Archives 2009

Archives 2009

Championship Results & Reports 2009.

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Gerry Abbott
Hampshire Double Rise Champion 2009

Fareham CTC Chairman Tim Rowe
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Hampshire CPSA Treasurer Brian Coupe

Hampshire Inter-Counties UT Team 2009

Hampshire Inter-Counties ABT Team 2009

Hampshire Inter-Counties FITASC Team 2009

Adam Twine
South West Region Olympic Trap Champion 2009

Hampshire Inter-Counties Olympic Trap Team 2009

Hampshire Inter-Counties Single Barrel Team 2009

Steve Watts (right)
Hampshire FITASC Sporting Champion 2009

Ben Gordge (right)
Hampshire Double Trap Champion 2009

Graham Tourle (left)
Hampshire DTL Champion 2009

Ben Gordge (left)
Hampshire ABT Champion 2009

Rod Gould (right)
Hampshire Olympic Trap Champion 2009

Rick Stala (left)
Hampshire English Skeet Champion 2009

Rick Stala (right)
Hampshire All Round Champion 2009

Ben Gordge (left)
Hampshire Single Barrel Champion 2009

Neil Lockton (right)
Hampshire Sportrap Champion 2009

Colin Crockford (right)
Hampshire Sporting Champion 2009

Tanya Goodman (right)
Hampshire Sporting Ladies Champion 2009

Luke Elliott (right)
Hampshire Sporting Junior Champion 2009

Report by Graham Tourle – Hampshire Single Barrel & DTL Team Manager.

The South West Inter-Counties DTL at Newnham Park on 11^th October 2009
Upon arrival, we were greeted by the Newnham Park staff, of which were very accommodating. Unfortunately, it was a damp and dreary morning, which didn’t get any better throughout the day. All of the Hampshire boys arrived early, we were all ready to get on with the job in hand. Photographs were taken in the grounds of the beautiful estate and we were ready not only shooting for the South West Inter-Counties DTL but also for the Cabbage Cup. For those of you who don’t know, the cabbage cup is a long standing competition between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. This came about 20+ years ago when the two teams discussed the competition. Hampshire said they would bring the cup and the Isle of Wight said that they would bring the cabbage. The winners took home the cup; the losers took home the cabbage.
Hampshire’s 2 teams never got off to the best of starts, dropping the odd bird here and there. We wound up dropping 10 birds, from a total of 500 and came nowhere in the ranks. Such is the strength of the Inter-County teams! Anybody out there that wishes to shoot for Hampshire next year, please feel free to fill in the blue slips and shoot 295+ out of 300 to get a look in!
Our hero of the day was Mr Toomer, who missed his very 1^st bird and then went on to shoot 99 1^st Barrel kills for a score of 297. Now all we need is 9 more like him! But the climax of the day was the Cabbage Cup which Hampshire won. Hooray! Just as well the Isle of Wight didn’t turn up then…!
I would like to thank all the lads that took the time to drive to Newnham Park and compete. They gave it their all, but even with 4 AA guns on our teams, we had to eat humble pie.
We would like to wish the other Hampshire disciplines all the best for the future.
Best wishes from all the DTL/Single Barrel boys.

Write up by Andy Gordge.

ABT Inter Counties Sunday 4th October.
Full teams ventured down to Southern Counties shooting ground and Oh boy what a ground, over the years the Hampshire members have watched this ground develop the new 40 room hotel so near finished, excellent!!! We sent a good team, not the strongest team but we held our own. At the half way we where level leaders with Devon and then we slipped, we missed several targets at the three quarter stage and in the final stage, this placed us second to Devon. High gum for Hampshire was Tony Gentili and Phil Eames both on 91. full score line up and results go to our web www.hampshirecpsa.org.uk

