Welcome to the Staffordshire CPSA Double Rise (DR) Page

Double Rise (DR) is shot like DTL, but two targets are thrown at the same time, one going right and one left. Five doubles are shot at each stand, so 50 targets make one round. One point is awarded for each target hit.

Team Manager: Matt Pickford

County Championship: Sunday 3 May - Ranton Clay Target Club

West Midlands Area Champs: Sunday 6 September - Ranton Clay Target Club

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 Double Rise County Championship - 3rd May 2026 

2025 Champion, Darren Wood

 Date: Sunday 3rd May

 Venue: Ranton Clay Target Club

To register to compete in the Staffs Double Rise County Championship:

 Email: rctc.booking@gmail.com

Great to have the Staffordshire Double Rise County Championship again.

It will take place at Ranton Clay Target Club on Sunday 3rd May. 

This West Midlands Area Championship is also taking place at Ranton on 6th September.

Contact Ranton directly to book your place.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Matt Pickford - Team Manager

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 DR County & WM Area Championship - 7th Sept 2025 

In what could be described as rather mixed weather conditions, Ranton Clay Target Club held the Staffordshire County Championship and West Midlands Area Championship for Double Rise today.

Firstly, let me thank all the team at Ranton for all their had work and effort in delivering a great shoot that ran faultlessly.

With a great turn out of shooters the scoreboard was constantly changing as targets were smashed and scores logged.

The results for Staffordshire are as follows:

County Champion - Darren Wood

Seniors - John Simmons

Veterans - John Owen

Ladies - Gill Grealey

Darren Wood

     

John Simmons                                         Gill Grealey

The results for the Area Championships are as follows:

Open

Gold - Darren Wood (Staffordshire)

Silver - Toby Hurstfield (Cheshire)

Bronze - John Simmons (Staffordshire)

Veterans

Gold - John Owen (Staffordshire)

Silver - Graham Evans (Shropshire)

Bronze - Robert Borsley (Staffordshire)

Ladies

Gold - Sarah Milroy (Cheshire)

Silver - Georgia Chamberlain (Derbyshire)

Bronze - Gill Grealey (Staffordshire)

Juniors

Toby Hurstfield (Cheshire)

A big thank you and congratulations to everyone who came and shot for you respective counties and a further thank you to all at Ranton for their superb efforts. I will be reaching out to people that won medals but were not there to accept them so we can make sure you get your hard-won awards.

Matt Pickford - Team Manager

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 Double Rise County Championship - 7th September 2025 

 Date: Sunday 7th September

 Venue: Ranton Clay Target Club

To register to compete in the Staffs Double Rise County Championship:

 Email: rctc.booking@gmail.com

The return of the CPSA Staffordshire Double Rise County Championship!!

It will take place at Ranton Clay Target Club on Sunday 7th September.  This event will also include the West Midlands Area Championship.

Contact Ranton directly to book your place.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Valerie-Anne Barrow - Team Manager

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Double Rise at Ranton – 1 June 2025 

Great to see Double Rise return to the County with our friends at Ranton hosting a registered competition that included the Derbyshire County Championship

A fine competition with plenty of entries including regulars and new faces.  Overall High Gun on the day was Staffordshire’s Darren Wood with 85/100 with John Simmons joint third on 79 and winner in B class.

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Double Rise Staffordshire County Championship – 4 June 2023

Well done to all those who took part in the Double Rise Staffordshire County Championship at Ranton Clay Target Club today.

Another hot and sunny one in the heart of the County.

Some great performances from our county shooters with the trophy winners as follows:-

County and Veteran Champion: Colin Heathcote

2023 DR Champion - Colin Heathcote

Ladies County Champion: Gill Grealey

2023 Ladies Champion - Gill Grealey

No entry in the Juniors category.

Full results at https://www.cpsa.co.uk/.../double-rise-ranton-clay.../113018

For those new to Double Rise (DR), it is shot like DTL, but two targets are thrown at the same time, one going right and one left. More info at: https://www.cpsa.co.uk/disciplines#DR

Alan Grealey, Gill Grealey and Carole Wilson

Steve – Vice-Chair and Secretary, Staffs CPSA

Many thanks to Carole Wilson for the photos!

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 Double Rise County Championship - 4th June 2023 

 Date: Sunday 4th June

 Venue: Ranton Clay Target Club

To register to compete in the Staffs Double Rise County Championship:

 Call 01785 223621 / 07764 361690 or

 Email: rctc.booking@gmail.com

The CPSA Staffordshire Double Rise County Championship will take place at Ranton Clay Target Club on Sunday 4th June.

Contact Ranton directly on 01785 223621 or 07764 361690 to book your place.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Ian Hull, Double Rise Team Manager

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Double Rise Staffs County Championship – 5 June 2022 

Congratulations to all those who took part in the Double Rise Staffordshire County Championship at Ranton Clay Target Club.

Some great performances from our county shooters with the main trophy winners as follows:-

Senior County Champion and overall High Gun: Dave Malpass 

Lady County Champion: Carole Wilson 

Veteran County Champion: Martin Hambleton

Full results at https://www.cpsa.co.uk/scores/fixture/double-rise-ranton-clay-target-club-20220605/106866 

For those new to Double Rise (DR), it is shot like DTL, but two targets are thrown at the same time, one going right and one left.

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 Double Rise County Championship 2022

 Sunday 5th June
 Ranton Clay Target Club
 01785 223621 / 07764 361690
 rctc.booking@gmail.com
 n/a

Contact Ranton directly to book your place.

Good luck to everyone taking part and we look forward to seeing you there

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Double Rise - West Midlands Area Championship - 13 Feb 2022 

 Date: Sunday 13th February

 Venue: East Yorkshire Clay Shooting Ground

Many congratulations to Staffordshire's Dave Malpass for taking home a Bronze medal at the first Championship event of the season. Great shooting, Dave!

Many congratulations also to Staffordshire shooter David Waring. A superb Silver medal in Vetrans

You can view all the scores here https://www.cpsa.co.uk/.../double-rise-east.../106448

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 Double Rise – Staffs County Championship – 6 June 2021

Congratulations to all those who took part in the Double Rise Staffordshire County Championship at Ranton Clay Target Club on Sunday.

High Gun was Tom Waring (Derbyshire) with 73ex100 - congratulations to Tom.

Some great performances from our county shooters with the main trophy winners as follows:

Men's County Champion: Dave Malpass 72

Lady's and Junior County Champion: Leah Southall 58

Veteran County Champion: Benjamin Goldstraw 59

Full results at https://www.cpsa.co.uk/.../double-rise-ranton-clay.../102812

For those new to Double Rise (DR), it is shot like DTL, but two targets are thrown at the same time, one going right and one left.

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 Double Rise County Championship 2017 

There was a great turnout for the Staffordshire Double Rise County Championship held at Ranton Gun Club.

The weather was good to us all until around lunchtime then the wind came along with a bit of rain. Still, it is June, so what else should we expect!?

34 shooters took part on the day with 26 shooters from Staffordshire - a great turn out.

The Results

Staffordshire County Champion

David Malpass with a winning score of 81/100

Keith Smith was runner up with 77/100

Darren Wood & J Nealen were joint third with 72/100

 

Staffordshire Lady & Junior County Champion

Leah Southall with a winning score of 60/100

 

Dawn Morgan was ladies runner up with 54/100

Gill Grealey came third with 53/100

 

This was the very first time that Leah had shot DR, so a very well done to her for the great winning score.  Leah said she is now looking forward to the Single Barrel championships on 4^th of July at Ranton.

Thank you to all the team at Ranton GC for a great day.

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