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Official Journal of the New Zealand Clay Target Association Inc. 

CONTENTS 

Trevor Manson 5 

President’s Annual Report 7 

National Directory 9 

National DTL Championships 11 

Sporting: NZ and North Island Championships 17 

Bay of Plenty Provincials 19 

International: Norfolk Island report 22 

Southland District Championships 23 

Service Award to Colin Wood 25 

Field of Dreams 26 

Murray Havill and Charles Hartley Memorial Shoot 28 

Thames Valley Ball Trap 29 

Wairarapa District Championships 30 

“Big Team Shoot” 35 

Long Run Awards 35 

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 36 

Hawkes Bay Shield report 39 

Allan Brown Double Rise results 39 

H.C. Walker Skeet Postal Shoot 40 

Kaeo Clay Target Club 40th Anniversary 40 

Rex Innes Memorial 200 North/South Skeet 41 

Ross Card Memorial 41 

Mental Training by Michael J. Keyes 43 

Sporting Comment 44 

NZ and South Island ISSF Championships 45 

Nightcaps Club Championships 46 

Clay Targets sponsored Woodville shoot 47 

New Members 49 

Hall of Fame Awards and Dinner 50 

Southland Club Championships 52 

Around the Club: Shoot results 54 

Shoot Calendar 60 

New president NZCTA 

Trevor Manson 

why i have taken the position 

The question has been asked as to why I 

have taken on the National President’s 

position again. I was initially asked by 

North Island people if I would put my 

name forward. Several reasons, the 

first one being that Keith had indicated 

he wanted to stand down to spend 

more time with his family and his work 

commitments. Secondly with the Worlds 

coming up next year probably a steady 

hand and experience would keep things 

going on an even keel. Thirdly it’s not a 

bad job for the majority of the time. I love the people and the big 

competitions. 

I will not be there for a long tenure this time so people need to look 

forward for a replacement for the future. With Martin and Ewen 

coming back, it gives us a great deal of experience to complement 

the sitting members of Council to get through the next couple of 

busy years. 

Every National President has their own style of leadership and my 

approach is pretty laid back but handle things as they happen. 

I don’t go looking for work or trouble. That doesn’t mean I am 

not committed to the job and it certainly makes the president’s 

position a lot easier with our Secretary in Christchurch. Adrienne 

and I communicate well and often but she does the work. 

I mentioned the word “commitment” previously and any President 

who takes on the job has to be that way. It takes time and 

commitment, financial cost and family cost but we all do it for the 

right reason. 

Our past President Keith has shown his willingness to put his 

stamp on the NZCTA for the past three years. Keith has to be 

congratulated for his effort for all the reasons I have stated above. 

Keith, on behalf of the council and all members thank you for the 

part you played in our organisation. We hope you have more time 

for your family and fishing. 

Personally would like to thank all those who have shown their 

support since I have been back in the chair and I look forward to 

catching up with you all around the traps in the not too distant 

future. Trevor Manson, President ■ 

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PRESIDENT’S column 

It is with much pleasure that I present the President's 

Annual Report for the year ended December 2012 

MEMBERSHIP 

Overall membership is up by 21 people 

from 2568 in 2011 to 2589 in 2012. Full members 

are up by 23 people, Junior membership 

is up by two, and social membership is 

up by six. However Family membership is 

down by 10. Perhaps more club Presidents 

should be taking an active interest in their 

members taking the Social Membership 

option. Other questions that need asking are 

if Club executive members are just allowing 

members to shoot at their club or are they 

actively ensuring they are NZCTA members 

This is what the different membership 

categories were introduced for, to enable all 

competitors to contribute to the organisation 

and pay their share of the administration, 

operational costs, and insurance of running 

their sport. 

LEVY PAYMENTS 

I would also like to thank clubs for 

compliance with levy payments. Continual 

audits are now done, and we are picking up 

very few issues. The splitting of levies now 

allows us to clearly identify how much revenue 

is generated from each discipline stream. 

This gives us clear guidelines when allocating 

funds for team travel and development for the 

various disciplines which we operate under. 

Clubs that are short changing the NZCTA 

through not paying the correct amount of 

levies collected, are actually defrauding the 

shooters who support them. 

ANNUAL BALANCE SHEET 

It is pleasing to report in these recessional 

times, the NZCTA has again made an 

increased net profit for the year. The 

National Executive work hard to minimise 

increased expenses and keep operational 

costs under control. We are also very aware 

that the level of service to our clubs must 

not be compromised. The Association is 

not in the business of making money, but 

acknowledge it is often a difficult balance 

delivering what you, the members want, and 

expect and charging for the running costs 

of the organisation. The total assets of the 

Association have increased overall in the past 

year to a net value from $545,420 to just over 

$603,217. 

It wasn’t that long ago that the NZCTA had 

no money and it has only been through careful 

monetary control by previous Presidents 

and Executive Members, presiding over the 

income and operational expenditure, that 

these reserves have been able to accumulate. 

It would only take a few disastrous years of 

the income stream, or a serious litigation 

matter, to wipe out a major portion of these 

cash reserves. I would also like to mention at 

this stage that the NZCTA are not reliant on 

any external funding organisations for their 

day to day running costs. 

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE 

We must all be extremely grateful for the 

knowledge and experience that Adrienne is 

contributing as part of her normal repertoire. 

I cannot speak highly enough concerning her 

services to our chosen sport. Her knowledge, 

experience and advice has saved me from 

embarrassment on a number of occasions. 

Adrienne has now completed 22 year's service 

to the NZCTA, and I can assure you her loyalty 

is greatly appreciated by the full membership. 

A special bond exists between the 

President, Executive Officer, and the Full 

Executive. This bond leads all elected 

representatives to a deep appreciation of the 

work that each executive member undertakes 

in the four different disciplines. We should all 

be extremely grateful for the family sacrifices, 

and personal time that each elected member 

of your executive gives so willingly. I would 

personally like to congratulate them all on 

the work we have achieved as a team over the 

past year. 

I would also like to mention under 

the national executive heading, the deep 

appreciation by all members to the continued 

support shown from the Life Members, who 

still care deeply about the workings of the 

NZCTA. Their experience is unprecedented, 

and the assistance and advice I have had 

personally in my role I am very grateful for. 

I hate to single out people but George Ellis, 

our Patron, always has an ear to the ground 

concerning Firearms submissions, and past 

years have shown him becoming personally 

involved on our behalf with this very delicate 

issue, ensuring we are allowed to continue 

to hold ammunition in safe custody within 

our residential homes, and continue to carry 

ammunition and equipment around the 

country in an unrestricted manner under the 

banner of our firearms licence. A big thank 

you George from everybody. 

CLUB EXECUTIVE 

I would like all members to acknowledge 

the immense workload that members at club 

Executive level carry out on behalf of local 

membership to create a local club spirit that 

becomes very evident. Club Presidents who 

step up to take the responsibility for the 

direction of their club, often very reluctantly, 

must be applauded. The club Secretaries who 

keep the office ticking over and create the 

planning prior to the shoot, the workload 

during the shoot, and after the shoot 

corresponding with the National Office. Most 

members have absolutely no appreciation 

or understanding of the workload carried 

personally by local club Secretaries. We must 

also personally acknowledge the trap setters, 

club captains, trap mechanics, kitchen 

workers and bar staff, who work tirelessly on 

our behalf to make this sport so great and 

create the camaraderie that ensures we all 

have an enjoyable day. 

NZCTA Sub-Committees of Sporting 

Clays and School sub-committees must 

also be congratulated for creating the 

direction their discipline is to travel, and 

for the guidance to the national executive 

to ensure together we are all harmoniously 

delivering what the members want. I must 

personally thank each sub-committee, for 

having the intestinal fortitude to stand up 

and be counted when sometimes the national 

executive has required further guidance and 

information. 

GUNSHOT 

The Gunshot magazine is a publication 

the executive and all members are very proud 

of. Some issues of Gunshot resemble more 

of a book than a magazine with some issues 

getting up over 80 pages. The Gunshot could 

not be produced without the continued 

efforts of Life Member Tom Begg being 

proactive month after month to ensure the 

release to the membership. Tom puts in his 

valuable expertise to every issue and has 

to structure his own personal and family 

activities around the timing of the issues. 

He does all this for the love of the sport and 

we all appreciate the tremendous work he 

does for us. Tom has been doing this work for 

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many years now and we appreciate the time 

he gives so freely. What is also very pleasing is 

that the magazine is increasing in size, and we 

are still able to show a profit from it. Tom we 

all cannot thank you enough. 

NATIONAL COMPUTER CLUB 

INTEGRATION ENHANCEMENTS 

New national computer enhancements 

will be tested at the 2013 National DTL 

Championships as a trial, by running the 

new programme in tandem with the existing 

one. It is disappointing that this has taken 

considerably longer than anticipated to get 

off the ground but the complexities of all our 

activities, including Sporting, DTL and ISSF 

are very difficult to programme for. 

NZCTA WEB SITE 

In 2010 Council approved an upgrade of 

the web site to slightly modernise the look of 

this. The web site continues to be the second 

major portal of the NZCTA and is a very 

valuable resource. The web site had remained 

mainly unchanged since it was launched in 

June 1999. By the end of the first year it was 

attracting 264 hits per month. Two years later 

it had grown to over 3000 hits per month, and 

in 2012 it had an average of almost 4192 unique 

visitors per month, with an average of 8685 

number of visits per month. These figures 

reflect a growth of 12% in 2011 and a further 

11% growth in 2012. 

SPONSORSHIP 

Many hours have been spent by your 

Executive obtaining sponsorship. In these 

times of economic recession it has not been 

an easy task. All members must be indebted 

to the Executive for their expertise to make 

it all worthwhile for you, the competitor. 

We are indeed blessed with having all this 

sponsorship available to us from our very 

valued sponsors. However, sponsors will only 

continue to support our sport if you support 

them whenever and wherever possible. To all 

our main NZCTA sponsors for the 2012 year, 

Beretta NZ, Kilwell Sports and Gamebore 

Ammunition, Gunn Estate wines, NZ Fish 

and Game Council, Champion and Maxam 

Ammunition, Australian Sporting Arms, 

Ricks Outfitters Ltd, Cleanburn, Stihl (Barry 

Foster), Stager Sport and Blazer Firearms, 

Mervyn and Margaret Pratt, NZ Dairy 

Farmers Group, George Ellis and Graeme 

Webber, thank you all from every member of 

the NZCTA. 

The Beretta Junior Scholarship is a major 

“leg up” for our Junior Competitors. In 2012 

it was won by Hamish Bell. A big thank you 

to Martyn Coe from Beretta NZ, for this very 

valued Sponsorship in 2012. 

Marketing of any business requires a 

specialised person filling a specialised role. 

The future of sponsorship leading into the 

World DTL championships requires special 

duties to be undertaken. If we are to give 

back to our sponsors a secure return on their 

investment we have to ensure we have good 

communication between the sponsor, the 

National ground and the NZCTA executive 

to ensure we have an excellent standard 

of co-ordinated approach to give the very 

best standard of service to our very valued 

sponsors that we can provide. 

The amount of time required by Executive 

members filling this specialised role on a 

voluntary basis is frankly very difficult at the 

best of times. Currently we have a vacancy on 

the NZCTA Executive for an additional Board 

member. This position is appointed by the 

NZCTA Executive to fill required specialised 

roles on an as-required basis. 

If we are to “lift the bar” in our standard 

of service to our sponsors I personally 

believe that a “marketing consultant” should 

be engaged to fill this vacant position and 

specialise in the organisation of future 

sponsorship arrangements and the core and 

communication of our current and future 

sponsors. 

HALL OF FAME 

Gavin and Bev Searle continue to monitor 

the individual competitor's statistics on 

behalf of the NZCTA, The annual Hall of Fame 

evening event continues to draw considerable 

interest from our members to honour the 

worthy recipients. Clubs are also nominating 

outstanding members' contributions at a 

local level, to be awarded a “Certificate of 

Achievement”. This is encouraging, as it is not 

only event winners that are being celebrated 

on this Hall of Fame evening. Thank you to 

Gavin and Bev for your continued work in this 

area. 

We still require a separate stand-alone 

building at some future date to house and 

exhibit the memorabilia that has been kindly 

donated by members and their families. 

Should any member wish to donate funds 

to this worthy cause, we are always open to 

offers. The cost of an appropriate climate 

controlled building would be expensive but 

we have to make a start. 

SCHOOL SHOOTING 

School Shooting continues to grow, 

with clay target shooting now being firmly 

entrenched in many school curriculums 

where students are given a choice of which 

sport they wish to follow for the coming 

year. It does not get better than that for 

introducing new entrants to our favourite 

sport. The school coaches and administrators, 

including the school sub-committee, must 

be congratulated for the major effort they 

are contributing week after week. Many 

NZCTA competitors who have come through 

the school programme, are now successful 

winners of NZ championships, which is 

attributable to the grounding they received 

initially from school coaches. Every major 

school event appears to be growing, with 

the NZ School Championships being a major 

draw card on the school calendar. 

ISSF 

Attendance at domestic ISSF events 

continues to show very little growth. ISSF is 

a difficult discipline to master for beginners 

and the cost of travel and accommodation 

to attend the various zone competitions 

around NZ is a large barrier to overcome for 

some athletes. Attending these matches is 

necessary to give athletes their ranking based 

on their performance for World Cups selection 

on a yearly basis, and Commonwealth and 

Olympic Games nomination every 4 years. 

Finding a suitable venue in the Lower North 

Island is still a problem for Zone and Island 

competitions. The lack of participating 

athletes, number of days clubs can operate 

under resource consent, and manual traps 

requiring expensive operational manual 

trapper costs have been a major contributing 

factor to reluctance from clubs to hold events. 

The South Zone ISSF Championships in 2011 

and 2012 had to be held at Waitemata CTC, on 

their new Olympic trap layout complete with 

15 new La Porte traps and microphones . 

In the recently introduced International 

“Jim Mackenzie/Jack “Calrossie Sutherland 

Trophy” with Australia, Australia shot 344 to 

NZ’s 343. The 2012 NZ Team of Allan Sinclair, 

Myles Browne-Cole, and Gavin Paton must be 

congratulated for their efforts. 

NZ SHOOTING FEDERATION 

Quarterly meetings are now held in 

Wellington, with the four disciplines 

attending: Pistol NZ, Target Shooting NZ, 

NRA, and NZCTA. I attended in 2012 as the 

NZCTA Delegate. The NZSF is responsible 

for all the Olympic Discipline result statistics 

from our ISSF Domestic MQS Qualifying 

Events, and also for World Cup Selection 

Policies and results. Gavin Paton is the 

Executive Officer in charge, and the new 

President in 2012 is Ewen Pirie from the 

NZCTA. 

SPORTING CLAYS 

The sporting clays portfolio is largely 

formulated and driven by the Sporting Clays 

sub-committee who arrange the yearly events 

calendar, and recommend improvements for 

the discipline to the National Executive for 

ratification of policy, funding, competition 

venues, and team selection through the 

Sporting Clays Director. This may sound 

a very cumbersome way to conduct the 

business of sporting clays, however it works 

very well as the sub-committee are masters 

of their own destiny however, always under 

the watchful eye of the Sporting Clays 

Director. This arrangement also allows for 

the sporting sub committee to arrange the 

sharing of equipment between club venues. 

The sporting fraternity are indeed very 

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fortunate to have such a passionate group of 

administrators in control of their discipline. I 

have the greatest admiration for the sporting 

sub-committee’s performance over the past 

year, and the sporting columns in Gunshot 

have been a joy to read and catch up with what 

is happening within the discipline. I must 

mention the efforts of Rob Carruthers, in 

updating the sporting portion of the NZCTA 

website and for recording the statistics from 

every event. 

DTL/AMERICAN SKEET 

Record attendances have been evident 

at many Provincial, Island and National 

Championship events in 2012. The upgrade of 

facilities at club level has been very pleasing to 

see. Your executive is always looking at ways 

to improve facilities, and club administration 

for you the competitor. The World DTL 

Championships has been awarded to NZ 

to be held in 2014, in conjunction with our 

National Championships at Waikato. A 

contract is in force between the NZCTA and 

Waikato CTC to conduct this tournament. 

Much planning work was completed in 2011 

and 2012. The NZCTA works very closely with 

David Muggeridge, the Waikato President, 

over matters of importance. 

The Skeet Nationals have continued 

to grow in popularity, and number of 

competitors, since its separation from the 

DTL Nationals. This has allowed the skeet 

discipline to expand into a growth of its own 

with more members choosing to shoot the 

discipline as a first choice option. Multiple 

skeet events are being held at numerous clubs 

with sub-gauge competitions as part of the 

weekend events also being popular. NZCTA 

Members are now travelling all over the world 

to compete in multiple sub-gauge events, but 

are given little opportunity in their home 

country to compete in competitions. 

It is my personal opinion that the time may 

have come to separate skeet from the Island 

Championships, and to create an Island event 

of its own with multiple gauges. This would 

allow the Skeet discipline to grow on a path of 

its own, and allow precious time restraints at 

Island DTL Championships some leeway, and 

the possibility of introducing a Handicap Trap 

event at Island Championships. 

I think it is important that the skeet events 

at Provincial and District Championships are 

retained. 

The Glenn Cup and Glenn Trophy 

Competition with Australia, is still the 

pinnacle of Team Shooting for National 

representation and all team members in 2012 

are congratulated for their top performance. 

The Glenn Cup NZ Team of Brendan 

Malcolm, Robert Prince, Laurie Coppins, Ray 

Everett, and Boston Walker shot 247 against 

Australia’s 245. The Glenn Trophy NZ Team 

of Tony Truss, David Da Silva, Steven Cooper, 

Dean Everett, and Peter Boyd shot 241 against 

Australia’s 246. 

IN CLOSING 

I trust after hearing this report you are 

satisfied that your elected representatives, 

as administrators of your sport, have worked 

tirelessly on your behalf in 2012. I am very 

proud of their achievements, and the NZCTA 

Executive look forward to serving you all, to 

the best of our combined abilities, in 2013. 

This is my final Annual President's Report, 

as I will be standing down at the end of this 

Annual Meeting and being replaced by Trevor 

Manson, who will be returning for a second 

term as your new incoming President. I will 

however be spending one further year as part 

of the NZCTA Executive, as Immediate Past 

President. 

Thank you all for the opportunity you 

granted me, it has been an honour to 

represent you all. 

Keith Livingstone, President, NZCTA. ■ 

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE 

PATRON 

George Ellis 

30 Mitchell St, Green Island, Dunedin. 

Phone (03) 488 3499, 

Mobile 027 432 4377, Fax (03) 488 2137 

Email: george@hydestone.co.nz 

PRESIDENT 

Trevor Manson 

Ph 03 235 8042, Mobile 0274 324 621 

Email trevoramanson@gmail.com 

immediate past RESIDENT 

Keith Livingstone 

Phone 07 575 2482, 

Mobile 027 474 6535, Fax 07 575 2402 

Email: klivingstone@xtra.co.nz 

VICE PRESIDENTS 

Gavin Searle 

Ph 03 383 2074, Mobile 027 454 7153 

Email: searlefamily@xtra.co.nz 

Michael Holmes 

125 Kina Road, RD 31, Opunake. 

Phone (06) 763 8570, Mobile 027 446 

6115 Email: mgholmes@ihug.co.nz 

EXECUTIVE 

Ewen Pirie 

Ph 03 239 5859 Mobile 0274 346 829, 

Email esbpirie@woosh.co.nz 

L.B. (Blue) Freeman 

Ph 04 234 1922, Mobile 027 438 5238. 

Email blue.freeman@xtra.co.nz 

Ian Swale 

107 Bealey Ave, Christchurch. 

Ph 03 365 9980, Fax 03 365 9979, Mobile 

021 377 216. Email: countryglenlodge@ 

xtra.co.nz 

John Tonkin 

Ph Pvt 09 522 2768, 021 944 360 email: 

johntonkin@xtra.co.nz 

Martin van de Wetering 

Ph Pvt 07 862 8146, Mobile 022 1768 

798, Email marsam.vdw@gmail.com 

Neil Winsloe 

Alexandra. Phone Pvt (03) 448 

8264 Mobile 027 471 0010 Email: 

highlineequip@xtra.co.nz 

EXECUTIVE OFFICER 

Adrienne Sears 

HARASSMENT COMPLAINTS 

OFFICERS 

June Briggs 

Ph (03) 768 5370 Pvt 

Ann Paton 

Ph Pvt 298 8169. 

Gavin Paton 

Ph Pvt (09) 2988169 

HISTORIAN 

Gavin Searle 

Life Members 

Tom Begg, George Ellis, Trevor 

Manson, Vince Peterson, Ewen Pirie, 

Colin Stott, Graeme Webber. 

NEW ZEALAND CLAY TARGET 

ASSOCIATION 

PO BOX 5355 

PAPANUI 

CHRISTCHURCH 

Phone (03) 352 8577 

Fax (03) 352 0077 

Email: nzcta@xtra.co.nz 

Web Site: www.nzclaytarget.org.nz 

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2013 national 

DTL championships 

By David Muggeridge 

By any measure this was a big event with the score board showing 

413 individuals competing in the various events over the week. 

Swelling the numbers were competitors from around the Pacific 

Rim; Norfolk, Fiji, New Caledonia, Noumea and both new and old 

faces from Australia. 

Other interesting numbers from the Nationals - 

Competitor entries across all events totalled 3196 

135,000 targets were thrown 

366 competitors shot the Single Rise 

Over 3 tonnes of ammunition was sold 

There were too many empties to get an accurate number on the 

beer sold total 

The first three days challenged some competitors with unseasonal 

wind and changeable light creating acquisition issues. While the 

overall event posted lower scores than normal, those that managed 

themselves and the conditions prevailed. The event was conducted 

in excellent spirit with the Jury members taking up whittling to 

fill in the days, there were simply no issues for them to deal with. 

Apart from the odd height check request the investment in the new 

equipment paid off with just one minor mechanical fault. Shooters 

have come to expect this standard of reliability. 

To the shooting 

Starting with the Ball Trap a first time shooter at the NZ Nationals, 

John Sleightholm won after a shoot off with fellow countryman Tom 

Turner. John stated he had heard that the Nationals were an event to 

attend and regretted he waited 15 years before he made it. 

Brian Hartley was a little emotional with his Double Rise HOA win, 

an event his father won two times previously; an excellent 49/50 did 

not require a shoot off. The NZ Double Rise Championship event 

was sponsored by Stager Sports/Blaser. 

The Minis HOA was taken out by John Harris, a remarkable feat 

as he had never shot Minis before. A travelling companion of John 

Sleightholme, the pair from Toowoomba 

now had a National title each. 

HBD was a New Zealand affair with the first 

5 places going to Kiwis and Hamish Holland 

taking out HOA after a shoot off with 

Duncan Jeffries. 

Triples HOA champion was taken out by 

Dave Turner after a shoot off with Alan 

Vickers. The NZ Dairy Farmers Sponsored 

this event. 

Wednesday heralded the blue ribbon 

event, the NZ Single Rise Championship, 

sponsored by Caesar Guerini and B & P 

ammunition. There were 80 qualifying 

scores shot with the 50’s going well into the 

grades. Recognition is deserved for a recent 

Hall of Fame inductee, Gavin Searle, won 

the event and his eighteenth National title, 

Gavin is setting the benchmark and the rest 

of us will have to invest to lift our own game 

to attempt to match his consistency. Jon 

Beddis was there at the end but had to settle for first AA. 

Single Barrel was an interesting event with one possible posted by 

Mike Withers with many 49’s just under the bar. Congratulations 

to Mike. His nerve held and no shoot off was required. Kilwell and 

Gamebore were the sponsors for the day. 

Friday marked the last day of competition with the 50 target Points 

Score, the event where the Mackintosh is decided. Evergreen Ray 

Everett prevailed after a roller coaster shoot off with young William 

Rooney. Ray was having a middling week until the Points Score; he 

provided a lesson on applying the basics and resisted undergoing 

any modifications during the week. 

Jon Beddis continued his great run of form taking out the NZ High 

Gun, closely followed by Alan Vickers, AA with just one point 

separating him from Jon. Beretta NZ sponsored both the NZ Points 

Score and the High Gun. 