Write up by Prakash Moolgavkar

The 2009 Southwest Inter Counties Fitasc Championship.
The 2009 Southwest Intercounties Fitasc Championship took place at Wylye Valley Shooting Ground on the 4th October. It was perfect clay shooting weather, with overcast skies, just a gentle breeze and the temperature not too hot or too cold. It was agreed by all that it was a very enjoyable shoot and that Ian Stones had pitched the difficulty of each of the five layouts just right. The total entry was fourteen squads and all the SW counties were represented. Hampshire entered the full quota of two senior squads, and also Ladies and Vets teams, all looking the part in their smart Hampshire shooting vests. Somerset had been the county to beat for the past dozen years but Hampshire had won twice in the past three so were rightly the favourites. And so it was at the finish, with Hampshire posting 511, comfortably ahead of Devon on 496 with Somerset on 485. Ron King led the way with an excellent 89, supported by Trevor Bell 86, Andy Shore & Mal Grant on 85, Des Sturgess on 84 and Steve Watts & the colourful Rick Stala on 82. The ladies also retained the SW FITASC title. Of note Carole Sawkins, shooting only her third FITASC competition, posted an excellent score of 82, putting many an experienced shooter to shame! We did not, however, take the Veterans prize, something to be addressed next year to make it a clean sweep. Our thanks go to Bell Microsystems and Medicom Healthcare for their support and sponsorship and the Rod Box for the team goody bags and discount vouchers. And finally congratulations and thanks to the Hampshire FITASC teams for their fantastic effort.

Write up by David Bennett

100 Olympic Trap – Inter County Championships – Sunday 16^th August 2009
Yes at long last summer had finally arrived, be it that here we are half way through August. At long last the weather conditions were favourable for what one would only describe as a typical summers day being warm and sunny with a slight but sometimes moderate breeze.
Taking part in this event were 61 individuals from across the regional counties of Hampshire, Devon, Wiltshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight with Hampshire being represented by 12 members who travelled down to Southern Counties to shoot in this Inter Counties Olympic Trap competition. Hampshire Squad 1 represented the Hampshire Champion and Team Captain Rod Gould with Adam Twine, Tim Rowe, Nigel Reynolds, Phil Eames and Tony Gentili whilst Squad 2 comprised Peter Thomson, Tanya Whitfield, Brian Pragnell, Doug Vidler, John Lower and David Bennett. It was quite evident that Hampshire Squad 1 stood a really good chance of winning the title with such a good depth, strength and experience of individual within the Squad. At the half way point Squad 1 had attained a team score of 263/300 targets with a final posting score of 530/600 targets. At the end of the day and with all the scores in and logged, Hampshire were declared the Winners of this competition with Devon finishing on 509/600, Wiltshire 495/600, Dorset 457/600 and Isle of Wight 431/600.
Congratulations firstly to Adam Twine who took the overall High Gun and Title. Secondly to all those other Hampshire members who took part in this competition and to the top 6 Hampshire individual scores which formed the overall team score of 530/600. These were Adam Twine 95/100, Rod Gould 92/100, Tim Rowe 89/100, Tony Gentili 86/100, Brian Pragnell 84/100 and Nigel Reynolds 84/100.

Report by Graham Tourle – Hampshire Single Barrel & DTL Team Manager.

Hampshire Championship – Single Barrel at Southern Counties 9^th August 2009.
After our long awaited summer, the sunshine finally put his hat on for the Inter-Counties Single Barrel shoot at Southern Counties. As per usual, Kevin and Anthea had arranged the day perfectly making the event enjoyable right from the start. Seven Counties attended which made eighteen five-man squads to shoot on the day for the honour of being Single Barrel champions.
Hampshire met quietly in the car park for a team bonding session and to receive their Hampshire shooting vests. We have been kindly sponsored by Bell Microsystems Ltd and Medicom Healthcare Ltd who paid for the vests and badges to be made. The team were very impressed and looked like a million dollars. We were the only people which were fully kitted out as a fifteen-man team, which made every one of us proud to wear our Hampshire vests.
The Colts and Veterans squad were the first to shoot for Hampshire. The two Colts had a good, positive attitude and showed no emotion when a clay was missed. I feel that they are true champions in the making and that they are an asset to the Hampshire team. The three Veterans have been there, seen it and done it and shot their hearts out, but unfortunately they were just beaten on the day. They shot alongside the Colts and looked very smart in their Hampshire vests.
The Seniors were made up of two five-man squads which shot at one-hundred clays each, equalling one-thousand clays. The top four Counties shot at four-thousand clays. The finishing result was only two clays difference between 1^st and joint 3^rd positions. Unfortunately we were one of the joint 3^rdteams.
The Hampshire Single Barrel team are off to Newnham Park on October 11^th and I’d be proud to take this squad of fifteen. 110% effort was given by all and it was a pleasure to lead this team. We hope the result will be a more favourable one next time!!
We would like to wish luck to all the other Hampshire teams in their forthcoming events.
Best wishes from all the DTL/Single Barrel boys.

