Sussex Interclub 2025 Series - Round 1 Results

[biggles]

Hi all.

Slight delay in prepping this, while I watched the F1 race – apologies. I will now be switching over to the golf (Masters), but happy for that to be on in the ‘background’.

The Horsham Hawkes HFT crew welcomed us to host the opening round of this year’s SIHFT series and delivered a well-run admin (big shout out to the parking monitors and those volunteering to see us safely back out on to the road), good breakfast and lunch offerings and a great course. I gather that they may rethink how strings are attached to targets, with many of the stoppages caused by failures of a new style clip they had used.

Unlike last year (very soggy) and the weather forecast for today a week ago, it was really quite summery. No rain, some sunshine and a breeze to keep you on your toes all around the course, but especially so in the field-of-doom.

On an entirely personal note, I ‘lost’ 3 points throughout both woods, but then 5 in the field, including a doughnut with sprinkles on the unsupported stander However, compared with a week ago at Misfits (R1 of the UKAHFT), this was a huge improvement; my score that day was a PW forty-one. !!

Excellent turnout today too – with 72 souls entering. Not yet checked, but I reckon that either is, or is close to, a best ever for SIHFT Round 1. This inclulded returners we've not seen for a while and a goodly number of complete newbies.

I have resisted the temptation to study score cards in great detail – to see if any bits inadvertently left blank. However there was one DNF card without a name. Alicia and I came to conclusion that this was Nigel Buchan. Hope we got that right. Please do let me know asap if not.

Top score today – a pair of 56s – were shared by Howard Kalish in Open Class, this year shooting for Horsham, and Super Vet Paul Blaxall from Meon. Very well done guys.
Anyway …. Here are the results. If you’ve not seen (or forgotten) the results table layout, perhaps the only column not recognised from its heading is the last one – the “T”. This denotes that this person’s score has been included in their club team result.

Firstname	Surname	Club	Class	Score	%	Badge	T(eam) Place
Paul	Blaxall	Meon Valley	V	56	100.0%	G(old)	T
Howard	Kalisch	Horsham	O	56	100.0%	G	T
Ewan	Hobbs	Iden Fern	O	55	98.2%	G
Dax	Browning	Meon Valley	O	54	96.4%	G	T
Roger	Dibbens	Buxted	O	54	96.4%	G	T
Jon	Newton-May	Buxted	O	54	96.4%	G	T
Steven	Avey	Oaks	O	53	94.6%	G	T
Darryle	Bundock	Oaks	O	53	94.6%	G	T
Kevin	Hills	Buxted	O	53	94.6%	G	T
Nik	Orr	Oaks	O	53	94.6%	G	T
Mike	Burgess	Oaks	V	52	92.9%	G	T
Graeme	Cargan	Oaks	O	52	92.9%	G	T
Maciek	Pajek	Horsham	O	52	92.9%	G	T
Mark	Rackley	Oaks	V	52	92.9%	G
Stefan	Avey	Oaks	O	51	91.1%	S(ilver)
Zac	Baker	Bisley	O	51	91.1%	S
Steve	Britland	Horsham	O	51	91.1%	S	T
Gary	Martin	Iden Fern	Sticks	51	91.1%	G
Bob	Pattenden	Oaks	O	51	91.1%	S
Nigel	Wood	Buxted	R	51	91.1%	G	T
Adrian	Wright	Meon Valley	O	51	91.1%	S	T
Matthew	Franks	Oaks	O	50	89.3%	S
Paul	Hargreaves	Bisley	V	50	89.3%	G
Phil	Moody	Horsham	V	50	89.3%	G	T
Kevin	Wickson	Buxted	O	50	89.3%	S	T
David	Irving	Oaks	O	49	87.5%	S
Glenn	Turner	Ford	O	49	87.5%	S	T
Charlie	Grey	Ford	R	48	85.7%	G	T
David	Henderson	Meon Valley	V	48	85.7%	G	T
Carroll	Lamport	Buxted	O	48	85.7%	S
Steve	Light	Horsham	O	48	85.7%	S	T
Lol	Moore	Ford	V	48	85.7%	G	T
Martin	Nicholls	Buxted	O	48	85.7%	S
Darren	Purnell	Buxted	O	48	85.7%	S
Alan	Renwick	Meon Valley	Sticks	48	85.7%	G	T
Steve	Saunter	Buxted	Sticks	48	85.7%	G
Richard	Wickenden	Ford	O	48	85.7%	S	T
Kevin	Allen	Horsham	R	47	83.9%	G
Pete	Trimmer	Bisley	R	47	83.9%	G
Dave	Wade	HRPC	O	47	83.9%	S
Derek	Watson	Horsham	V	47	83.9%	G
Simon	Whittick	Horsham	Sticks	47	83.9%	G
Dave	Barnes	Meon Valley	V	46	82.1%	S
Darren	Brind	Oaks	O	46	82.1%	B(ronze)
Barbara	Pearce	MAD	L	46	82.1%	S
Justin	Roberts	Ford	O	46	82.1%	B	T
Chloe	White	Oaks	L	46	82.1%	S
Paul	Bradford	Buxted	V	45	80.4%	S
Martin	Dudley	Horsham	V	45	80.4%	S
Alicia	Franks	Oaks	O	45	80.4%	B
Martin	Cook	Buxted	R	44	78.6%	S
Ray	Munnery	Horsham	O	44	78.6%	B
Barry	Wade	Buxted	V	44	78.6%	S
Chris	Cullen	Meon Valley	O	43	76.8%	B
Steb	Martinez	Ford	O	43	76.8%	B
Brian	Sait	Bisley	.22	43	76.8%	S
Marc	Stephenson	MAD	V	43	76.8%	S
Marcus	Warren	Buxted	Sticks	43	76.8%	S
Paul	Charman	Buxted	.22	42	75.0%	S
Hugborg	Hudson	Meon Valley	L	42	75.0%	S
Jason	Perrine	Oaks	O	42	75.0%	B
Keith	Crombie	Buxted	V	41	73.2%	B
Sean	Heath	Meon Valley	O	41	73.2%
Kim	May	Horsham	L	41	73.2%	B
Trevor	Hudson	Meon Valley	Sticks	39	69.6%	B
Ian	Munnery	Horsham	O	39	69.6%
Daniel	Hudson	Meon Valley	O	38	67.9%
Roy	Pearce	MAD	V	37	66.1%	B
David	Wilshaw	Meon Valley	R	37	66.1%	B
Sebastion	Mazurczak	Horsham	.22	36	64.3%	B
Martin	Dewhurst	Horsham	Sticks	35	62.5%
Nigel	Buchan	Buxted	V	DNF	0

And the team results for today are:

Club	Round 1	Points	Total
Mile Oak	263	12	12
Buxted	262	11	11
Horsham	257	10	10
Meon	257	10	10
Ford	239	8	8

Today’s draw winners were:
The Golden Bunny - £72 – Justin Roberts
Air Arms Goody Bag – Nigel Wood

Can you spot any errors in this post? Have I spelt your name correctly? Do I have you down for the correct club and/or class? – please message me directly.

SIHFT Round 2 is in 3 weeks, on Sunday 4th May at Mile Oak. So prepare yourselves, not for the field of doom, but the hill-of-doom, aka the South Downs.

Between now and then, we have the Easter weekend. On the Saturday, Mile Oak has one of its ‘fun’ mornings where we shoot Pistol HFT followed by Open Sights (rifle) HFT. Then over the following weekend (26th and 27th), a surprisingly large contingent of Great Brits are heading overseas for the WHFTC in Sardinia. What else?? If you know of something of interest – shooting related please – do let us know

Biggles