Sussex Interclub HFT 2016 - Round 3 Results

[biggles]

Hi all

Another great round in the 2016 Sussex Interclub series, hosted by Swallows FTC. Turnout increased to 75 for today, which is brilliant.

Different course – again – at Swallows FTC, this time restricted to the north field and lake. On the plus side, this did make for a much shorter/circular walk, rather than the very long trek south when we had access to the south field and woods.

While this morning’s checkers came in from the course convinced that there would be many clearances, from a personal perspective today delivered a pretty much perfect outcome.

Our best-of-the-best just (but only just) missed out on Clear Round badges, while the less experienced and complete newbies were rewarded with respectable scores and badges and I heard of several personal best results. From the latter groups, big well dones go to Swallows FTC newcomer and Junior (Roddy) scoring a 39 in his first comp and earning a Bronze badge and Carla achieving a PB of 52 using her dad’s gun; not sure he’ll get that back in a hurry

Here is the full set of results …..

Name		Club	Class	Score	%	Badge	T (eam)
Gary	Chillingworth	Maldon	O	59	100.0%	Gold	T
Vince	Holland	Maldon	O	59	100.0%	G	T
Jill	Cochran	Maldon	O	58	98.3%	G	T
Charles	Peal	Oaks	O	58	98.3%	G	T
Colin	Wilson	Maldon	O	58	98.3%	G	T
Bob	Pattenden	Oaks	R	57	96.6%	G	T
Mike	Burgess	Swallows	O	56	94.9%	G	T
Mike	Byford	Oaks	O	56	94.9%	G	T
Ian	Clark	Maldon	O	56	94.9%	G	T
Justin	Roberts	Ford	O	56	94.9%	G	T
Stuart	Tennent	Meon Valley	O	56	94.9%	G	T
Don	Vickers	Meon Valley	O	56	94.9%	G	T
Simon	Williams	Oaks	O	56	94.9%	G	T
Aaron	Friend	Oaks	O	55	93.2%	G	T
Steven	Haworth	Meon Valley	O	55	93.2%	G	T
Kevin	Hills	Buxted	O	55	93.2%	G	T
Philip	Jacobs	Horsham	O	55	93.2%	G	T
Dave	Pickett	Buxted	O	55	93.2%	G	T
Justin	Rayner	Buxted	O	55	93.2%	G	T
Chris	Roberts	Oaks	O	55	93.2%	G
Geoff	Ryder	Maldon	O	55	93.2%	G
Jenny	Stone	Maldon	O	55	93.2%	G
Richard	Woods	Maldon	O	55	93.2%	G
Pat	Fitzgerald	Ford	0.22	54	91.5%	G	T
Jean	Greatrex	Maldon	L	54	91.5%	G
Kevin	Maw	Buxted	O	54	91.5%	Silver	T
Chris	Tyhurst	Oaks	R	54	91.5%	G
Kevin	Catt	Meon Valley	O	53	89.8%	S	T
Ali	James	Meon Valley	O	53	89.8%	S	T
Alex	Larkin	Maldon	O	53	89.8%	S
Steve	Light	Horsham	O	53	89.8%	S	T
Adam	Longhurst	Buxted	O	53	89.8%	S	T
Kim	Lum	Swallows	O	53	89.8%	S	T
Lol	Moore	Ford	O	53	89.8%	S	T
Gary	Morrison	Buxted	O	53	89.8%	S
Maciek	Pajek	Horsham	O	53	89.8%	S	T
Kevin	Wickson	Buxted	O	53	89.8%	S
Graeme	Cargan	Oaks	R	52	88.1%	G
Carla	Chambers	Swallows	O	52	88.1%	S	T
Richard	Chase	Ford	O	52	88.1%	S	T
Finn	Cochran	Maldon	O	52	88.1%	S
Nigel	Hammond	Buxted	O	52	88.1%	S
Steve	Miller	Meon Valley	O	52	88.1%	S
Andy	Simpson	Buxted	O	52	88.1%	S
Paul	Somerville	Meon Valley	O	52	88.1%	S
Terry	Trott	Meon Valley	O	52	88.1%	S
Vince	Guy	Swallows	O	51	86.4%	S	T
Lewis	Hodges	Oaks	O	51	86.4%	S
Steb	Martinez	Ford	O	51	86.4%	S	T
Nigel	Tostevin	Oaks	O	51	86.4%	S
Derek	Watson	Horsham	R	51	86.4%	G	T
Nigel	Buchan	Buxted	O	50	84.7%	S
David	Henderson	Meon Valley	O	50	84.7%	S
Damian	Walker	Oaks	O	50	84.7%	S
Rex	Bennett	Maldon	R	49	83.1%	S
Jon	Newton-May	Buxted	O	49	83.1%	Bronze
Roy	Pearce	Iden Fern	R	48	81.4%	S	T
Tom	Keene	Meon Valley	O	47	79.7%	B
Anthony	Smith	Horsham	O	47	79.7%	B	T
Matt	Degglefield-Davis	Buxted	O	46	78.0%	B
Penny	Holland	Maldon	L	46	78.0%	S
Ramon	San Juan	Horsham	O	46	78.0%	B
Don	Browning	Visitor	O	45	76.3%	B
Steve	Noakes	Swallows	O	45	76.3%	B	T
John	Kirkwood	Horsham	R	44	74.6%	B
Barbara	Pearce	Iden Fern	L	44	74.6%	B	T
Charlie	Grey	Ford	O	43	72.9%
Stephen	Cumming	Meon Valley	R	42	71.2%	B
Sophie	Smith	Horsham	L	42	71.2%	B
Ivan	Edmiston	Buxted	O	39	66.1%
Roddy	Pettit	Swallows	J	39	66.1%	B
Sam	Weston	Buxted	J	39	66.1%	B
Harry	Degglefield-Davis	Buxted	J	38	64.4%
Alasdair	Ridley	Swallows	R	30	50.8%
Howard	Kalisch	Buxted	R	28	47.5%

Please let me know a.s.a.p. if you spot anything you think is amiss.

