Meon Valley bowman Classic 12th June 2016

[stueyT]

This year's Bowman Classic turned out to be one of the best! despite the weather starting of miserable, 83 shooters turned up to enjoy another brilliant day of fun, and judging from the amount of smiling faces and positive feed back, it was enjoyed by all.

The tactical 20 shot gamble defiantly had shooters thinking on their feet or Knees and the HFT course set to CSFTA HFT rules wasn't as easy as some thought, as a number of experienced UKAHFT shooters found out by having to stretch slightly to find a path to the kill + the number of range traps catching out
a large number too!

But the biggest laughter was to be heard coming from the pistol course
with many shooters never having shot a pistol let alone as HFT.

As always a massive big thank you to all that made the effort to turn up to Hen Woods, from North, South, East & West the lads & lasses from Swindon, Sussex & Maldon, and the number of Juniors too ......THANKS

Well done to all the class winners.....epically some of our own:

Open
after a very tense shoot off with 5 shooters scoring 57
Stu Tennent 1st
Justin Rayner 2nd
and a absolutely brilliant 3rd for Andy Clarke, (who is still a relatively new shooter) & beating Vince Blackman TOO!!

In the Gamble (on count back)
1st John Cooper 24
2nd Charles Peal 24
3rd Glen Breadmore 24

Pistol (on count back for 1st & 2nd)
1st Nigel Brown 37
2nd Peter Vidler 37
3rd Charles Peal 36

Recoiling
1st Chris Tyhurst 54
2nd Colin Baggs 53
3rd Russell Inns 50

Junior
1st Harry Winkworth 50
2nd George Danvers 49
3rd Nathan Brown 43

Overall champion
1st Charls Peal 115
2nd Vince Blackman 113
3rd Pete Vidler 107 (another great result for another up and coming meon shooter)

Not forgetting our more elder statesmen
1st place in Senior class went to our POP! (or granddad if you prefer ).....Mick Philips.

And as you can see from the above results, another massive congrats to... Charles Peal.. for taking the Overall Title and more of our trophy's + a box of Bowmans Ale (lets not invite him again...LOL!) as did all of our class winners.....obviously not the Junior's!

I Can't Finish off without thanking the Stirling efforts of the members who gave up their free time to help get Hen woods ready for the Bowman classic over the last couple of weekends, especially Ali, and Stu in setting up the three courses.

To the rest of the MEON massive who pitched in and helped out throughout the day (and it was a long day) Thank you!

Last but not least.. Steve Haworth for his tireless work in making sure everything ran smoothly and getting the results out in time.

Charles Peal Open 115
Vince Blackman Open 113
Peter Vidler Open 107
John Cooper Open 105
Kevin Catt Open 104
Liam Todd Open 103
Stuart Peal Open 103
Ali James Open 102
Colin Wilson Open 102
Steve Cummings Open 101
Colin Medway Open 100
Steve McCrindle Open 100
Luke Davies Open 99
Mike Phillips Open 99
Jack Brown Open 98
Niel Parrot Open 98
Nigel Brown Open 98
Simon Critchley Open 98
Vince Guy Open 96
Colin Baggs Recoil 95
Dominic Wise Open 94
Andy Clarke Open 93
Jamie Macallun Open 93
Nick Byrne Open 93
Steve Miller Open 93
Mike Burgess Open 91
Dominic Taylor Open 89
Lewis Cooper Open 87
Terry Trott Open 87
Chris Tyhurst Recoil 86
Karl Pott Open 86
Russell Inns Recoil 85
Daryl Bell Recoil 84
Paul Blaxall Open 84
Dougie Mcerlain Open 82
George Danvers Junior 82
Justin Parrot Open 79
Paul Taylor Open 79
Alan Rowe Open 78
Chris Roberts Open 76
Max Lamberty Open 75
Glen Breadmore Open 75
Jason Danvers Recoil 72
Kevin Seager Recoil 72
Mike Cripps Open 72
Gary Morrison Open 70
Kim Hoymand Open 70
Mike Seagrave Open 70
Terry Wrigley Open 70
Mike Byford Open 69
Damien Walker Recoil 68
Dave Martin Open 68
Cameron Macallun Open 67
Jean Greatrex Open 67
Justin Rayner Open 67
Steve Pike Recoil 65
Mike Barkers Open 64
Daryl Price Open 63
Kevin Hills Open 62
Matt Obrien Open 62
Nathan Brown Junior 62
Don Vickers Recoil 60
Bernard Todd Open 59
Philip Stoakes Open 58
Harry Winkworth Junior 58
Stuart Tennent Open 57
Steve Haworth Open 56
Paul Somerville Open 54
John Watson Open 53
Saif Ahmad Open 52
Tom Keen Open 52
Nigel Gosling Open 51
Steven Winkworth Open 51
Andy Simpson Open 50
Charlie Harman Open 50
Dave Kirby Open 48
Davy Thomas Recoil 48
Len Smith Recoil 47
Nigel Bucham Open 44
Kim Mulford Open 41
Mark Stanley Open 41
Peter Martin Open 41
Kevin Mcmenamin Recoil 40


The full results should appear on our club web-site when the "Mike the webby" gets over his hard days shooting.

[biggles]

Hi Stuart

Any prospect of my being credited (possibly not as card not witnessed) with what I did manage to achieve on the HFT course BEFORE my FTP 'died' when the cocking lever arm parted company from the action? Pretty sure that Phil Stokes and Vince Guy would vouch for whatever it was they wrote on my card.

54 looks quite good if people think I only shot the HFT, but that was actually my total from the pistol and gamble alone.

I need to record thanks to Simmo for the loan of his ISP for the Gamble effort.

Many thanks

Mike B(iggles)

[Herp]

Top shooting Charles

[stueyT]

Hi Stuart

Any prospect of my being credited (possibly not as card not witnessed) with what I did manage to achieve on the HFT course BEFORE my FTP 'died' when the cocking lever arm parted company from the action? Pretty sure that Phil Stokes and Vince Guy would vouch for whatever it was they wrote on my card.

54 looks quite good if people think I only shot the HFT, but that was actually my total from the pistol and gamble alone.

I need to record thanks to Simmo for the loan of his ISP for the Gamble effort.

Many thanks

Mike B(iggles)

Done!

[biggles]

Done!

Many thanks. Oh, what it could have been

[anubis]

Very well done Charles!

[blackscale]

Great stuff, two Oakie winners! yeehaa!!

Great fun, never realised it was an accumulative score Ha!

See you at Buxted this week or next!..

[Surrey shooter]

Shouldn't George Danvers be 1st in juniors, he shot a 49 with his springer.. His dad told you on Sunday and nothing has been done...come on mvac, sort it out.

Len.

[saifbsk]

Many thanks to Meon valley club for the sterling work in setting up the course and running the competition.

Thanks guys.

[happydad]

Just wating on the official Stats man to answer his phone then we will get it sorted

ATB
Mike.

[Surrey shooter]

Thanks mike, he shot really well for a newbie he was only 6 points behind my hero Chris lol.