Through the grades the other High Guns are as follows – A Grade 

Ian Crafts Waihora, B grade Dagage Tuanua Tahiti, C Grade Kim 

Bergerson Woodville (must be coached…..), Ladies Natalie Rooney 

Timaru, Juniors James Fulford Hawkes Bay, Veterans Ian Marshall 

Whitianga (lifestyle retreat), Super Veterans Laurie Coppins 

Waitemata. 

The WCTC wishes to thank Robert Prince who handled the Shoot 

Marshall role with ease and sister Karen saved him a little leg work 

running the cards out, in fact Robert still looked quite fresh at the 

end of the week and made the Mackintosh Team to finish off a great 

week. 

Australian Sporting Arms sponsored the Mackintosh International 

team event on Saturday. Brendan Malcolm was the highest scorer 

and junior shooter Gregory Bentley scored the only 100 targets. 

The following businesses deserve both our recognition and support 

for their contribution to the 2013 DTL National Championships 

- Stager Sports, Target Products/Falcon, Maxam Ammunition, 

Reloaders Supplies/Clever, Dave Hern Fishing and Shooting 

Outfitters, Bronco Sports, NZ Dairy Farmers Group, Caeser 

Best dressed winners, Southland (L-R) Ewen Pirie, Lindsay Rodgers, Colin Waghorn, Daniel 

Warnock, Stuart Sutherland 

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Guerini/BP ammunition, Kilwell/Gamebore, Gunn Estate Wines 

(ensure your Club stocks this wine), Beretta New Zealand and 

Australian Sporting Arms. The Club looked to provide as much 

leverage for these sponsors as we could to ensure on-going support. 

On behalf of all competitors we thank them for investing in both the 

2013 Championships and Trophy events. 

Presenting the Nationals requires many hours of preparation and 

the WCTC would like to thank the following people for their help - 

Terry Lalich, Gary Discombe, Kelvin Lalich and his two builders, 

Jason Teague, Dean Everett, Steve Cunningham, Ray Shaw, Albert 

Kirsopp, Neville Discombe, Darryl Groundwater, Merv Pratt, Robyn 

Gibbison, Richard Boenders, Peter Krippner, Diane Muggeridge, 

Kim and Debbie Discombe and the Hamilton Boys High Shooting 

Teams for trapping over the first two days and of course the 

experienced admin team of Christine, Judy, Carole and Giselle. 

Target setting was overseen by a Stuart Bell, Ray Russell and Ray 

Everett. These gentlemen arrived at the Club early each morning to 

ensure the target setting was consistent. 

Finally special thanks to Larry Discombe and Joanne Scherer. 

The Waikato Clay Target Club looks forward to welcoming you all 

back in 2014 

Results: 

NZ Ball Trap Championships – HOA John Sleightholm, Australia 49. 

AA grade 1st Tom Turner, Australia 49, 2nd Jonathon Beddis, Huntly 

49, 3rd Robert Prince, Hutt Valley 48. A grade 1st Ian Hovenden, 

Waitemata 47, 2nd Alexander Brown, Nightcaps 47, 3rd Rob 

Collicoat, Australia 47. B grade 1st Nani Teiki Tahiai 46, 2nd Oliver 

Saxton, Huntly 44, 3rd Christian Stephen Fiji 44. C grade 1st Degage 

Tuanua, Tahiti 39, 2nd Wayne Winter, Waitemata 38, 3rd Kim 

Bergersen, Woodville 38. Ladies Natalie Rooney, Timaru 46, Juniors 

Ned Collicoat, Australia 45, Veterans Derek Sheen, Canterbury 47, 

Super Veterans Laurie Coppins, Waitemata 44. 

Double Rise Trophy – HOA David Wordley, Putaruru 39. A Grade 1st 

David Diack, Nightcaps 39, 2nd John Walden, Putaruru 38, 3rd Stuart 

Sutherland, Southland 37. B grade 1st Degage Tuanua, Tahiti 38, 

2nd Christian Stephen, Fiji 33, 3rd Art Diack, Nightcaps 33. C grade 

1st Wayne Winter, Waitemata 30, 2nd Craig Pennell, Te Aroha 28, 

3rd Leon Chant, Tahiti 28. Veteran Ewen Pirie, Mataura 36, Ladies, 

Sheryl Anglem, Amberley 33, Junior Mitchel Beddis, Huntly 32. 

Shoulder to Shoulder Provincial Teams – Waikato 364 (Neil Pratt, 

Jon Beddis, David Wordley, John Waldon, Roger Bidois). Canterbury 

361, Bay of Plenty 350, Hawkes Bay 350. 

Best Dressed - Southland. 

NZ Double Rise Championship sponsored by Stager Sport / 

Blaser – HOA Brian Hartley, Bay of Plenty 49. AA grade 1st Ross 

Walsh, Australia 48, 2nd Stephen Atkins, Australia 48, 3rd Brendan 

Malcolm, Patangata 48. A grade 1st Alexander Brown, Nightcaps 44, 

2nd Duncan Jefferis, Darfield 44, 3rd Lance Felton, Tokoroa 43. B 

grade 1st Nanai Teiki, Tahiti 42, 2nd Daniel Maher, Taumarunui 42, 

3rd Christian Stephen, Fiji 41. C grade 1st Degage Tuanua, Tahiti 43, 

2nd Kim Bergensen, Woodville 43, 3rd Michael Swee Seng, Fiji 38. 

Ladies, Natalie Rooney, Timaru 42, Juniors James Fulford, Hawkes 

Bay 42, Veterans Graham Geater, Rotorua 47, Super Veterans 47, 

Super Veterans John Currie, Waihi 42. 

NZ Minis Championship – HOA John Harris, Australia 25. AA grade 

1st Greg Middleton, Methven 25, 2nd Glenn Kable, Fiji 25, 3rd Dylan 

Woolhouse, Hawkes Bay 25. A grade 1st Rick Spence, Wairoa 25, 2nd 

Allan Ebbett, Bay of Plenty 24, 3rd Anja van de Wetering, Thames 24. 

B grade 1st Christian Stephen, Fiji 25, 2nd Colin Kennedy, Kopuku 24, 

3rd Nanai Teiki, Tahiti 23. C grade 1st Degage Tuanua, Tahiti 23, 2nd 

Bill Head, Waikato 22, 3rd Kent Nicholl, Waikato 22. Ladies Natalie 

Rooney, Timaru 25, Junior Greg Bentley, Western Lake 25, Veterans 

Bill Becroft, Kaeo 25, Super Veterans Colin Kennedy, Kopuku 24. 

Handicap Trophy 1st Stuart Sutherland, Southland 25, 2nd Dean 

Takawe, Taumarunui 25, 3rd Colin Waghorn, Gorge Road 25, 4th 

Ben Tuck Bay of Plenty 25, 5th Nanai Teiki Tahiti 25, 6th Hamish Bell, 

Nightcaps 25, 7th Peter Krippner, Waikato 25, 8th Mitchell Dean, 

Palmerston North 25. Ladies Amy van Bysterveldt, Thames 25, 

Junior Mitchell Dean Palmerston North 25, Veteran Trevor Manson, 

Southland 25. NZ Handicap by Distance Championship sponsored 

by Maxam Ammunition 1st Hamish Holland, Amberley 50, 2nd 

Duncan Jefferis, Darfield 50, 3rd Colin Waghorn, Gorge Road 49, 

4th Hamish Bell, Nightcaps 49, 5th Heath Smith, Darfield 49. 6th 

Christian Stephen, Fiji 49. Ladies Jan Manson, Southland 46, Juniors 

Ned Collicoat, Australia 47, Veterans Barry Foster, Timaru 47. Super 

Veterans Colin Kennedy, Kopuku 45. 

Triples Trophy – HOA John Sleightholm, Australia 50. A grade 1st 

John Waldon, Putaruru 49, 2nd Colin Waghorn, Gorge Road 49, 

3rd William Rooney, Timaru 49. B grade 1st Christian Stephen, Fiji 

NZ Single Rise Junior James Fulford, Ladies Rebecca Searle, Veterans 

Ray Everett, Super Veterans Laurie Coppins 

High Gun A grade Ian Crafts 

NZ Single Rise HOA Gavin Searle 

48, 2nd Bruce Parkin, Bay of Plenty 48, 3rd Tim Brandon, Kaeo 47. 

C grade 1st Craig Pennell, Te Aroha 45, 2nd Dave Evans, Fiji 43, 3rd 

Degage Tuanua, Tahiti 42. Veteran Graeme Williams, Cambridge 49, 

Ladies, Natalie Rooney, Timaru 48, Junior Jaime Crafts, Waihora 49. 

NZ 18m DTL Triples Championship sponsored by NZ Dairy Farmers 

group – HOA Dave Turner, Hutt Valley 74. AA grade 1st Alan Vickers, 

Bay of Plenty 74, 2nd Owen Robinson, Waikato 74, 2rd Darryl Hunt, 

Australia 73. A grade 1st Bevan Brown, Darfield, 73, 2nd Graeme 

Madgwick, Waihi 72, 3rd Mark Ross, Auckland Met 71. B grade 1st 

Christian Stephen, Fiji 70, 2nd Selwyn Gates, Te Aroha 69, 3rd Ross 

Challies, Eketahuna 68. C grade 1st Leon Chant, Tahiti 69, 2nd 

Bill Mason, Taupo 67, 3rd Degage Tuanui, Tahiti 65. Ladies Natalie 

Rooney, Timaru 72, Juniors James Fulford, Hawkes Bay 70, Veterans 

Paul Basten, Thames 72, Super Veterans Laurie Coppins, Waitemata 

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Mackintosh Team top qualifiers (L-R) James Fulford (Junior), Rachel van Bysterveldt (Ladies), 

John Waldon, Alan Vickers (Open), Ray Everett (Veteran) 

NZ Single Barrel HOA Mike Withers with 

Geoff Wells (Kilwell Sports) 

Hugh Bradley (Stager Sports) and HOA 

Double Rise Brian Hartley 

Shoulder to Shoulder team winners, Waikato (L-R) Roger Bidois, John Waldon, Neil Pratt, 

David Wordley, Jon Beddis 

NZ Single Barrel AA Grade (L-R) Ian Marshall 2nd, James Fulford 1st, 

Jock Saxton 3rd 

NZ Ball Trap HOA John 

Sleightholm 

NZ 18m DTL Triples HOA Dave 

Turner 

High Gun AA Grade Alan Vickers 

NZ Handicap by Distance 1st 

Hamish Holland 

High Gun C grade Kim Bergerson 

NZ Points Score HOA Ray Everett 

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NZ Handicap by Distance (L-R) Duncan Jefferis 2nd, Colin Waghorn 

3rd, Hamish Bell 4th 

NZ Handicap by Distance (L-R) Ladies Jan Manson, Juniors Ned 

Collicoat, Veterans Barry Foster, Super Veterans Colin Kennedy 

Buck Knives winning Junior team, South Island (L-R) Kostyn Morrison, 

Brittany Pilcher, Rachel Bell 

Buck Knives North/South Open winning team, North Island (L-R) Ron 

Thomassen, John Waldon, Dylan Woolhouse, Roger Bidois, Ian Marshall 

NZ Single Rise AA Grade (L-R) Mike Sime 2nd, Jon Beddis 1st, John 

Sleightholm 3rd 

Buck Knives North/South winning Veterans team, South Island (L-R) 

Derek Sheen, Damian Briggs, Ewen Pirie 

NZ Double Rise Junior James Fulford, Ladies Natalie Rooney, Veteran 

Graham Geater, Super Veteran John Currie 

Buck Knives North/South Ladies team winners, South Island (L-R) 

Rebecca Searle, Jan Manson, Sheryl Anglem 

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continued from page 12 

68. Single Rise Trophy sponsored by Reloaders Supplies HOA Jon 

Beddis, Huntly. A Grade 1st Robert Maskell, Auckland Met, 2nd 

Samantha Peck, Australia, 3rd Rus Kelly, Nightcaps. B grade 1st Ross 

Challies, Woodville, 2nd Selwyn Gates, Te Aroha, 3rd John Russell, 

Dannevirke. C grade 1st Michael Phua, Fiji, 2nd Craig Pennell, Te 

Aroha, 3rd Bertrand Vairaaroa, Tahiti. Veteran Neville Crawford, 

Thames, Ladies, Samantha Peck, Australia, Juniors Ross Challies, 

Woodville. 

NZ Single Rise Championship sponsored by Caesar Guerini 

and B & P Ammunition – HOA Gavin Searle, Canterbury 50. AA 

Grade 1st Jon Beddis, Huntly 50. 2nd Mike Sime, Timaru 50, 3rd 

John Sleightholm, Australia 50. A grade 1st Paul Loibl, Samoa 50, 

2nd Rebecca Searle, Gorge Road 50, 3rd Ray Russell, Woodville 

50. B grade 1st Dean Sands, Auckland Met 50, 2nd Ross Challies, 

Woodville 50, 3rd Rachael van Bysterveldt, Thames 50. C grade 1st 

Eddie Chen Pao, Samoa 75, 2nd Brant Woodward, Australia 75, 3rd 

Cameron Rooney, Timaru 75. B grade 1st Degage Tuanua, Tahiti 74, 

2nd Bruce Ross, Auckland Met 73, 3rd Bruce Parkin, Bay of Plenty 72. 

C grade 1st Craig Pennell, Te Aroha 73, 2nd Michael Phua, Fiji 72, 3rd 

Jack Turner, Australia 69. Super Veteran Den Wilkens, Whitianga 

68, Veteran Damian Briggs, Barrytown 74, Ladies Samantha Peck, 

Australia 75, Junior Ned Collicoat, Australia 74. 

NZ Points Score Championship sponsored by Beretta NZ – HOA 

Ray Everett, Timaru 150. AA grade 1st William Rooney, Timaru 150, 

2nd Glenn Kable, Fiji 150, 3rd Daryl Hunt, Australia 150. A grade 1st 

Anja van de Wetering, Thames 150, 2nd Tina White, Australia 149, 

2nd Toddy Iosefa, Samoa 149. B grade 1st John Holder, Australia 146, 

2nd Mitchell Petersen, Rotorua 146, 3rd Noel Cherry, Waitemata 146. 

C grade 1st Abarsh Krishnell Datt, Fiji 146, 2nd Bertrand Vairaaroa, 

Tahiti 145, 3rd Gareth Blackwell, Putaruru 144. Ladies Anja van de 

NZ Points Score (L-R) Veterans Ray Everett, Ladies Anja van de 

Wetering, Juniors Mitchell Dean, Super Veterans Laurie Coppins 

High Gun (L-R) Junior James Fulford, Veteran Ian Marshall, Super 

Veteran Laurie Coppins, Ladies Natalie Rooney 

Degage Tuanua, Tahiai 50, 2nd Cameron Crapp, Bay of Plenty 40, 

3rd Christian Stanisic, New Caledonia 49. Ladies Rebecca Searle, 

Gorge Road 50, Juniors James Fulford, Hawkes Bay 50, Veterans Ray 

Everett, Timaru 50, Super Veterans, Laurie Coppins, Waitemata 50. 

Family Trophy Rebecca and Gavin Searle, 100/100. 

Vic Ball Long Run Kelvin Gutsell, Mataura 711. 

NZ Single Barrel Championship sponsored by Kilwell/Gamebore 

– HOA Mike Withers, Hawkes Bay 50. AA grade 1st James Fulford, 

Hawkes Bay 49, 2nd Ian Marshall, Whitianga 49, 3rd Jock Saxton, 

Huntly 49. A grade 1st Rylie Rooney, Waimate Oamaru 49, 2nd Jim 

Nash, Huntly 49, 3rd Vincent Bayley, Marlborough 48. B grade 1st 

Fabrice Azzaro, New Caledonia 49, 2nd Mitchell Peterson, Rotorua 

47, 3rd Rachael van Bysterveldt, Thames 47. C grade 1st Bertrand 

Vairaaroa, Tahiti 48, 2nd Gareth Blackwell, Putaruru 47, 3rd Kent 

Nicholl, Waikato 45. Ladies Jan Manson, Southland 49, Juniors Rylie 

Rooney, Waimate-Oamaru 49, Veterans Ian Marshall, Whitianga 49, 

Super Veterans Laurie Coppins, Waitemata 48. 

Buck Knives North vs South DTL – Open Team 1st North (Ian 

Marshall, Roger Bidois, John Waldon, Dylan Woolhouse, Ron 

Thomassen) 360, 2nd South (Hamish Holland, Craig Pilcher, Ray 

Everett, Daniel Warnock, Lindsay Rodgers) 346. Ladies Team 1st 

South (Sheryl Anglem, Jan Manson, Rebecca Searle) 216, 2nd North 

Anja van de Wetering, Doreen Sanderson, Deborah Pritchard) 

176. Juniors Team 1st South (Rachel Bell, Brittany Pilcher, Kostyn 

Morrison) 213, 2nd North (James Fulford, Mason Reed, Mitchell 

Dean) 203. Veterans Team 1st South (Damian Briggs, Derek Sheen, 

Ewen Pirie) 210, 2nd North (Graeme Williams, Laurie Coppins, 

Graham Geater) 206.2013 Glenn Cup Team: Roger Bidois, Ron 

Thomassen, Ray Everett, Hamish Holland, John Waldon. Reserve 

Craig Pilcher. 

Kilwell Trophy – HOA Samantha Peck, Australia 75. A grade 1st 

Wetering, Thames 150, Juniors Mitchell Dean, Palmerston North 

149, Veterans Ray Everett, Timaru 150, Super Veterans Laurie 

Coppins, Waitemata 147. 

NZ High Gun Sponsored by Beretta. High Gun Jon Beddis, Huntly 

438. AA Grade Alan Vickers, Bay of Plenty 437, A grade Ian Crafts, 

Waihora 416, B grade Degage Tuanua Tahiti 414, C grade Kim 

Bergerson, Woodville 396. Ladies Natalie Rooney, Timaru 424, 

Juniors James Fulford, Hawkes Bay 422, Veterans Ian Marshall, 

Whitianga 429, Super Veterans Laurie Coppins, Waitemata 421. 

Provincial Teams 1st Waikato (N.Pratt, J.Beddis, D.Wordley, 

J.Waldon, Bidois) 2133, 2nd Canterbury 2106, 3rd Bay of Plenty 2092. 

Interisland Championship – Tie (North 3, South 3) Australia 2. 

Highest Mackintosh Qualifier – Open Team Alan Vickers, John 

Waldon. Ladies Rachael van Bysterveldt, Junior James Fulford, 

Veteran Ray Everett. 

Mackintosh Teams sponsored by Australian Sporting Arms: Open 

Alan Vickers, John Waldon, Gavin Searle, Ray Everett, Stuart 

Sutherland, David Turner, Brett Gare, Jon Beddis, Jock Saxton, 

Robert Prince, Colin Waghorn, Chris Cassin, Brad Warnock, Ian 

Marshall, Paul Basten, Laurie Coppins, Stephen Diack, James 

Fulford, Deano Horn, Brendan Malcolm, Ben Bringans, Gavin Paton, 

Rylie Rooney, Mark Shaw, David Challies. Reserves Mike Withers, 

Allan Wilson. Ladies: Jan Manson, Natalie Rooney, Brittany Pilcher, 

Sheryl Anglem, Natalie Curtis. Reserves Rebecca Searle, Chloe 

Tipple. Junior Team: Rachael van Bysterveldt, William Rooney, 

Thomas Darling, Mitchell Dean, Gregory Bently. Reserves Mitchel 

Petersen, Dean Sands. Veterans Team: Damian Briggs, Derek 

Sheen, Vincent Bayley, Garth Gadsby, Graham Geater. Reserves Ray 

Russell, Graham Allen. 

Highest Scorer: Brendan Malcolm 295. 100 Badge: Gregory Bentley. 

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NORTH ISLAND AND NEW ZEALAND SPORTING CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Clarke Family Shield Teams Shield, Waikato 

Mark Vessey HOA NZ Sporting 

NZ C Grade, Jonathan Harwood, Neil Kerr, Carolyn Stanford 

NZ Juniors, Ben Ashton, Tom Bishop, Josh Pratt. 

Senior Vets. Russell McGowan, Juniors, Tom Bishop, Ladies, Sarah 

Hamburger, Veterans, Ron Rhook 

Keaton Norling 

NZ A Grade, John Hillier, Ian Holmes, Terry Mahoney 

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NORTH ISLAND AND NEW ZEALAND 

SPORTING CHAMPIONSHIPS 

By Andrew Sanders WRCTC 

After a couple of months of hard work, and several more months 

in the planning by the dedicated few workers at the Wanganui 

Rangitikei Clay Target Club the 19th of February arrived. Four new 

style sporting fields greeted the 120+ shooters from both sides of 

the ditch as well as a good contingent from New Caledonia. They 

all rolled through the gate to clear, calm blue skies that would last 

for the whole four days of shooting – what else would you expect 

at Wanganui! 

Thanks go to the huge number of people involved in organising 

and setting up the shoot with special mention going to Darryl 

Groundwater and Terry Lalich supplying traps from their Lone 

Pine and Amber Creek clubs. Closer to home, thanks to Gordon 

McPhee supplying traps and his quad bike; traps were also kindly 

supplied by Rod Bryant, Geoff Furborough, Jason Saunders and 

the crew from Hutt Valley Gun Club. 

Securing sponsorship can be a real challenge. We were 

extremely lucky to have the great support of a number of sponsors. 

Reloaders Supplies from Auckland along with support from 

Cameron Sports were the major sponsors of the trophy and North 

Island shoots also supplying the HOA prize for the Nationals. 

Target Products again sponsored the Nationals competition and 

we congratulate Graeme Brown on his continued dedication and 

support to Sporting Clays around the country. 

Thanks and recognition go to our other sponsors, Gordon 

McPhee who kindly donated 5 one hundred dollar lucky draws 

drawn after the North Island prize giving and also to Stager Sports 

who donated 5 pairs of Mendel Marksman shooting shoes, again 

as drawn prizes after the Nationals prize giving. Also thanks to 

Waltex, Berretta NZ and Balance Agri Nutrients for the supply 

of two marquees to provide welcome shade to the shooters. 

Without these generous sponsors we would be unable to offer 

the significant prize pool to the shooters so please try and support 

them whenever possible! 

As we all know sporting shoots do not run themselves and it 

is due to the selfless attitude of both Craig Matthews and Rob 

Caruthers electing not to shoot the four days to ensure the event 

ran smoothly and professionally – which it did! 

Our aim was to present visible, shootable targets of a world 

class standard that challenge the shooters' ability, not their 

eyesight or reactions. Looking at the scoreboard this seemed to 

be achieved with most shooters scoring inline with the FITASC 

recommendations and more importantly coming in to the club 

house with a smile on their face (even after field 3 pad 2 off the 

top of the hill!!) The field design and layout made good use of the 

terrain and paying close attention to the FITASC recommended 

target difficulty with 3 traps per stand ensured a good variety of 

trajectories for everyone to enjoy themselves. 

With Thursday being a day off between the North Island and 

the Nationals, Wednesday evening was an opportunity for all 

shooters to mix and mingle over a couple of drinks (some indulged 

in a few more) at the Kingsgate Hotel in Wanganui with platters 

generously supplied by Scott Stonex from Reloaders Supplies. 

We hope all who attended the week in Wanganui thoroughly 

enjoyed themselves and we look forward to hosting you all again 

in the future! 

North Island Sporting – HOA Brian Deadman 95. AA grade 1st 

Adam Hanson 93, 2nd David Alley 92, 3rd Ron Rhook 92. A Grade 

Ian Holmes 93, 2nd Greg Allen 87, 3rd Ernie Scheidl 86. B grade 1st 

Ian Swale 79, 2nd Graeme Brown 75, 3rd Calvin Stewart 75. C grade 

Robin Casey 68, 2nd Brian Forrest 63, 3rd Eddie Ng 60. Ladies Vicki 

Johnston 80, Juniors Thomas Bishop 86, Veterans Ron Rhook 92, 

Super Veterans Russell Cooper 85. 