Prize drawer winners today were :

• Chris Tyhurst – the £38 cash prize, and
• Steve Cumming – the Air Arms goody bag

During the post-shoot announcements, I declared Team scores which proved to be wrong. Sorry! In the peace and relative quiet of home, I spotted that the spreadsheet still recorded Tugg as a Buxted member, where this year he’s firmly attached to MAD. As a result, today’s adjusted team scores and cumulative points won are :

Club	Round 3	Points
Maldon	290	23
Oaks	282	34
Meon Valley	273	33
Buxted	272	29
Ford	266	23
Horsham	259	25
Swallows	257	21
Iden Fern	228	16

Happy and safe shooting to you all ahead of round 4 of the 2016 SIHFT, which is in three weeks on the 5^th June at Horsham Hawks.

In the meantime, best of luck to the SIHFT participant crew heading ooooop North and West to Furnace Mill for round two of this year’s UKAHFT. For the rest, happy and safe shooting wherever you may be.

Biggles

[pjacobs]

Many thanks to everybody at Swallows for their time and effort in setting an interesting and challenging course today - and for keeping the bad weather away; also to those who run this series so professionally for the benefit of us all. A most enjoyable morning. Thank you.
Very best wishes,
PJ

[si7777777]

Thank you Swallows!
Your lake course is very good to shoot
Some big scores today, welcome back Bob
Si

[Enthusiast]

Brilliant course, thank you Mike and the Swallows team.

Thank you Charles for showing me how it should be done. You da man

That lake, wow, was that wind tricky or what? 7 plates in a row Lots of wind,no wind, lots of wind, no wind, lots of wind etc and yet it looked the same for each shot

Much to learn.

Richard

[Bob P]

Great mornings shooting,
Very relaxed and peaceful shooting round the lakes.
Good company too with Aaron and Nigel.
Bob

[risingfriend]

cracking days shooting many thanks swallows cheers Bob and nigel for the company and well done Bob with the new springer superb mate:

[anubis]

Many thanks to Swallows, and my shooting partners for a great days shooting!

[Mr Blonde]

Really proud of my Carla on her PB!!

Time for a new gun soon I rekon.

[blackscale]

Well done to anyone above 55! (55 was just so average....)

As Mike said, Swallows in particular seem to have the 'difficulty level' just right, to prevent clearances but produce some good scores!

I couldn't hit anything so to cheer myself up i did my best to make Simmo miss even more! ...least i'm happy!

Great shooting by train driver and Vince, also to Bob 'The man' twanger pilot!

I was standing next to a Swallows member (terrible at names really sorry) and he was chuffed to bits with his PB and first badge i think!
I mean really chuffed, that is what it is all about!

UP THE OAKS!!

[Topher]

Thanks swallows for a good mornings shoot, must have been a devil to get those strings across all that water .....
How many people got wet??

Top Bombing Bob

Id just like to say Well done and thanks to Rex for pulling my card out of the pack for the cash and least you got that right mate

[biggles]

Well done to anyone above 55! (55 was just so average....)

As Mike said, Swallows in particular seem to have the 'difficulty level' just right, to prevent clearances but produce some good scores!

Nearly, but not quite. Actual average was increased when compared with rounds 1 & 2, but still just 50.5.

Just saying

[Jelly38]

Thanks Swallows for a great course, the lake was very enjoyable, your efforts to put out a new course was much appreciated.

Cheers Spongey for all your efforts with Simmo, NOT

Well shot Chilly, vince and Bob, great shooting.

Congratulations to everyone who got a PB.

See you all soon

Justin

[stueyT]

Nice one Swallows, great shoot and grounds..... and for also for arranging the wind just to change 180° just before my shot..

[NSRH]

Thanks to Mike and all the Swallows massive for laying on a great course, spat my dummy out twice but really was just operator error.

Superb shooting Admiral Pickett and congratulations on your new PB and your first Gold!

Pleased with my measly 52 and thanks to Simmo for taking pity on me and equalling my score (there you go Spongey)

ATB
No Hope

P.S. Oi Grandad where's my sweety

[M500dpp]

I was standing next to a Swallows member (terrible at names really sorry) and he was chuffed to bits with his PB and first badge i think!
I mean really chuffed, that is what it is all about!

Haha think that was me Im from Buxted of course and ive had loads of other badges, but my first gold!!!

You were right though I was chuffed to bits!!!!

Great course swallows maybe a bit easier but no one cleared it and i do think it would encourage a lot of people if we had more courses like this!!!!