Welcome to the Staffordshire CPSA FITASC Sporting Page

FITASC Sporting (FSP) is similar to English Sporting (ESP), but there are key differences.

First, FSP targets are shot ‘gun down’, meaning that the gun can’t be mounted on the shoulder until the targets are thrown and visible. Second, shooters don't shoot inside of a cage which restricts movement. Instead they stand in a circle or box on the ground, and targets can be thrown in a manner that might require the shooter to turn up to 180 degrees between targets on the same pair. Third, different targets can be shot on each stand, e.g. on a single stand you might shoot target A as a single, targets B and D as on-repot pairs, then targets E and F as simultaneous pairs.

 

Staffordshire CPSA Team Manager: Steve Ward

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 FITASC County Championship - 9th-12th August 2023 

 

Mickley Hall Shooting School once more hosted our County FITASC Sporting championship, along our pals from Cheshire CPSA.

An excellent turn out over the four days during which the weather Gods were pretty kind to us, which hasn't always been the case this summer!

Delighted to report that our County winners for 2023 are:

Overall Staffs County Champion: Darren Park

Senior County Champion: Steve Ward

Veterans County Champion: Darren Park

Junior County Champion: Lewis Sones

Ladies: No Entry

Steve Ward - Senior County Champion

Congratulations to all the Staffs shooters for taking part, putting in some excellent scores and no doubt, a few "PB's" into the bargain.

Our thanks, as always, to all the team at Mickley Hall for doing a cracking job in hosting the championship.

Congratulations also to the Cheshire CPSA winners:

Overall County Champ - Steve Randles

Vets County Champ - Miles Machin

Senior County Champ - Steve Randles

Lady County Champ - Lucy Earl

Junior County Champ - N/A

Steve Kilner - Vice-Chair and Secretary

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 FITASC County Championship - 9th-12th August 2023 

As in 2022, the Staffordshire FITASC County Championship will be held in conjunction with the Cheshire County Championship.

 Wednesday 9th - Saturday 12th August
 Mickley Hall Shooting School
 0800 772 0058
WhatsApp 07766252438
 admin@mickleyhall.com
 https://mickleyhall.com/

100 targets: 50 targets shot in the morning. Then break for a buffet lunch and the remaining 50 shot in the afternoon.
Cost: £65 including buffet lunch. £10 deposit to secure your place.

Contact Mickley Hall directly to book on.

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

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 FITASC Staffordshire County Championship - 19 Nov 2022 

Mickley Hall Shooting School hosted our final County Championship of the season, the FITASC Sporting, along our friends from Cheshire CPSA.

Delighted to report that our winners were as follows

Overall Staffs High Gun: Darren Park

Senior Champion: Steve Ward

Veteran Champion: Daren Park

Junior Champion: Lewis Sones

Hopefully, we’ll have some Staffordshire Ladies taking part next year 

   

Overall High Gun, Darren Park & Senior Champion, Steve Ward                                Juinior Champion Lewis Sones

Our thanks, as always, to all the team at Mickley Hall for hosting a great championship.

Congratulation also to the Cheshire winners:

Overall Champion: Miles Machin

Senior: Ian Cunliffe

Ladies: Karen Hall

Vets: Nigel Lane/Guy Robinson tbc on shoot off

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 FITASC WM Area & Inter County Championship - 27 Mar 2022 

TEAM STAFFORDSHIRE RETAIN THE TROPHY!

L to R: Steve Ward, Tim Simmons, Darren Park, Josh Bennion, Roger Grimshaw (reserve), Sam Ward

(Andrew Price not pictured)

Delighted to report that the Staffordshire FITASC team of Josh Bennion, Darren Park, Andrew Price, Tim Simmons, Sam Ward and Team Captain, Steve Ward have retained their trophy, winning the FITASC Inter-Counties at Westfields with a super score of 421 . This put them 16 ahead of runners-up Cheshire CPSA.

Further success to report with a terrific Silver for Darren Park in the WM Area champs  Brett Hand tied with Paul Batchelor and Miles Machin to take a well-deserved Bronze 

Congratulations to Steve and all the team for doing us proud again with another outstanding performance.

