NEWS / REPORTS APRIL 2009
Third Welsh Team Down The Line Qualifier for 2009 (Mid Wales Shooting Centre)
Sunday 26th April 2009 saw the third DTL Welsh qualifier at Mid Wales Shooting Centre.
PR Morgan was on top form again - taking the overall high gun on 100 x 299. This means Phil has now had high gun on two out of the three Welsh team DTL qualifiers - therefore getting count back scoring on both of those qualifiers as zero points. With a count back score of 3 on the other qualifier, he looks the man to beat this season.
Welsh high scorer hot on the tail of Phil Morgan was Will Andrews on 100 x 298.
GD Jenkins performed well again and shot 100 ex 297 - on the back of his 100 x 300 that he shot in the second qualifier in Mid Wales recently. Also on 100 x 297 was frequent top scoring Welsh shooter - AJ Poole.
Top Welsh Lady shooter Cas Treahearne also posted 100 x 297 to command her lead at the top of the ladies team (Cas also took the A class top prize).
Top Welsh Veteran D Medlicott also matched this incredible scoring with 100 x 297.
The top scoring Welsh Junior for the day was A Jones on 97 x 284, with MW Jones closely behind on 98 x 283.
We would also like to congratulate Gail Morgan who was second highest scoring Welsh lady - shooting a personal best of 96 x 286 - well done.
Some top English Junior shooting was also seen at this Welsh qualifier with two of their shooters being very close to taking overall high gun - Junior A Sikorski shot 100 x 298 to be joint runner up overall closely followed by his fellow English Junior team mate J. Thompson who shot 100 x 297.
Well done to everybody in a very high scoring qualifier.
Thanks again to the Williams family and all their helpers for providing another great event.
Visit the Mid Wales website for full results:
http://www.midwalesshootingcentre.com/
The Britannia Grand Prix - Southern Counties Shooting Ground
The Britannia Grand Prix was held at Southern Counties SG on April 18th - 19th 2009. The event comprised of Olympic Skeet, Olympic Trap, Double Trap and SportTrap. The event originated as an Olympic Skeet competition in 2003 to encourage novices and the "occasional shooter" to aspire to shooting at international level. Since 2003 other disciplines have been added and the event has grown and its now hoped it will help towards focusing and training people towards the 2012 Olympics on home soil.During this years event there was some very good shooting taking place from the Welsh participants.
Malcolm Allen shot a 25 straight in the Olympic Skeet flash final to take the individual Olympic Skeet gold medal. Not to be left out - his wife Elena Litle took the ladies gold medal as well !!!
Cerys Evans entered her first major Olympic Skeet competition to be a very credible 5th in the ladies - she is obviously a natural talent to look out for in the future !
Wales team A Seniors also performed very well in the event and took a bronze medal in the Olympic Skeet Team event.
This truly was a top international event - with shooters coming over from as far as the USA, so well done to all the Welsh representatives - incredible results at the very highest level !
Visit the following sites for more information:
http://www.britanniagrandprix.co.uk/
Southern Counties - Results Page
National Skeet County News
We are pleased to announce that the report for the 2009 National Skeet County Final is now available to view here:
Second Welsh Team Down The Line Qualifier for 2009 (Mid Wales Shooting Centre)
Sunday 12 April on Easter Bank Holiday saw the second Welsh qualifier at Mid Wales Shooting Centre.
155 shooters turned up to be met by glorious sunny conditions with the occasional light breeze.
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The jury at Mid Wales had set up the targets to be reasonably testing , with some angled birds proving difficult for some of the shooters - but with bright sunshine and near perfect conditions, they were there to be hit and indications were that the scoring would be very good. The "big hitters" would be looking to capitalise on these conditions.
Glyn Jenkins set the pace with his second 100/300 at mid Wales in the first wave of squads. Some shooters joked with Glyn that he had done the lesser mortals no favours as the "count back" would be from the perfect score 100/300.
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Welsh lady shooter Cas Trehearne posted an impressive 99/293 to be top lady shooter for this qualifier and to take second in A class.
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Ifor Williams started off well and on the second wave of squads also posted another 100/300, things were now hotting up even more.
