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Essex Top Nationals at Allround Championships

On Sunday 25th October the Essex team of shooters met at Northampton gun club to take part in the All-round National championship, one shooter had chosen not to turn out but shoot at another shooting ground so it is with great thanks to Zac Palmer for stepping in at the very last second to make a full team.

 

The conditions were warm and sunny for the time of year but the light conditions made the blaze targets on the DTL, Ball trap and skeet very hard to see clearly and this was reflected in the scores that were coming in to the club house.

 

When the shooting was over it was a long wait before the final scores were calculated and the Essex team were Victorious winning by a healthy ten target margin in the seniors event and coming third in the veterans.

 

It is time for a special mention to Lewis Steed who shot like a true champion hitting a  magnificent 94 on his way to taking the high-gun prize, and title of National inter-counties champion, and winning by four targets over his nearest rival.

 

In the Essex team were:

Scott Greenfield

Robert Humphreys

Peter Humphreys

Paul Brewster

Patrick (MAC) McLauchlan

Laurence Greenleaf

Lewis Steed

Zac Palmer

Dave Bignell

 

Well Done and thanks to all.

 

All scores to be found on CPSA website.

 

 

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Essex Triumph at 2015 National Inter-Counties Olympic Trap

 

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Long Wait for Skeet Result

The Essex senior skeet team had a long wait on Sunday, 18th October at Northampton Shooting Ground. Their overall team score of 479 ex 500 led the field for much of the day at the National Inter-Counties Championship but, sadly, late in the afternoon an excellent 491 from Yorkshire and 485 from Northmaptonshire ​pushed them down to a still very respectable third place overall.

The weather was not very helpful, with a dull grey sky merging into the high banks at Northampton and making it hard to pick the clays up. Despite this, the team all produced respectable scores with team captain Darren Sweeney scoring 98 closely followed by Malcolm Clarke on 96 and the rest of the squad close behind. Huge thanks to Ray Rogers who stepped into the team at the last minute following a late cancellation from another squad member.

Diane Boutcher recovered from a relatively poor 21 in her first round to finish on 92 ex 100 to take the third place overall in the ladies section.

 

The team above (l to r): Ray Rogers, Malcolm Clarke, Robert Humphreys, Diane Boutcher, Darren Sweeney, Pam Clarke, Asif Mitha, Shaun Pipe, Ollie Pipe, and Richard Boutcher

 

 

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Essex Success at South East Olympic Trap Tournament

After a tense three way sudden death shoot-off, Phil Meyler of Essex emerged the overall champion with a score of 94. Chris Wright also of Essex took the Veterans title with a 91. See olympic-trap--otr for the report and photos.

 

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2015 Essex Sporting Championship and First 2016 Selection Shoot

See sporting-results and sporting-selection-table for more details.

 

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Essex Skeet Doubles Championship Results

P. Brewster shot a great 98 ex 100 to take the 2015 Essex Skeet Doubles Championship on Saturday the 19th September. See skeet-doubles for the report and photos.

 

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Essex Junior Wins Skeet Junior Title

Olly Pipe won the Junior category at the South-East Inter-Counties Skeet Tournament held at Bisley on the 13th September. The Essex Seniors Team also achieved a creditable joint runners-up place in the same tournament. See skeet-results for more details and photos.

Olly Pipe, SE Inter-Counties Junior Skeet Champion 2015

 

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Ian Schweir wins Essex Sportrap Championship 2015

The Essex Sportrap championship took place at Clacton gun club on Saturday 5th September 2015. Andy Riva set up four super layouts that proved testing enough for the very best of shooters - well done and thanks to him from the 74 shooters who entered the compertition.

The Essex Champion was Ian Schweir on a total of 89 just one ahead of Robert Humphreys.

Ladies champion was Bev Griggs and Veteran Champion Jeff Bone. Once again we sadly had no colt or junior entries.

 

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Essex Sporting Championship & 2016 Selection Shoot Date Announced

Essex Allround Challenge

The Essex Allround challenge took place at Clacton gun club on the 22nd August 2015, the weather was giving the shooters a treat as the air was still and hot and the scores reflected the conditions with some high scores. Thanks to all at Clacton Gun Club for such a good shoot.

Winner and champion was P Mayhew with 96 joint runner up were L Greenleaf and A Stephenson both on 94.

 

 

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Essex Junior Takes S.E. DTL Title

Dave Argent, an Essex Junior shot (pictured below), took the Junior Championship Title at the South Eastern Inter-Counties DTL Tournament on the 2nd August. In very sunny and warm conditions his 97 for 287 was enough to see off his junior opponents from the other counties. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In Memoriam

Our sympathies go to the family and friends of Mick Clements who recently lost his battle with illness. He was a long-time member of the Lawns Shooting Club but many others in Essex will know him as he was regularly to be found at shooting events around the county.

 

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Clay Shooting Internet TV Opens Up

A new monthly on-line only video channel called Claysports has opened up exclusively to cover clay shooting sports. The latest issue includes coverage of the Beretta Worlds:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3KxM9c3T7K_UDh8Ljx6UDED_Y76_rFjB

 

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Essex Olympic Skeet Team Announced

See olympic-skeet--osk for full details.