New Zealand Sporting – HOA Mark Vessey 184. AA Grade 1st 

David Alley 181, 2nd Ron Rhook 178, 3rd Brian Deadman 177. A 

Grade 1st John Hillier 171, 2nd Ian Holmes 126, 3rd Terry Mahoney 

160. B grade 1st Deborah Bradley 142, 2nd Robin Casey 139, 3rd Ross 

Denton 139. C Grade 1st Jonathan Harwood 114, 2nd Neil Kerr 111, 

3rd Carolyn Stanford 109. Ladies Sarah Hamburger 146. Juniors 

Thomas Bishop 172, Veterans Ron Rhook 178, Super Veterans 

Russell McGowan 155. ■ 

NZ B Grade Robin Casey, Deborah Bradley, Ross Denton 

NZ AA Grade, Brian Deadman, David Alley, Ron Rhook. 

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270 TGT DTL WEEKEND Incl. WILLIE PAURINI MEMORIAL SHIELD 

SPONSORED BY TARGET PRODUCTS (1978) LTD 

Hosted by HUTT VALLEY GUN CLUB INC Wallaceville Rd, Mangaroa 

15-16th June 2013 9:00am Start - Nominations Close 10:30am both days. 

Saturday 15th June 2013 Sunday 16th June 2013 

Event 1: 50 Tgt Single Rise 

Event 4: 45 Tgt Triples 

Event 2: 50 Tgt Points Score 

Event 5: 25pr Double Rise 

Event 3: 50 Tgt Single Barrel 

Event 6: 25 Mini’s 

Willie Paurini Memorial Shield held in conjunction with Events 1 & 2 on a Single Rise basis, on handicap. Taken off DTL 

percentage, shooters get targets in based on difference between highest of last two rule offs rounded up and 100, i.e. 

93.2% = 6 targets in. 100’s on handicap shoot off on handicap by distance marks. Prizes for HOA and 1st, 2nd & 3rd in each 

grade sponsored by Target Products, suppliers of Falcon Ammunition and CCI Targets. 

Optional $5.00 Sweep on each event. 

Saturday Entry $69.00, Sunday Entry $61.00 incl Trophies, excl Optional Sweeps. 

Ammunition, Lunch & Refreshment Available on Grounds. 

President Club House Secretary 

Dave Turner Ph (04) 527-4368 Wayne Pym 

Ph (04) 586-6132 Ph (04) 234-6306 

300 SKEET WEEKEND 

SPONSORED BY BEAM GLOBAL AND HULL CARTRIDGES & BLASER 

3x Ellis/Webber North/South Skeet Events 

Hosted by HUTT VALLEY GUN CLUB INC Wallaceville Rd, Mangaroa. 6th & 7th July 2013 

Saturday 6th July. 9:00am Start - Nominations close 10:30am. 

Event 1. Famous Grouse 100 Tgt Skeet. Shot on Handicap. Sweeps on each 25 & 100. 

$5.00 Optional sweep over 100 off the gun. Trophies to Off the Gun Winner & 1st, 2nd & 3rd on Handicap sponsored by Beam 

Global, suppliers of Famous Grouse. A Shooter can only win one trophy. Entry $52.00 excl Optionals. 

Ellis/Webber North/South Skeet Team qualifying event – Entry $5.00. 

Event 2. First 50 Tgt of 100 Tgt Skeet. Sweeps on each 25 & 100. $5.00 

Optional sweep over 100. Trophies to HOA, 1st, 2nd & 3rd in each grade sponsored by Hull Cartridges & Blaser. Entry $52.00 

excl Optionals. 

Ellis/Webber North/South Skeet Team qualifying event for RNZAF Shooting Sports Assn – Entry $5.00. 

Sunday 7th July. 9:00am Start - Nominations close 10:30am. 

Event 3. Second 50 Tgt of 100 Tgt Skeet from Event 2. 

Event 4. Hull Cartridges & Blaser 100 Tgt Skeet. Sweeps on each 25 & 100. $5.00 

Optional sweep over 100. Trophies to HOA, 1st, 2nd & 3rd in each grade sponsored by Hull Cartridges & Blaser. Entry $52.00 

excl Optionals. Ellis/Webber North/South Skeet Team qualifying event for Wairarapa Gun Club – Entry $5.00. 

Ammunition, Lunch & Refreshment Available on Grounds. 

President Club House Secretary 

Dave Turner Ph (04) 527-4368 Wayne Pym 

Ph (04) 586-6132 Ph (04) 234-6306 

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ay of plenty provincials 

Double Rise HOA Martin van de Wetering 

High Gun Jon Beddis 

9th and 10th February 2013 

The weekend for the Bay of Plenty 

Provincials promised very fine weather and 

an opportunity to shoot great scores. With 

clear blue skies and still weather there was 

a chance to shoot great scores, especially 

with World DTL qualifying opportunities 

over the Points Score event. 

Saturday 9th February 

Event 1 was the Skeet with 54 entries 

including 19 in A, 18 in B and 17 in C-Grade. 

A total of six possibles were scored by Guy 

Brooks, Grant Nilsson, Rick Spence, Jon 

Beddis, Brian Thomson and Tony Truss. 

After the first 25 in the shoot-off there were 

three shooters left, J Beddis, T Truss and B 

Thomson. A further 13 targets saw Brian 

Thomson take out the HOA from Tony 

Truss with Jon Beddis 2nd in A-Grade and 

Rick Spence 3rd. B-Grade Skeet was won 

by Jimmy Dobson on 24 with Jack Whale 

taking out 2nd from Laurie Coppins after 

a shoot-off. In the C-Grade a shoot off 

between Anja van de Wetering and Toby 

Nichol saw Anja take 1st with Toby 2nd 

and Craig Pennell 3rd. Ladies - Anja van 

de Wetering, Juniors - James Fulford and 

Veterans - Rick Spence. 

The 2 Person Skeet Team was won by 

Steve Cooper and Tony Truss on 48. The 5 

Person Team winners were Mark Walsh, Ross Ellis, Jimmy Dobson, 

Neville Crawford and Colin Prichard. 

The second event of the day was the Minis, shot while the Skeet 

was in progress, which had 10 possibles shot by Grant Nixon, 

James Fulford, George Gee, Paul Anderson, Warren Holden, Rick 

Spence, Jon Beddis, Deano Horn, John Waldon and Tony Truss. 

There were a further 16 scores of 14 in the A-Grade plus four in 

the B-Grade. After 25 targets there were two shooters still “all 

on” with Jon Beddis and John Waldon going on to shoot a further 

18 targets before Jon Beddis won the HOA, with John Waldon 1st 

A-Grade, Grant Nixon 2nd and Rick Spence 3rd. In the B-Grade 

Mitchell Beddis won 1st over Ian Lindsay 2nd and Phillip Fagan 

3rd. C-Grade saw Kent Nichol take out 1st place with a score of 13 

followed by Thomas Darling over Craig Pennell after a shoot off for 

those on 12. The Ladies - Anja van de Wetering (14), Juniors -James 

Fulford (15) and Veterans Grant Nixon (15). 

The Double Rise event had 54 competitors and resulted in 

three possibles shot by Martin van de Wetering, Paul Basten (both 

A-Grade) and junior, David Shaw in the B-Grade. There were a 

further 11 shooters on 19 in A-Grade and also two shooters on 18 in 

B-Grade. The C-Grade scores had an outright winner on 17 which 

showed the quality of the Double-Rise targets that were set. After 

shooting a possible in the shoot-off Martin van de Wetering was 

HOA with Paul Basten 1st in A-Grade, leaving David Shaw to take 

out the title for B-Grade. The shoot-off for 2nd and 3rd in A-Grade 

went to three rounds before Mark Walsh was the victor with a 

clean score of 30/30 taking out 2nd in A-Grade with Tony Truss 

3rd. The shoot-off in B-Grade for 2nd and 3rd saw Mitchell Beddis 

prevail over Colin Kennedy and C-Grade was won outright by Kent 

Nichol with Deborah Pritchard 2nd and Craig Pennell 3rd. The 

Ladies - Anja van de Wetering (19), Juniors - David Shaw (20) and 

Veterans - Ian Marshall (19). 

The final event of the day was the Single-Rise with a total of 24 

possibles, one in C-Grade, two in B-Grade and 21 in A-Grade out of 

a field of 56 shooters in total. There were a further 13 shooters on 

one target down so two-thirds of the field shot one target down 

or better. After a shoot-off of 175 targets on the Saturday there 

were three shooters left to continue the shoot-off into Sunday 

morning, Toby Nichol, Grant Nilsson and David Wordley. 3rd place 

in the A-Grade was taken out by John Waldon after shooting 158 

targets late into the Saturday afternoon. C-Grade was won by Kent 

Nichol while B-Grade was won by Peter Skrine over Ian Lindsay, all 

shooting a possible score. 

At the end of the first day’s competition the High Gun was 

being led by Tony Truss who was only one point down over John 

Beddis who was two points down (both dropped targets in the 

Doubles) followed closely by Martin van de Wetering who was 

three points down. 

Sunday 10th February 

Early Sunday morning saw the continuation of the Single Rise 

shoot off between the three shooters remaining in this event. As 

is often the case, the shoot off on Sunday morning didn’t even go 

a full round of 25 targets before Grant Nilsson was the victor over 

David Wordley and Toby Nichol. The results of the Single Rise 

were HOA Grant Nilsson, 1st A-Grade David Wordley, 2nd Toby 

Nichol, 3rd John Waldon. 1st in B-Grade was Peter Skrine, 2nd Ian 

Lindsay and 3rd Mitchell Beddis. 1st in C-Grade was Kent Nichol, 

2nd Thomas Darling and 3rd Max McConnell. Ladies - Anja van de 

Wetering (25), Juniors Kent Nichol (25), and Veterans (shooting in 

his first event as a Veteran) Neville Crawford (25). 

The Triples event saw 7 possibles shot by Toby Nichol, Grant 

Castles, Mark Walsh, Deano Horn, Anja van de Wetering, Alan 

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Single Rise (L-R) A Grade 1st David Wordley, HOA Grant Nilsson, 2nd Toby Nicholl, 3rd John Waldon. 

Vickers and Gary Discombe. There were a further 10 scores on 49 

points. In B-Grade there were two 48’s, shot by Peter Skrine and 

Ian Lindsay. After the first round of 15 targets in the shoot off there 

were three shooters left on a clean score, Toby Nichol, Anja van de 

Wetering and Mark Walsh. The next round saw Toby take out HOA 

with a clean score over Anja van de Wetering who was one point 

down taking out 1st A-Grade and Mark Walsh two points down 

placed in 2nd. A shoot off for 3rd in A-Grade saw Alan Vickers take 

out 3rd over Deano Horn. The B-Grade shoot offs saw Ian Lindsay 

prevail over Peter Skrine while C-Grade was won outright by Kent 

Nichol. The results were HOA Toby Nichol, 1st A-Grade Anja van 

de Wetering, 2nd Mark Walsh, 3rd Alan Vickers. 1st B-Grade Ian 

Lindsay, 2nd Peter Skrine, 3rd Mitchell Beddis. 1st C-Grade Kent 

Nichol, 2nd Ricky Childs, 3rd Max McConnell. The Veterans shoot 

off saw four shooters contest for this title and after the first round 

Graham Geater and Paul Schmidt were all clean going on to shoot 

a further round before Graham was the victor. Categories winners 

were Ladies - Anja van de Wetering (50), Juniors - James Fulford 

(48), Veterans Graham Geater (49). 

The Point Score event had 66 entries with nine possibles shot 

in A-Grade while the B-Grade was won outright by Bruce Parkin 

with a score of 74 and C-Grade was won by Kent Nichol on 73. 

The Points Score shoot off went a total of 40 targets before Grant 

Nilsson was the victor over Paul Basten followed by John Waldon 

in 2nd and John Beddis 3rd. The B-Grade required a shoot off 

for 3rd place with Kevin Curtis being the victor over Lois France. 

The results were HOA Grant Nilsson, 1st A-Grade Mark Walsh, 

2nd John Waldon, 3rd Jon Beddis (all on 75). 1st B-Grade was 

Bruce Parkin, 2nd Selwyn Gates, 3rd Kevin Curtis. 1st in C-Grade 

was Kent Nichol, 2nd Craig Pennell, 3rd Max McConnell. Ladies 

- Natalie Curtis (74), Juniors Lloyd Agnew (75) and Veterans Paul 

Basten (75). 

In the Club Teams event there was a somewhat unprecedented 

result with three Clubs equaling on a top score of 295 for their top 

four counting scores. The three Club teams, Thames, Bay of Plenty 

and Whitianga, sent out their four top scorers into a shoot off with 

the Thames team eventually prevailing with a clean possible score 

while the two other teams were two points down in total. The 

winning Thames team was Paul Basten, Toby Nichol, Anja van de 

Wetering and Neville Crawford. 

The final event of the day was the Single Barrel which had 10 

possibles shot by Grant Nixon, James Fulford, Neil Pratt, Robert 

Prince, Jon Beddis, Graham Geater, Mitchell Dean, Gary Discombe 

and Natalie Curtis. After shooting 35 targets James Fulford was the 

eventual High Overall winner over John Beddis and in 2nd Robert 

Prince followed by Neil Pratt. B-Grade was won outright by Colin 

Pritchard while Tony Stenhoff won a C-Grade shoot off over Kent 

Nichol. The results were HOA James Fulford, 1st A-Grade Jon 

Beddis, 2nd Robert Prince, 3rd Neil Pratt (all on 25). 1st B-Grade 

Colin Pritchard (24), 2nd Ian Lindsay (23), 3rd Mitchell Beddis (22). 

1st C-Grade Tony Stenhoff (23), 2nd Kent Nichol (23), 3rd Craig 

Pennell (20). Ladies - Natalie Curtis (25), Juniors - James Fulford 

(25) and Veterans - Graham Geater (25). 

After leading the High Gun for most of the week, Tony Truss 

let this slip in the last event allowing Jon Beddis to win the High 

Overall High Gun with a score of 232 with 1st A-Grade Tony Truss 

(230), 1st B-Grade Ian Lindsay (219) and 1st C-Grade Kent Nichol 

(218). In the Categories the Ladies High Overall was Anja van 

de Wetering (225), Juniors James Fulford (226) and Veterans Ian 

Marshall (228). 

Skeet – HOA Brian Thomson, Kopuku 25. A grade 1st Tony Truss, 

Double Rise C Grade (L-R) 3rd Craig Pennell, 1st Kent Nicholl, 2nd 

Deborah Pritchard 

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Rotorua 25, 2nd Jon Beddis, Huntly 25, 3rd Rick Spence, Wairoa 

25. B grade 1st Jimmy Dobson, Bay of Plenty 24, 2nd Jack Whale, 

Hawkes Bay 23, 3rd Laurie Coppins, Waitemata 23. C grade 1st Anja 

van de Wetering, Thames 23, 2nd Toby Nicholl, Cambridge 23, 3rd 

Craig Pennell, Te Aroha 21. Ladies Anja van de Wetering, Thames 

23, Juniors James Fulford, Hawkes Bay 23, Veterans Rick Spence, 

Wairoa 25. 2 Person Team 1st Steven Cooper, Tony Truss, Rotorua 

48. 5 Person Team Mark Walsh, Ross Ellis, Jimmy Dobson, Neville 

Crawford, Colin Pritchard, Bay of Plenty 109. 

Minis HOA Jon Beddis, Huntly 15. A grade 1st Grant Waldon, 

Putaruru 15, 2nd Grant Nixon, Taupo 15, 3rd Rick Spence, Wairoa 15. 

B grade 1st Mitchell Beddis, Huntly 14, 2nd Ian Lindsay, Tokoroa 14, 

3rd Philip Fagan, Te Kuiti 14. C grade 1st Kent Nicholl, Waikato 13, 

2nd Thomas Darling, Bay of Plenty 12, 3rd Craig Pennell, Te Aroha 

12. Ladies Anja van de Wetering, Thames 14, Juniors James Fulford, 

Hawkes Bay 15, Veterans Grant Nixon, Taupo 15. 

Double Rise – HOA Martin van de Wetering, Thames 20. A 

grade 1st Paul Basten, Thames 20, 2nd Mark Walsh, Bay of Plenty 

19, 3rd Tony Truss, Rotorua 19. B grade 1st David Shaw, Bay of Plenty 

20, 2nd Mitchell Beddis, Huntly 18, 3rd Colin Kennedy, Kopuku 

18. C grade 1st Kent Nicholl, Waikato 17, 2nd Deborah Pritchard, 

Bay of Plenty 14, 3rd Craig Pennell, Te Aroha 13. Ladies Anja van 

de Wetering, Thames 19, Juniors David Shaw, Bay of Plenty 20, 

Veterans Ian Marshall, Whitianga 19. 

Single Rise – HOA Grant Nilsson, Northern Wairoa 25. A grade 

1st David Wordley, Putaruru 25, 2nd Toby Nicholl, Cambridge 25, 

3rd John Waldon, Putaruru 25. B grade 1st Pete Skrine, Kaikohe 

25, 2nd Ian Lindsay, Tokoroa 25, 3rd Mitchell Beddis, Huntly 24. 

C grade 1st Kent Nicholl, Waikato 25, 2nd Thomas Darling, Bay of 

Plenty 24, 3rd Max McConnell, Hawkes Bay 21. Ladies Anja van de 

Wetering, Thames 25, Juniors Kent Nicholl, Waikato 25, Veterans 

Neville Crawford, Bay of Plenty 25. 

Triples – HOA Toby Nicholl, Cambridge 50. A grade 1st Anja 

van de Wetering, Thames 50, 2nd Mark Walsh, Bay of Plenty 50, 

3rd Alan Vickers, Bay of Plenty 50. B grade 1st Ian Lindsay, Tokoroa 

48, 2nd Pete Skrine, Kaikohe 48, 3rd Mitchell Beddis, Huntly 45. 

C grade 1st Kent Nicholl, Waikato 46, 2nd Ricky Childs, Auckland 

Met 41, 3rd Max McConnell, Hawkes Bay 38. Ladies Anja van de 

Wetering, Thames 50, Juniors James Fulford, Hawkes Bay 48, 

Veterans Graham Geater, Rotorua 49. 

Points Score – HOA Grant Nilsson, Northern Wairoa 75. A 

grade 1st Mark Walsh, Bay of Plenty 75, 2nd John Waldon, Putaruru 

75, 3rd Jon Beddis, Huntly 75. B grade 1st Bruce Parkin, Bay of Plenty 

74, 2nd Selwyn Gates, Te Aroha 73, 3rd Kevin Curtis, Matamata 72. 

C grade 1st Kent Nicholl, Waikato 73, 2nd Craig Pennell, Te Aroha 

71, 3rd Max McConnell, Hawkes Bay 68. Ladies Natalie Curtis, 

Matamata 74, Juniors Lloyd Agnew, Auckland Met 75, Veterans 

Paul Basten, Thames 75. 

Single Barrel – HOA James Fulford, Hawkes Bay 25. A grade 1st 

Jon Beddis, Huntly 25, 2nd Robert Prince, Hutt Valley 25, 3rd Neil 

Pratt, Te Kuiti 25. B grade 1st Colin Pritchard, Bay of Plenty 24, 2nd 

Ian Lindsay, Tokoroa 23, 3rd Mitchell Beddis, Huntly 22. C grade 1st 

Tony Stenhoff, Thames 23, 2nd Kent Nicholl, Waikato 23, 3rd Craig 

Pennell, Te Aroha 20. Ladies Natalie Curtis, Matamata 25, Juniors 

James Fulford, Hawkes Bay 25, Veterans Graham Geater, Rotorua 

25. Club Team Thames (Paul Basten, Neville Crawford, Toby 

Nicholl, Anja van de Wetering) 

High Gun – Jon Beddis, Huntly 232. A grade Tony Truss, Rotorua 

230, B grade Ian Lindsay, Tokoroa 219, C grade Kent Nicholl, 

Waikato 218. Ladies Anja van de Wetering, Thames 225, Juniors 

James Fulford, Hawkes Bay 226, Veterans Ian Marshall, Whitianga 

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Single Barrel B Grade (L-R) 3rd Mitchell Beddis, 1st Colin Pritchard, 2nd 

Ian Lindsay 

Double Rise B Grade (L-R) 1st David Shaw, 2nd Mitchell Beddis, 3rd 

Colin Kennedy. 

Points Score Junior Lloyd Agnew 

Skeet C grade (L-R) 1st Anja van de Wetering 

3rd Craig Pennell 

Skeet B Grade (L-R) 3rd Laurie Coppins, 1st 

Jimnmy Dobson 

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2013 NORFOLK ISLAND 

INTERNATIONAL CLAY TARGET CHAMPIONSHIPS 

This annual Norfolk Island event was well 

attended by Australian and New Zealand 

shooters and their families during the 

week 3-8th February. The 85 competitors 

who took the mark ensured that we had a 

successful and friendly competition ahead, 

for the entire week. 

Good weather conditions continued and 

every visitor arrived as per their scheduled 

flights; there was no repeat of last year’s 

drama caused by the fog and persistent 

rain. 

To our many local sponsors we are again 

very grateful of the support given to the 

Norfolk Island Clay Target Association. The 

additional support provided from our New 

Zealand and Australian sponsors is to be 

equally commended. For a small sporting 

association like ours we require a dedicated 

team of our local members to provide the 

necessary manual work in stocking traps 

and providing services such as ammo 

sales and clearing and cleaning and we are 

very grateful of the support from all the 

shooters who ensured that our team was 

assisted each day. 

Scoring and refereeing were of an excellent 

standard and we were surrounded by a 

very contented group of competitors and 

supporters. Many thanks to all our friends 

who come to bolster our numbers each 

year, and for those of you making their first 

visit we now have an extended group of 

friends to add to our support list. 

We hope that you enjoyed your stay with 

us and will consider returning to and enjoy 

the Norfolk Island hospitality. 

Event 1 50 Skeet A grade 1 Bas Vercoe, 

2 Kelvin Ellison NZ, 3 Martin O’Connor 

NZ. B grade 1 Den Wilkins NZ, 2 Mitch 

Mitchell NZ, 3 Clinton Judd. C grade 1 Keith 

Simpson, 2 Darren Doust, 3 Mike Letters. 

Event 2 Double Rise A grade 1 Amy Buys, 

2 Bob Waugh NZ, 3 Stu Bell NZ. B grade 1 

Darren Doust, 2 Phil Morrison NZ, 3 Peter 

Sanders. C grade 1 David Walker NZ, 2 Bill 

Burton, 3 Bill Doust. 

Veterans High Gun Winners 

C Grade Ball Trap 

B Grade Points C Grade Single Barrel A Grade Skeet 

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SOUTHLAND DISTRICT 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Event 3 Single Barrel A grade 1 Amy Buys, 

2 Russell Watson, 3 Jim Fisher NZ. B grade 

1 Peter Sanders, 2 Philip Morrison NZ, 3 

Darryl Kowald. C grade 1 Bill Burton, 2 

David Walker NZ, 3 Mike Duncan NZ. 

Event 4 Points Score A grade 1 Keith 

Simpson, 2 Andrew Barnett, 3 Bob Waugh 

NZ. B grade 1 Lance Dickey NZ, 2 Darren 

Doust, 3 Phillip Morrison NZ. C grade 1 Bill 

Burton, 2 John Donald NZ, 3 Mike Duncan 

NZ. 

Event 5 Ball Trap Champs A grade 1 Bruce 

Smith, 2 Andrew Barnett, 3 Stu Bell NZ. B 

grade 1 Phil Morrison NZ, 2 Lance Dickey 

NZ, 3 Wayne Williams NZ. C grade 1 David 

Walker NZ, 2 Bill Mason NZ, 3 Hamish 

A Grade Double Rise 

Another fine and hot Southland summer 

day was turned on by the Mataura 

Club hosting the Southland District 

Championships for 2013. So why then 

is it that shooters still won’t arrive and 

register promptly at a shoot Sure, as 

club members we might have still been 

checking the settings on a couple of traps 

just after the allocated start time, but 30 

minutes after we were meant to start not 

one person had taken the time to register. 

Out to the car park to get people moving 

in the general direction of the office with 

a reminder to them that we need shooters 

to start because they will be the ones 

whinging when we finish late. 