The Hampshire FITASC Championship 2009 took place on the 26^th July at Wylye Valley Shooting Ground.
We had been promised a better summer this year, but on the day it was cool and cloudy with a drizzle of rain in the afternoon. The wind changed constantly, providing a variation of targets as the day progressed.
As usual the shoot was over subscribed and a total of a dozen squads took on Ian Stone’s challenge. Hampshire was appropriately represented with 22 shooters from the FITASC champion’s county.
Ian , as usual these days, put on a fair but very testing course. Five layouts of 20 targets each gave us all a fantastic variety of targets, with Hill and Quarry both defeating many respected names! Dropping blaze targets, deceptive battues and testing doubles all took their toll of points amongst the shooters.
It was good to see the Hampshire shooters compete, but the final scores provided even more entertainment and tension. Two guns, Des Sturgess and Steve Watts, both previous Hampshire Champions and GB team members, tied on the same final score. A shoot-off! What fun for the rest of us!
It was agreed that a single peg would be the decider with doubles a and sudden death if both were tied at the end of the first round . Des won the toss and shot first. Steve shot second and won the Hampshire FITASC trophy!
Well done!
Sarah Hamburger was the lady Champion and the overall winner in that category.
From today’s showing Hampshire are as strong in spirit and talent as ever and we are looking forward to defending our titles at the SW Inter-Counties at Wylye in October.
Bring it on Somerset!

Report by David Bennett Hampshire CPSA Chairman.

Hampshire Championship – 150 DT at Southern Counties Sunday 26^th July 2009.
Here we are now at the end of July and again the weather left a lot to be desired on the day with the conditions being overcast and windy and the rain finally arriving in the afternoon. However, the conditions did not deter the 8 Hampshire members who travelled to Southern Counties to shoot this registered competition even though some of members had never even shot the discipline before.
Again it was far from easy with the crucial factor being the wind which played havoc in the targets constantly moving up and down. The 3 major contenders were Doug Vidler, Ben Gordge, and Brian Jewell all of whom needed a reasonable score from there last 50 targets. Having Doug shot DT on a number of occasions and having just missed out on winning last weekends Hampshire DTL Competition, Doug was keen and eager to post a good score to hopefully secure the title of Hampshire DT Champion. However, Doug was up against Ben Gordge who was looking for his 3^rd Hampshire Championship title having already won both the Single Barrel and ABT events earlier on in the year. With the final scores recorded it revealed that Ben had won the Competition by just 1 target recording a 105/150 with Doug on a 104/150 and Brian Jewell on a 102/150.
Well Done and Congratulations to Ben who is certainly having a great year in all disciplines.

Report by David Bennett Hampshire CPSA Chairman.

Hampshire Championship – 100 DTL at Fareham Clay Target Club Sunday 19^th July 2009.
Yes you would have thought that in July we would certainly have been guaranteed good weather with not a cloud in the sky and the temperature warm. A total of 25 Competitors braved the overcast but windy day to take part in this shoot to hopefully become the Hampshire DTL Champion. It was certainly not easy from the onset of the competition and as the day progressed, the wind became even stronger with the targets constantly being moved up and down on the wind. With the score board constantly changing we eventually had a Winner with Graham Tourle becoming the Hampshire DTL Champion on a finishing score of 98/286. This was very closely followed by Doug Vidler who posted a finishing score of 96/282 having shot his last 50 targets for a 50/149. In third place and finishing on a score of 95/282 was Les Stephenson.
Well Done and Congratulations to Graham who is now both Team Manager and Captain for the Hampshire Inter County Squad at the Inter County DTL Competition to be held on Sunday 11^th October at Newnham Park.

