BIG thanks to all the Horsham Hawkes crew for hosting today's end-of-year 'fun' shoot.
Here are the results - in a simple scores highest-to-lowest listing:
Name Club Class Score in Finale Philip Jacobs Horsham Open 59 Adam Longhurst Buxted Open 59 Bob Pattenden Oaks Open 58 Chris Silcock Horsham Open 58 Chris Tyhurst Oaks Open 58 Graeme Cargan Oaks Open 57 Andy Simpson Buxted Open 57 Steve Light Horsham Open 56 Kim Lum Swallows Open 56 Lol Moore Ford Open 56 Justin Rayner Buxted Open 56 Don Vickers Meon Valley Open 56 Rudy Goldslade Oaks Open 55 Mick Maynard Horsham Open 55 Don Berrington Horsham Open 54 Nigel Buchan Buxted Open 54 Kevin Catt Visitor Open 54 Lewis Hodges Oaks Open 54 Gary Morrison Buxted Open 54 Anthony Smith Horsham Open 54 Terry Trott Visitor Open 54 Kevin Wickson Buxted Open 54 Simon Williams Oaks Open 54 Aaron Friend Oaks Open 53 Kevin Hills Buxted Open 53 Russell Inns Visitor Open 53 Scott Marshall Visitor Open 53 Phil Moody Horsham Open 53 Dave Pickett Buxted Open 53 Carla Chambers Swallows Open 52 Paul Corbett Visitor Open 52 Roger Dibbens Buxted Open 52 Pat Fitzgerald Ford .22 52 Neil Parrott Visitor Open 52 Charles Peal Oaks Open 52 Nigel Tostevin Oaks Open 52 Mike Burgess Swallows Open 51 Luke Davies Visitor Open 51 Kevin Maw Buxted Open 51 Steve Noakes Swallows Open 51 Justin Parrott Visitor Open 51 Nick Byrne Meon Valley .22 50 Maciek Pajek Horsham Open 50 Stuart Tennent Visitor Open 50 Gary Brooks Visitor Open 49 Steb Martinez Ford Open 49 Jon Newton-May Buxted Open 49 Mark Ramsey Visitor Open 49 Derek Watson Horsham Open 49 Simon Whittick Horsham Open 49 Bill Castelo Horsham Open 48 Richard Chase Ford Open 48 Peter Hunt Buxted Open 48 Mike Seagrave Visitor Open 48 Daniel Smith Visitor Open 47 Bethan Whittick Horsham Ladies 47 Spencer Bailey Buxted Open 46 Colin Dopson Visitor Open 46 Alex Noakes Swallows Primary 46 Daryl Bell Visitor Open 45 Dave Standing Swallows Recoiling 45 John Kirkwood Horsham .22 44 Rebecca Barnett Visitor Ladies 40 Scott Stanley Visitor Open 40 Ian Morrison Buxted Open 34 Dan Lee Horsham Open 24 Vince Guy Swallows Open DNF
Congratulations to Adam Longhurst for his overall win today, pipping Phil in supreme style when he knocked over all 3 targets in the Kneeling position shoot off.
Bad luck of the day, and sitting at the bottom of the list, had to go to poor ol' Vince, who's month old AA HFT500 'died' when the middle trigger sear broke. Great effort on the part of a host of SIHFT's finest hands who did their best to strip it and see if a repair was possible. It was, sadly, found to be very very broke; sear had snapped at the central pivot point. Better luck, Vince, in getting it sorted ahead of next Sunday's Southern Hunters round at Ford.
Good fortune did shine on several of you today, in the form of the draw for the prizes. Winners were:
Nigel Buchan - walking away with a big grin on his face and a brand spanking new AA S400 under his arm. Thank you Air Arms for your generous donation and all your support throughout this year's Sussex Interclub.
David Standing - £150 better off with this year's first cash prize
Aaron Friend and Phil Jacobs - each £75 richer, and
Phil Moody - winning the least cash prize (but still very well worth the day out) of £50
That's all from me for now, folks. As Charles announced, we will publish a full calendar for the 2016 SIHFT series early in the New Year - pretty much as soon as we've had confirmation from Sparky of next year's UKAHFT dates.
Little doubt we'll bump in to one-another at some of the Winter series comps, including the Southern Hunters, which will be keeping Charles on his toes for the next few months.
All the best
Biggles