Skeet first. Here at Mataura we only have 

the one Skeet field so this takes a bit of 

time to get through. Balanced by Double 

Rise on trap one and as soon as we can 

Single Rise on trap two. This caught a few 

selectors on the hop as the Single Rise also 

has the Hargraves Team shield shot. Points 

and Single Barrel are shot on Traps one and 

two and as soon as the Skeet is all done 

we shoot Mini’s on Trap three. While all 

this seems a little hectic it is a system that 

works and we managed to have 13 squads 

shoot the programme with each squad 

shooting the same discipline on the same 

trap. 

The day's shooting was highlighted with 26 

possibles in the Single Rise with the shoot 

off lasting until eventually the decision was 

taken to move to 18m and let it be sorted 

out from there. David Diack eventually 

emerged the winner. Eight possibles in 

the Skeet with John Tonkin rising to the 

top after travelling down to our sunny 

Southland. There were also eight possibles 

in the Single Barrel and 14 possibles in the 

Points score. Shoot offs were the order of 

the day for some shooters, as they were at 

times heading from one shoot off to the 

next. But it was great to see such a large 

amount of red on the board for the day. 

Congratulations to all the event and grade 

winners on the day, also to the Southland 

team for winning the Hargraves Shield, and 

to the East team for their win as well. 

Full Results: 

15 Minis - A Grade 15’s C Pilcher, C Waghorn, 

G Harrison. B Grade 14 M Eales, 13 P 

Williams, 12’s C Munro, J L Smith. C Grade 

12 A Diamond, 10’s R Horrell, A Lawrence. 

HOA C Waghorn. 1st A Grade G Harrison. B 

Grade M Eales. C Grade A Diamond. 

25 Skeet – A Grade 25’s L Maxwell, B Drake, 

B Foster, C Waghorn, K Gutsell, J Tonkin, E 

Pirie. B Grade 25 T Manson, 24’s A Wilson, 

D Warnock, S Diack, J Ayers. C Grade 24 B 

Pilcher, 23 T Jackson, 22 S McKerchar. HOA 

Mackenzie NZ. 

Event 6 Clay Target Champs A grade 1 

Andrew Skinner, 2 Ken Marshall, 3 Basil 

Vercoe. B grade 1 Wayne Williams NZ, 2 

Colin Shaw NZ, 3 Peter Sanders. C grade 1 

David Walker NZ, 2 Bill Burton, 3 Bill Doust. 

Skeet Pairs Basil Vercoe, Mitch Meers. Local 

Skeet Bas Vercoe, Colin Judd, Mitchell 

Meers, Mike Letters. 

Ball Trap Pairs Basil Vercoe, Clinton Judd. 

Veterans High Gun 1 Basil Vercoe, 2 Stu Bell 

NZ, 3 Den Wilkins NZ. Ladies Amy Buys. 

International Teams 1 Australia (A Skinner, 

K.Marshall, B.Rumbell, D.Newberry), 2 

Norfolk Island, 3 New Zealand. 

High Gun – Basil Vercoe. 

Mini High Gun Andrew Barnett B grade 

Darren Doust C grade Bill Burton. ■ 

Hargrave Shield, Southland No 1 Team (L-R) S.Evans, S.Sutherland, L.Rodgers, P.Harraway, 

J.Manson 

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J Tonkin, 1st A Grade C Waghorn, B Grade T 

Manson, C Grade B Pilcher. 

10pr Double Rise – A Grade 20’s C Pilcher, 

D Robertson, 19’s D Dickie, N Kelland, 

H Bell, B Walker, K Gutsell. B Grade 18 

M Eales, 16’s B Warnock, J L Smith, 15’s P 

Williams, C Munro, M Burdon. C Grade 15’s 

L Johansen, A Lawrence, 14’s A Diamond, 

R Horrell, 13’s T Jackson. HOA C Pilcher, 1st 

A Grade D Robertson, B Grade M Eales, C 

Grade L Johansen. 

25 Single Rise – A Grade 25’s B Pilcher, 

C Pilcher, D Dickie, N Kelland, H Bell, 

B Warnock, B Walker, D Chambers, D 

Diack, L Rodgers, J Manson, N Rule, W J 

Sutherland, B Drake, S Evans, S Sutherland, 

R Kelly, W J Munro, C Waghorn, G Harrison, 

P Harraway, M Dobbie, K Gutsell, E Pirie. 

B Grade 25’s P Williams, M Burdon, 24 M 

Eales, 23’s B Warnock, C Munro. C Grade 

23’s L Johansen, T Jackson, 22’s M Pou, A 

Lawrence. HOA D Diack, 1st A Grade K 

Gutsell, B Grade M Burdon, C Grade T 

Jackson. 

25 Single Barrel – A Grade 25’s C Pilcher, A 

Wilson, B Walker, L Maxwell, L Rodgers, W J 

Munro, G Harrison, P Harraway. B Grade 22 

C Munro, 21’s M Eales, P Williams, J Ayers. 

C Grade 20 T Jackson, 19’s A Diamond, L 

Johansen, 18 A Lawrence. HOA C Pilcher, 

1st A Grade P Harraway, B Grade C Munro, 

C Grade T Jackson. 

25 Points Score - A Grade 75’s A Wilson, D 

Robertson, B Walker, L Maxwell, L Rodgers, 

N Rule, W J Sutherland, S Evans, R Kelly, P 

Harraway, K Gutsell, W Ayers, E Pirie. B 

Grade 75 J Ayers, 73 P Williams, 72 M Eales. 

C Grade 70’s A Diamond, L Johansen, 69 M 

Pou. HOA L Rodgers, 1st A Grade S Evans, B 

Grade J Ayers, C Grade A Diamond. 

High Gun - Boston Walker 181 

Brun Trophy C Grade Single Rise – T 

Jackson 23. 

Hargrave Shield – Southland No 1 Team 

125, S Evans, S Sutherland, P Harraway, L 

Rodgers, J Manson. 

Shooters World Trophy East v West Teams 

Match – East 2125, West 2064. ■ 

Boston Walker High Gun 

Colin Waghorn HOA Minis 

Craig Pilcher HOA Single Barrel and HOA 

Double Rise 

David Diack HOA Single Rise 

John Tonkin HOA Skeet 

Lindsay Rodgers HOA Points Score 

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Service to Shooting honoured 

Waipukurau’s Colin Wood 

received a standing ovation 

when he received an award for 

Service to Shooting at the recent 

NZ Clay Target Association 

annual awards dinner held in 

Hamilton. 

Shooting regularly until the 

beginning of this year, the 85- 

year old only stopped when it 

was too painful to bring his gun 

up to his shoulder. 

Colin started clay shooting 

66 years ago, in 1947 at Napier 

East Coast Gun Club, where 

targets were shot out over the 

sea on the Napier foreshore. 

Stalwarts of Hawke’s Bay clay 

target shooting, Bricky and 

Digger Gunn, took him to the 

shoots. In 1949 the club went 

into recess and Colin, with 

Algie Clinch, restarted the club, 

shooting at Awatoto in a farm 

paddock. When the Napier 

Club had to shift they arranged 

with Hawke’s Bay Central to 

shoot at their grounds near 

Hastings. The clubs gradually 

merged, with the Napier cups 

and assets as well as shooters 

amalgamating with Hawke’s Bay 

Central. 

Colin has belonged to Hawke’s 

Bay Central Clay Target 

Club for nearly 60 years. 

His achievements are many, 

including numerous championships in 

both islands. His favourite discipline is 

Skeet at which he has had much success. 

Colin particularly enjoyed being part of 

club teams, having success at Collinson 

Cup, Douglas Rosebowl, and Gunn Cup 

competitions. In Timaru in 1972 he was 

part of a five man skeet team who all shot 

a possible 125/125; a unique achievement. 

A farmer and contractor, Colin suffered 

a serious stroke in 1974 and had to sell his 

Lindsay Road farm. He says the stroke 

certainly cramped his style but he was 

determined to continue shooting, even 

when he had to creep out to the skeet field 

with the aid of two walking sticks. He kept 

persevering and his hard work eventually 

paid off two years later when he was again 

selected as a member of the team that 

went on to win the Douglas Rosebowl. 

Colin has supported Hawke’s Bay Central, 

Patangata and Dannevirke clubs each 

Colin and Ali Wood 

Colin happy in his workshop 

month for more than fifty years. He is a life 

member of both Patangata and Hawke’s 

Bay Central. 

Married to Ali for 57 years, Ali was told 

before they were married that nothing 

interfered with shooting! She says they 

have had many happy trips and made 

many good friends through shooting. Ali is 

immensely proud of Colin’s determination 

in getting back into competitive shooting 

and says she cried when he made the 

Douglas Rosebowl team again. 

Although Colin no longer shoots he is still 

a regular at Patangata Clay Target Club’s 

monthly shoots, and the championship 

and special shoots wouldn’t be the same 

without him and Ali. 

As well as being a competitive skeet shooter 

and rifle marksman, Colin Wood has been a 

keen duck shooter since boyhood. 

He started duck shooting in 1944, towards 

the end of the Second World War. Colin 

says would have started earlier 

but there was no ammunition: it 

was all diverted to the war effort. 

When shooting was allowed 

again shooters were able to buy 

only 12 rounds with their licence. 

Colin and his father, however, 

took advantage of a loophole: 

farmers were allocated both .22 

rifle ammunition and shotgun 

shells for vermin control…so 

between them father and son 

had over 200 rounds! 

Although skeet has always been 

Colin’s favourite discipline, 

he was also a competitive rifle 

marksman until 1970. 

The Hastings Rifle Club grounds 

at Roy’s Hill was not that far 

from the Hawke’s Bay Central 

Clay Target Club grounds. Such 

was Colin’s enthusiasm that 

when club days for both sports 

coincided, he would race back 

and forth between the two 

venues several times, competing 

at both. 

A self-taught gunsmith, Colin 

has enjoyed many years of this 

fascinating craft. He loves the 

challenges of finding out the 

problem and the often tricky 

process of fixing it. Additionally, 

his love of walnut has meant 

many hours of painstaking work 

creating beautiful gun stocks. 

Every gun stock Colin has created 

has a story. In 2002 Peter Butler, the 

present Central Hawke’s Bay mayor, had 

his new Beretta stolen. It was found eight 

years later, under a house with the stock 

cut down. In spite of its mistreatment the 

gun was in otherwise quite good condition, 

and Peter asked Colin to build a new stock 

for it. 

He took the mutilated old stock as a 

souvenir and studied it for two years, 

puzzling out how to rebuild it. Eventually 

he laminated eight pieces of walnut to 

create a new stock which is even stronger 

than the original, and so meticulous are the 

joins that only Colin can see where they 

are. 

As well as converting lumps of walnut 

into sleek works of art masquerading as 

custom gunstocks, Colin also makes fitted 

gun cases, wooden clay bird trophies and 

– at long last – some bowls and decorative 

pieces for Ali. ■ 

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“Field of Dreams” 

Te Kuiti Cambridge Trapshooters have built their field of dreams 

and now we welcome all shooters to come! Te Kuiti Trapshooters 

embarked on an enormous programme to rebuild the shooting 

layouts for the club. 

A ‘clear fell’ approach was taken and we ripped out and dismantled 

everything on site. Construction began with excavation and 

setup of four new DTL layouts constructed from concrete and 

Southland Clay Target Club 

Pacific Avenue Invercargill 

25 Year Anniversary 

Sheet Metalcraft 100 

$3000 Trophy match 

100 tgts Single Rise. 

4 rounds x 25 tgts 

A B C Grade Trophies plus HOA Shield. 

Trophies decided on aggregate scores 

from rounds 2 and 3 

Sunday 21 July 2013 

Prompt 9.am start 

Sponsored by Sheet Metalcraft Ltd 

Invercargill. 

And Trevor and Jan Manson 

Targets 28 cents 

Contact: 

Michael Dobbie 03 246 9705 

blocks providing solid watertight bunkers. New concrete lanes 

incorporating 18m, 22m and 25m lanes will provide for all future 

events. Two new skeet layouts, waiting funding for new traps, are 

well underway. New DTL traps adorn the layouts. 

The project involved a massive effort from our Te Kuiti and 

Cambridge club members. Diggers, tractors, trailers, trenchers, 

rotary hoes, dump trucks were generously loaned. The electrical 

required a complete refit to all facilities. 

The project was managed by club president Neil Pratt. The building 

and construction was undertaken by local builder Todd Ormsby 

Builders. Todd’s skills produced four accurate traps and two skeet 

layouts with plans supplied by the Bay of Plenty Gun Club. 

The cost of a project like this is many thousands of dollars. The 

club has been able to achieve this with the result of a funding 

grant, donations from club members or associated people 

and the enormous voluntary support. The club wishes to 

publicly acknowledge and thank the following for their valuable 

contribution; 

• Holden Brothers Contracting for diggers and trenchers 

• Ruakuri Contractors for 20 loads of lime fines and topsoil 

• Pratt’s Plumbing for project management and staff labour 

• Todd Ormsby Builders for project construction 

• BBW Block layers for trap house block laying 

• Sally Sterritt for funding applications 

• Fagan Family for concrete blocks and steel 

• Sorenson’s Transport for free cartage 

• OTC Timber for supplies 

• Garry’s Electrical (Garry Pooley) for electrical work and supplies 

• Geoff Kearins for the use of 35 tonne excavator 

• Days Engineering for use of digger 

• Mike Watson Concrete for concrete and the boys 

• Trevor Ewens – for being onsite to help everyday with 

hard labour 

• Jim Tarrant – the best landlord a club could have 

• Ron Murray for engineering and welding 

• Dennis Colson, Brian Taylor, Steve Grady, Barney 

Walters, Paul & Max O’Connell, Barry Peake for coming 

out to the club and lending a hand 

• Stu, Steve and John from NZ Black Powder 

• Waitomo Cosmopolitan Club 

This enormous generosity makes a dream come true for the 

club…a club that now boasts 4 DTL layouts, 2 Skeet layouts, 1 Ball 

Trap and 1 Black Powder Trap. The club will be embarking on 4 new 

sporting compact layouts as it heads towards developing sports at 

the club. We are also the home for NZ Black Powder which holds 

its National Championship at the club each year. 

Our ‘Field of Dreams’. We’ll be putting it to use straightaway but 

the official ‘christening’ will be for the weekend shoot in June (8th 

and 9th) for the Cossie Club shoot on Saturday and the Bullfrog 

Club & Andrew Brodribb Trophy on Sunday. See you there! Look 

for us now on Facebook : 

(http://www.facebook.com/TeKuitiGunClub) ■ 

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Getting the foundations in 

Getting the levels right 

Many hands at work 

Putting down the lanes 

Some help with the heavy machinery 

The start of the Skeet Towers 

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MURRAY HAVILL AND CHARLES 

HARTLEY MEMORIAL SHOOT 

Bay of Plenty CTA 

The Bay of Plenty Clay Target Association held the inaugural 

Murray Havill and Charles Hartley Memorial shoots at its new 

grounds at TECT All Terrain Park on the 2nd and 3rd February. 

On Saturday the Murray Havill 100 target Single Rise memorial 

shoot was held. The day was brilliantly sunny and the grounds 

although very dry and not yet completed were looking great. 

The shoot attracted shooters from Auckland and as far away as 

Christchurch. There were 47 shooters in all competing for the 

fabulous trophy and medal donated by Murray Havill’s widow Ida. 

It was an exceptional day of shooting with seven shooters making 

the possible 100/100 and eight on 99/100, and a total of 81 25/25. 

The shoot off for HOA went for 153 targets, with Brian Hartley 

taking the trophy over Neil Pratt and Keith Livingstone. 

Ida Havill along with other members of her family, was present 

to present this trophy. Ida told a few stories to those present of 

Murray's love of shooting; family holidays she recalled, always 

revolved around shooting competitions. Keith Livingstone among 

others retold tales of the numerous shooting trips made with 

Murray. 

Results: HOA Brian Hartley 100, A Grade: 1st Neil Pratt, 2nd Keith 

Livingstone, 3rd Alan Vickers all 100 B Grade: 1st Brandon Banks 

100, 2nd Kevin Curtis 98, 3rd Yogi Hansen 96, C Grade: 1st Tom 

Gourlay 96, 2nd Mark Sadd 92, 3rd Deborah Pritchard 86. 

Sunday 3rd February the Charles Hartley Memorial 100pr Double 

Rise was held with the day overcast but warm. There was a great 

turnout of the Hartley family with eight of them shooting the 

event including Charles’s great grandson Jack. The Hartley family 

presented a great trophy for the event which was keenly competed 

for by all shooters. Tony Truss, Rotorua won the event outright on 

189/200. Results: HOA Tony Truss 189, A Grade: 1st Mark Walsh 

186, 2nd Brian Hartley 185, 3rd Neil Pratt 185, B Grade: 1st Tony 

Beaver 161, 2nd Ian Lindsay 157, 3rd Bruce Parkin 155, C Grade 1st 

Stewart Chapman 103. 

The club extends its thanks to Ida Havill and the Hartley Family 

for presenting these cups to the club and looks forward to some 

exciting competition for them in the future. ■ 

Tony Truss HOA Charles Hartley Memorial. 

QUOTE / unquote 

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude”. Scott Hamilton 

“The only place success comes before work is in the 

dictionary”. Vince Lombard 

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to 

heed the lessons of failure”. Bill Gates 

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of 

preparation, hard work, and learning from failure”. Colin 

Powell 

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; 

but by the distance they have travelled from the point where 

they started”. Henry Ward Beecher 

“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision”. Helen Keller 

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, 

change your attitude”. Maya Angelou 

Brian Hartley receiving Murray Havill Trophy 

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THAMES VALLEY 

DISTRICT 

BALL TRAP 

CHAMPIONSHIPS 

THAMES CLAY TARGET CLUB 

17th March 2013 

John Currie Winner Ball Trap Thames Club Championship 

The Thames Valley District Ball Trap Championship has normally 

always been shot in the month of January but due to a clash in 

dates with the North Island Championships this year, the Club 

was forced to move this Shoot to March. Following on so closely 

from the Nationals, and with the change in date, there was 

obviously an impact on the field as over 60 shooters competed in 

this event in the previous years. 2013 saw a considerably reduced 

field of 23 shooters compete in the 100 Target Ball Trap event. 

However that did not detract from the level of competition 

between those present. 

Round 1 saw one possible shot by Ian Marshall followed closely 

by several shooters on two targets down with a score of 23. 

In Round 2 there were 2 possibles of 25 shot by Martin van de 

Wetering and by Colin Kennedy and after 50 targets there were 

two shooters on only two targets down, Ian Marshall and Martin 

van de Wetering. 

Round 3 of the 100 Target Ball Trap Championship also counted 

as the Thames Club Championship for the Ball Trap event and 

there was only one possible, shot by Super Veteran and regular 

visitor to the Thames Club, John Currie from Waihi. This gave 

John the outright title of the Club Championship for the 2013 

year. 

Ian Marshall - HOA Thames Valley Ball Trap 

In the final and 4th round there were no possibles shot but after 

consistent shooting throughout the day the Thames Valley 

District Ball Trap Championship High Overall was won by Ian 

Marshall. After a shoot off for 1st in A-Grade between Deano 

Horn and Martin van de Wetering, Deano was the victor taking 

out 1st A-Grade with 1st in B-Grade won by Colin Kennedy and 

1st in C-Grade Blake Wharry. 

The Thames Club Ball Trap Championship was won by John 

Currie, 1st in A-Grade Deano Horn, 1st in B-Grade Colin Kennedy 

and 1st in C-Grade Blake Wharry. ■ 

Colin Kennedy 1st B grade, Deano Horn 1st A grade Thames Valley Ball 

Trap Champs 

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Wairarapa District 

Champs at Hutt Valley 

Fifty eight competitors arrived for the Wairarapa District Champs, 

hosted by the Hutt Valley Gun Club in pretty good conditions. A 

good increase on last year with many top shooters chasing the 

World DTL Qualifying scores. 

First up was the Skeet. With 4 possibles shot, after the shoot off 

Robert Prince winning HOA from Dave Turner taking first A grade 

from Ian Crafts 2nd A grade, Brendan Malcolm taking 3rd A grade 

after the 24’s shot off. Todd McCormick took out B grade with 

the other possible. Paul Wilkey took out 2nd B grade from Grant 

Wareham after shooting off with 24’s. Mitchell Dean won the C 

grade with a fine 24, James Craft took out 2nd C grade from Mark 

Johnston after a shoot off on 23’s. The two man teams were won by 

Turner & Hooch on 49, followed by Robert Prince & Peter Borrie 

and Don Rankin & Grant Wareham on 48’s. 

Next were the Triples and with the calibre of shooters present it was 

surprising that there were no possibles. Ian Crafts, Chris Cassin, 

Mike Withers, Dylan Woolhouse, Grant Wareham and Jamie Cane 

top scored on 49’s and Dylan Woolhouse came out victorious in 

the shoot off to win A grade from Ian Crafts and Jamie Cane, 2nd & 

3rd A grade respectively. David Donald won 1st B grade on 45. 2nd 

B grade going to Brian Smith on 41 and Alan Markham 3rd B grade 

after the 39’s shot off. New shooter Matthew Eades won the C grade 

on 44, Don Staples taking out 2nd C grade on 38 and Dave Gwerder 

3rd C grade on 37. 

Next up was the Double Rise and Brendan Malcolm led the way to 

take out 1st A grade on 19, after the 17’s shot off Mitchell Dean was 

2nd A grade, from Dave Grant 3rd A grade. Donald Irvine won B 

grade with a very good 17, followed by Brian Smith and John Varley 

2nd & 3rd B grade respectively on 14’s. The C grade medal went 

to Matthew Eades on 14, Don Staples was 2nd on 13 and Sarah 

Bramwell 3rd C grade on 12. 

The North/ South DTL qualifying events were next, starting with 

the Single Rise and there were eight possibles shot in A grade, 

the shoot off resulted in Ross Challies winning the A grade from 

Dylan Woolhouse 2nd A grade and Robert Prince 3rd A grade. The 

B grade was won by David Donald with the only possible in B grade, 

with John McKinstry 2nd B grade and Mitchell Petersen 3rd B grade 

on 24’s. We had a Donald quinella in the C grade with young Bayley 

Donald winning first C grade on 22 from his brother Angus Donald 

on 21 2nd C grade and 3rd C grade going to Ian Gallagher on 19. 

Stan Whiteman won the Veterans medal with a possible and Karen 

Hayes won the Ladies Medal. 

The Points Score event saw the three possibles shooting off with 

John Harkness winning 1st A grade from Robert Prince 2nd A 

grade and Peter Borrie taking 3rd A grade. John McKinstry won the 

B grade on 74, followed by Alan Markham 2nd B grade on 72 and 

Donald Irvine taking out 3rd B grade on 69. Ian Gallagher won the 

C grade with a 67, Angus Donald 2nd C grade on 62 and Matthew 

Eades 3rd C grade on 58. 

Last event of the day was the Single Barrel and the four possibles 

shot off with Mark Johnstone winning A grade from Mike Withers 

and Dave Turner 2nd & 3rd A grade respectively. B grade was won 

by David Donald on 22 followed by Mitchell Petersen 2nd B grade 

also on 22 and Ian Buick taking 3rd B grade, on 21. 

Sarah Bramwell took out the C grade with a fine 22. This is possibly 

Sarah’s first medal and she had left before presentations and 

probably is still not aware that she has won this until she reads this 

article. Don Staples took out 2nd C grade on 21 and Matthew Eades 

took 3rd C grade on 20. 

There were no possibles 

recorded in the North/South 

DTL qualifying scores. Brendan 

Malcolm was the top qualifier 

on 123 followed by Robert Prince 

and Mark Johnstone on 122’s. 

Brendan Malcolm won the 

High Gun. Robert Prince and 

Grant Wareham tied for the A 

grade High Gun and shared the 

sweep. John McKinstry won the 

B Grade High Gun and Matthew 

Eades won the C Grade High 

Gun. 

A big thank you to all 

competitors, especially the 

visitors from other districts. See 

you next time. ■ 

High Gun Brendan Malcolm 

Single Barrel A grade Mark Johnstone B grade David Donald. 

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Points Score B grade John McKinstry A grade John Harkness

Triples C grade M Eades A grade D Woolhouse B grade D Donald. 