Report by Brian Coupe, OT Team Manager.

Hampshire OT Championship at NCSC Bisley. Sunday 7th June.
It was the much awaited Hampshire OT Championship at NCSC and although
the weather had promised to try and drench us all it failed and we
managed to have a lovely dry day with just enough sunshine to keep us
happy.
Shooting Olympic Trap is the hardest discipline for most trap shooters
and getting 20 ex 25 is the best many of us would hope for unless your
name is Rod Gould when anything less than a 23 is best forgotten. Right
from the start Rod led with his 23 followed by Nigel Reynolds on 21,
our other top shot Tim Rowe had a bad start with 18 and never really
caught up after that.
Rod went on to shoot 23, 22 & 22 to finish on 90 ex 100 , whilst Nigel
got into gear and shot extremely well to shoot 21,24 & 24 and catch up
with Rod and equal his 90.
This meant we needed a shoot off to decide who would be Hampshire OT
Champion for 2009 so we all eagerly gathered at the layout to watch our
two top shoots do battle. Well Nigel went first and missed his target,
oh no we all went ! Rod followed and hit his, that's when the ref
awarded the title to Rod as under OT rules it is apparently sudden
death in a shoot off.
well we were surprised that it should end like that and no one was
happy so I had a word with the ground staff and they agreed that as it
was for a County title we could go ahead and re-shoot a round of 25 each
(thanks for that Barry & Dan) and so we did. All the experience of
being an England team member shone through Rod and he thoroughly enjoyed
showing us how to shoot 25 straight to win titles, Nigel had a bad
patch where he missed five targets in a row and could only finish with
an 18 and so Rod is the new Hampshire OT Champion.
Thanks to all the 13 Hampshire guns who turned up ,we shot the best we
could but more importantly we had a good time and enjoyed the day out,
well done guys and until the next time.

Report by Andy Gordge.

Hampshire Sporting championship at South Downs. Monday 3^rd May.
Dave Peckham and his team played host to the Hampshire Sporting Championship yet again and this year Dave gave the Sporting members a great day out. The course Dave and his team prepared earlier in the week gave the best of our Hampshire shots a tough time.
The weather didn’t help, cold and windy but boy did the venue pull in a huge entry, not just from Hampshire but Sussex as well who held their Championship there too.
It’s a shame, I hear you say that there is not a ground in Hampshire that will host the Sporting Championship which has the biggest following of all the disciplines shot by far.
A good turn out by Hampshire included several entries from the Ladies, Juniors and Vet’s, As the day progressed and the scores returned to the club house the names synonymous to the Sporting discipline like Richard Faulds, Ron King, Neil Lockton, Rick Stala returning with scores in the eighties sent alarm bells ringing to those waiting to shoot. Had Dave Peckham set a really hard course? Which many have criticized him for in the past well talking to the team manager it would appear some targets were a bit extreme, like a high tower quartering away from the shoot position.
And when George Digweed returned with a 92 several Hampshire heads dropped, but hey ho it’s the same for all that entered but sole destroying to those desperately wanting a Hampshire Team vest on their back, even George Digweed tried to get one but unfortunately he lives over the border, damn shame as we would love George to be in a Hampshire team, ever thought of moving George!!!
Ben Gordge, the Hampshire team manager, made a very good effort to make sure that there would be the big silver Champions Cup and shields for the worthy winners. A big thank you on his behalf to Atul Vijay who’s company Medicome very kindly sponsored the Ladies and Juniors Shields.
As the day concluded the final scores in it would appear that Neil Lockton had returned with a score of 88 earlier in the day and was announced by Dave Peckham as the Hampshire Champion, Ben presented the Hampshire Cup and badge and a bonus of Fifty pounds sponsored by the company SWL of Southampton.
But wait a minute a late returning score card with 90/100 and the name Colin Crockford a Hampshire member lands on the reception desk at 4.00pm, oop’s jumping the gun comes to mind and an embarrassing situation, sorry Neil an over site by the ground who thought that the card might have been binned and no further Hampshire cards were out there.
A new presentation ceremony by Ben and Dave Peckham this time to the delighted Colin who put in a personal best of 90 and collected the Cup, Title and Hampshire team Captains badge.
Colin who normally shoots at Tadley and Wylye Valley made the special trip to South downs as a change and did not realise there was the Hampshire Championship being staged so was quite surprised when he returned and saw the Hampshire prizes and quite innocently enquired as to would his score count. As he is a Hampshire resident a large spanner in the scoring system was heard to drop, well done Collin and we hope you will lead the Hampshire team at Newnham Park later this year.
The ladies Championship title went to Tanya Goodman who shot an excellent 70, well done and we hope you lead the ladies section in the Inter-counties too.
Junior Champion title went to sixteen year old Luke Elliot with a 77 and like Tanya, Luke will be looking at the other juniors scores nearer the time to find two more to join him at Newnham Park as well.
So the top ten of the day, Collin Crockford 90, Neil Lockton 88, Richard Faulds 87, Trevor Bell 86, Ron King 85, Ben Gordge team manager 82, Rick Stala 82, R May 80, Chimmy Chunge 79 and Nigel Frampton tied with D Gray on 78.
Don’t forget the 80 open sporting at Fareham CTC on the 24th of this month £100 bonus High Gun kindly sponsored by South Hants Volvo this is on top of the normal High gun prize and of course prizes in all Competition entry classes.

