Sussex Interclub HFT 2014 Round 10

[biggles]

Hi All

What a great final (10^th) 2014 SIHFT course was put together for us by the Hobbits today. The weather was kind, except to me, when the wind blew every which way – entirely unnoticed by anyone else

If truth be said, I accepted early on in the day that it would be entirely out of place for me to overtake Mike Byford on the individual league table on the one occasion he was incapacitated. I even managed to squeeze in a doughnut to make sure he would pick up a trophy. We missed you today, Byfold, and your other (many would say, better) half was seen to be approaching tears when he learnt of your absence.

Great to see 5 brand new faces so late in the season, including no fewer than 3 new Primary Class competitors; that has to bode well for 2015 and the further growth of HFT in Sussex.

Anyway ….. rambling over and here are the scores on the doors, for the last time in 2014.

Name		Club	Class	Score	%	Badge	T(eam)
Colin	Wilson	Visitor	O	58	100.0%	Gold
Jon	Fairman	Oaks	O	57	98.3%	Gold	T
Aaron	Friend	Oaks	O	57	98.3%	Gold	T
Steve	Light	Swallows	O	57	98.3%	Gold	T
Charles	Peal	Oaks	O	57	98.3%	Gold	T
Andy	Simpson	Buxted	O	57	98.3%	Gold	T
Philip	Jacobs	Horsham	O	56	96.6%	Gold	T
Graeme	Cargan	Oaks	O	55	94.8%	Gold	T
Rudy	Goldslade	Oaks	O	55	94.8%	Gold
Bob	Pattenden	Oaks	R	55	94.8%	Gold	T
Tas	Violaris	Horsham	O	55	94.8%	Gold	T
Jason	Wells	Buxted	O	55	94.8%	Gold	T
Glen	Breadmore	Buxted	O	54	93.1%	Gold	T
Lewis	Hodges	Oaks	O	54	93.1%	Gold
Alex	Larkin	Visitor	O	54	93.1%	Gold
Steb	Martinez	Ford	O	54	93.1%	Gold	T
John	McDonald	Buxted	O	54	93.1%	Gold	T
Justin	Rayner	Buxted	O	54	93.1%	Gold	T
Geoff	Ryder	Visitor	O	54	93.1%	Gold
Chris	Tyhurst	Oaks	O	54	93.1%	Gold
Gary	Morrison	Buxted	O	53	91.4%	Silver
Spencer	Bailey	Buxted	O	52	89.7%	Silver
Gary	Chillingworth	Visitor	O	52	89.7%	Silver
Gary	Friend	Oaks	O	52	89.7%	Silver
Vince	Guy	Swallows	O	52	89.7%	Silver	T
Justin	Roberts	Ford	O	52	89.7%	Silver	T
Simon	Williams	Oaks	O	52	89.7%	Silver
Terry	Aiken	Oaks	O	51	87.9%	Silver
Steve	Noakes	Swallows	O	51	87.9%	Silver	T
Barbara	Pearce	Iden Fern	L	51	87.9%	Gold	T
Don	Berrington	Horsham	O	50	86.2%	Bronze	T
Roy	Pearce	Iden Fern	R	50	86.2%	Silver	T
Lawrence	Ray	Oaks	R	50	86.2%	Silver
Nigel	Buchan	Buxted	O	49	84.5%	Bronze
Peter	Epps	Ford	O	49	84.5%	Bronze	T
Kim	Lum	Swallows	O	49	84.5%	Bronze	T
Alex	Noakes	Swallows	P	49	84.5%	Gold	T
Chris	Roberts	Oaks	R	49	84.5%	Silver
Mike	Burgess	Swallows	O	48	82.8%	Bronze
Jean	Greatrex	Visitor	L	48	82.8%	Silver
John	Milner	Buxted	O	48	82.8%	Bronze
Maciek	Pajek	Horsham	O	48	82.8%	Bronze	T
Derek	Watson	Horsham	O	48	82.8%	Bronze	T
Nigel	Hammond	Buxted	O	47	81.0%	Bronze
Dave	Pickett	Buxted	O	47	81.0%	Bronze
Dave	Standing	Swallows	O	47	81.0%	Bronze
Gerry	Jellicoe	Swallows	O	44	75.9%
Simon	Whittick	Horsham	O	42	72.4%
Carla	Chambers	Swallows	O	41	70.7%
Kate	Gold	Oaks	L	41	70.7%	Bronze
George	Day	Buxted	P	39	67.2%	Bronze
Jacob	Milner	Buxted	P	39	67.2%	Bronze
Abigail	Maw	Buxted	P	33	56.9%
Kevin	Maw	Buxted	.22	30	51.7%
Richard	Gallop	Buxted	R	DNF
Sam	Robinson	Buxted	R	DNF
Chris	Silcock	Horsham	O	DNF

Three new Platinum Badges today – awarded for winning their 5^th Gold of the year – went to Steve Light, Phil Jacobs and Alex Noakes. Well done to you all

Score cards drawn out of the hat (bag) resulted in Dave Standing winning the £29 cash followed by (keeping it in the family) Carla Chambers the Air Arms goody bag.

I will be posting the full and final Individual results table very shortly. As mentioned to those of you there for today’s badge ceremony, there ARE moves at the top of the Open Class. Watch this space – soon.

Team scores today and cumulatively are :

Club	Round 10	Total
Oaks	281	2794
Buxted	274	2645
Swallows	262	2568
Horsham	257	2612
Iden Fern	246	2211
Ford	240	2484

Both Iden Fern and Ford were short of team players so both clubs had additions to their scores, care of randomly drawn cards from the deck.