Single Rise C grade B Donald A grade R Challies B grade D Donald 

Double Rise B grade Donald Irvine A grade Brendan Malcolm C grade 

Matthew Eades 

Skeet HOA Robert Prince

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Wanganui Skeet Ken Pfeffer-Lynton Bremmer-Donna Matthews-Craig Matthews 

Woodville Double Rise Martin Hunt-Dave Peck-Nathan Barbridge-Dave Meehan-Dave Woolford 

Woodville Gymcrack Kevin Barbridge-Vance Butcher-Paul Wilkey-Shane Quinn-Martin Hunt 

Palmerston North Single Rise Mitchell Dean-Dave Thompson-Chris Beattie-Wayne Hancock-Eric Dais 

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BIG TEAM SHOOT 

AT PALMERSTON NORTH 

Another cocky’s nightmare - not a cloud in 

the sky, no wind and an expected high of 28 

degrees! Should be fishing! However, we 

had five team trophies up for grabs and it 

was all hands to the pumps to get through 

the expected flood (not the watery kind – 

unfortunately for the cookies) of clubs keen 

to take the silverware home. 

The holder of each trophy shoots first for 

that specific event, which put Wanganui 

A on the mark to kick the day off with the 

Dalziel Skeet Shield. The team was looking 

good, full of past and present NZ champions 

and NZ team members with plenty of 

experience and focus – and also Kim Owen. 

After a couple of surprise targets dropped, 

their final score was 117/125, which although 

not a bad score, was a little disappointing 

given the high calibre of the team (& Kim Owen of course). On 

the day it was enough though, sneaking in ahead of Woodville A & 

the Palmerston North Raiders (114 & 113 respectively). 

Palmerston North was up first to get the Glenn Shield Single 

Rise under way. With one of our first choice shooters away, in 

desperation, I had been drafted into the team at the last minute. 

It was one of those days that reminds you of how different team 

shooting really is from shooting as an individual. With no targets 

down and getting on towards the last 2 or 3 targets each, no-one 

wants to be the ‘poor bugger’ that misses that one target! Then 

with 1 target each to go, Eric Dais shooting immediately before me 

misses his first barrel and just before the target is about to gently 

land out by the left hand marker he pulls the second barrel sending 

grasshoppers, spiders and a plethora of other unfortunate insects 

flying as the target disintegrates inches over their heads! “OK – 

don’t think about that – just shoot the target!” …Then hope that 

the last 2 shooters do the same – no pressure! It’s always a major 

buzz to be in a team shooting 100/100. Just as well though as 

Woodville A shot a 99/100 (the ‘Poor Bugger’ award going to Ray 

Russell). 

Around the beginning of the McGovern Shield Point Score 

round the wind started to pick up a little, which affected scores. 

Palmerston North Raiders shot first again with a pretty average 

345/375, not good enough to beat Woodville A on 350/375. There 

were no possibles, the closest being Vance Butcher on 74 followed 

Woodville Point Score Vance Butcher-Paul Wilkey-Kevin Barbridge- Shane Quinn (absent Ray 

Russell) 

by myself on 73 and Kim Owen on 72 (editor’s note – this is not a 

typo – Kim did score 72 …I know!!). 

It was a bit like ‘groundhog day’ in the Donnelly Gymcrack – 

Palmerston shot first and following a couple of ‘brain fades’ ended 

up with an uninspiring 63/70 which wasn’t good enough to head 

off a rampant Woodville team with 66/70. 

Last and least was the double rise which was a total ‘plane wreck’ 

from whichever team perspective you looked at it with! The wind 

had really picked up by the end of the day and depending on when 

your team shot, you could expect targets skimming the ground or 

stalling at about the 100 feet altitude depending on the variances 

of the fickle wind as it eddied over the stop-bank. Woodville B 

emerged victorious with 76/100 followed by Wanganui A on 71. 

Everyone seemed to have a good day and the trophies and 

highlights were shared around so can’t really complain. A special 

thanks to Dave Thompson who spent most of Saturday getting 

the grounds spic and span while I went fishing up the Rangitikei – 

delegation is a wonderful thing!! ■ 

Long run awards 

50 DTL – M. Peterson, Rotorua. D. Pollard, Dannevirke. 

N. Horrell, Western Southland. G. Hayes, South 

Otago. D. Irvine, Dannevirke. G. Williams, Auckland 

Met. C. Pennell, Te Aroha. 

75 DTL – D. Irvine, Dannevirke. D. Fraser, Waimate. 

100 DTL – P. Carr, Palmerston Waikouaiti. B. Banks, 

Waihi. N. Ryan, Chatham Islands. B. Mitchell, 

Waitemata. 

200 DTL – G. Wareham, Hutt Valley. S. Ashforth, 

Patangata. T McCormick, Patangata. S. Quinn, 

Woodville. 

50 HANDICAP BY DISTANCE – G. Turner, Nightcaps 

Kim Owen in action 

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BULLFROG CUP 

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Sunday June 9th 

Bullfrog Cup 

100 Targets Single Rise Prizes 

Sponsored by Target Products & Andrew 

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50 targets Single Rise Sponsored by 

Stephen Brodribb and Graeme Williams 

Entries $75 plus optional sweeps 

Lunch and Refreshments available 

Ammunition sales 

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150 Single Rise Targets 

Cosmopolitan Club Shoot 

Sat 8th June 

ANNUAL GENERAL 

MEETINg report 

TUESDAY 5TH MARCH 2013 

PRESENT 

The National President, Mr Keith Livingstone, opened the meeting 

and the roll was called. 

There were 42 clubs present. These were: Alexandra, Ashburton, 

Auckland Metropolitan, Bay of Plenty, Cambridge, Canterbury, 

Central Southland, Dannevirke, Darfield, Dunedin, Gisborne, Gorge 

Road Huntly, Hutt Valley, Kopuku, Matamata, Mataura, Mead Te Pirita, 

Methven, Moa Creek, Nightcaps, Northern Wairoa, North Canterbury, 

Patangata, Putaruru, Rotorua, SI Sporting Clay Shooters, Southland, 

Taumarunui, Te Kuiti, Thames, Timaru, Waihora, Waikato, Wairarapa, 

Wairoa, Waitemata, Wanganui Rangitikei, West Otago, Whangarei, 

Whitianga, Woodville. 

The President announced a quorum was present. 

The President welcomed Life Member and Patron George Ellis and 

Life Members Ewen Pirie, Trevor Manson, Graeme Webber, delegates 

and visitors. 

APOLOGIES 

Apologies were received from Tom Begg, Blue Freeman, Peter 

Lapwood and the Timaru Club 

Moved I.Swale/M van de Wetering “That the apologies are accepted” 

Carried 

VALEDICTORY 

Members stood for a minute’s silence in memory of the following 

members who had passed away in the last year. 

Keith O’Reiley (Hutt Valley), Merv Beauvais (Ashburton), Ian Mitchell 

(Whatitiri), Ross Foster (Mead Te Pirita), Gordon Wall (Mead Te Pirita), 

Alex Smith (Whangarei), Fergus Griffiths (Whangarei), Rick Aitchison 

(Timaru), John Thompson, (Bay of Plenty), Charlie Hartley (Bay of 

Plenty), Chris Benseman (Canterbury), Jim Senton (Waitemata), John 

McDonald (Kopuku), Noel Inwood (Amberley), Hedley Storey (Te 

Aroha). 

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING 

having been published in Gunshot were taken as read. 

Moved R. Russell/N. Winsloe “That the minutes be accepted.” 

Carried 

MATTERS ARISING - Nil 

PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT 

President Keith Livingstone read the President’s annual report. 

Moved K.Livingstone/G.Ellis “That the President’s Report be 

accepted.” Carried 

ANNUAL ACCOUNTS 

The Executive Officer read and explained the Annual Accounts. 

Moved Martin van de Wetering/D.Hern “That the 2012 Annual 

Financial Accounts be accepted.” Carried 

ELECTION OF OFFICERS 

The following were the results of the election: 

National President – Trevor Manson was elected unopposed 

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North Island – 

Mr Michael Holmes 

Mr Martin van de Wetering 

Mr Michael Holmes and Mr Martin van de Wetering were duly elected 

as North Island Executive 

South Island – 

Mr Ewen Pirie 

562 Votes 

Mr Ian Swale 

520 Votes 

Mr Derek Sheen 

428 Votes 

Mr Ewen Pirie and Mr Ian Swale were duly elected as South Island 

Executive. 

Keith Livingstone thanked Derek Sheen who spoke to the meeting. 

ELECTION OF POLL CLERK and Scrutineer 

Moved Ewen Pirie/M.Holmes “That Brittany Pilcher and Jan Manson 

act as Poll Clerk and Scrutineer” Carried 

REMITS 

Remit 1. Alexandra Clay Target Club 

That the following changes be made to Handicap by Distance (HBD) 

Rules 

1. Rule off after 50 targets. 

2. Forward minimum mark be set at AA – 18m, A – 16m, B – 14m, C – 

12m. New shooters shall start on 11m. 

3. When a shooter has no HBD grade their Common Mark grade 

shall be used as a starting point. AA – 20m, A – 18m, B – 16, C – 13. 

4. Once a shooter has established a HBD mark this is the mark 

which will be used from then on, except where a shooter has not 

attended a HBD event for more than 18 months, then they shall 

commence the days shooting using Rule 3. 

5. Rule off after every 50tgts or end of day's shooting if shooting 

more than 50 tgts per day. Movement will be determined by the 

following: 

- No possible achieved – move forward one metre (minimum mark 

applies) 

- One possible achieved – remain on current mark 

- More than one possible achieved – move back one metre 

- Trophy achieved – move back one metre (no more than 2 metres 

in one rule-off) 

Each match of the day will need to be recorded on the handicap card 

individually to identify possibles or lack of. 

6. To be recorded in Handicap Book. 

VOTING: FOR 925/ AGAINST 821 

Remit 2. Canterbury Clay Target Club 

That the NZ Handicap By Distance DTL Championships be removed 

from the DTL National Programme from 2014. 


Remit 3. Canterbury Clay Target Club 

That Smoking is banned on the mark or in the designated shooting 

area by either competitors or shoot officials. 


Remit 4 Hutt Valley Gun Club 

That the NZCTA spend up to $12,000 on the digitization of 266 back 

issues of Gunshot magazine. 



That the NZCTA executive considers the inclusion of 28 gauge and 

.410 bore skeet events as National Championships. Such events to be 

stand alone and not form part of the High Gun until after a trial period 

as determined by the NZCTA executive. 



That the Executive consider changing Skeet championship shoot-off 

procedure at National level to doubles off stations 3, 4 and 5. 


Remit 7 Mataura Clay Target Club 

That the name of the New Zealand Clay Target Association DTL Hall 

of Fame be substituted with the following: 

“New Zealand Clay Target Association Hall of Fame” 



If Remit 4 (above) is carried then: 

That the Executive of the New Zealand Clay Target Association 

consider and adopt reasonable criteria within the next six months for 

the admission of former and current NZCTA member shooters in all 

disciplines of clay target shooting to be considered for admission to 

the NZCTA Hall of Fame. 



That the National 20 Gauge Skeet Championship be included in 

the National Skeet High Gun Championship at the National Skeet 

Championships 


Remit 10 North Canterbury Clay Target Association 

That all NZCTA events (Provincials, Island and Zone) be shot using the 

same grades (AA, A, B C) and classifications (Veterans, Super Veterans, 

Ladies, Juniors) as the equivalent New Zealand Championship event. 


Remit 11 North Canterbury Clay Target Association 

That the National Council initiate all legal remits passed by a simple 

majority at any Annual General Meeting or Special General Meeting, 

as soon as practical after that meeting. 


Remit 12 Wanganui/Rangitikei Clay Target Club 

That AA Grade be introduced at Provincial DTL Championships. 


Remit 13 Waitemata Clay Target Club 

That North South qualifying be on Points Score and Single Barrel held 

on the Sunday in Districts and Provincials. 



That no Provincial or District Championship should be run on the 

same weekend in the same Island. 



That there be Disabled categories at major NZCTA Championships 

(DTL, Skeet, ISSF) 


GENERAL BUSINESS 

There was no General Business 

The meeting adjourned at 7.05pm and reconvened at 7.25pm 

The voting on the remits was announced 

Keith Livingstone thanked Brittany Pilcher and Jan Manson for their 

work as Scrutineer and Poll Clerk. 

Moved Tony Truss/I.Swale “That all voting papers be destroyed.” 

Carried 

Keith thanked everyone for attending the meeting. 

The Meeting closed at 7.30pm ■ 

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CENTRAL OTAGO DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIPS 

HOSTED BY WANAKA GUN CLUB 

Saturday 18TH MAY 2013. 9AM 

25 Skeet, 25 Single Rise 

10 Pair Double Rise, 25 Points Score 

15 Minis, 25 Single Barrel 

Entry $10.50 Each Event, Except Double Rise $9.00 and Minis $8.00 

Includes Targets, Entry and Sweeps 

High Gun $1.00 and Levy $4.00, Total $64.00 

Ellis Webber North/South Skeet $5.00 For Open Team. 

Buck Knives North/South DTL $5.00 For Open Team. 

Secretary, Aaron Radford phone 03 445 4772 

WAITEMATA CLAY TARGET CLUB 

Presents The 

JIM SENTON 

MEMORIAL SHOOT 

On SUNDAY 30th JUNE 2013 

100 TARGETS SINGLE RISE 

Entry $60.00 

$1000.00 IN PRIZES OVER A B & C GRADES 

Optional $5.00 Sweeps over each 25 and the 100 

targets. 

Ammo, Lunch, Refreshments available at the club. 

Contact 

Tony Brogden 09 412 2663 or 021 0272 6423 

TAUPO CLAY TARGET CLUB 

Centennial Drive, Taupo 

PO Box 922. Telephone 378-2389 

GREAT LAKES 2 x 100 

SKEET EVENT 

JUNE 22-23, 2013, 9 a.m. 

SATURDAY, JUNE 22 SUNDAY, JUNE 23 

100 TARGETS EACH DAY 

Ellis Webber North/South qualifying on Sunday 

Trophies each day 

$65 PER DAY 

Includes targets (28c), trophy entry, compulsory 

graded sweeps and levy/ground fee. 

Optional ungraded sweep of $5.00 over each 100 

Inquiries: 

Club President Bill Nickelsen, 378 8871; Club 

Secretary Geoff Ferris 378 2479 

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2012 Hawke's bay shield 

Auckland Metropolitan No 1 370 


Bay of Plenty No 1 369 


2012 allan brown double 

rise 


Auckland Metropolitan 1 213 



Darfield No 1 351 

Darfield No 2 347 

Darfield 

Darfield 

Disqualified 

Disqualified 

Ellesmere No 1 312 

Ellesmere 180 

Ellesmere No 2 344 

Hutt Valley No 1 

No Result 


No result 


No Result 


No Result 

Nelson No 1 185 

Nelson No 1 337 

Patangata No 1 351 


Rotorua No 1 355 


Southland No 1 366 








Thames 204 

Thames 

No result 

Timaru No 1 215 




Waihora 

No Result 

Waihora No 1 

No result 

Waitemata 

No Result 

Waihora No 2 

No result 

Wanganui Rangitikei No 1 

No Result 

Waitemata 

No result 


No Result 

Wanganui Rangitikei No 1 352 

Western Lake 

No Result 


No result 

Whitianga 220 

Western Lake 

No result 

Woodville No 1 

No Result 

Whitianga 367 


No Result 



No result 

No result 

29 Entries @ $5.00 145.00 

Less 20% 29.00 

116. 0 0 

27 Entries @ $5.00 135.00 

Less 20% 27.00 

108.00 

1st Auckland Metropolitan No 1 (370) 58.00 

2nd Bay of Plenty (369) 40.60 

3rd Whitianga (367) 17.40 

116. 0 0 

1st Bay of Plenty No 1 (232) 54.00 

2nd Whitianga (220) 37.80 

3rd Bay of Plenty No 2 (216) 16.20 

108.00 

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2012 HC walker skeet postal shoot 

1st 50 2nd 50 Total L/R Front L/R Back 

Auckland Met 1 224 223 447 7 1 

Auckland Met 2 No result No result 

Ellesmere 230 226 456 13 1 

Hutt Valley 1 No Result No Result 

Hutt Valley 2 No Result No Result 

Nelson 233 230 463 0 14 

Palmerston North No result No result 

Patangata 214 226 440 20 6 

Rotorua A 243 243 486 56 48 

Rotorua B 230 232 462 20 1 

Rotorua C 228 224 452 10 42 

Southland 1 240 246 486 21 2 

Southland 2 227 212 439 11 2 

Thames 230 229 459 21 1 

Timaru 1 229 232 461 2 28 

Timaru 2 No result No result 

Waihora 1 No result No result 

Waihora 2 No result No result 

Waitemata 242 239 481 43 1 

Wanganui 234 237 471 10 1 

Whitianga 206 234 440 13 27 

Woodville No result No result 

22 Entries @ $5.00 110.00 

Less 20% 22.00 

$88.00 

1st Tie 

Rotorua A (486) $22.00 

Southland (486) $22.00 

Highest Score 1st 50 Targets Rotorua A (243) $13.20 

Highest Score 2nd 50 Targets Southland 1 (246) $13.20 

Long Run from front Rotorua A (56) $ 8.80 

Long Run from end Rotorua A (48) $ 8.80 

Kaeo Clay 

Target Club 

40th 

Anniversary 

The club was formed in February 

1973 after shooting became very 

popular with members of the Kaeo 

Young Farmers Club. The first 

shoot was held on Gladstone Hare’s 

property with over 50 prospective 

members present. 

Alastair Henry and his father were 

keen shooters and were prominent 

in the club in those early days, along 

with Murray Leslie who also did 

a tremendous amount of work in 

those early days. 

The 40th Anniversary Shoot was 

well attended with forty shooters 

from all over Northland. Speakers 

at the lunch were Peter Hayes, who 

was the first President. He spoke 

about the club’s early years and 

congratulated the members for their 

participation over the years. 

Graeme Webber mentioned 

those who are no longer with us, 

Murray Leslie and Alastair Henry. 

He also mentioned the importance 

of small clubs in New Zealand in the 

1980’s. Graeme joined the Kaeo club 

for 2 years and was instrumental in 

getting our skeet field started. 

After lunch a large anniversary 

cake was cut by the club’s oldest 

shooter, 85 year old Gordon Adams. 

Six foundation members still 

remain active in the club. Peter Hayes, 

Patron; John Richardson, President; 

Gladstone Hare, Club Captain; 

Brian Cates, Trap Custodian; John 

Dangen; Peter Westend and Gordon 

Adams are committee members. 

The club’s present membership is 

about 20 registered members and 

20 associate members. 

Any shooters visiting the Far 

North are always very welcome to 

attend any of our shoots held on the 

last Sunday, always, of the month. ■ 

$88.00 

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200 NORTH/SOUTH SKEET + 

REX INNIS MEMORIAL 

Steve Cooper - 

Winner of Rex Innis Memorial skeet 

The weekend of 16th and 17th March saw 

the 200 Skeet Weekend, which included 

the Rex Innis Memorial 100 Target Skeet 

on the Saturday, at the Thames Clay Target 

Club 

A field of 25 shooters registered to 

shoot on this day in slightly breezy but 

fine conditions. After the first round 

of 25 targets there were six possibles 

shot by John Tonkin, Merv Pratt, Shane 

Quinn, Ian Lindsay, Steve Cooper and Tib 

Gedson. Round 2 saw nine possibles shot 

by Andrew Slattery, Dean Everett, Paul 

Currie, Mike Hirtzel, Dale Constantine, 

Colin Heard, John Waldon, Ian Lindsay 

and Steve Cooper. After 50 targets there 

were two shooters “all on” including Ian 

Lindsay (who was going to retire if he shot 

a further 25) and Steve Cooper. Round 

3 saw six possibles being shot by Dean 

Everett, Mike Hirtzel, Paul Currie, John 

Tonkin, Brian Thomson and Steve Cooper. 

This left Steve Cooper the only shooter 

that was still on a clear round. The final 25 

proved to be more difficult with only three 

possibles which were shot by John Tonkin, 

Dale Constantine and Steve Cooper. 

High Overall winner of the Rex Innis 

Memorial was Steve Cooper with an 

excellent 100. 1st in A-Grade John Tonkin on 

a 99. 1st in B-Grade was Dale Constantine 

with a 97 and 1st in C-Grade, a new Thames 

club member and shooter, Ian Scott. 

Sunday 17th saw a small field of 16 

shooters shoot the North/South Skeet 

event which saw Merv Pratt and Shane 

Quinn top score on 99 followed by Dean 

Everett, Graeme Geater and Brian Thomson 

on 97. In the B-Grade the top score was 

Glen Ramsey on 94 with Andrew Slattery 

on 93. C-Grade saw Yvonne Slattery prevail 

with an 85 over Kerri Wrigley on 84. 

The Thames Clay Target Club would like 

to thank those competitors who travelled 

to the Club to compete for the Rex Innis 

Memorial Trophy. This Trophy remembers 

one of the Club’s stalwarts and life 

members and is considered a prestigious 

Trophy within the Club calendar. ■ 

Ross Card 

Memorial 

We were fortunate to have another great 

summer day with just enough breeze in the 

afternoon to lift the odd target and keep 

conditions comfortably cool. Combine 

this with the superb Thames grounds, well 

maintained equipment and club facilities 

and it makes for a day of trap shooting 

that's hard to beat, especially when you 

throw in 200 well set quality targets. 

This is a special shoot each year 

honouring Ross Card for the effort he 

made to get ATA shooting started in New 

Zealand. Ross enjoyed singles (single barrel 

5 targets per lane). Main ATA singles events 

are 200 targets shot, 100 in the morning 

and 100 in the afternoon so we follow the 

same format, but with the bonus of adding 

one of Nola's great lunches in the middle. 

Mary Card very kindly donated $500 to 

the prize pool again and the ATA matched 

it so there was $1000 on the table plus 

options and an option on each 100 at $2.50 

for the Buckle Jackpot of $1325.00. Some 

98's and 97's had the 100 straight buckle 

nervous but it got away still unclaimed. 

Thanks again to the regular workers, 

Martin and Don coming in early to set 

(L-R) Paul Schmidt 3rd, Tim Fuller 1st holding 

the prestigious Ross Card Memorial Cup, Paul 

Anderson 2nd 

and load traps and set up the fields, Diane 

running the office, Nola running the 

kitchen and bar, and Cameron coming in 

just to help referee and score. Also, thank 

you to the competitors who helped referee 

and score as well as trap loading and 

helping with clean up at the end of the day. 

Much appreciated. 

Unfortunately due to other family 

members having prior commitments for 

the day Mary Card was unable to attend this 

year. Considering her ongoing generosity 

sponsoring this event it would have been 

nice to have her there to present the prizes 

and a photo in the winner’s circle with the 

winners, hopefully next year. 

Tim Fuller and Paul Anderson were 

tied on 194/200 for 1st and 2nd with Grant 

Castles and Paul Schmidt tied on 193/200 

for third. ATA singles shoot-offs are over 

25 targets 5 per lane with the top score 

prevailing and or going additional rounds 

if the scores are tied. After one round and 

a very solid performance Tim and Paul 

Schmidt shot them clean to take first and 

third with Paul Anderson second. Both Tim 

and Paul looked like they were ready to run 

them if there was another 100 targets on 

the programme. Grant may have suffered 

from the "commentator's curse" in the 

spectator area where there was a short 

discussion about possible beers on the 

outcome. 

A Grade 1st Tim Fuller 194/200 + 25 

shoot-off, 2nd Paul Anderson 194/200 + 

24 shoot off, 3rd Paul Schmidt 193/200 

+ 25 shoot-off. C Grade 1st Raoul Winter 

166/200, 2nd Richard Worker 162/200 

Thank you to our sponsors: Pratt’s 

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The ATA would like to welcome Den 

Wilkins as a new member. 

Good Shooting, Paul ■ 

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MENTAL TRAINING 

SUCCESS 

AND HARD 

WORK 

One of the most overlooked mentaltraining 

techniques is learning to analyse 

how well you are shooting and how much 

work you you still need to do to achieve 

your goals. Most of us know if you train 

well, our performance will improve and 

we should expect to score better. The 

whole idea of training is to improve our 

accuracy and consistency to the point 

we are able to reach a goal and do well in 

matches. 