Hampshire regional report by Andy Gordge.

Hampshire Single Barrel.
Fareham CTC 5^th April was the venue for the Hampshire single barrel competition and it was quite well attended on this sunny Sunday.
Several well known Trap shooters went after this Hampshire title including two of the England DTL team Dave Toomer and Brian Vass but with out that second barrel it was to prove disappointing to them especially when a Sporting member beats you at your own game. Ben Gordge was in tune that day and decided to have ago as Ben said when you shoot sporting you rarely have two shots at a single target hence he cracked in a 48 ex 50 the two lost were put down to equipment break downs when calling for the target.
He then went on to shoot a twenty five straight in the shoot off for High Gun against a Berkshire member. Ben was presented with the distinctive Hampshire Shooting Team Vest the Hampshire Champion wire badge by David Bennett the Hampshire Chairman. Ben will now Captain the single barrel team at the inter-counties event at Southern Counties on August 9^th.

Hampshire CPSA Regional Report for the January / February 2010 issue of the PULL! Magazine by Andy Gordge.

Bell backs the Hampshire teams again.
Alister Bell the owner of Bell Microsystems based in Portsmouth has very kindly offered to support the Hampshire teams again this year. Hampshire Chairman David Bennett was very instrumental in raising the financial support last year which gave every I/C team entrant a very distinctive Top Gun shooting vest David will stay on as Chairman as too many of the management team.
Reflecting back over 2009 the vest incentive really worked with Hampshire winning several of the inter-counties, and if we did not win overall the individual members won most of the class prizes, fantastic.
It was the first time that I can remember the Hampshire CPSA management team winning six of the Hampshire Championship titles between them.
Many CPSA members from other counties have said Hampshire can turn out some really strong teams so we hope 2010 will be even better.

Newnham Park I/C Sporting.
One such I/C win was at Newnham October 25th, well done to the team manager Ben Gordge who using the qualifying scoring system and a lot of phone calls pulled together some very strong teams.
To get two senior teams a ladies, juniors and Vets team together and get them all to Newnham Pk, some three hours away takes some doing.
Lead by team Captain Collin Crockford with fellow senior team members Richard Faulds, John D Heagren, Trevor Bell, M E Grant, Neil Lockton, C Cheung, Ben Gordge and P Walford. The other counties watched and weeped when John Heagren belted in a 95, then a 91 followed by three 90’s giving a winning score of 456.
Ladies team, Sarah Hamburger, Carol Sawkins, and Tanya Whitfeild. 132 giving them 2^nd place.
Juniors Luke Elliott, Rob Stapleton and Adam Ewens. A winning 172 between them.
Vets. B Jewel and M Lambert. Returning a 164 placing them 2^nd.
And out of the top 15 scores that day from 132 entries seven were Hampshire members.
Team manager Ben would like to thank all the above mentioned for their efforts and commitment to Hampshire.

