The forecast was always to get some rain and sure enough at 12:30 the heavens opened, making it a fairly wet experience for the tail enders of the early starters, and full on drenching for anyone going out late – as usual this included the ‘setter uppers’ who are also the ‘packer uppers’. Tough day …
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Jan 15
Sporting Winter Series Standings after 4 shoots (of 6)
A quick reminder that 5 shoots from the 6 count towards the Season Championship, so don’t worry if you’ve missed a shoot, you can still very much compete for top honours. Current High Gun leader is Ben Morris, followed by Lee Pitman and Mark Coburn – all ‘A’ Club Class shooters, Leading B Class is …
Jan 15
Sunday 15th Jan Sporting
Another day where the forecasters got it wrong, it was due to rain all day, and get worse as the day progressed, It turns out that our little Isle of Wight micro climate helped us once again, and although there was rain, it didn’t trouble too many, for too long – certainly one of the …
Dec 18
18th December scores
Full scores from 18th December – Sporting Winter Series 3 ( over half way through Winter now!!) High Gun was Ben Morris, with an excellent 92, followed by Lee Pitman, 90 and Mick Gregson 89. In the handicap competition, Richard Rivlin clearly enjoyed the conditions and the course to win with an 82+29, 111 along …
Dec 05
4th December Scores
A great December day for shooting, with some personal bests achieved – Well done Iain Hall 1st High Gun, with a personal best of 87, followed by Ben Morris on 86, and a three way tie for 3rd with 84 from Mark Coburn, Rob Gale and Neil Gurney. Tom Carlstedt-Duke’s 78 was a personal best, …
Nov 20
20th Nov Scores
A great day at the club today, after storm Angus’ rain had rolled through overnight. With the potential to have been a really tricky day, the sporting course ‘played’ fairly easily, shown by only 3 of the 29 Handicap qualifying scores below ‘par’. The Sporting High Gun was a three way tie for the first …
Nov 11
2016 Sporting Autumn Series
The last shoot of the Autumn Sporting Series was held on the 6th November. Lee Pitman took the High Gun title, despite not having an option to discard any scores, having missed the first shoot of the series, Lee counted 75,80,80,93,83 Following not far behind in 2nd place was Mark Coburn, just 5 behind, …
Nov 09
6th November Scores
The last shoot of the Autumn series, and certainly out of the sunshine it was chilly enough to know that winter is just around the corner. The Series scores are being calculated, and will be out by Thursday, along with the new handicaps for the Winter series, which gets going on the 20th November. Well …
Oct 23
Scores 23rd October 2016
Some good shooting at the club today in particular from Lee Pitman, with an excellent 93. Scoring consistently 7,9,10,9,10,9,10,9,10,10. The score could have been bigger, with 3 away on the first stand most costly, especially as on another day, 9 or 10 would have been more likely. 2nd place was Ben Morris on 86, with …
Oct 11
9th October, Scores
Such a lovely day at the club once again, it’s hard to believe that it’s well into the Autumn Sporting Series, with sunshine and dry underfoot. The ground is pretty much at it’s best this time of year, with all the summer work starting to show through, one of the sporting stands in particular must …