 

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Troy Petherbridge Straight for Double Rise Championship

Maylands GC hosted the 2015 Double Rise Essex Championship on the 9th August. Troy Petherbridge took the title with 40/40. See double-rise--d-r for more details and the other winners from this event.

 

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Shoot-Off for Essex Single Barrel Championships

Lee Byard and Dave Lewzey tied on 93 after shooting at 100 targets at the Essex Single Barrel Championships at Maylands GC on the 26th July. Lee took the title after a shoot-off. See single-barrel for more details and pictures.

 

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Chris Wright Wins 2015 UT Title

Chris Wright (below, receiving his trophy from Nicky Barker, wife of Nuthampstead Shooting Ground owner) scored 92 to take the 2015 Universal Trench title. See universal-trench for a full report and more photos.

 

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Close Shoot-Off at Essex All-Round Championship

Dave Bignell (below with his trophies) finally overcame Robert Humphreys in a close-fought shoot-off after they tied on 90/100 in the 2015 Essex All-Round Championship at the Clacton Gun Club on the 11th July. Please see all-round--a-r for a report of the day and some more photos.

 

 

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Vet Wins Skeet Championship

G. Gooday, a Vet, shot an almost perfect 99 to win the Essex Skeet Championship for 2015 at Clacton GC on the 27th June. Rob Nash, below, took the Steve Todd Trophy. See skeet-results for more details of the day's shoot.

 

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Sporting Team Announced

The Essex Sporting team for the South-East Inter-counties @ Southdown Gun Club on 25th/26th July 2015 is as follows:

 

Scott Greenfield	EE49159
Andrew Finch	EE36317
Laurence Greenleaf	EE110246
Stuart Clarke	EE27222
Oliver Wilde	EE114647
Ian Schwier	EE125416
Judy Lock (lady)	EE105706
Dave Bignell (Vet)	EE35980

 

Junior and Colt To be Arranged

 

 

Second Sporting Team Selection Results

Southdown Gun Club hosted the second and final Essex Sporting Team Selection Shoot on Sunday, 28th June 2015. Top score on the day went to O Wilde on 87. The full results can be seen on the sporting-selection-table page of the website. Thanks very much to Helen and the team at Southdown for putting the event on. 

The team will be announced in due course.

 

First 2015 Sporting Selection Shoot Results

Many thanks to Phil Moss and his team at Barrow Heath Shooting ground for hosting the first of the Essex Sporting selection shoots. Forty two Essex shooters took part in what was a high scoring event that was held along with the Russ Wall memorial shoot, the weather was warm and sunny with only a slight wind and there was a very good selection of high quality targets set over twelve stands. It seems a pity that we did not have a single junior or colt enter lets hope they turn up for the next selection shoot at Southdown.

See sporting-selection-table for the current standings.

(Dave Bignell)

 

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DTL Championship and Team News

Eddie Mills has won the 2015 DTL Championship - see dtl-results for more details.

The 2015 Essex DTL team has also been announced - see dtl-results for the squad details. Congratulations to those selected and we wish them every success in their up-coming tournaments!

 

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Andy Bond is the 2015 Essex Olympic Skeet Champion

See olympic-skeet--osk for a full report of this event.

 

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Chris Wright Takes Olympic Trap Title

<span new="" roman";"="" en-gb;="" roman";="" "times="" calibri",sans-serif;="" 12pt;="" ar-sa;="">Chris Wright emerged the 2015 Essex Olympic Trap Champion with a score of 90. See olympic-trap--otr for more details and photos.

 

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Graham Woodman Perfect Score takes ZZ Title

Please see zz-helice for more details and a picture of the winners.

 

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John Haas takes ABT Title

John Haas (pictured below receiving his trophy from Nicky Barker) took the first Essex title of 2015 with a win in the ABT championship on the 29th March. See abt for more details and pictures.

 

 

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Essex AGM 2015

 

The 2015 Essex AGM took place on the 24^th March at a new venue, the Royal Oak in Stambridge. A good attendance congregated in the pub’s restaurant area to carry out the usual business of such functions but were also witness to a presentation by John Offord to Billy Logan in recognition of his remarkable feat of shooting two hundred 100-straights. Following the normal proceedings, everyone was treated to a marvellous selection of food and a well-supported raffle. Thanks to Glen Defreitas from Shrove Hill SG, Field, Stream and Covet, Olly Searle from Essex SG, Graham Ferris from Graham's shoot at Cold Norton, Eastern Sporting, Essex Gun, Dave at Leech and Sons Gunsmiths at boreham, Chris Theobald at High House Skeet, Phil Moss at Barrow Heath, John Dyson at Hepworth Hall, Jim Mc Sweeney at the Lawns Shooting Club, and Paul Burrows and Dave Bignell from the committee, all of whom generously donated raffle prizes for the event. 

 

The attendees start to congregate at the new AGM venue.

 

Billy Logan (right above) receiving his award for 200 x 100 straights from John Orford

 

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Skeet Selection Shoot

The skeet selection shoot at Clacton took place on Saturday the 21st March 2015. See skeet-selection for more details.