DTL I/C Newnham Park.
Not so lucky Hampshires DTL team came up against some tough competition from the other counties it was a long way to go which probably did not help. Dave Toomer shone for Hampshire missing his first target out and then went on to post 99 first barrel kills.
Chairman David Bennett and his team managers would like to give their thanks to all the members that participated in the 2009 qualifying system, travelled and entered into the I/C teams were ever they were held. David and the team hope that your enthusiasm to represent Hampshire and shoot for the individual Championships will carry on through 2010. With the renewed support from Bell Microsystems the team will be looking hard at ways to reward all the shooting achievements by Hampshire members in 2010.

Hampshire regional report by Andy Gordge.

ABT Intercounties Sunday 4th October.

Full teams ventured down to Southern Counties shooting ground and Oh boy what a ground, over the years the Hampshire members have watched this ground develop the new 40 room hotel so near finished, excellent!!! We sent a good team, not the strongest team but we held our own. At the half way we where level leaders with Devon and then we slipped, we missed several targets at the three quarter stage and in the final stage, this placed us second to Devon. High gum for Hampshire was Tony Gentili and Phil Eames both on 91. full score line up and results go to our web www.hampshirecpsa.org.uk

Where has the year gone!!

Many thanks to Bell Microsystems and Medicome for their very generous sponsorship which under the guidance of Hampshire Chairman David Bennett it was put to excellent use. The Hampshire shooting vests that were created with the sponsorship money gave something to focus on to shoot for, when a member received a vest and a place in an I/C team it rubber stamped a shooting achievement well done to all of those members that now own a very distinctive shooting vest.

I on behalf of the Hampshire Team led by David Bennett wish all the members an excellent Christmas and New Year.

Hampshire CPSA Regional Report for the August 2009 issue of the PULL! Magazine by Andy Gordge.

Hampshire Skeet Championship at Fareham CTC 31^st May.
Rick Stala the well known colourful shooting star collected yet another Hampshire Champion title, this time it is the Skeet Championship with a fantastic display of concentration from the start, 25 straight followed by another straight and another. Then his face hit the deck when he missed the first target out on stand one but Rick was skilled enough not to let it effect him and banged in the rest 99 ex 100, Rick, your the man.

Report by Brian Coupe, OT Team Manager.

14^th June ABT Fareham Ben bags yet another title.
The Fareham ABT layouts play host to the Hampshire ABT championship and there was no surprise a lot turned up for this favourite trap discipline. The trap boys where still smiling about the Single barrel title being snatched from the grasp of several England team members by Sporting member Ben Gordge in April only to see the cheeky smiling Ben book on for the ABT at Fareham. A great deal of leg pulling went on from several of the ABT England team when he came in with a 21 ex 25 on the first stint but it soon lessened off when Ben clocked up the next 50 straight and was well on his way to 75 but let one slip away. Not to worry the score board can’t lie Ben is the 2009 Hampshire ABT Champion and his smile is even bigger.
It was not that many years ago Hampshire’s Ben Gordge stood on the Embassy world Sporting Champion rostrum with Richard Faulds and Ben Brunting collecting a big cheque and cut glass decanter for winning B class, he had a big smile that day too.

Hampshire CPSA Regional Report for the June 2009 issue of the PULL! Magazine by Andy Gordge.