But the fact is most of us don’t really 

do much analysis on the subject of 

improvement. If we did, we would do a 

lot more technical training when we go 

out to practice instead of just running a 

course of our favourite shotgun sport. 

The reason we practise in this manner and 

have success has to do with something 

called the “Pareto Principle.” 

The Pareto Principle is also called the 

“80-20 rule” and is named after an Italian 

economist named Vilfredo Pareto who 

noted in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy 

was owned by 20% of the people. It turns 

out the 80-20 principle has universal 

application in a lot of endeavours. For 

example a common saying in business is 

“80% of your sales comes from 20% of 

your clients. A corollary reads “eighty per 

cent of your problems in business come 

from twenty percent of your customers.” 

In other words the most efficient way of 

doing business is to focus on that 20% that 

contributes to your profitability(including 

eliminating that 20% that holds you 

back) and not worry about the rest. This 

principle is also know as “optimisation” 

and is a truism in many fields, including 

medicine, criminal justice, software 

development and occupational safety to 

name a few. 

So how is this germane to competitive 

shooting Think about it in these terms: 

what does it take to reach the eightieth 

percentile of shooting in your sport By 

this I don’t mean an average of 80/100 

but the performance percentile that 

puts you into a position to beat 80% of 

competitors in the entire sport. 

Most of the governing bodies use a 

classification system to divide shooters 

into competitive groups, and some of 

these systems use average as the deciding 

factor. Classification systems are great for 

match directors because they provide a 

crude way of doling out the money at the 

end. What they don’t tell you is how well 

your competitors are performing (anyone 

who has been to a national championships 

of any kind will tell you that) or how well 

you are doing. 

Overall classification averages are not 

sensitive enough to see small (but vital) 

changes and can’t spot friends until it is 

too late. A running average-taking an 

average of the last ten performances after 

each match or practice and charting them 

over time-is much more sensitive in that 

regard. (You do this by averaging your first 

ten matches, the numbers two to eleven, 

then three to twelve, etc. Plot them over 

time and you can see if there is an upward 

or downward trend. It’s a great tool. You 

can read more about it in my book Mental 

Training for the Shotgun Sports. 

The reason you want to know how you are 

doing in regard to the rest of the shooters 

in your sport is this number gives you 

a good idea of where you are in your 

training. It can also tell you how much 

effort you have to put in, in order to reach 

your ultimate goal. 

The effort it takes to reach the eightieth 

percentile is usually about 20% of the 

effort needed to reach the ninety-ninth 

percentile the very best inhabit. While 80- 

20 sounds a little arbitrary it really is not. 

What it does is define the point at which 

the effort needed to continue to improve 

becomes harder on the logarithmic basis. 

The first 20% of effort is really fairly 

easy when you think about it. It requires 

learning the basics of shooting, having 

the right technology and learning the 

rules of thumb about competition. You 

begin to gain experience and, after a while 

become more accurate and consistent. 

Most importantly you can begin to 

predict what your performance will be 

like in competition. A lot of shooters can 

reach this point by simply putting in the 

time while shooting courses of fire and 

not focusing on specifics. Getting to the 

eightieth percentile is not easy, but it isn’t 

that hard either. All it takes is dedication, 

a coach is very helpful and working within 

a system that lets you have a good basis 

for training. 

At some point you can become better 

than all of the 20% of the shooters in your 

sport and a good, solid shooter. What you 

aren’t at that point is a master shooter. 

Being at a master level might not be that 

important especially if you are a club 

shooter. An eightieth percentile shooter 

in skeet might average 90-95/100 (or even 

higher; I don’t know the real statistics) 

because skeet is the most predictable 

of the shotgun sports, and it is easier to 

focus on the right things to do in a match. 

You may do very well in your local match 

because there are not that many shooters 

capable of shooting 100x100 on any given 

day. 

The difficulty, as we will see comes later 

when your have to shoot at a higher level 

because being the best means going well 

beyond the optimum. Once the eightieth 

percentile point is reached, the effort 

needed to improve becomes a matter 

of diminishing returns. Because there 

is a scoring ceiling in shotgun shooting, 

average really becomes a moot point at 

the highest levels. 

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By Michael J. Keyes, M.D. 

By the time you reach a 40% - 60% effort 

you should be able to score 50/50 on 

the skeet field with good predictability. 

In order to reach that level, however 

you have to put a lot of effort for only a 

few more targets. This is why relying on 

average fails the dedicated shooter at 

these levels-it is not an indicator of either 

effort or performance. Once a shooter 

is able to reach those levels, consistency 

becomes much more important. 

I like to use skeet as an example because 

it is the most predictable of the shotgun 

sports. It probably has the most shooters 

capable of shooting perfect scores 

(although trap is not far behind). It also 

is the best shotgun sport to illustrate 

another aspect of the Pareto Principlewhat 

happens when the water rises. 

Say you are one of the eightieth percentile 

shooters and are doing well at your local 

matches. The main reason you are there 

is that no one else is able to compete 

with you. If your club has 100 shooters at 

the local match, you can also guarantee 

that ninety per cent of them are not 

going to beat you, and maybe your only 

competition is from one or two others 

who show regularly. “But wait”’ you say 

“shouldn’t there be twenty shooters in 

competition with me” The answer is “It 

depends.” 

You are a big fish in a small pond. A small 

sample of shooters can range in ability 

from beginner to expert. In some clubs 

there may be 40 of the 100 capable of 

beating you every time you shoot. The big 

test comes when you shoot at a regional 

or national level and the same is skewed 

towards the better shooter. All of a sudden 

you are no longer shooting in a known 

environment (known as a “small pond”), 

and the chances of someone there having 

greater performance abilities is pretty high. 

You are no longer able to predict your place 

(although you should be able to predict 

your performance) and the odds of being 

in the money, change for the worse (thank 

the powers that be for the Lewis Class). 

“THE REASON A LOT OF THE 

PEOPLE DO NOT RECOGNISE 

OPPORTUNITY IS BECAUSE 

IT USUALLY GOES AROUND 

WEARING OVERALLS AND 

LOOKING LIKE HARD WORK.” 

(Thomas A. Edison.) 

(Yes, I have used this quote before, but it’s 

worthy of repeating.) 

Not only is the compettion harder, the 

effort needed to compete at a higher level 

is much higher and has a different nature 

than the first twenty percent. 

Suddenly things are less predictable, 

and you have to find a way to make it 

predictable again. 

The answer, as in most of life lies in hard 

work. That work has to be focused on 

maintaining what you already have and 

making sure you become more accurate 

and more consistent. In trap and skeet 

the idea is to learn not so much how to 

hit targets, but how not to miss them. 

Sporting clays is the least predictable of 

the three disciplines, so the premium 

even at the highest levels is learning to hit 

the targets consistently because a perfect 

score is a rarity. This means learning to 

be mentally tougher and being able to 

perform in any conditions. 

For every target the amount of work 

increases by a factor of two or three, which 

means you have to have the time and 

dedication to reach that level.Thework 

involved is qualitatively different than 

earlier on in your career. You have to learn 

how to improve and how to do the work 

needed to go beyond the optimal point. 

This work is hard and many shooters 

are not able or willing to put in the time 

and the effort. Many shooters don’t 

even realise they need a new paradigm 

for practice and matches if they want to 

compete at the highest levels. 

The nice thing about shotgun competition 

is, with a relatively small amount of effort 

you can get pretty good. Not great, 

but pretty good. The lowest 16-yard 

classification in American trap (for four 

classes) requires the shooter to shoot less 

than 88% average. While there are plenty 

of shooters who can’t reach that mark, it is 

telling that many can shoot well over half 

of the targets after they put in some time. 

The implication is almost all the shooters 

should be capable of hitting nine out of 

ten targets. That in itself is a pretty good 

accomplishment. 

But to reach the highest levels takes a lot 

of work. Almost an impossible amount 

for most. Once you reach the 80-20 point 

things change. That’s why so few make 

it to the top. It is not unusual for a local 

skeet or trap match to be won by a perfect 

score and a good shoot off. Being able to 

do this in an environment loaded with 

great shooters is a lot harder. 

The more effort you put into your 

shooting the more predictable you will 

be when you compete. Winning is not 

just about hitting every target, it is about 

the amount of work you put in, in order 

to become both consistent and accurate 

all the time. Recognise hard work is 

necessary to shoot at a higher level. Don’t 

be afraid of hard work --it will help you 

move to the top. ■ 

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sporting comment 

The Sporting Committee met during 

the Sporting Clay Nationals while up at 

Wanganui. 

The Committee initiated David Reid into 

its ranks to take over from Albie Hansen, 

though he still retains a keen interest in 

our development. 

Two of us have indicated that we would 

be doing one more year with the 

Committee, then leaving to pursue some 

actual sporting shooting and helping 

to develop our own Clubs. I have also 

indicated that I will do one more year 

of this column and the committee then 

to will ‘retire’ to put more effort into 

the South Island Sporting Shooters, 

something I firmly believe in and think 

has a great future. 

I want to personally thank Simon and 

Margaret Hawkins for hosting the 

Committee and providing a meeting 

place and lovely meal. It was truly 

appreciated by all of us. Not only 

do they have a real interest in our 

sport and its future but they host 

most of the South Island contingent 

every time they travel to Wanganui. 

I’m not sure how many Riesling’s 

and ports have gone in that lounge 

along with great robust discussions. 

Anyway back to the results of the 

meeting which was very constructive. 

We set out our Sporting calendar for 

2014, 2015 and the majors for 2016. This 

has been requested by clubs wanting 

to have good lead up time to apply for 

funding, set their sponsors, and plan 

their strategies properly. We also had 

feedback asking us to reiterate the target 

setting guidelines. It is envisaged that all 

clubs wanting qualifying shoots would be 

subject to a check if their pedigree is not 

known, or subject to shooter complaints. 

No check, no shoot. We think it is at a 

stage where shooters are paying very 

good money, clubs are getting the 

advantage of more shooters when it is 

tagged a ’Qualifying’ shoot. Remember 

this comes from shooters themselves 

not from the Sporting Committee!! 

Clubs can do as they wish for a club 

day, but we would respectfully suggest 

they do follow the guidelines below. 

Remember that shooters have, and will 

vote with their feet, and no one wants 

that, after all the hard work to set it all up. 

Target trajectories: 

• Your aim should be to have easy, 

medium and hard targets on each field. 

Classed as A, B, C Targets A=80%, 

B=60%, C=40% breakage by the 

average shooter. 

• 2. Set the majority of your targets at 

effective hunting distances. Not too 

close, as the game may be damaged. Not 

too far, as the game may be wounded. 

Long targets should be clearly visible in 

the air and are best set to show the belly 

of the target. 

• 3. Allow good visual acquisition of 

targets. Hard to see targets will only 

disadvantage certain individuals. 

• 4. Set targets with good flight times, if 

they are set low they need good flight 

time before coming to rest. Short one 

shot targets into a hillside disadvantage 

and frustrate shooters. 

• 5. Set a combination of incomer, 

outgoer, crosser, teal and quartering 

targets on your fields. Spread a mix of 

exotic targets such as Rabbits, loopers, 

mini, midi’s around your fields. 

• 6. Make good use of different target 

colours, to make targets stand out 

against the backgrounds. 

• 7. Vary the speed of traps on different 

stands and fields. When setting doubles 

it is good to use different speed targets. 

• 8. Try to avoid “edge on” targets. 

Targets at distance or speed should 

clearly show some belly or top of the 

target to make them more visible. 

• 9. Set the majority of doubles as report 

pairs, with the odd Simultaneous and 

Raffael pair. 

• 10. Pairs should use A+B or B+B target 

combinations and use C+B pairs 

sparingly. Combining fast and slow 

targets works best. 

• 11. Try not to set fields to beat the 

shooter, set fields that require skill to 

shoot. 

“Competitors will beat themselves 

without your help”. 

• 12. Aim for 85% to 95% breakage rate 

from your top shooters. 

It was decided that from the beginning of 

2014 we will add a North/South Compak 

competition to the mix. This will be first 

shot for at the 2014 National Compak 

Championships. The fine detail is yet to 

be worked out, but we are thinking along 

the lines of one Islands and three or four 

qualifying shoots and a team of six to 

compete. It will allow smaller clubs to be 

involved, and I would imagine most clubs 

can manage to put up two Compak fields 

and have a competition. We are hoping 

that many clubs will embrace it, and 

hopefully it will bring in extra competition, 

more shoots and more shooters. Because 

the rules and field settings are well defined 

it shouldn’t be too much trouble to get 

some uniformity into the event across the 

country. 

I am not going to wax lyrical about the 

running of Sporting Nationals at Wanganui, 

BUT it was not one to miss. Huge thanks 

to target setters Rob Curruthers and Craig 

Matthews, who did not shoot, though 

word has it they both grabbed a passing 

gun a few times and had a lash, and who 

would blame them, with that set of targets. 

Knowing them both it would have been a 

huge sacrifice not to be able to shoot the 

three matches, and all shooters owe them 

hugely for this magnanimous gesture. 

One cannot forget Wanganui’s Secretary 

Ken Pfeffer and Brian Hill for their sterling 

work. Andy Saunders, Club VP, worked 

tirelessly every day showing up quite 

a few others. Huge thanks also to the 

shoot sponsors: Graeme Brown of Target 

Products for his extremely generous 

sponsorship, Scotty from Reloaders and 

Perazzi, giving away caps to the most 

ardent ‘P- Gun’ shooters, Gordon McPhee 

and Blaser (giving away $500 cash in 5 

draws) and Beretta who all had displays at 

the shoot. Thanks Gordy, it did go on the 

bar I’m afraid!! 

Finally for those South Island Sporting Clay 

Shooters, ‘dad’s army brigade’, as someone 

rudely put it at prize giving, Terry Lalich, 

Darryl Groundwater and Russell McGowan 

for giving their day off filling traps and 

helping with the reset. 

I may have missed one or two, I’m sorry, 

but those mentioned were the one’s I 

personally saw on the hills. 

On the lighter side, this page cannot go 

without mentioning Bob Brown who 

arrived at Stand 1 without a gun; after all he 

is an Australian!! 

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By Ron Madden 

An unnamed South Island West Coast 

shooter who was so wound up and excited 

at shooting he closed his gun and BANG, 

and not a target in sight! 

Credit to the South Island Sporting Clay 

Shooters, a relatively new club compared 

to the old campaigners from Rotorua, 

Waikato and Wanganui finished up second 

in all the three club shields/matches going, 

Clark Shield, Truss Shield and the North/ 

South match. 

To Derek Sheen who somehow got 

pressganged to do the NZCTA Councillor’s 

speech duty on Nationals day and confessed 

to loving everything about the week's 

sporting, the camaraderie and fun, he said 

he had an absolute ball, and had come from 

the “dark side” and never realised just how 

much fun it was at this level and promised 

to be back!! He will be held to that. 

The Grand Prix is also done and dusted 

for 2013; Rotorua had put in a huge effort 

to set up 2 x 50 target fields in a setting that 

would be the envy of the sporting world. 

The event ran smoothly and was all over by 

early afternoon both days. 

The only negative side was the lack of 

support from shooters for such efforts put 

in. The Sporting Committee hopes that 

running the Nationals and GP within the 

same week from now on may alleviate this 

issue. It is that Aussie contingent of 50+ 

shooters that will travel for both events 

together that make the shoot profitable for 

the hosting club. It looks like around 100 

shooters is break even for these big events. 

So we need to do everything to encourage 

their participation, if even for the Clubs' 

sake only, as they usually win more than 

their fair share. The highlight for me was 

a great shoot off for grade places by Des 

Coe and Mark Marshall. Some of you may 

not have heard of Mark, but he has been 

shooting since a school boy on a game farm 

North of London, has represented England 

in ESP and FITASC and only recently took 

the famous George Digweed to a 24/25 

shoot off in Africa. After 22 x 25 each on 

some mean targets, it was sudden death 

and Mark must have been thinking “Not 

again”. Three targets later Des came out 

the victor, much to the partisan crowd's 

delight. A great weekend all round and a 

credit to Rotorua. Ron Madden ■ 

New Zealand and 

South Island ISSF 

Championships 

Held at Canterbury Clay Target Club 

Geoff Jukes 

HOA NZ ISSF Skeet 

Paul Wilson 

HOA SI ISSF Skeet 

South Island Double Trap - 7 

Competitors – A Grade 2, B Grade 5. No 

Categories events. HOA – Tom Turner 

(AUS) 

A Grade 1st Scott Wilson. B Grade 1st 

Liam Buchanan, 2nd Boston Walker, 3rd 

Tony Stuart. 

New Zealand Double Trap - 14 

Competitors – A Grade 5, B Grade 9. 

Veterans Category Only. HOA Scott 

Wilson 

A Grade 1st Graeme Ede, 2nd Tom 

Turner, 3rd Gavin Searle. B Grade 1st 

Geoff Foster, Darren Richardson, 3rd 

Barry Foster. Veterans: Gavin Searle. 

South Island ISSF Skeet 8 Competitors 

– A Grade 3, B Grade 4, Ladies Only 1. 

HOA Paul Wilson. A Grade 1st Grant 

Taylor, 2nd Geoff Jukes. B Grade 1st Gary 

Hoffman, 2nd Chloe Tipple, 3rd Hamish 

Wilson. Ladies: Chloe Tipple 

South Island ISSF Trap - 26 

Competitors – A Grade 11, B Grade 

13, C Grade 2. Ladies, Juniors & Vets 

Categories. 

HOA Allan Sinclair. A Grade 1st Gavin 

Searle, 2nd Myles Browne-Cole, 3rd Tom 

Turner. B Grade 1st Tim Fuller, 2nd Chris 

Robinson, 3rd Mason Reed. C Grade 1st 

Mike McCormick, Kim Ridgen. Ladies 

Natalie Rooney. Veterans Gavin Searle. 

Juniors Mason Reed. 

New Zealand National ISSF Skeet - 11 

Competitors – A Grade 3, B Grade 8, C 

Grade 1. HOA Geoff Jukes. A Grade 1st 

Paul Wilson, 2nd Grant Taylor. B Grade 1st 

Chloe Tipple, 2nd Amy van Bysterveldt, 

Scott Wilson 

HOA NZ Double Trap 

3rd Gary Hoffman. Ladies: Chloe Tipple. 

Junior: Amy van Bysterveldt 

New Zealand National ISSF Trap 

29 Competitors – A Grade 13, B Grade 

13, C Grade 3. Ladies, Juniors & Vets 

Categories. HOA Tom Turner (AUS). 

A Grade 1st Gavin Searle, 2nd Natalie 

Rooney, 3rd Graeme Ede. B Grade 1st 

Chris Robinson, 2nd Tim Fuller, 3rd Nick 

Unkovich. C Grade 1st Kim Ridgen, 2nd 

Andy Sheppard, 3rd Murray Palmer 

Ladies Rachael van Bysterveldt, 

Veterans Gavin Searle, Juniors Todd 

McCormick ■ 

Allan Sinclair 

HOA SI ISSF Trap 

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NIGHTCAPS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 

Results of the Club Championships 

held at the Nightcaps Clay Target Club 

on Sunday 17/2/13 what a great day for 

shooting as the red chalk on the board 

showed, the weather was prefect, we had 

39 shooters which was good as some of 

the Southland Shooters were away chasing 

scores for qualifying for the World Champs. 

Congratulations to Phil Harraway for his 

High Gun and Skeet win. Well done to all 

possible shooters and Cup Winners. 

Results 

Skeet A Grade 25’s S.Sutherland, 

P.Harraway; 24 D.Diack. B Grade 25’s 

B.Brand; 24’s D.Robertson, J.Manson 

C Grade 24 B.Best; 23 A.Brown; 22 

B. Stewart. Cup Winner P.Harraway – 

Southland 

Minis 

A Grade 15’s B.Bragg, A.Sinclair, D.Diack, 

M.Millard. B Grade 13’s B.Best, B.Stewart, 

G.Turner. C Grade 12 T.Diack; 10 R.Horrell; 

8’s M.Pou, P.Horrell, A.Diack. Cup Winner 

M.Millard – West Otago 

Double Rise A Grade 20 D.Diack; 19’s 

A.Sinclair, P.Harraway, D.Dickie. B Grade 

18 B.Best; 17’s L.Johansen, B.Stewart, 

G.Turner. C Grade 16’s R.Horrell, P.Horrell; 

Steve Diack - Nightcaps HOA Point Score 

Phil Harraway - Southland HOA Skeet & 

High Gun 

Mike Millard - West Otago HOA Minis 

David Diack - Nightcaps HOA Double Rise & 

A Grade High Gun 

Stu Sutherland - Southland DT King Classic 

Winner 

Jan Manson - Southland Ladies High Gun 

Peter Horrell - Western Southland C Grade 

High Gun 

Allan Sinclair - Nightcaps HOA Single Rise 

Bruce Best - Nightcaps B Grade High Gun. 

Stu Sutherland - Southland HOA Single 

Barrel 

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15’s T.Diack, A.Diack. Cup Winner D.Diack 

– Nightcaps 

Single Rise A Grade 25’s G.Evans, 

D.Chambers, J.Munro, M.Millard, 

S.McKerchar, M.Eales, N.Rule, P.Harraway, 

J.Manson, S.Sutherland, W.Watson, 

A.Sinclair, R.Kelly, S.Diack, B.Brand, 

D.Diack. B Grade 24’s B.Best, G.Turner, 

J.Ayers. C Grade 24 P.Horrell; 23 R.Horrell; 

22 A..Diack. Cup Winner A.Sinclair – 

Nightcaps 

Point Score A Grade 60’s S.Diack, 

D.Chambers, P.Johansen. B Grade 58 

M.Burdon; 57 J.Ayers; 56 B.Best. C Grade 

55 P.Horrell; 52 A.Diack; 48 K.Wilson. Cup 

Winner S.Diack – Nightcaps 

Single Barrel A Grade 20’S D.Diack, 

M.Eales, J.Manson, S.Sutherland, A.Sinclair. 

B Grade 19 B.Best; 18 G.Turner; 17 J.Ayers. C 

Grade 20’s R.Horrell, P.Horrell; 18 A.Diack. 

Cup Winner S.Sutherland – Southland 

High Gun P.Harraway – Southland. A 

Grade High Gun D.Diack – Nightcaps. 

B Grade High Gun B.Best – Nightcaps, 

C Grade High Gun P.Horrell – Western 

Southland. Ladies High Gun J.Manson – 

Southland 

D.T.King Classic S.Sutherland – 

Southland. ■ 

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Results: 

HOA Michael Meehan 296. A grade 1st 

Shane Whinn 294, 2nd Davie Smith 293, 3rd 

Vance Butcher 292. B grade 1st Barry Hunt 

289, 2nd Liam Quinn 276, 3rd Chris Higgie 

269. C grade 1st Kim Bergerson 263, 2nd 

John Woodmass 146. Juniors Mitchell Dean 

284, Veteran Ian Halliwell 283. 

Our thanks to Target Products Ltd for their 

generous ammunition sponsorship. ■ 

Michael Meehan HOA 

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THAMES CLAY TARGET CLUB 

THORNTON MEMORIAL 

16 JUNE 2013 9.30 AM 

150 Tgts DTL TROPHY 

Entry Fee $75 ($60 for Thornton Memorial over 1st 100), 

Includes entry fee, tgts & compulsory sweeps. 

Cash Trophies for HOA 1st, 2nd and 3rd in A, B & C grades. 

Ammo, Refreshment & Lunches available. 

