane shootable without having to contort the body into impossible positions and also equally shootable by right and left handers, other course setters please take note.

[blackscale]

...Don't start!...

It was a good course though, bit depressed by my performance but i have it sussed now

Hope you have a relaxing week Mike and indeed the rest of you lot!

Beat you...i mean meet you at Buxted......

XX Spongeybeingsillyagain

[blackscale]

Sorry nearly forgot...18 Points did ya say???..

XX

[simmmo]

Pleased you're feeling better Mike, well done with both the results and the course, which imho is what a Sihft course should be, easy enough to give everyone a fair chance but hard enough that nobody cleared it. On a personal note, thanks for making every lane shootable without having to contort the body into impossible positions and also equally shootable by right and left handers, other course setters please take note.

NOTED But its HFT not 10 metre. Just bring some muscle relaxant and pain relief.

Monkey

[Mog]

NOTED But its HFT not 10 metre. Just bring some muscle relaxant and pain relief.

Monkey

Hope that tight Lycra hasn't given you 'Skater's Crotch'

[biggles]

Pleased you're feeling better Mike, well done with both the results and the course, which imho is what a Sihft course should be, easy enough to give everyone a fair chance but hard enough that nobody cleared it. On a personal note, thanks for making every lane shootable without having to contort the body into impossible positions and also equally shootable by right and left handers, other course setters please take note.

Very kind of you to say so, sir, but probably worth noting that this is mostly down to the lie of the land available to us to position our pegs. Compared to others - Buxted in particular - ours is relatively flat.

I'll just have to stick with fooling you in to errors in other ways

Biggles

[Mog]

Very kind of you to say so, sir, but probably worth noting that this is mostly down to the lie of the land available to us to position our pegs. Compared to others - Buxted in particular - ours is relatively flat.

I'll just have to stick with fooling you in to errors in other ways

Biggles

No, they're just sadistic, 'specially that skater bloke.

[Steve L]

Hi All

Given the state of my body and mind – affected by physical overload with an added dose of head cold and a slightly above average temperature – even before the shoot started yesterday, I hope you’ll excuse me for failing (for the first time, I think) to get these results posted on the afternoon of the comp. After a full 12 hours of sleep, I’m now feeling a tad more human.

Very strange weather for the shoot, which course we set out when the wind had been a steady 10-15kt north easterly for well over a week, ended up with almost no breeze at all for the initial couple of hours, increasing to a stiff little westerly as soon as I reached the open field lanes. Doh!! The change in light too – from bright sun on Saturday to low cloud and light rain – certainly had its effect. I’m sure that was why so many of you appeared to overrange many of the woodland targets.

Lots (13!) of new faces to SIHFT for Round 4 were welcomed, many of those either totally new to the sport or who had never shot in competition. Wherever it was possible, these were teamed up with some of the ‘old’ hands. This is great news and one of the series’ main objectives.

I’ll repeat my personal thanks to our two top scorers – Steve and John – for showing respect and both kindly failing to drop one lane. In John’s case, plating the 45 yarder in the field was believable as an error. Steve’s ‘error’ – dropping a shot on the doddle of a free stander (a 20 yard full kill) – was, however, quite clearly solely to keep me a happy man

And finally …… a note of thanks to the Swallows back-of-house team, who managed the food tent/barbeque, including a successful mad dash to recover the situation when the gas tank ran dry. This included Stuart, Eli’s mum and grandmother, and Tracy. My apologies if I’ve missed anyone.



Round 5 comes up in three weeks time – on Sunday 24th June – at Buxted. See y’all there.

Biggles

Yes thanks Mike

[biggles]

Yes thanks Mike

You're very welcome

Changing the subject somewhat, for some bizzare and not fully explainable reason, I decided to spend a few hours inputting to a fresh spreadsheet everyone's full scores - lane by lane; all 2,160 of them

This would enable me to see which of our lanes had proved the most difficult and which the easiest, and give me some clues toward making things more 'interesting' when you return to Swallows FTC later in the year.

In so doing, each score card came under much closer scrutiny than when Richard and I did our end-of-shoot thing with them in the open end of the marquee - where we and the cards suffered from wind and rain.

Couple of things noticed.

1. Two cards had the totals incorrectly totted up; one was a single point above it's true figure, the other no less than 5 points UNDER the actual total. I will (have already done so) correct these on the big results spreadsheet; neither of these changes affect anything else, such as badge awards or team representation, but could make a difference to either individual's end of year place in the overall table.

2. Neither Richard nor I had the energy or mind to do the checks which our missing ice skater has conducted in Rounds 1-3 i.e. looking to see if you had complied with the rule which says you must get any changes signed off by a marshal. During the past couple of hours, thumbing my way through all 72 cards, I identified no fewer than 9 where alterations had been made but where there was no sign of a marshal initial. Two of these are excusable as they were from newcomers, and we'd failed to reminded you in the pre-shoot brief. BUT the other 6 were all old-timers and you don't have the 'I didn't know' excuse in your pocket. I appreciate that it is not, of course, you who write (or mis-write) the numbers on your card, but it IS your responsibility that an error correction is signed; after all, it's you who will suffer at hands of said skater should he catch you in Round 5. Oh ..... and before anyone mentions it, only one of the offenders was further from a marshal than 3 lanes

Bye for now

Biggles

[blackscale]

Just for interest, the 45 yarder that john missed was actually 40yards as i paced it whilst looking for said wallet
Saddens me that a Buxted boy should get that wrong.... (one target that i didn't miss..)

[biggles]

Was actually 43 yards. Just proves that Spongey has longer legs than he thought. Did John miss it on the high side?

Biggs

[johnjames]

Morning Guys,
Got the range right missed it on the right hand side by one pellet width @ 3 clock, gave right to left wind and pellet didn't move straight behind crosshair LOL.
Thanks Mike.

John.

[Baxterbasics]

Nicely done John and Steve

[biggles]

Morning Guys,
Got the range right missed it on the right hand side by one pellet width @ 3 clock, gave right to left wind and pellet didn't move straight behind crosshair LOL.
Thanks Mike.

John.

Thanks John.

Methinks I should encourage sir spongalot to pace out more targets BEFORE each shoot. He may, of course, have given it 40 forgetting (in his favour this time) the tailwind component.

I know while on aim at the longish magpie at lane 28 I was 'playing' with inside left edge, then inside right, constantly feeling (on the rear edge of my HFT designer sticky-out ears) the wind shift. In the end (all of a couple of seconds) I gave it centre and that's exactly where it went; phew