So that it – for now – and you’ll know the already known (see above) news that Mile Oak have just sneaked a win for this year’s Team Trophy. The rest of the clubs are really going to have to raise their game if the Oakies are not to pull off the triple in 2015.

Our end-of-year SIHFT Awards event and fun shoot will be hosted by this year’s Team Winning club – Mile Oak (for anyone who’d forgotten) - in three weeks; that’s on Sunday 2^nd November.

Biggles

[si7777777]

Thank you Buxted. Enjoyably frustrating course as usual
Good season, not reflected by my scores!
Thanks to everyone who has put in to make another good years shooting
Si

[Lennox.lewis96]

Big thanks to everybody involved in the running of sihft this year, I have really enjoyed every round that I have shot, and im looking forward to the final fun shoot and to next year already!

Lewis

[Herp]

Hello all,

Just dropping a quick line to thank the Hobbits for their hospitality and a great course.

A big congratulations to Mile Oak for romping away with the SIHFT title.

But most importantly a massive thanks to all of the Club and SIHFT leaders for their unwavering commitment to the best regional team event in HFT.

Please take a bow Mr Mike Byford, Mr Charles Peal, Mrs Andy Byford , Mr Derek Watson, Mr Steve Light, Mr Phil Jacobs, Mr Richard Chase and last but not least Mr Mike Burgess.

See you all on the 2nd of November!

Steb

I can feel his stare, maybe I should edit my post

Latters!

[tugg]

thanks Buxted for having me today,and thanks to all who help make it happen, was enjoyable but really felt for Simmo dropping a point on his penultimate target,(You should of said Andy I'm sure we could of come to an arrangement (cough cough).
Also I was going to give thanks for the yellow arrows that I followed in all the way from Budletts roundabout only to find out later they were for someones garden show .

[Alegazmoz]

thanks buxted for having me .
Also i was going to give thanks for the yellow arrows that i followed in all the way from budletts roundabout only to find out later they were for someones garden show .:d

pmsl
:d

[scumble]

Thanks to all who helped put on another fantastic season, gets better every year.
Cracking course today, completely threw me on a few of those targets

[biggles]

Also I was going to give thanks for the yellow arrows that I followed in all the way from Budletts roundabout only to find out later they were for someones garden show.

That was probably a ploy (failed) by Simmmo to try to lead you somewhere other than the HFT

Biggles

[tugg]

That was probably a ploy (failed) by Simmo to try to lead you somewhere other than the HFT

And he would of got away with it had I not noticed a car in front of me with .... HFT on the number plate.

[anubis]

Many thanks to Buxted for a great shoot.
Really enjoyed all the Sussex events I attended!
Well done to Tugg on another good win and to Spongey on his overall win.
Thanks to whoever handed my keys in too!

[NSRH]

Some great scores guys, sadly not mine as usual. Congratulations to JR (Jelly) on his 1st gold and well done to to the Buxted newbies on some great first time scores.

[Enthusiast]

Well done all, sorry I couldn't make it, am still trying to sort m-in-law's house out up in Penrith. Be back for the beano though.

Well done Steb, nice shooting!

Ttfn

Dicky

[Spannerb]

A big thank you to everyone involved with the Buxted work party this week
A smashing job done by Justin and the gang.
Also many thanks to all those concerned with their advice and tips that have
helped in my so far short, but hopefully long shooting adventures.
see you all soon.
Cheers Spence

Well done all, sorry I couldn't make it, am still trying to sort m-in-law's house out up in Penrith. Be back for the beano though.

Well done Steb, nice shooting!

Ttfn

Dicky

[blackscale]

Well theres a bit of a mixture at the top of that round!

Tugg has tested positive for an illegal growth hormone so will be subsequently banned from all further 'high scores' lesser scores will be accepted under new rules.... (great shooting!)

Looks like it was a brilliant course / round, can't believe i tore a muscle fighting off 3 burglars, (all armed) and extremely dangerous, armed only with a tea towel which i wet down and gave some vicious slaps with, i think it was the triple back flip trying to stop their escape that tore my shoulder muscle....

Totally peed that i missed the last round as i am sure those that know me can imagine, i hope the job of "up the Oaks" was passed to a similarly fat twot like me...

Biggles too late to stop the triple matey, thats 2011 2012 2013 2014 already...I blame the reduction in foreign imports...

Seriously now, thanks to all my guys who battle tirelessly to keep our club in top form, both from a gardening level, (thanks Paul) and others and from a competitive angle!

When we unite the Sussex Clubs, we are capable of beating ANY Club on the right day, we have left our mark on the Nationals this year and will hopefully kik some butt next year.
If you haven't shot the Nationals, i strongly advise you to give it a bash for a season, jump in with somebody band share fuel expenses, you won't regret it, there will be tears don't get me wrong but if Andy gets you down too much just walk away to where you can't hear his sobs....
There will be so many days that you just don't want to end, meeting lesser shooters from MAD and RIVI learning lots of new swear words and generally shooting with people who think like you and having a great time!

A big applause to all the other SIHFT clubs for some great shooting and especially to all the people that make it happen but go unnoticed, like Charles and Biggles and all the guys signing in and marshalling just to make your day pleasurable...give something back if you can by helping your Club set out when they have a shoot!

All i wanted to do was say hi! Ha!!..

UP THE OAKS!!!!! XX

[tugg]

your such a piss taker .watch I don't punch you in the nuts next week
ps . tore a muscle fighting off 3 burgers more like.