Pres. Martin 07 862 8146 email marsam.vdw@gmail.com 

Nola 07 867 7165 email: nolalen@xtra.co.nz 

DALE SHIELD DTL TEAM SHOOT 

Hosted by WOODVILLE CLAY TARGET CLUB 

30 JUNE 2013 

Dodd Road, Woodville 

9am Start Entries Close 10.30am 

EVENT 1 

25 Single Rise A,B & C 15M. $2 Graded Compulsory Sweep Plus $5 Ungraded Optional Sweep 

EVENT 2 

20 Single Rise A-16M, B-14M, C-12M. 5 person Teams Shot in 2 x 10tgt visits 

$2 Graded Compulsory Sweep. $10 per team entry. 50% paid to winning team 

Optional $300 Cash Trophy-Entry $8 Day Entry $45 

Refreshments Lunch & Ammo available 

Contacts-President Vance Butcher 06 3576023 

Club Captain Dave Peck 0274450514 

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new members 

Phil Agnew, Auckland Met, Social 

Charles Batkin, Auckland Met, Junior 

John Bayley, Tokoroa, Junior 

William Bell, Palmerston North, Junior 

Nicola Bennie, Western Southland, Junior 

Robert Boyd, Canterbury, Social 

Ross Brown, Gisborne, Social 

Robert Buchanan, Waihora 

Hunta Campbell, Whangarei 

Stewart Chapman, Bay of Plenty 

Yon Seng Chia, Waitemata 

Glen Ciddington, Waitemata 

Stefan Covic, Waitemata 

Gregory Cross, Ashburton, Junior 

James Currie, North Canterbury 

Daniel Day, Te Aroha, Junior 

James Delegat, Auckland Met, Junior 

John De Thierry, Te Kuiti 

Andy Donaldson, Waitemata 

Te Waiarani Epiha, Kaeo, Junior 

Geoffrey Fraser, Waitemata 

Chris Freeman, Rotorua 

Cody Gill, Hawkes Bay, Junior 

Tom Gourley, Bay of Plenty 

Laurie Godden, Rotorua 

Paul Gurney, Chatham Islands 

Marlon Harris, Kaitaia, Junior 

Kiri Harmer, Dunedin, Social 

Peter Herrick, Taupo 

Tureiti Heta, Kaeo, Junior 

Malcolm Hill, Eketahuna 

John Hillier, Wellington 

Steve Hodder, Waitemata 

Bill Hood, Waitemata 

Roger Hurlstone, Gisborne, Social 

Christine Ivers, Waitemata, Family 

Jesse James, Whangarei, Junior 

Stephen Johnson, Waitemata 

Billy Kiff, Kaeo, Junior 

Will King, Rotorua 

Clay Langford, Whangarei, Junior 

Matt Larsen, Auckland Met, Junior 

James Lewis, Rotorua 

Ryan Lindsay, Waikato, Junior 

Abby Loveridge, Southland, Junior 

Joshua Low, Northern Wairoa, Junior 

Jono Lynch, Kaeo, Junior 

Kurt McCarroll, Whangarei, Junior 

Clayton McElwee, Taupo 

Rede McLean, Thames, Junior 

Nick Main, Waitemata 

Baden Mannering, Auckland Met, Junior 

Ira Martinac, Whangarei, Junior 

Ben Maxwell, Taupo, Junior 

Joseph Mendenhall, Waitemata 

Beau Mihaka, Kaikohe 

Roy Nelson, Waitemata 

Alan Nicholson, Auckland Met, Junior 

Jarod Owen, Waihora 

John Palino, Waitemata, Social 

Duncan Parrott, Waikato 

Andy Peterson, Waitemata 

George Phillips, Auckland Met, Junior 

Michael Phua, Waitemata 

Tony Plaisted, Woodville 

Puanani Prime, Kaeo, Junior 

Alex Rasmussen, Auckland Met, Junior 

Gus Ravenwood, Rotorua 

Tom Reeves, Auckland Met, Junior 

Chris Reid, Waitemata 

John Reilly, Waihora, Social 

Shay Robertson, Auckland Met, Junior 

Garry Robinson, Kaeo 

Ambrose Rudolph, Kaeo, Junior 

Carles Rudolph, Kaeo, Junior 

William Sager, Auckland Met, Junior 

Monty Sansom, Auckland Met, Junior 

Matt Schwass, Auckland Met, Junior 

Nick Scott, Waikato 

Dylan Sgimdt, Auckland Met, Junior 

Liam Shorland, Rotorua, Junior 

Tony Shorland, Rotorua, Social 

Guy Sinclair, Woodville 

Hagan Skelton, Whangarei, Junior 

Bernice Spear, Whatitiri, Social 

Phillip Spear, Whatitiri, Social 

Tom Stephenson, Rotorua 

Christian Stewart, Waikato, Junior 

Emma Stuart, Darfield 

Lynda Sutton, Rotorua, Family 

John Taylor, Waitemata 

Nick Thackwell, North Canterbury 

William Thompson, Auckland Met, 

Junior 

Sean Thorburn, Waitemata 

Rio Tuson, Whangarei, Junior 

Benjamin Tyson, Waihora, Junior 

Murray Tyson, Waihora, Social 

Jock van Asch, Marlborough, Junior 

Odin Vasmer-Diecks, Whangarei, Junior 

Thomas Vincent, Waikato, Junior 

Warwick van Asch, Marlborough 

Dani Wallace, Rotorua, Junior 

Ian Wallace, Rotorua, Social 

Dave Walsh, Kaitaia, Social 

Anthony Wei, Whangarei, Junior 

Chris Wiig, Hawkes Bay 

Alex Williams, Auckland Met, Junior 

Shaun Williamson, Rotorua 

Angus Willison, Waitemata 

Fergus Willison, Waitemata, Junior 

Joe Windley, Kokatahi 

Edward Woolfold, Auckland Met, Junior 

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Trap Hall of Fame 

evening 

Waikato 2013 

The fifth Trap Hall of Fame evening dinner and presentation was 

held on the Thursday night at the recently held Trap Nationals at 

Hamilton. The evening was held at the Hamilton Cosmopolitan 

club. 

Ticket sales for the event were expected to be slow given that all 

the Inductees this year were deceased, however the event was fully 

sold out by the third day of the Nationals and the evening was a 

huge success. 

This I guess reinforces the fact that our shooters and families are 

coming to realise just how informative these evenings are about 

our history and also that we and the families are very interested 

in recognising and acknowledging the recipients' talents and 

achievements within our sport. 

The three inductees for 2013 were: 

Mr Harry Clinch – Huntly, Mr Murray Pratt – Waikato, Mr D. P 

North – Whangarei. 

Hall of Fame Inductees Murray Pratt, DP North and Harry Clinch 

Family recipients were in attendance to receive Harry Clinch's 

medal and spoke of their knowledge of Harry and his involvement 

within our sport and the community of Huntly. There was a large 

contingent from the Huntly club present to acknowledge the 

achievements of one of their most successful past club members. 

Murray Pratt's presentation was put together and presented on 

the night by local entity and grandson, Neil Pratt. The Pratt family 

had also provided Murray's shooting jacket as a display which was 

adorned with all his Island and National title medals, along with 

one made of solid gold (never seen before by most in attendance). 

The presentation of the medal was received and acknowledged by 

Murray Pratt (Neil's father and son of Murray). Murray recounted 

a number of stories of his father and was the first to acknowledge 

the skill level his father possessed and displayed over his career. 

Again there was a large contingent of extended family and club 

members present to acknowledge this award. 

Mr D (Parry) North; the information for this presentation was 

delivered by life member of the association Mr Graeme Webber, 

Graeme was able to outline significant information about “Parry 

North” given that he had actually shot with Parry on a number of 

occasions at the Whangarei Gun Club. One of the most interesting 

details was that Parry North is the only shooter to ever win four 

National titles at one event, 1949 Live Pigeon, Live Sparrow, Single 

Rise and Double Rise. Acknowledgement of Parry's achievements 

within our sport was made and can be seen just how successful he 

was by viewing the number of National titles he actually won over 

his lifetime (on the Hall of Fame chart on the NZCTA website). 

Unfortunately no family member was able to attend to receive the 

award but Whangarei President Mr George Gee received this on 

the family’s behalf. 

Next on the evening's agenda was awarding of an NZCTA “Special 

merit award” for services to trapshooting. This was awarded to Mr 

Collin Wood from the Hawkes Bay Clay Target Club. 

Details of Collin`s contribution to our sport were read out along 

with many humorous details and additions by local entity Mr 

Dave Hern. All of this was greeted by all attending with much 

amusement and acclamation of Collin`s lifetime contribution not 

only to his local club but also to many other clubs and individuals 

he has had contact with throughout his involvement within our 

sport of Clay Target Shooting. Upon calling Collin and his wife, 

Ali forward to receive the award the crowd gave Collin a standing 

ovation to acknowledge his award and lifelong contribution. 

Finally on the evening's agenda was the announcement and 

presentation of the “2013 NZ Shooter of the Year” award of the 

“Jim McKenzie Medal”. 

This year there were four finalists; Dylan Woolhouse, Brad 

Warnock, Colin Waghorn and Gavin Searle. The winner for 2013 

was Gavin Searle. 

The evening was presided over by newly elected National president 

Trevor Manson who made presentations to all recipients, all in all 

an extremely successful event. 

As the evening came to a close at about 10-30 pm all who attended 

seemed to have enjoyed a very special evening with good food, 

good company and many stories and details they had no knowledge 

of before they arrived. A number of individuals commented just 

how good and important these events are and acknowledged 

that they as individuals will make sure they attend in the future. 

This is the growing trend we are seeing develop, so next year we 

have another special year of inductees; be sure to secure your 

tickets early or you too may be one of the many that missed the 

opportunity to attend this year – be warned! 

Until next time Gavin Searle. ■ 

50 gunshot

Colin and Ali Wood 

Shooter of the Year Gavin Searle 

Clinch Family members receiving the award on behalf of Harry Clinch 

Murray Pratt 

QUOTE / unquote 

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever 

they go”. Oscar Wilde 

“Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and 

then proceed to tell you why it isn't”. 

“A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that 

need the advice”. Bill Cosby 

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is 

also what it takes to sit down and listen”. Winston Churchill 

“Life is what happens while you are busy making other 

plans”. John Lennon 

Murray Pratt receiving the award on behalf of his father, also called 

Murray Pratt. 

“Every man dies. Not every man lives”. William Wallace 

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Holloway Shield Gorge Road, A Wilson, D Warnock, B Warnock D Robertson, C Waghorn 

L to R. Grant Russell Southland C Grade, Kelvin Gutsell Mataura Champ of Champs, Greg 

Turner Nightcaps B Grade 

HOA Single Rise, Dale Robertson Gorge Road 

Shannan Evans. HOA Ball Trap and Minis and Sadler Cup 

Champion of Champions K Gutsell Mataura 

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Southland Clay Target 

Club Championships 

We were well prepared for what is one of the busiest days on 

our shoot programme. The grounds were looking their best and 

the weather was a continuation of what has been an exceptional 

summer. 

The inclusion of the Ball Trap Championship and for this year only, 

the Holloway Shield added to the fullness of the day but with some 

good organising all went well and the shoot was finished in very 

good time. This meant that the presentations were well attended 

which is much appreciated by those accepting trophies. It certainly 

adds to the atmosphere of the day and is a fitting highlight. 

Skeet, as always, is very popular in the south as was the winner 

of this year’s event, Lindsay Maxwell (Southland) who had to 

shoot a very determined shoot off to prevail against Kelvin Gutsell 

(Mataura) and Hamish Bell (Nightcaps) to win. Trevor Manson 

(Southland) and Brendon Richardson (Central Southland) were 

the B and C Grade winners. 

Shannan Evans (Southland) has certainly made his return to 

shooting felt by winning the Ball Trap and the Minis plus the Sadler 

Cup. Always to the fore in any event, Shannan is carrying on from 

where he left off. 

The Diack family, always prominent in the winner's lists, had 

success with Stephen winning the Double Rise and Travis a very 

creditable C Grade win in the Ball Trap. Greg Turner, another 

Nightcaps member, had a very successful day taking several B 

grade championships including Double Rise, Single Rise and 

Single Barrel although he did have some competition from fellow 

club member Bruce Best who pipped him in Points Score. 

The blue ribbon event, Single Rise was decided when 13 competitors 

fronted for the shoot off. After 77 targets Dale Robertson (Gorge 

Road) managed to hold off Brad Warnock also from Gorge Road 

and Shannan Evans. Rebecca Searle (Gorge Road) won the Ladies 

and Andrew Barclay (Central Southland) was the novice winner. 

The High Gun placings always cause much interest. Grant Russell 

(Southland) proved his consistency to take the C Grade, Greg 

Turner (Nightcaps) B Grade and Kelvin Gutsell (Mataura) was the 

Champion of Champions for 2013. Very well done to you all. 

Our thanks to all who came and participated and all contributed to 

make this a very successful and enjoyable day. 

Results 

Skeet HOA L Maxwell (Southland) A Grade K Gutsell (Mataura) B 

Grade T Manson (Southland) C Grade B Richardson (Central 

Southland) 

Ball Trap HOA S Evans (Southland) A Grade M Millard (West 

Otago) B Grade P Williams (Mataura) C Grade T Diack (Nightcaps) 

Double Rise HOA S Diack (Nightcaps) A Grade C Waghorn 

(Gorge Road) B Grade G Turner (Nightcaps) C Grade G Russell 

(Southland) 

Minis HOA S Evans (Southland) A Grade N Rule (Southland) B 

Grade P Williams (Mataura) C Grade R Horrell (Southland) 

Single Rise HOA D Robertson (Gorge Road) A Grade B Warnock 

(Gorge Road) B Grade Turner (Nightcaps) C Grade A Barclay 

(Central Southland) Ladies R Searle (Gorge Road) Novice A 

Barclay (Central Southland) 

Points Score HOA E Pirie (Mataura) A Grade A Wilson (Gorge 

Road) B Grade B Best (Nightcaps) C Grade G Russell (Southland) 

Single Barrel HOA K Gutsell (Mataura) A Grade S McKerchar 

(West Otago) B Grade G Turner (Nightcaps) C Grade G Russell 

(Southland) 

High Gun Champion of Champions K Gutsell (Mataura) B Grade 

G Turner (Nightcaps) C Grade G Russell (Southland) Sadler Cup 

S Evans (Southland) 

Holloway Shield Gorge Road (A Wilson, D Robertson, B Warnock, 

C Waghorn, D Warnock) ■ 

Minis L to R Peter Williams Mataura B Grade, Neville Rule Southland A Grade, Ronga Horrell 

Western Southland C Grade 

Skeet HOA L Maxwell Southland 

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around the clubs 

ALEXANDRA 

24 February 

Match 1 25 DTL HBD Possible: M Duncan, J 

Marshall, B Thurlow, B Gare, R McKenzie, P 

Morrison. 

Match 2 15 DTL HBD Possible: T Miller, W 

Morris, M Small, R Waugh, W Gunn. 

Match 3 10 S/B Possible: M Duncan, W 

Morris, P Nelson, N Kelland, F McGarvie, B 

Thurlow, B Gare. 

Match 4 10 Pr D/R 18: M Small; 17: R Gunn, R 

Waugh, B Gare. 

10 March 

Match 1 25 SKEET Possible: N Kelland, G 

Matheson, M Duncan; 24: P Nelson, W 

Morris; 22: P Morrison; 20: J Marshall. 

Match 2 5 DTL Possible: J Marshall, P 

Morrison, N Kelland, G Matheson, T Miller, 

J Loudon; 4: P Nelson, W Morris, M Duncan. 

Match 3 20 DTL Possible: J Marshall, G 

Matheson, J Loudon; 19: P Nelson, T Miller, 

M Duncan; 18: N Kelland; 17: P Morrison; 15: 

W Morris. 

Match 4 15 DTL Possible: W Morris, J Loudon, 

M Duncan; 14: N Kelland, P Nelson, T Miller; 

13: J Marshall, P Morrison, G Matheson. 

Match 5 10 PR D/R 18: J Marshall; 17 N 

Kelland; 16 P Morrison, M Duncan; 15 T 

Miller; 13 G Matheson; 11 W Morris; 10 P 

Nelson, J Loudon. 

AMBERLEY 

February 

Skeet B Grade 1st M Hartnell 24, 2nd J 

Bradford 23, 3rd= P Wright, M Smart 22; C 

Grade 1st H Haugh 24, 2nd R Reed 20, 3rd B 

Roper 19. 

E/O 10Tgt A Grade 1st= P Wright, C Kelland, 

R Scott & I Burt 8; B Grade 1st M Smart 10, 

2nd = D Maindonald & L Ellis 9; C Grade 1st 

B Roper 7. 

Continental Champs 20Tgt –Bob Hammond 

Memorial HOA J Berry 18; A Grade 1st R 

Scott 18, 2nd P Wright 18, 3rd S Anglem 18; 

B Grade 1st L Ellis 17, 2nd J Scott 17, 3rd H 

Haugh 17; C Grade 1st B Roper 14. 

D/R 10pr A Grade 1st I Burt 16 , 2nd= C 

Kelland , R Reed 14; B Grade 1st D Brosnan 

18, 2nd H Haugh 16, 3rd= M Smart, R Bartlett, 

I Harrison 13; C Grade 1st B Roper 11. 

March 

Skeet A Grade: 1st W Cheng 22; B Grade 

1st J Bradford 25, 2nd J Suttie 24, 3rd= D 

Brosnan, R Bartlett & M Smart 23; C Grade: 

1st R Florance 21, 2nd B Roper 19, 3rd K 

Henderson 18. 

E/O 10Tgt Single Barrel: A Grade: 1st= C 

Kelland, R Scott & B Johnson 10; B Grade: 

1st= M Hartnell & J Bradford 10, 2nd= R 

Bartlett & T Rhodes 9; C Grade: 1st= J Currie 

& C Giller 7, 2nd= B Roper & J Harrison 6. 

20Tgt Single Barrel Champs: HOA B 

Johnson; A Grade: 1st R Foster 19, 2nd S 

Anglem 18; B Grade: 1st M Hartnell 19, 2nd M 

Smart 18, 3rd J Scott 17; C Grade: 1st J Currie 

15, 2nd K Henderson 14 3rd J Inwood 13. 

15Tgt Continental: A Grade: 1st= R Foster 

& R Florance 15 2nd= P Wright, I Burt & R 

Scott 14; B Grade: 1st K Morrison 15, 2nd R 

Bartlett 14, 3rd= D Brosnan & M Smart 13; 

C Grade: 1st B Roper 14, 2nd= J Currie & K 

Henderson 12. 

10PR D/R: A Grade: 1st R Foster 18 2nd 

R Scott 17 3rd= P Wright & C Kelland 15; B 

Grade: 1st= R Bartlett, M Smart, R Rhodes 

& I Harrison 14; C Grade: 1st K Henderson 14, 

2nd J Currie 11, 3rd= B Roper & C Giller 10. 

AUCKLAND MET 

17 February 

Club Champs Skeet A Grade Rob Andrews. 

B Grade Max Matsell. C Grade Simon 

McCarthy. 

Club Champs A Grade High Gun Max 

Matsell 

DTL Trophy A Grade 1st Mark Ross, 2nd Tim 

Fuller, 3rd Rob Anderson. B grade 1st Lee 

Muir, 2nd Bruce Ross, 3rd Danica Radich. C 

Grade 1st Rys Blothan, 2nd Leon Harder. 

3 March 

DTL A Grade 1st Bryce Schou, 2nd Kevin 

Moody, 3rd James Elliott Forster. B Grade 1st 

Dean Sands, 2nd Stefan Weston, 3rd Wayne 

Williams. C Grade 1st Glenn Williams, 2nd 

Claire Douglas, 3rd Matthew Collins 

CANTERBURY 

17 February Canterbury Districts 

Double Rise HOA Cameron Rooney 20. A 

Grade 1st Natalie Rooney 20, 2nd Lindsay 

Rodgers, 3rd Warren Darling 19. B grade 

1st Tracy Searle 18, 2nd David Shaw 17, 3rd 

Bruce Warnock 17. C grade 1st Kristy Havill 

13, 2nd William Cheng 13, 3rd Emma Stuart 

13. Ladies Natalie Rooney 20, Juniors Liam 

Buchanan 17, Veterans Ray Everett 19. 

Minis HOA Brad Warnock 15. A grade 1st 

Hamish Bell 15, 2nd Ray Everett 14, 3rd Ian 

Crafts 14. B grade 1st Leo Wright 15, 2nd 

Derek Gane 14, 3rd John Berry 13. C grade 1st 

Kristy Havill 11, 2nd Samuel Rooney 10, 3rd 

William Cheng 7. Ladies Sheryl Anglem 13, 

Juniors Leo Wright 15, Veterans John Moore 

14. 

Skeet HOA Ewen Pirie 25. A grade Mike 

Sime 25, 2nd Cameron Rooney 25, 3rd Ray 

Everett 25. B grade 1st Chris Helem 24, 2nd 

Sheryl Anglem 24, 3rd Matthew Lovett 23. 

C grade 1st Heath Smith 23, 2nd Rachel Bell 

23, 3rd Brittany Pilcher 22. Ladies Natalie 

Rooney 25, Juniors Rachel Bell 23, Veterans 

Ewen Pirie 25. 

Single Rise HOA Colin Waghorn 25. A grade 

1st William Rooney 25, 2nd Ray Everett 

25, 3rd Richard Moon 25. B grade 1st James 

Crafts 25, 2nd Heath Smith 24, 3rd John 

Berry 24. C grade 1st William Cheng 22, 2nd 

Kristy Havill 21, 3rd Dave Theyers 21. Ladies 

Natalie Rooney 25, Juniors Brittany Pilcher 

25, Veterans Ray Everett 25. 

Points Score HOA Mike Sime 75. A grade 

1st Peter Boyd 75, 2nd Bevan Brown 75, 3rd 

Doug Evans 75. B grade 1st David Shaw 75, 

2nd Peter Askey 75, 3rd Bruce Warnock 

72. C Grade 1st William Cheng 68, 2nd Ian 

Murray 64, 3rd Dave Theyers 59. Ladies 

Sheryl Anglem 73, Juniors Liam Buchanan 

73, Veterans Peter Askey 75. 

Single Barrel HOA Lindsay Rodgers 25. A 

grade 1st William Rooney 25, 2nd Hamish 

Holland 25, 3rd Ray Everett 25. B grade 1st 

Dave Lee 25, 2nd David Shaw 23, 3rd Kim 

Ridgen 23. C grade 1st Samuel Rooney 20, 

2nd William Cheng 19, 3rd Ian Murray 19. 

Ladies Sheryl Anglem 25, Juniors Liam 

Buchanan 23, Veterans Ray Everett 25. 

High Gun Ray Everett 180. A grade William 

Rooney, B grade David Shaw 168, C grade 

William Cheng 149. Ladies Natalie Rooney 

176, Juniors Liam Buchanan 169, Veterans 

Ray Everett 180. 

DANNEVIRKE 

24 February Club Campionships 31 shooters 

Mini's A grade S.Quin. Runner Up C.Cassin. 

B grade D.Pollard, D.Woolford. C grade 

P.Gibson.T.Curran/W.Menzies. 

Single Rise A grade M.Dean, 2nd C.Cassin. 

B grade D.Irvine 2nd J.Russell/R.Challies/T. 

Moore. C grade P.Gibson 2nd T.Curran. 

Points Score A grade M.Dean, 2nd 

G.Groenveld. B grade T.Moore, 2nd J.Russell. 

C grade T.Curran, 2nd P.Gibson. 

Triples A grade M.Dean, 2nd M.Johnson/G. 

Groenveld. B grade D.Irvine, 2nd 

R.Challies/J.Russell /S.Mason. C grade 

P.Gibson, 2nd T.Curran. 

Single Barrel A grade M.Dean, 2nd V.Butcher. 

B grade T.Moore, 2nd D.Woolford/D.Irvine. 

C grade P.Gibson, 2nd T.Curran. 

Double Rise A grade I.O'Brien, runner up 

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M.Dean. B grade D.Pollard, 2nd L.Smith. C 

grade T.Curran, 2nd P.Gibson. 

DARFIELD 

6 February Sponsor Malvern Butchery. 

Weather Hot and bright. 

Event 1. 20 target Presidents Trophy round 

1. A Grade 1st Russel Foster, 2nd Murray 

Robertson, 3rd Tony Stuart. B Grade 1st 

Eddie Hurst, 2nd Peter Askey, 3rd Derek 

Gane. C Grade 1st Colin McRae, 2nd D 

Sharpe, 3rd Dave Pitkethley. 

Event 2 & 3. 2 x 20 target Continental 

Cup (Off Handicap) Two possibles, Carey 

Wesley and Tony Stuart. Winner after shootoff 

Carey Wesley. 

