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Essex Open Champion 2017 Springfield

7/10/2016

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Essex open 2016 at Springfield  :by David Clark

Yet another shoot for myself, Helen and Andrew to attend the Essex open at Springfield this is sponsored by the Airgun Center in Rayleigh Essex.

First some history of this shoot which was introduced by Springfield airgun club two years ago which catered for both FT and HFT shooters and previously won by Craig MacDonald in 2014 and Barry Warren in 2015. The Airgun Center sponsored this event and put up the raffle prizes of a £300 voucher for 1st prize £200 and £100 vouchers for 2nd and 3rd respectively. Helen and myself have attended this shoot each year and the first year I was lucky enough to with the £300 raffle prize. Last year Andrew and Simon Martin joined us Simon shoot well and after a shoot off with Barry Warren was placed second.
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Anyway enough about the past this is another of the shoots we look forward to as Springfield is one of our favourite grounds to shoot. Forecast for the day was dry, cloudy with a 13 mph wind. I had set up my second EV2 with another scope and was determined to use this rifle to prove the set up. Helen and Andrew picked me up at 7.45am Sunday and it was time for me to load the rifle into Helen’s truck. Much to my disgust I just couldn’t take an unproven set up (EV2 No.2) so in went old faithful known as number one EV. Off we set and I ask Andrew if he was brave enough to bring his springer to which he replied yes and from this point on I wished I’d picked up the other rifle EV2 No.2. Oh well we are on our way now even though Helen did offer to turn round, no its too late I replied. We arrived in good time and parked up in the field a short walk from the course. After booking in we said a few hellos then walked round the course which as promised was quite a bit different to previous shoots with a new section up the stairway to hell leading to the field of doom as its now called. Targets 1 to 8 where in this field section.
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​Time for the briefing and allocation of lanes I was partnered with David Elvin, off we went to our allocated lane 9 and awaited the start signal. As FT’ers use there scopes for range finding and HFT shooter’s don’t they went first I can’t really remember how I did until I went out into the field of doom but at this point David was one target ahead of me at this stage, and I have no idea how Bob the HTF shoot was doing as even when they miss the kill they get a point. So with one target to make up and 8 targets in an open field, no problem just like shooting at our ground. David nails both ,first shot for me target 1 just outside left and a little breeze I release the shoot dink damn thing lands on my cross hairs, so swing round for target 2 this target was a bit further out and at a different angle to the first one so again 10 outside left edge of kill and again the pellet lands one pellet to the right of my aim point. On to lane two again David nails them both so its my turn again with the grass bend over at 35 degrees best stay in the kill for this one, down it goes right me thinks I know exactly what to do on the next one which of course was wrong I didn’t I dinked it. Next lane kneelers great I like these not too far away so shouldn’t be a problem again David nails both my turn and down goes the first one swing round to the next one and even though I thought it was a good shoot the target stayed upright. Now to the last two targets outside and again David makes the right decision and they both fall for him, I switched off at this point as id missed too many targets to put in a competitive score.
​A few more lanes inside and with David missing a few in the wooded area giving me the opportunity to pull some back and catch up but I failed to take advantage of the situation only managing to pull a few back to within one target by the last lane which was a standing lane. With a stiff breeze David nails them both I get the first one and struggle with the last one and release the shot as I couldn’t hold it on target any longer. So David finished two targets ahead of me with 31 to my 29. Time to go and see how Andrew and Helen have fared, Andrew had a few problems with his poi shifting so dropped quite a few targets before working things out and finished on 16. Helen comes towards us and declared her score of 36 ex 40 a good score any day of the week, but we are shooting against a few AA graders so could they produce a better score than Helen. With the score cards handed in we await the results three AA shooters get called for a shoot off at this point we realise Helen has won the day and is now the new Essex open champion with a big bit of glass trophy and a huge shield to prove it.
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ETL Winner 2017
Well Done Helen.!
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ETL 80

7/8/2016

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Winners ETL80
ETL 80

A few of us had been looking forward to this shoot knowing that the format of 40 targets in the morning stop for lunch and then shoot another 40 in the afternoon would make for a long day. Anyway four Midshires shooters attended myself, Helen, Andrew P and Simon, we where joined by a few of our fellow Fenland shooters. The day was forecast to be very warm with little wind. We arrived with plenty of time for a chin wag and a plink Helen disappearing to the plinking range ahead of me and Andrew and as usual we both spent to long chatting and nearly ran out of time for some zero checking.
With the whistle being blown for the briefing and us still in the car park filling rifles and preparing ourselves the score cards where handed out to our shooting partners, Helen being paired with Peter Edwards son of my partner for the day Peter Edwards know to us as granddad, Andrews partner was Dan Ely one of the UK’s top shooters so a chance for Andrew to learn from a master, i can't remember who Simons partner was.

