Cheshire Shooter Wins the 'Alan Millington Memorial Trophy' for the fourth consecutive year!

 

We are pleased to announce that Cheshire's Brett Davies, has won the Alan Millington Memorial Trophy for 2016.

This annual 'Sportrap' event is extremely popular (as was Alan) and has to be squadded to fit everyone in on the day, watch out for the 2017 event and call early to book in to avoid disappointment, please find a fitting tribute to Alan Millington below;

Alan Millington was a real character who knew just about every sporting shooter in Cheshire and the surrounding counties and had a good word for virtually everyone of them. Good friends fondly tell us he could talk 'the hind leg off a donkey' and when he rang you up you knew you'd be in for a long night!  When he got round to shooting, often with a roll-up dangling from his lip, he was an excellent shot. We are proud to share with you Alan was a regular in the Cheshire ESP Team and although a Veteran was often picked for the Senior Team.

 

His early death shocked everyone as he was within a week or so of a visit to the NHS to get him fit again and we all thought he would soon be back on the circuit stopping to talk to top-shots and novices alike.

 

Alan shot equally well with two guns, a Beretta semi-auto and a Miroku MK38. If he had a bad day with one of them he used to say "that's going in the naughty cupboard" and next week the other gun would be out until he had a bad day with that and the cycle would be repeated. The author remembers Alan sharing a story where he had to shoot his semi-auto with only single shots as he’d left the reloading mechanism (piston) at home on his work-bench when he last cleaned it, we wonder who was destined for the naughty cupboard that weekend...

He was also famous for his misplaced words, (spoonerisms?) often getting the names wrong of notable shooters, Kevin ‘Mayo’ and Mark ‘Bald’ come to mind.

 

Following Alan’s passing, Mike Faux of Fauxdegla Shooting Ground very kindly donated the trophy for the ‘Alan Millington Memorial Shoot’ and we are sure Alan would be pleased that another popular Cheshire shooter, namely Brett Davies, has won this event for the past four years.

 

Alan Millington - RIP 

(Our thanks go to Cheshire's Andy Jones for his contibution to Alan's story)