LINCOLNSHIRE ABT CHAMPIONSHIP

HELD AT EAST YORKSHIRE CLAY SHOOTING GROUND

ON SUNDAY 2ND JUNE

L-R  John Winn (A class), Richard Hall (D class), Jack Wilkinson (Lincs champion & overall high gun), Jackie Houghton (Ladies champion & C class), Dick Cooper (Veterans champion & B class) & Jayden Wilson (Junior Champion)

For the second time this year we were treated to a day of wall to wall sunshine - it is June after all so not before time.  Conditions were just about as perfect as you could get but nevertheless 100 straights at ABT don't come along very often.  Everyone knows that Jack Wilkinson shoots well but no-one could quite believe their eyes as 25 after 25 started to appear on the scoreboard against his name.  Everyone waited for the result of the final round but, although there were 2 or 3 nervous second barrels towards the end, Jack held his nerve to put in that elusive perfect score to take high gun overall and to lift the Lincolnshire ABT trophy.  This is the 4th time that Jack's name has appeared on this trophy, the first appearance being in 2012 when he won the overall and the junior trophy.

Jack Wilkinson - Lincolnshire champion 2024

Another one of our shooters who is no stranger to winning an ABT trophy is Jackie Houghton who once again retained the ladies trophy equalling her last year's score of 88.  This is now the 13th time that Jackie has picked up this trophy since our records began in 2003.  Although there were some decent ladies' scores Jackie was really in a league of her own beating her nearest rival by 7 targets.

Jackie Houghton - Lincolnshire Ladies ABT champion

Always a force to be reckoned with, John Winn started his campaign well with a 24 and 25 but then he let some daylight in with a 3rd round score of 21.  Although at 50 Dick Cooper was 3 points behind John, he moved up a gear to drop just 1 more target in the last 50 giving him a final score of 95 pipping John by 1 for the veterans title.  This score was also the top B class score but John had the consolation of taking A class.

 

Dick Cooper - Lincolnshire Veterans Champion & B class winner 

Of recent years, juniors have been hard to come by so we were particularly pleased to welcome Jayden Wilson this year.  Jayden put in a very creditable 79 to take the junior title.  Jayden is actually a colt but for county purposes colts and juniors are merged together.  Jayden not only picked up the trophy but was also the recipient of 50 "Lucy" cartridges kindly donated by Lucy Hall to be used for the benefit of juniors.

Jayden Wilson - Lincolnshire Junior Champion

Richard Hall completed the line up of winners as his score of 81 took D class.  Richard finished in some style with a 25 straight

The atmosphere at East Yorkshire Clay Shooting Ground was absolutely buzzing.  So many members generously donated raffle prizes and there was a big demand for raffle tickets helped by the exceptional salesmanship of committee member, Brett Aisthorpe, who gave up his day to run the raffle raising £174 for Lincolnshire CPSA funds.  

The Lincolnshire ABT team will be selected from this event.  The initial list of team members will be posted on this website shortly.  As the two team shoots are not until October, team members will be contacted closer to the date to confirm availability.

Thanks to Rob Hall and the team at East Yorkshire for a well run competition and for making it an extremely enjoyable day.

Congratulations to all the winners.

 

RESULTS

NAME	CATEGORY/CLASS	SCORE
JACK WILKINSON	HIGH GUN	100
JOHN WINN	A CLASS	94
DICK COOPER	B CLASS	95
JACKIE HOUGHTON	C CLASS	88
RICHARD HALL	D CLASS	81
JACKIE HOUGHTON	LADIES CHAMPION	88
DICK COOPER	VETERAN CHAMPION	95
JAYDEN WILSON	JUNIOR CHAMPION	79