There was two 40 shot courses and both me and Andrew started on the yellow course and Helen and Simon on the blue course. I started on lane 11 and well bagged the first two targets then on to next lane a long one and a closer one the long one i assume i under ranged and got the wind wrong as it landed low and right the shorter one fell so 3 out of 4 so far. Andrew started on the lane ahead of me and showed Dan how to knock them over getting the first two and then knocking his rifle which actually had the effect of knocking it back to his original settings. Anyway it wasn’t long before Dan was knocking over the ones Andrew was missing, so we finished the morning session as follows me 34, my partner 28, Andrew 32, Dan 39, Helen 33 her partner 32, Simon on 36. Off to the car we go for some lunch and a review of our performance, so far it appeared that the yellow course was proving to be the tougher of the two with many of the good shots having had problems some of it associated with the heat because most of the course was out in the open in full sun. Lunch time finished and after a few minutes chatting to our fellow Fenlands shooters we started the other course. Helen and Simon in the wooded area benefiting from some shade for a good proportion of the course, myself and Andrew out in the sun we both started badly in a hit one miss one fashion

Andrew then cleared the knelling lane while sitting on his bean bag so had to take two Fat zeros for that lane. Fortunately my positional shooting did not let me down missing only one of my positional shots all day. Then we get out into the bowl in full sun with a nice cooling breeze every now and then. I managed to finish the yellow course 7 down for a 33, Andrew 30, Helen 31 and Simon finishing with a fantastic 36. So after adding our scores together me finishing third with 67, Helen 64 and Simon 69 in A grade, Andrew finished second on 62 in B grade. Simons score got him into a shoot off for 1st and 2nd place losing out to Simon High on a standing shot.
Video below shows the days events.
Winners list..

Grade AA

Name Club

Simon Evans             Harriers 74
Dan Eley Kent            Woodsmen 73
Simon Ayers              Broadlands 69
Dave Croucher           Kent Woodsmen 69
Simon Pattle               ETL 68
Keith Allen                  ETL 67
Nathan Reeve             Cromer 67
Red Gallagher            Anston 67
Richard Osbourne     Springfield 64
Mark Johnson            Broadlands 63
Steve Carter                Iceni 63
Dave Hatfield              Beechwood 35
Rob Walker                Springfield 33

Grade A

Simon High                 Iceni 69
Simon Martin               Midshires 69
David Clark                  Midshires 67
Ian Young                    Springfield 65
David Elvin                   Broadlands 64
Peter J Edwards          Springfield 64
Helen Carragher          Midshires 64
Barry Macdonald         Springfield 63
Colin Eaton                  ETL 63
Andy Mason                Springfield 62
Edwin Cable                Broadlands 58
Sam Barr                     Tawd Vale 57
Kathy Johnson            Broadlands 55
Jason Cheeseman       ETL 55
Kyle Hampton              Cambridge 45
Jason lockett                ETL 44
Roger Lait                     Cambridge 40
Phil lawrence                Springfield 34
Danny Roff                    Rochford 22

 

Grade B

Barry McGraw                Beechwood 65
Andy Pearson                 Midshires 62
Dave O'Connor               Springfield 61
Alison Mansfield             Lea Valley 59
Andy Barnes                   Hereward 55
Peter T Edwards             Springfield 49
Peter stickings                ETL 48

 

Grade C

Paul Gallagher                 Anston 66
Harry Farrow                    ETL 56
Adrian Coe                       ETL 54
Gary Keogh                      ETL 54
Dave Mansfield                Lea valley 54
John Lloyd                       Iceni 52
Barry Simpson                 Iceni 51
Alan Reeve                       Cromer 39
Leann Mason                   Springfield 24


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