EAST MIDLANDS INTERCOUNTIES DTL

East Midlands Intercounties DTL – Sunday 23rd August.

What a fantastic day of shooting at the Nottingham & District Gun Club for the 100 DTL incorporating the East Midlands Intercounties championship! Shooters were treated to lovely weather with barely any wind, making for some exceptional scores across all categories.

Intercounties Team Results:

Open Team Champions: Suffolk (1430)

(Paul Neal, Geoff Howlett, Harry Poulton, Nigel Swallow, Corbie Barnard, Barry Randell, Andrew Whiting).

Open Team Runner-Up: Lincolnshire (1429)

(Paul Smith, Andrew Jackson, Dale Houghton, Richard Hall, Trevor Hawkins, Michael Allen, Mike Burton).

Veteran Team Champions: Suffolk (566)

(Frank Welham, Jean Michel Wiart, Nick Harvard).

Ladies Team Champions: Lincolnshire (420)

(Lizzie MacGreggor-White, Alex Sayer).

Junior Team Champions: Lincolnshire (485)

(Harry Hawkins, Teddy Wood).

Individual Highlights & Cash Winners

Overall High Gun & Junior High Gun: Huge congratulations to Edward Armett, who topped the leaderboard with an incredible 100/298! Edward also claimed 1st place in the AA class cash prize (£30.00).

AA Class Runner-Up: A brilliant performance by Paul Neal, who was right on Edward's heels with an impressive 100/295, taking 2nd place in AA class (£20.00).

Outstanding Scoring: The standard of shooting throughout the field was remarkably high, marked by an impressive six 99s shot on the day.

A Class 1st: Joint win for William Gilbert & Giovanni Russo (£35.00)

B Class 1st: John Aldous (£30.00)

B Class 2nd: Bob Tucker (£20.00)

C Class 1st: Teddy Wood (£25.00)

C Class 2nd: Lizzie MacGreggor White (£10.00)

Today also marked a poignant occasion as we saw Colin Butler attend our ground for the last time as an East Midlands representative. For the last 20 years, Colin has done such an amazing job for the sport and our region—he will be missed immensely, and we wish him all the very best!

A massive thank you to the entire team at Nottingham & District Gun Club for putting on a faultless event from start to finish. Thank you to everyone who travelled to compete, and congratulations to all the winners!

 

Carl Smith