 

 

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South-East Inter-Counties Skeet Tournament 2015

This year's South East Region Skeet Championship was held at NCSC Bisley where 9 teams took part in somewhat variable weather conditions. Essex started strongly with 3 25 straights in the first round from team captain Darren Sweeney, Jack Greenleaf, and Robert Humphreys. After some continued consistent scoring from all team members, the team ended up with 481 ex 500 which was jointly leading the field with Kent for much of the afternoon until the last team of the day, Oxfordshire, came in with a total of 485 to take the title by 4 targets leaving Essex as joint runners-up. Essex high gun in the senior's team was Darren Sweeney with 98 followed closely by Shaun Pipe on 97.

Essex achieved even better success with Olly Pipe winning the juniors with a very decent 93. Judy Lock posted a respectable 88 and was enough for 4th in the Ladies division and Richard Boutcher also ended up with a 4th place finish in the veterns' category with a decent 93.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who took part because if it wasn't for yourselves taking part these events wouldn't be able to happen. Darren Sweeney.

The Essex Team (left to right): Malcolm Clarke, Jack Greenleaf, Richard Boutcher, Darren Sweeney, Robert Humphreys, Judy Lock, Olly Pipe, and Shaun Pipe.

 

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2015 Essex Skeet Championship

On Saturday, 27th June 2015, the hottest day of the year so far, the start of the promised heatwave greeted the 44 shooters who made the trip to Clacton Gun Club for the 2015 Essex Skeet Championship.

A 'hot' pace was set by Graham Gooday in the first squad out when he returned a score of 99, dropping his only missed bird in his first round and finishing with 75 straight. In fact, this early score was never beaten throughout the rest of the day leaving him as Champion and the Vet's winner, although O Wilde and Chris Theobald both made good attempts finishing joint second on 97.

Amongst a number of competitors finishing on 96, only one was eligible for the Steve Todd Trophy for Class B and C shooters - that was Rob Nash on his first competitive skeet outing. He is pictured below receiving his trophy from Helen Todd. Judy Lock took the Ladies trophy. Sadly there were no junior or colts entries this year.

Above: Graham Gooday with his skeet trophies

Above: Rob Nash receives the Steve Todd trophy

 

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2015 Skeet Teams Announced

Skeet Team Captain, Darren Sweeney has announced the teams to represent the county in the two inter-counties tournaments that we compete for. The South-East Regional Tournament is to be held at the NCSC, Bisley this year and the National Inter-Counties will be held at Northampton. The teams are:

Seniors

 

Ladies

 

Veterans

Juniors

Ollie Pipe

 

 

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Skeet Selection Shoot

The skeet selection shoot that had already been planned prior to changes to the process, took place on Saturday, 21^st March at the Clacton Shooting Ground. As a result of this change of status, it was disappointingly attended by Essex shooters, but those that did take part had an enjoyable day despite some challenging weather conditions. The low early scores were a sure sign that the high and blustery winds would impact on most people’s returns. Although still difficult later on, P Brewster managed two straights in the middle of his round of 97 to finish as the highest Essex gun on the day, followed by Robert Humphreys in the seniors section. Ken Peirse was the highest placed vet and Judy Lock returned the best lady’s score. Thanks to Andy Riva and his team for looking after this event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judy lock on her way to the highest lady's score at the selection shooot

Robert Humphreys who shot the second-highest seniors score

 

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2015 Essex Skeet Team Selection

The selection process for the skeet teams for the 2015 season will be different to recent years. It will now be based on the on-going returns of anyone who has registered an interest in shooting for the team with committee member Darren Sweeney. He can be contacted by e-mail at darrensweeney956@yahoo.co.uk.  Please make sure you contact him if you would like to be considered for the team.

There will also be a single selection shoot at Clacton on the 21^st March 2015 which is optional but can be used to count as one of your returns for consideration.

It is a stated objective of the committee that, wherever possible, the skeet tournament events should be shot as a team with everyone shooting together in their squads, and they ask for your co-operation in meeting this objective when  putting yourself forward for selection.

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2015

The 2015 Essex Sporting Championship was held at Hepworth Hall 04/10/2015.

Winner	Scott Greenfield
Lady	June Speakman
Veteran	Jeoff Bone
Colt	Ryan Dodd

 

Report.

 

The weather was super for October - warm and sunny with hardly any wind, and the 100 targets over 12 stands were, as we would expect from John Dyson, well worth the entry fee so a special thanks to him and his team at Hepworth Hall for hosting the event.

 

At the end of the shoot there was a three way tie with Scott Greenfield, Stuart Clarke and Lewis Steed all with a score of 92. As Scott was the only one to stay he was awarded the championship. Lady champion was June Speakman  84, Veteran Champion Jeoff Bone 88 and Colt Champion was 12 year old Ryan Dodd with a very good 61. The awards were handed out by John Dyson and Luke Riddington to end what was a most enjoyable day.

 

This was also the first selection shoot for the 2016 season - see sporting-selection-table for the latest positions.

 

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