Hampshire Single barrel.
Fareham CTC 5^th April was the venue for the Hampshire single barrel competition and it was quite well attended on this sunny Sunday.
Several well known Trap shooters went after this Hampshire title including two of the England DTL team Dave Toomer and Brian Vass but with out that second barrel it was to prove disappointing to them especially when a Sporting member beats you at your own game. Ben Gordge was in tune that day and decided to enter the competition as Ben said when you shoot sporting you rarely have two shots at a single target hence he cracked in a 48 ex 50 the two lost were put down to equipment break downs when calling for the target.
He then went on to shoot a twenty five straight in the shoot off for High Gun against a Berkshire member. Ben was presented with the distinctive Hampshire Shooting Team Vest the Hampshire Champion wire badge by David Bennett the Hampshire Chairman. Ben will now Captain the single barrel team at the inter-counties at Southern Counties on August 9^th.

Hants and Wilts DTL Championship at Fareham CTC Wednesday April 29^th.
A very popular mid week Competition ten squads all took a day off work and met up for a great day at the Titchfield Lane venue the sun shone and the competition heads switched on.
The scores came in thick and fast several twenty five straights posted early but as time went on the C class member D Vidler edged out in front and kept the pressure on and took the title of Hants and Wilts Champion with a 99/290.
The return of Graham Tourle to the DTL scene has been interesting his scores this season creeping up and up he recently posted a 100/294 at Maylands then equalled High gun with Brian Vass with a 99/295 yet another member focusing on one of those Hampshire Team vests.

Sport Trap at South Downs GC 26^th April.
Another Hampshire Championship and yet again a good turn out for the Sport Trap at Dave Peckhams ground and Dave put on some tricky targets for the Hampshire members coupled with the good weather it made for a good competition. The good old faithful members made it into the top ten but Neil Lockton went a head and posted a grand 91 five clear of Ron King and ten clear of position three member A Harper on 81. Sixteen year old Luke Elliott beat fifth place Rick Stala 77, C Chunge 77, M Webb 75, Lee Chambers 75, Martin Bell 75 and the Solent sprinkler Nigel Frampton 74.
Neil will now Captain the I/C team at Newnham Park on the 4^th of October and hopefully using that 34 inch Perazzi MX12 lead the team to a victory.

Hampshire Championship dates for the diary, Fareham CTC ABT 14^th June, same venue DTL 19^th July and the Fitasc at Wylye Valley on 26^th July, phone entries only on 01458 273077. OT 7th June NCSC Bisley

And don’t forget to check the web site www.hampshirecpsa.org.uk for all the latest news and scores which are up dated weekly and please e-mail me on gordge205@btinternet.com with any shoot related achievements.

Hampshire CPSA Regional Report for the May 2009 issue of the PULL! Magazine by Andy Gordge.

Club Champion Stephen Halfacre
March 15^th 100 ABT at Fareham CTC a good start to the shooting year for Stephen Halfacre proving why he is in the England team yet again a solid 95 taking the High gun position and also becoming the Club Champion. Close on his tail was Hampshire member Tim Rowe posting a 94 taking 1^st in "A" class.
Fareham’s non registered Sporting layouts are still entertaining the masses getting even more popular than ever, here is a tip don’t go to early wait until mid day and the bulk of the visitors are going off for Sunday lunch. Seven stands fifty targets from fourteen challenging trap positions and much smaller queues and last entry 2.30 pm. Rick Stala took High Gun with 48, 1^st in "AA" Ben Gordge 47, Ron King 46 and Derek Campion 45.

Hampshire Top Gun Vest’s
A big thank-you to Swift UK near Fair Oak specialists in embroidering shoots accessories like the Hampshire shoot vests and what a job they have made of our team vests. Mr Alastair Bell of our main sponsor Bell Micro Systems Ltd handed the first of seventy vests over to a very proud Chairman, David Bennett.
To view all our sponsors go to on our web site hampshirecpsa.org.uk the site is up dated at incredible speed by John Lower. Results are on the screen on the same day or the following day after shoots all the Championship fixtures and news etc it’s now a must for members to visit.

