Posted by Dr_C elsewhere

A lovely day: warm, occasional cloud, and a breeze strong enough to push you off the plate for the long ones. 30 pegs, shot to UKAHFT rules, targets carefully unwrapped from their protective covers the night before. I count myself lucky to have experienced the start of a new day; the dawn chorus, the light airs rustling the wheat, the hare that greeted me as I went to the portaloo. Rex's deep booming snore.
Luckily Becky turned up to reinvigorate us with bacon and surliness.
I didn't shoot my best today, not sure why. The reticle seemed to wobble all over the kill, making accurate shot placement trickier than normal. That's my excuse. I did manage to wake up for the last ten pegs, but by then my chance at glory had been squandered.


Open class:

Neil Wakelin 57

Dan Measures 57

Jack Houghton 54

Alex Larkin 54

Anwar Ghazi 52

Simon Jones 52

Glen Pickard 52

John Houghton 51

Dan Sutton 51

Andy Yates 51

Wayne Pearce 50

Gordon Smith 50

Harry Kaladjian 50

Lee Anderson 49

Colin Bass 49

Andy Ireland 49

Paul Winfield 49

Chris Boulton 48

Mike Carney 48

Jill Cochrane 48

Martin Slane 48

Ralph Pressland 48

David McCarthy 47

Clive Pressland 47

Graham Mason 46

Jeff Palmer 46

James Winfield 46

Simon Eley 44

Glenn Law 41

Jason Bass 40

Mark Jones 40

Graham Bass 39

John Osmond 39

Stuart Smart 39

Martin Capdeville 38

Ricky Keneally 35

Ralph Currie 31

Tom Bass 27

Carl Zobel 23

Joe Sharman 19



Recoiling class:

Gary Chillingworth 51

Paul Burt 51

Stu Deeks 50

Dave Allibone 47

Chris Wells 47

Jake Day 46

Rex Bennet 44

Andy Day 42

Alex Bye 32



.22 class:

Jeff Westley 51

Matt Mousley 50

Des Morris 49

Dean Auger 46

Dave Sainty 38



Ladies Class:

Joann Cogger 52

Melanie Wakelin 47



Juniors class:

Lara Jones 43

Emily Palmer 40

Nathaniel Jones 36



Veterans class:

Bill Chaplin 50

Ron Whitney 50

Finn Cochrane 49

Mike Isaac 46

Dave George 44

Brian Tindall 43

Mel Marshall 42

Mick Salmon 42

Bob Brand 41

Ken Phillips 41



Justin Rhone 49 I'm not sure what class Justin was shooting in, I think I saw him with an S400?



Neil "The machine" Wakelin took the top spot after a shoot off, which I didn't watch as I was falling asleep in my chair. Stuart Deeks managed a third in recoiling, despite looking even more disheveled than usual.
Jake Day's run of bad form finally ended. After being beaten by Ralph at Lea valley, and Stuart Smart on Saturday, he finally managed to scrape one point ahead of Rex and total humiliation.
Jo cogger won all the money.
I'd like to thank Matt and Wayne for an awesome weekend, I'm already looking forward to next year. But no more giraffes please.

C.