Graham Evans posted a perfect 75/225 and all eyes were on him as people expected to see a 3 man shoot off for high gun, but he barrelled 1 in his last round to finish on 299.
Ifor and Glyn completed the shoot off with Ifor winning as Glyn had missed 2 targets.
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Other notable top scores worth a mention were PR Morgan 100/297, D Hughes 100/297 and RT Gudrat 100/297 who all hit the magic 100 with just a few second barrels.
Well done everybody, the results are as follows:
High Gun - Ifor Williams 100/300
1st AA & Runner-Up (After Shoot off) - Glyn Jenkins 100/300
2nd AA - GD Evans 100/299
3rd AA - PR Morgan 100/297, D Hughes 100/297, R Gudrat 100/2971st A - N Dean 99/297
2nd A - C Trehearn 99/293
3rd A - G Bullock 100/2931st B - S Stock 99/293
2nd B - J Clarke 98/289 & RV Hillier 99/2891st C - M Merrill 98/281
2nd C - MJ Price 96/280
3rd C - JC Evans 93/274
With only 2 rounds of the qualifiers shot, things are shaping up well for the National team and the current team positions can be viewed here:
Thanks to the Williams family and all their helpers for a great day out full of good shooting, good food and of course good company.
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Mid Wales Shooting Centre - British Open Information
The entry form for the 2009 Down The Line British Open and Sponsored Event which is to be held at Mid Wales Shooting Centre on the 18th/19th July 2009 is now available to download:
2009 British Open and Sponsored Event Entry Form - PDF
2009 British Open and Sponsored Event Entry Form - Word Format
Down The Line - 2009 European Information
The entry form for the 2009 Down The Line European Event is now available to download, there is also an accompanying document giving information on travelling and hotels:
South Wales 2000 - May 10th - DTL Training Day
Twice British Open DTL Champion and winner of various other trap accolades - Wales own Phil Morgan will be doing a fault finding/training day for DTL Shooters at South Wales 2000 on May 10th 2009 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
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The day is aimed at beginners and experts alike, so if you have have any problems you want to iron out, or you are a beginner who wants a good start in DTL shooting or if you simply just fancy rubbing shoulders with a British champion and picking up some vital tips - come along.
For more details email Phil on the following address:
First Welsh ABT Team Selection Shoot - South Wales 2000 - April 5th
The A.B.T. shooters must have thought they won the lottery being greeted with such a calm and bright day at South Wales 2000. Attendance was high, with 9 squads in total being filled.
So down to business...........at the 50 stage things were hotting up with Rob Davies on squad 1 posting a 49 A.J.Williams on the same squad 48. Phil Morgan on squad 2 also on 49. Andrew Harris back from abroad was going well with a 48 and Phil Dando who hasn't been seen for a while - also started well with a 48.
At the 75 stage a slight gap had opened up amongst the early leaders. Morgan was at 74 followed closely by Davies and Harris both on 71 with a cluster of shooters on a 70.
Into the last as they say in horse racing. Davies and Williams who were on squad 1 finished 96 & 95 respectively followed by Nigel Hawkes on a 95. Morgan on Squad 2 not knowing what the others had done finished with a 24 and a final tally of 98 would put pressure on the following squads to shoot well and limit the amount of points being dealt them.
Prizes
High Gun
P.R.Morgan 98
A Grade
Lyn Saveker 92
B Grade
Nigel Hawkes 95
Charlie Snelgrove 94
R.G.Morris 93
C Grade
A.J.Williams 95
Phil Dando 94 (must have a look at his averages........C Class my eye!!!)
Nigel Clarke 92 (his personal best well done to him)
Junior shooter
Tom Costain 89
D Grade
D.M.Meredith 90
T.Mucklow 87
J.K.Price 84
With the amount of shooters attending the timely intervention of the third layout was well greeted by the shooters and the shooting ended at a good time with those who travelled down from North Wales, giving them a chance to get home at a reasonable time.
Once again I would like to thank South Wales 2000 on behalf of the shooters for a great day and well presented targets with 14 scores of 90 and above. Keep this up lads and you could find yourselves winning the International Match.