A big thank you to Lara Dale for the photos  And of course, our special thanks go to Steve Lovatt and the The Clay Shooting Company team for putting on a terrific shoot.

Steve Kilner, Vice-Chairman & Joint Secretary, Staffordshire CPSA

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FITASC WM Area & Inter County Championship 2022 

Date: 26th & 27th March

Venue: Westfields c/o The Clay Shooting Company

Calling all Staffordshire shooters........

If you would like to be considered for the Staffordshire CPSA FITASC team to shoot the Inter County competition, your Team Manager, Steve Ward is now looking for expressions of interest.

Staffordshire will be submitting a team of 6 people. This can be from any category of shooter: men, women, senior or junior.

Contact us here or on Facebook Messenger should you wish to be considered for selection.

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FITASC WM Area & Inter County Championship – 9 May 2021

Another busy weekend of shooting behind us - hope you all managed to get out and have a bang!

Great news to report on for team Staffordshire CPSA.......

The CPSA FITASC WM Area Championships took place at Westfield SG (organised by The Clay Shooting Company) over the weekend.

On Saturday, Staffordshire shooter Tim Simmons put in a brilliant performance in some testing weather to take individual WM Area Gold with 91. Chris Daniels tied second with 90.

Several other strong individual performances were a prelude to the team event on Sunday with a squad of Tim, Chris, Josh Bennion, Sam Ward, James Ward and Roger Grimshaw, led by Team Manager, Steve Ward, going head-to-head in an epic battle with Gloucestershire CPSA, both tying on 421.

Other scores were Hereford & Worcester 409, Warwickshire 401, Shropshire 391, Derbyshire 381 and Cheshire 364.

On count back (taking the top 5 scores on the fourth layout) Staffordshire took team Gold with 113 to Gloucestershire’s 107.

Staffordshire 421 (113 on count back)

Gloucestershire 421 (107 on count back)

Hereford & Worcester 409

Well done to all who took part - some great shooting on display.

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West Midlands Inter Counties FITASC Championships 2019

at Garlands Shooting Ground

This years West Midlands Inter-County FITASC championship was held at Garlands on Sunday 3rd March.

Great targets were set by Steve Lovatt with something for every shooter. 

This is the very first time Staffordshire fielded two teams.

The "A" team of Chris Daniels, Steve Ward, Tim Simmons, Gavin Heath, Sam Ward and James Ward scored a massive 444/500 to take the Gold medal by a staggering 17 clays. The score of the day goes to Chris Daniels with a  monsterous 98 which was 7 clear of the chasing pack.  There was just 4 shooters to break the 90 over both days.

Team "B" was Brent Woodard, Mark Colclough, Gary Tromans (new cap), Ed Harrison (new cap), Martin Butcher (new cap) and Roger Grimshaw (new cap).  All enjoyed the experience and shot well on the day.

A massive thanks to our Staffordshire Team Mangers, Roger Grimshaw and Sam Ward - you sure do know how to pick a winning team!

Well done and thanks to all the team members - you did Staffordshire proud. 

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West Midlands Inter Counties FITASC Championships 2017

at Garlands Shooting Ground

Well done to the Staffs County Fitasc Shooting Team who took the SILVER medal at today’s West Midlands Inter Counties just 5 clays behind the GOLD Medal Winners Gloucestershire.

Staffordshire Team Members Were.

D Park (Team Manager)
S Ward
S D Ward
T Simmons
S Upton
G Heath

Left to right: - Darren Park, Sam Ward with their Silver Medals.

Team Scores

Glous 433/500

Staffs 428/300

H&W 421/300

Derby 419/500

Cheshire 417/500

Warks 416/500

Shrops 347/500

Staffordshire’s County FITASC Champion for 2017

Tim Simmons

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 Sam Ward to shoot for Team GB Juniors in 2016 

A very well done to Staffordshire's Sam Ward.

Sam has been selected to represent Great Britain Junior’s in the European FITASC Championship on June 2016 in France.

A truly remarkable achievement for anyone to do so much in so little time.

His first registered shoot was 14th September 2014, not even 2 years ago. Just shows what we can accomplish when we put in all the time and effort that Sam has.

Many congratulations from everyone, and the very best from Phil Daniels, Paul Berry and all the Staffordshire CPSA.

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