Sussex Interclub HFT 2017 - Round 10 RESULTS

[biggles]

Afternoon everyone. Well, OK, almost evening as I decided to watch the Grand Prix before firing up the keyboard.

HUGE thanks to all Oakies for putting out a challenging course for the last competitive round of the 2017 Sussex Interclub HFT series. And thanks too to Wurz for feeding us so well; superb bit of bacon and burgers.

Course setters’ nightmare experienced 1^st thing this morning, when I arrived on scene to spot Charles trudging back from the top of the Downs having chased a bull calf out of the field and restrung those targets the wee chap had ‘played with’. I understand he (the bullock) submitted a score card, but failed to get it witnessed so was DQ’d.

Not a dry day, but nothing like as much rain as originally forecast – good – but more than ample tricksy breeze which came out to play with pellets following in the hoof-steps of the bull; all over the place. E.g the fairy target toward the top of the field. Those either side of me gave it 3 to 4 dots hold to the left and one of them was delighted to see their pellet sail pass the right edge of the plate. I managed to knock it over with just 1 ½ dots. And it was a bit like that all over the field. Range traps too in the woods, helped me to drop 2 points in the first handful of lanes.

Low turn out, no doubt as much due to the weather as the ‘pull’ of the European Championships in the Czech republic – but we had more paint on our targets

Here is the full set of results …..

Name		Club	Class	Score	Hscore	%	Badge	T(eam)
Mike	Burgess	Swallows	O	55	55	100.0%	Gold	T
Bob	Pattenden	Oaks	O	55	55	100.0%	G	T
Mike	Byford	Oaks	O	54	54	98.2%	G	T
Kevin	Catt	Meon Valley	O	53	53	96.4%	G	T
Roger	Dibbens	Buxted	O	53	53	96.4%	G	T
Pat	Fitzgerald	Ford	R	53	53	96.4%	G	T
Kevin	Maw	Buxted	O	53	53	96.4%	G	T
Charles	Peal	Oaks	O	53	53	96.4%	G	T
Vince	Blackman	Meon Valley	O	52	52	94.5%	G	T
Philip	Jacobs	Horsham	O	52	52	94.5%	G	T
Nigel	Wood	Buxted	R	52	52	94.5%	G	T
Aaron	Friend	Oaks	O	51	51	92.7%	G	T
Simon	Whittick	Horsham	O	51	51	92.7%	G	T
Adam	Longhurst	Buxted	O	50	50	90.9%	Silver	T
Mark	Rackley	Ford	O	50	50	90.9%	S	T
Howard	Kalisch	Buxted	O	49	49	89.1%	S	T
Lol	Moore	Ford	O	49	49	89.1%	S	T
Derek	Watson	Horsham	R	49	49	89.1%	G	T
Kevin	Wickson	Buxted	O	49	49	89.1%	S
Justin	Rayner	Buxted	O	48	48	87.3%	S
Paul	Somerville	Meon Valley	O	48	48	87.3%	S	T
Jean	Greatrex	Maldon	L	47	47	85.5%	G	T
Kevin	Hills	Buxted	O	47	47	85.5%	S
Steb	Martinez	Ford	O	47	47	85.5%	S	T
Abigail	Maw	Buxted	J	47	47	85.5%	G
Mike	Seagrave	Meon Valley	O	47	47	85.5%	S	T
Spencer	Bailey	Buxted	O	46	46	83.6%	S
Kevin	McMenamin	Visitor	O	46	46	83.6%	S
Shaun	Willson	Oaks	O	46	46	83.6%	S
Greg	Wilmshurst	Swallows	O	45	45	81.8%	Bronze	T
Graeme	Cargan	Oaks	R	44	44	80.0%	S
Richard	Chase	Ford	O	44	44	80.0%	B	T
Keith	Paddington	Horsham	O	44	44	80.0%	B	T
Phil	Moody	Horsham	O	43	43	78.2%	B	T
Richard	Nightingale	Oaks	O	43	43	78.2%	B
Scott	Somerville	Meon Valley	J	43	43	78.2%	S	T
Stewart	Elstone	Buxted	O	42	42	76.4%	B
Chris	Mears	Visitor	O	42	42	76.4%	B
Wes	Micklethwaite	Oaks	P	42	46	76.4%	G	T
Eli	McCullough	Oaks	O	41	41	74.5%	B
Doug	Falcon	Oaks	R	40	40	72.7%	B
Dan	Hawes	Iden Fern	O	38	38	69.1%		T
Steve	Micklethwaite	Oaks	O	38	38	69.1%
Ally	Stewart	Oaks	L	38	38	69.1%	B
Harvey	Friend	Visitor	P	35	39	63.6%	S

For achieving their 5^th Gold of the season, congratulations went to Phil Jacobs and Aaron Friend for being awarded their Platinum badges.

Please let me know a.s.a.p. if you spot anything you think is amiss. Have I misspelt any names? Have I put you in the wrong class? Let me know if you spot anything wrong. BBS PM or email should do the trick.

Prize drawer winners today were:

• Dan Hawes – the £23 cash prize,
• Shaun WIlson – the Air Arms goody bag
• And Paul Somerville won the Compair Magazine subscription

Seems only right and proper that, for the last round of the year, the home club (Oaks) won the day and very notable that FORD CAME 3^rd !!! But no one was able to topple BUXTED from wining the Team of the Year Award. Four clubs today – Iden Fern, MAD, Meon and Swallows FTC – had to rely on ‘draw’ cards up to the maximum qty of 3 – taken at random from the pack but excluding people who were NOT already in a club team. Total team scores and cumulative points won are :

Club	Round 10	Cumulative Points
Oaks	259	104
Buxted	257	115
Ford	243	74
Meon Valley	243	107
Horsham	239	81
Swallows	221	67
Maldon	168	75
Iden Fern	168	69

Safe shooting to everyone ahead of the end-of-year ‘fun’ meeting at Buxted on Sunday 22nd October. Watch the BBS for the final details, but I know that Simmo has something planned to test your skill (and air bottles) to the full.

There’s quite a bit of checking and tweaking to do, but as soon as I’ve finished crunching all the numbers, I will post here with a link to the final individual tables. Keep your eyes peeled. The top 3 places in the Open class remained all to play for before today. Has there been a change ??

In the meantime, quite surprising to note that – perhaps for the first time this year – there’s nothing in the calendar for next weekend. What will we all do with ourselves. But no doubt some of us will bump in to one-another for the final 2 rounds of the UKAHFT nationals oooop North (Emley Moor) the weekend after next (14 & 15 Oct).

Biggles