Report By: Phil Morgan
County Final Information
We would like to remind travelling shooter's that Welsh county finals are "closed shoots" i.e. only the people that have been selected to represent their counties will be entitled to shoot on that day.
We feel this reminder is necessary due to the fact that extra people are turning up at these events who have not qualified to shoot for their county - which is causing problems because getting through an already large number of squads is difficult anyway, but extra people slow the process down even further and make for a very long day.
Angie Goodman - April 2009
First Welsh Team Down The Line Qualifier for 2009 (SW 2000)
We couldn't have wished for better weather for this first event on this years Down the Line calendar. Shooters who had shot here over the years have never been greeted with a nice day at South Wales 2000, so I think it was a bit of an eye opener to everybody who took part.
Down to the shooting and at the 50 stage things were tight but it was an Englishman by way of Alan Paige and Welshman Geoff Seabourne who were out in front with 149 x 150 followed closely by Kevin Gunter 148 and Phil Morgan 148 Karl Jones 148 John Evans 148 Eric Davies 148 Gareth Howells 148 to name but a few. G.Beagan and T.Moseley were on 147 a piece along with Brendan Jones.
With the Englishman barrelling a target on his 75 stage and Morgan putting in a straight meant they were level with a round to shoot along with Seabourne. With the other lads either barrelling a target or going straight nothing was cut and dry with 25 to go.
At the end though it was Morgan who was victor not dropping anymore
points ending with 100 x 298.
High Gun
P.R.Morgan 100 x 298
AA
Gary Beagon 296
Karl Jones 295
A Paige 294
Rob Parry 294
A
T Mosley 296
G Seaborne 295
Adrian Jones 291
B
A Wynne 296
Gail Morgan 276
R V Hillier 274
C
K Parsons 275
M J Price 273
Helen Jones 261
Congratulations to the high gun and class winners and thanks to all who attended and made it a great event. Thanks also to Mike and staff at South Wales 2000 for an excellent day out.
A selection of photo's from the day follow:
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2009 Cyprus Grand Prix News (Olympic Skeet and Olympic Trench)
News from the 2009 Cyprus Grand Prix which is a popular event for
travelling Welsh Olympic Skeet and Trench shooters.
19 different countries took part, Russia and Cyprus being the strongest
contingent, Russia took over 30 shooters and were there for 5 weeks training
prior to the competition. With this kind of training taking place by
other nations, any Welsh success would be an incredible result.
And an incredible result it was - Scott Morgan won Gold for Junior Trap, Cheryl Gizzi won Gold for Ladies Trap and John Hall took silver in the Veteran Men's Trap category.
Well done everybody - as you can see Wales did very well especially
considering that they were shooting against the cream of Olympic Skeet and
Trench shooters.
Dyfed County Skeet Team 2009
Dyfed have announced their team to shoot at the Inter-Counties Skeet
Final next week at Mid Wales Shooting Ground where they are hoping to retain
the winning County shield and other trophies that they took home with them
from last years Final. [Link to last years
report here]
Senior Team:
Lloyd Morris (Capt)
Hywel John
Gareth Irving
John Walters
Mike Lewis
Graham Parish
Chris Thomas
Adrian Jones
Aled Jones
Gareth Jones
Ladies Team:
Carol Francis
Deena Griffiths
Veterans Team:
Del Davis
Chris Hassett
Junior Team:
James Richards
Dan Evans
Good Luck to you all!!
South Wales 2000 - Forthcoming Shoot
SOUTH WALES 2000
Clay Target Shooting Ground
SUNDAY 3RD MAY 2009
100 ABT OPEN / WELSH SELECTION
AND
GWYN ROGERS MEMORIAL SHOOT
TEL. ENTRY
HIGH GUN £100.00 + TROPHY
CASH PRIZES ACCORDING TO ENTRIES
MEDALS FOR SENIORS, LADIES, JUNIORS AND VETERANS
CARTRIDGE PRIZES
FIRST 500 - SECOND 400 - THIRD 300 - FOURTH 200 - FIFTH 100
FIRST LADY 100 – FIRST JUNIOR 100 - FIRST VETERAN 100
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