First of the Hampshire Championships.
The All-round is a discipline to test the flexibility of member’s a hundred targets four disciplines ABT, S/B, Skeet and Sporting great stuff.
Fareham CTC is the only ground in Hampshire able to put on the All-Round and on Sunday 29^th March they didn’t fail to entertain a really good turn out by members a total of nineteen squads on this sunny Sunday. The score board is always of interest watching the trap shooters Sporting scores, the Skeet shooters trap scores etc one member showed he is a great All-round participant Rick Stala did well from the off posting a 23 in the ABT and 24 in the Sporting section.
Moving into the afternoon he went on and shot a 20 on the single barrel and a 22 on the skeet which was enough to lift the Hampshire shield, badge and title of Captain for the All Round inter-counties at Newnham Park on 18^th October.
The ground was also the Championship venue for Sussex, Berkshire and was also the clubs Presidents Cup final which was won by the young Luke Elliott with an 86.
Ironically the only 25 straight in any discipline shot that day by the 39 Hampshire entries was posted by me on the ABT finishing seventh overall, the others making up the top ten where C Cheung 85, Andy Shore 85, Ben Gordge 85, MC Allen 84, P Moran 83, Steve Watts 83 and Nigel Reynolds 82.

Hampshire CPSA Regional Report for the April 2009 issue of the PULL! Magazine by Andy Gordge.

New Chairman new idea’s, new passion.

David Bennett chaired his first team meeting on the 18^th of February and invited to that meeting were all the future team managers that volunteered their help and support at the AGM held in January.
David made it clear he had several items and ideas he wished to achieve in the forth coming year, for me it was obvious that David has the driving force the passion and the inspiration to kick start the Hampshire competition scene.
One of several topics up for debate was how we are going to get you the members to shoot for Hampshire using the very generous sponsorship money raised. The final proposed way to resolve a few initial problems that have faced management teams in the past such as the lack of enthusiasm to shoot in the inter-counties and what could we give the individual team member to be proud of as reward for their achievement in making a team?
Well I am very pleased to announce on behalf of the new Chairman and his management team that they plan to give each member that makes an inter-county team a very distinctive shooting vest and yes I did state give. They hope this will both encourage member’s interest in representing Hampshire in the team events and the teams would also look extremely smart at the venues.
If you make the team it would be a condition that the vests are worn at competition venues this would give a great team presence I’m sure that any recipient of such a prestigious shooting accessory will be wearing it all the time at all the shoots.
Botley based Town and Country Sports have very kindly discounted the purchase price of their popular black "Top Gun" shooting vest. The vests will have the Hampshire rose encircled with Hampshire shooting Team on the front and the "Hampshire Shooting Team" logo across the rear shoulder area with the sponsors name and logo "Bell Microsystems Systems Ltd" below.
To qualify for a Hampshire team place in your discipline is not going to be easy the teams sent to represent Hampshire will be made up of members that have registered the highest three scores out of the last five results. The scores will be on the CPSA registered score board and the cut off date will be twenty one days prior to an inter-county event this will make it clear who will be invited to shoot for the county.
The County Champion with the help of the team manager will select and invite from those top scores the members to shoot for Hampshire and receive the coveted Hampshire Shooting Team vest.
If you wish to be in a team we will need your contact details so please fill out the slips that will appear shortly at the shooting grounds and return them ASP.

Hunt and help the colts.

Another area up for review is our Hampshire colts we want to hear from you as we would like to help you achieve your goal all you need to do is register your interest to do well in your favourite discipline. To register is easy just contact me Andy Gordge on gordge205@btinternet.com we have imposed an age limit of 16 years old the rewards for those that qualify for Hampshire CPSA support will be worth the effort so come on you colts e-mail me your details.

No stopping the King.

As in the previous edition I reported the sad news that Ron King had broken his right arm in several places on Christmas day and I did predict he would not hang around in finding away to shoot. I was spot on with my prediction Ron’s passion for shooting is unbelievable he found an older Krieghoff stock cut bit out added bits in so his finger would reach the trigger and entered a few competitions to see how he would cope.
A bit slow to start with bearing in mind his arm is plastered up and beyond the elbow several metal plates complete with a dozen screws he then went on to shoot a 48 ex 50 sporting at Fareham CTC taking AA class and then recently took High Gun at Up-Avon with a 90 ex 100 fantastic stuff glad to see you back Ron.