EKETAHUNA 

10 February 

50 Single Rise A Grade D Smith 49, B Grade 

R Challies 46. 

50 Point Score A Grade D Smith 144/49, B 

Grade R Challies 143/48. 

50 Single Barrel A Grade D Challies 47, B 

Grade R Challies 47. 

10th March 

50 Point Score A Grade R Elliott 138/48, B 

Grade G Roberts 128/44, C Grade P Gibson 

117/41. 

10pr Double Rise A Grade R Elliott & G 

Baker 10, B Grade D Mason 14, C Grade P 

Gibson 14. 

50 Single Rise 1st R Elliott 50, 2nd G Roberts 

46, 3rd G Baker 41. 

FP Murray-Ansley Memorial R Elliott. 

GISBORNE 

10 February 

50 Skeet. A Grade 1st Tony Ferkins 44, 

2nd Roger Hurlstone 43. B Grade 1st John 

Robinson 46, 2nd Colin Jones 44, 3rd= Chris 

Veitch, Ian Howatson 43. C Grade 1st Neil 

Andrew 44, 2nd Adrian Brown 39, 3rd Ross 

Brown 32. 

30 Triples A Grade 1st Tony Ferkins 45. 

B Grade 1st Colin Jones 44, 2nd = Dave 

Dockary, Neil Andrew, Ian Howatson, Rex 

Newman 40. 

50 Points Score A Grade 1st Tony Ferkins 135. 

B Grade 1st Neil Andrew 137, 2nd Colin Jones 

136, 3rd Ian Howatson 132. C Grade 1st Stu 

Coker 128, 2nd Adrian Brown 126, 3rd Ross 

Brown 118. 

20 Single Barrel A Grade 1st Tony Ferkins 

16. B Grade 1st Ian Howatson 19, 2nd Chris 

Veitch 19, 3rd Dave Dockary 16. C Grade 1st 

Ross Brown 19, 2nd Adrian Brown 10, 3rd Stu 

Coker 9. 

10 pair Double Rise A Grade 1st Tony Ferkins 

15. B Grade 1st Neil Andrew 17, 2nd = Colin 

Jones, Chris Veitch 13. C Grade 1st= Ross 

Brown, Adrian Brown 13, 3rd Stu Coker 11. 

HAWKES BAY 

16th and 17th February 

Single Rise (poss 150) AA Grade: James 

Fulford 150 (HB), Dylan Woolhouse 149 (HB), 

John Harkness 149 (HB), David Wordley 

149 (Putaruru,) Dave Hern 147 (Patangata), 

Peter Borrie 147 (Wairarapa), Mason Reed 

147, Grant Nilsson 147, Stuart Bell 146 

(Wairoa), Mike Withers 145 (HB), A grade: 

Mark Johnston 148 (Dannevirke), Kelvin 

Ellison 147 (Gisborne), Darryl Remnant 147 

(Patangata), Jack Whale 145 (HB), George 

Gee 145, Rick Spence 144 (Gisborne), 

Pete Nola 144. B grade: Bruce Scott 145, 

Jim Aitken 145 (Patangata), David Donald 

143 (Wairarapa), Pete Skrine 143, Sandy 

Campbell 141 (Patangata), Brian Smith 138 

(Dannevirke), Dave Dockary 136 (Wairoa). 

C grade: Bill Ballantyne 142 (Wairoa), Brent 

Plaisted 131 (HB), Lionel Hemming 119, 

Angus Donald 115 (Wairarapa). 

Points Score (poss 450) AA Grade: David 

Wordley 444, Shane Quinn 441, Mike 

Withers 440, Dylan Woolhouse 439, Grant 

Nilsson 439, Chris Cassin 432 (Patangata), 

Stuart Bell 430, Mark Johnston 430, James 

Fulford 428, Graeme Allister 426 (HB), Peter 

Borrie 425, Dave Hern 421, John Harkness 

419, Darryl Remnant 419. A grade: Pete Nola 

426, Rick Spence 424, Kelvin Ellison 417, Jack 

Whale 414, Ray Russell 408, George Gee 

402, Pete Skrine 401. 

B grade: Dave Dockary 423, Sandy Campbell 

411, Logan Smith 409 (Dannevirke). Brian 

Smith 400, David Donald 398. C grade: 

Angus Donald 375, Lionel Hemming 369, 

Brent Plaisted 347. 

2 Day Total (poss 600) AA Grade: David 

Wordley 593, Dylan Woolhouse 588, Grant 

Nilsson 586, Mike Withers 585, James 

Fulford 578, Chris Cassin 577, Stuart Bell 576, 

Peter Borrie 572. A grade: Mark Johnston 

578, Pete Nola 570, Rick Spence 568, Darryl 

Remnant 566, Kelvin Ellison 564, Jack Whale 

559, George Gee 547. B grade: Dave Dockary 

559, Sandy Campbell 552, Pete Skrine 544, 

David Donald 541, Logan Smith 539, Brian 

Smith 538. C grade: Angus Donald 490, 

Lionel Hemming 488, Brent Plaisted 478. 

Shoot off: (on handicap) David Wordley, 

Pete Nola, Dave Dockary, Angus Donald. 

Winner Caesar Guerini 300: Angus Donald 

17th March Club Championships 

Campbell Cup - 25 Single Rise Handicap 

Mike Withers 24 (HB) Nigel Field (HB) 

Graeme Allister (HB) Shane Ashforth 

(Patangata), John Harkness (HB) all on 

24. After a shoot off Campbell Cup – John 

Harkness. 

TC Parker Cup - 25 Single Rise Handicap 

John Harkness 25, Nigel Field 24, Jack Whale 

24 (HB) TC Parker Cup – John Harkness. 

Henry Williams Cup – 25 Single Rise 

Handicap Louis Bird 25 (HB), Shane 

Ashforth 24, Nigel Field. H Williams Cup – 

Louis Bird. 

Cargill Cup – 20 Minis Cargill Cup – David 

Simerka 18 (HB). 

15 Double Rise Championship– poss 30 AA: 

Graeme Allister 27 (HB). A: Graham Roys 

23 (HB). B: Peter Hill 19 (HB), C: Cody Gill 17 

(HB). 

High Gun – poss 125 AA: Graeme Allister 110, 

A: Graham Roys 107, B: David Simerka 104, 

C: Louis Bird 91. 

HUTT VALLEY 

17th February Club Champs. 34 Shooters. 

25 Tgt HCBD Champs 1st Tim Anstey 25, 2nd 

Wayne Pym 25, 3rd Don Staples 24. 

30 Tgt Triples Champs A Grade: 1st Greg 

Bentley 48, 2nd Robert Prince 48, 3rd Karl 

Andrews 47. B Grade: 1st Brian Manton 47, 

2nd Karen Hayes 42, 3rd John Varley 41. C 

Grade: 1st Tony Styles 44, 2nd Don Staples 

39, 3rd John Donald 38. 

25 Tgt Single Rise Champs. A Grade: 1st 

Dave Turner 25, 2nd Robert Prince 25, 3rd 

Brian Brown. B Grade: 1st Brian Manton 22, 

2nd Keith Butters 22, 3rd Karen Hayes 21. C 

Grade: 1st Mark Hing 24, 2nd Don Staples 23, 

3rd John Donald 21. 

25 Tgt Points Score Champs. A Grade: 1st 

Dave Turner 75, 2nd Grant Wareham 75, 3rd 

Karl Andrews 73. B Grade: 1st Brian Manton 

65, 2nd Alan Markham 59, 3rd John Varley 

59. C Grade: 1st John Donald 66, 2nd Don 

Staples 61, 3rd Mark Hing 57. 

25 Tgt Single Barrel Champs. A Grade: 1st 

Phill Bazalo 24, 2nd Dave Grant 24, 3rd 

Robert Prince 23. 

B Grade: 1st John Varley 24, 2nd Karen Hayes 

20, 3rd Mark Gallagher 19. C Grade: 1st John 

Donald 22, 2nd Don Staples 21, 3rd Gavin 

Chambers 20. 

16th March 70 Shooters. Hunting & Fishing 

100tgt Sporting Clays. 

Sponsored stand not counted in scores, so 

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Saturday 1st 

2013 Northland Provincials 

Whangarei Combined Gun Club McAlister Road Mangapai, Whangarei 

1st & 2nd June 2013 

Start Time 9.30am both days 

Sunday 2nd 

25 Tgt Skeet Championships 0 Tgt 18m Triples Championship 

10 Pr Double Rise Championships 25 Tgt Points Score Championship 

15 Tgt Minis Championships 25 Tgt Single Barrel Championships 

25 Single Rise Championships 

Shoot Offs to be held at the end of the day 

BUCK KNIVES NORTH/SOUTH DTL QUALIFYING EVENT $5 Entry for Open Team 

ELLIS/WEBBER NORTH/SOUTH SKEET EVENT $5 Entry for Open Team 

WORLD DTL QUALIFYING EVENT ON POINTS SCORE 

ENTRIES CLOSE AT 10.30.am EACH DAY 

LUNCH AMMO REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE 

ENTRY: $18.00 PER CHAMPIONSHIP. PLUS $2.00 HIGH GUN AND $5.00 OPTIONAL SWEEP 

TARGETS @ 28c, MINI’S @ 40c. 

Contact Maurice Bourke (09) 4371901 wcgc@xtra.co.nz 

AUCKLAND METROPOLITAN 

19th MAY AND 7th JULY 2013 

STARTING AT 9:30am 

Sunday 19th May 2013 

Sunday 7th July 2013 

at Auckland Metropolitan Clay 

Target Club Gun Club Road, Pukekohe 

150 Targets DTL 

Ric Griffin Remembrance Shoot 

Prizes 

HOA 1st, 2nd and 3rd in A, B and C Grades 

Entry Cost : $75.00 plus optional sweeps 

at Auckland Metropolitan Clay 

Target Club Gun Club Road, Pukekohe 

150 Targets DTL or 

100 Targets Skeet 

Prizes 

HOA 1st, 2nd and 3rd in A, B and C Grades 

DTL Entry Cost : $75.00 plus optional sweeps 

Skeet Entry Cost : $55.00 plus optional sweeps 

Contact Wayne Williams : 029 294 2280 

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scores are out of 85 tgts. 1st Adam Green 84, 

2nd= Murray Gribben & John Hillier 79’s. 

Top Lady 1st Lee-Anne Walker 69. Top Junior 

1st Michael Borrell 61. Entry number drawn 

for Shotgun prize, won by Grant Clark. 

KAEO 

31 March 

Henry Trophy 3 person teams: Winners 

– (Whangarei). Chas Mellor, Douglas 

Jecentho, John Bell 

2 person teams: Winners – (Kaeo). Bill 

Becroft, Greg Thorp. 

Possibles: 25 Target Single Rise 25 – G. Hare, 

J. Bell, B. Becroft, M. Shaw, G. Nilsson; 24 – J. 

Dangen, C. Mellor, G. Thorp, B. Sanderson, 

P. Marshall, L. Marshall; 23 – G. Robinson; 

22 – G. Adams, R. Jordan, J. Nilsson; 21 – J. 

Payne, D. Jecentho, D. Sanderson; 20 – C. 

Browne. 

25 Target Point Score 74 – G. Hare, C. Mellor, 

J. Bell, M. Shaw; 72 – D. Jecentho, G. Thorp; 

70 – B. Becroft, B. Sanderson, G. Nilsson; 68 

– J. Dangen, C. Browne. 

25 Target Single Barrel 24 – J. Bell, R. Jordan; 

23 – G. Nilsson; 22 - B. Cates, D. Jecentho, 

M. Shaw; 21 – B. Becroft; 20 – J. Dangen, 

C. Mellor, B. Sanderson, D. Sanderson, L. 

Marshall, G. Robinson. 

25 Target Double Rise 19 – G. Nilsson; 17 – B. 

Cates, B. Sanderson; 16 – G. Thorp, M. Shaw; 

15 – B. Becroft, G. Robinson; 14 – G. Hare, C. 

Mellor, J. Bell, J. Nilsson. 

MARLBOROUGH 

3 March Weather- Warm, fine with little 

wind. 

50 Skeet. A grade. Vince Bayley (Marl) 45, 

Fletcher Kydd (Marl) 44. B Grade, Lloyd 

Owen (Marl) 44, Hugh Owen (Marl) 42, 

Murray Smith (Marl) 39. C Grade. Ron 

Marks (Golden Bay) 42, Barry Tait (Golden 

Bay) 38, T Gordon (Marl) 37. 

50 Target Points Score . A grade. L Owen 

143, V Bayley 140. B Grade. F Kydd 142, M 

Smith 137, Vaughan Workman (Nelson) 134. 

C Grade. Anton James (Marl) 113, Jock van 

Asch (Marl) 111, B Tait 104. 

50 Target 5 Stand Sporting. A grade. – L 

Owen 36, V Bayley 30. B Grade - H Owen 

32, R Marks 29, T Gordon 28. C Grade – B 

Tait 25, Warwick van Asch (Marl) 24, Mack 

Pauwhare (Marl) 22. 

High Guns Marshall Trophy- Lloyd Owen 

(Marl), 223/250, A Grade- Vince Bayley 

215/250, B Grade- Fletcher Kydd (Marl) 

208/250, C Grade- Barry Tait (Golden Bay) 

167/250. 

24 March Weather – Strong Northerly 

Winds which caused problems for most 

shooters 27 shooters from Marlborough, 

Nelson, West Coast and the Waikato. 

Skeet HOA Lloyd Owen (Marl) 25. A Grade- 

Andy Peter (Marl) 23, Keith van Asch (Marl) 

23, Martin O’Conner (Nelson). 23. B Grade- 

Hugh Owen (Marl) 23, Bob Aldrich (Nelson) 

21, Vince Bayley (Marl) 21. C Grade – Tim 

Gordon (Waikato) 20, Warwick van Asch 

(Marl) 19, Vaughan Workman (Nelson) 18. 

Minis HOA Anton James (Marl) 14. A 

Grade – A Peter 13. M O’Connor 13, Fletcher 

Kydd (Marl) 12. B Grade – Murray Smith 

(Marl) 13, Craig Bason (Marl) 13, John Hare 

(Barrytown) 12. C Grade – Jill Mead (Nelson) 

11, Wayne Gatchell (Marl) 10, John Horton 

(Marl) 10. 

Double Rise –HOA – F Kydd 17. A Grade – A 

Peter 15, L Owen 13, M O’Connor 13. B Grade 

– C Bason 16, J Hare 16, H Owen 15. C Grade 

– A James 14, J Mead 14, Lloyd Neal (Marl) 13. 

Triples HOA L Owen 48. A Grade – V Bayley 

45, A Peter 39, F Kydd 39. B Grade – T Gordon 

48, Dennis Brough (Marl) 42, H Owen 42. C 

Grade – A James 45, Bob Baillie (Marl) 41, W 

Gatchell 39. 

Single Rise HOA A Peter 24. A Grade – F 

Kydd 24, M O’Connor 24, K van Asch 24. B 

Grade – C Bason 24, H Owen 21, T Gordon 

21. C Grade – J Mead 23, B Baillie 22, W 

Gatchell 22. 

Points Score HOA - A Peter 73. A Grade – M 

O’Conner 65, Vicki O’Connor 64. B Grade 

– C Bason 68, T Gordon 66, Ron Marks 

(Golden Bay) 63. C Grade – W van Asch 65, 

J Mead 58, B Baillie 58. 

Single Barrel HOA A Peter 25. A Grade – L 

Owen 21, F Kydd 20, V Bayley 20. B Grade – T 

Gordon 23, B Aldrich 22, J Hare 21. C Grade – 

W Gatchell 21, J Mead 20, L Neal 19. 

High gun Andy Peter (Marl) 212/235. A 

Grade- – Lloyd Owen (Marl) 200/235, B 

Grade Craig Bason (Marl) 201/235, C Grade- 

Anton James (Marl) 185/235. 

MOA CREEK 

24 March 

15 tgt sweep - possible – B Waugh, G 

Matheson, J Dundass, G Sanders. 

Helm Memorial – possible – N Kelland, 

P Nelson, B Waugh, M Small, G Sanders 

Winner M Small. 

Hotel Cup 1 – possible – B Becker, T Miller, M 

Duncan, N Kelland, B Gare, G Matheson, M 

Small, G Sanders, L Sanders. 

Hotel Cup 11 – possible – T Miller, M Duncan, 

N Kelland, G Matheson, Winner T Miller. 

PALMERSTON WAIKOUAITI 

12 January Matanaka 100 

25 Single Rise A Grade Possibles P Brown, 

K Fergusson, G Aitchison, H Bell. B Grade 

Possible L Smith. 2nd L Hurley 24. 3rd A 

Crosbie 23. C Grade 1st K Duffy 24. 2nd L 

Johansen 23. 3rd R Stanley 22. 

25 Single Rise A Grade Possibles P Brown, 

K Fergusson, P Carr, P Johansen. B Grade 

Possible L Smith. 2nd= G Muir, A Crosbie 

24. C Grade 1st R Stanley 23. 2nd Bob Fraser 

21. 3rd= J Fraser, L Johansen 20. 

25 Single Rise - A Grade Possibles K Bonney, 

D Merrett. 3rd= P Brown, J Sutherland 24. B 

Grade 1st= D Fraser, L Smith 24. 3rd=G Muir, 

L Hurley 22. C Grade 1st L Johansen 23. 2nd B 

Fraser 22. K Duffy 19. 

25 Single Rise A Grade Possibles K Fergusson, 

K Bonney, D Merrett, J Sutherland, H Bell. 

B Grade 1st A Crosbie 24. 2nd L Smith 23. 

3rd L Hurley 22. C Grade 1st= R Stanley, L 

Johansen 23. 3rd B Fraser 21. 

Trophy winner Phil Brown 98/100 

16 February Enfield Enterprises Ltd 100 

Continental 

25 Cont. A Grade 1st= K Fergusson, J 

Mansfield, J Hutton, P Carr 24. B Grade 

Possible D Fraser. 2nd G Muir 23. 3rd S 

Kinaston 22. C Grade 1st B Fraser 21. 2nd R 

Stanley 20. 3rd= J Fraser, D Paisley 15. 

25 Cont. A Grade Possible J Hutton. 2nd= K 

Fergusson, P Carr 24. B Grade 1st= D Fraser, 

G Muir 23. 3rd S Kinaston 21. C Grade 1st B 

Fraser 23. 2nd J Fraser 20. 3rd R Stanley 17. 

25 Cont. A Grade Possible K Fergusson, J 

Mansfield. 3rd= N Sutherland, P Carr 24. B 

Grade Possible L Smith. 2nd= D Fraser, G 

Muir 23. C Grade 1st= B Fraser, R Stanley 21. 

3rd D Paisley 17. 

25 Cont. A Grade Possibles K Fergusson, J 

Hutton. 3rd= J Mansfield, P Carr 24. B Grade 

Possible L Smith. 2nd S Kinaston 24. 3rd D 

Fraser 22. C Grade 1st= B Fraser, R Stanley 22. 

3rd D Paisley 18. 

Trophy winner - Ken Fergusson 98/100. 

ROTORUA 

17 February 

25 Target Skeet 1st A Grade: Tony Truss, 2nd 

A Grade: Ian Lindsay, 3rd= A Grade: David 

da Silva, Graham Geater, 1st B Grade: Grant 

Nixon, 2nd B Grade: Geoff Hay, 1st C Grade: 

Wayne Hunt, 2nd C Grade: Cullum Birch, 

3rd= C Grade: Pat Birch, KeriAnn Birch. 

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25 Target Single Rise 1st= A Grade: David 

da Silva, Geoff Hay, Graham Geater, Brian 

Carroll, 1st= B Grade: Ian Lindsay, Mitchell 

Pedersen, 1st C Grade: Colin Pedersen, 2nd 

C Grade: Wayne Hunt, 3rd C Grade: Cullum 

Birch. 

25 Target Ball Trap HOA: Tony Truss, 1st A 

Grade: Geoff Hay, 2nd A Grade: Graham 

Geater, 3rd A Grade: David da Silva, 1st B 

Grade: Mitchell Pedersen, 2nd B Grade: 

Mike Falconer, 3rd B Grade: Ian Lindsay, 1st 

C Grade: Mike Hunt, 2nd C Grade: Colin 

Pedersen, 3rd C Grade: Chris Freeman. 

25 Target Compak 1st= A Grade: Geoff 

Hay, Tony Truss, 3rd A Grade: Errol Lines, 

1st B Grade: Mike Hunt, 2nd B Grade: Mike 

Falconer, 3rd B Grade: Wayne Hunt, 1st C 

Grade: Cullum Birch, 2nd C Grade: KeriAnn 

Birch, 3rd C Grade: Zak Andersen. 

15 Pair D/Rise 1st A Grade: Tony Truss, 2nd A 

Grade: Grant Nixon, 3rd= A Grade: Devon da 

Silva, Graham Geater, 1st B Grade: Mitchell 

Pedersen, 2nd B Grade: Ian Lindsay, 1st C 

Grade: Cullum Birch, 2nd C Grade: Colin 

Pedersen, 3rd= C Grade: Tom Andersen, Zak 

Andersen, Mike Hunt, Chris Freeman. 

High Gun: Tony Truss, 1st A Grade: Geoff Hay, 

2nd A Grade: Devon da Silva, 3rd A Grade: 

David da Silva, 1st B Grade: Ian Lindsay, 1st 

C Grade: Cullum Birch, 2nd C Grade: Wayne 

Hunt, 3rd C Grade: Mike Hunt. 

SOUTH OTAGO 

23rd February 

Kev’s Cartage 100 Target Point Score Shield 

HOA Colin Waghorn 288. 

100 Target Point Score Shield: 1st Gorge 

Road 1333 (C Waghorn 288, N Johnstone 

263, B Brand 272, G Price 266, G Harrison 

244) 2nd South Otago 1253 (K Bonney 282, L 

Bonney 233, J Bonney 269, R Campbell 277, B 

Fraser 192) 3rd Puketiro 1207 (J Smith 255, C 

Bennett 258, V Blaikie 267, S Matthews 196, J 

Mason 231). 

TAUPO 

24 February 

Skeet: A Grade: Graeme Allen, 49; Bill 

Nickelsen, 48; Ian Lindsay, Ken Fitzgerald, 

47. B Grade: Dean Corbett, 48; Colin Shaw, 

47. C Grade: Bob Sharp, 48; Tony Holt, 45; 

Lance Felton, 42. 

Triples: A Grade: Graeme Allen, 48; Lance 

Felton, 42; Bill Nickelsen, 40. B Grade: Ian 

Lindsay, 46; Peter Hinton, Jack Felton, 40; 

Dean Corbett, 39. C Grade: Bill Mason, 43; 

Murray Crawford, 41; Tracey Moore, 29. 

Double Rise: A Grade: Graeme Allen, 24; 

Lance Felton, 21; Ken Fitzgerald, 19. B Grade: 

Colin Shaw, 21; Ian Lindsay, Dean Corbett, 

19. C Grade: Bill Mason, 21; Tracey Moore, 19; 

Murray Crawford, 14. 

Medley HOA Graeme Allen. 

Famous Duck Trophy Taupo 527, Tokoroa 

523. 

24 March Kilwell 150 DTL match Beautiful 

summer conditions, 34 shooters. 

Thanks to Kilwell Sports for sponsoring this 

annual event. 

HOA: John Waldon, 150. A Grade: Jackson 

Corbett, 1; Roger Bidois, 2; Gary Discombe, 

3 (all scored 148). B Grade: Brandon Banks, 

146, 1; Colin Shaw, 144, 2; Peter Hinton, 139, 

3. C Grade: Bayley Austin, 140, 1; Bill Mason, 

139, 2; Christ Freeman, 138, 3. Junior: Bayley 

Austin, 1; Dylan Austin, 2. 

2013 NELSON-MARLBOROUGH PROVINCIALS 

MARLBOROUGH CLAY TARGET CLUB WAIRAU BAR Rd SPRING CREEK 

1st & 2nd June 2013 

SATURDAY 1 June 

SUNDAY 2 June 

10 Pr Double Rise Championship 30 Tgt 18m Triples Championship 

25 Tgt Skeet Championship 25 Points Score Championship 

15 Tgt Minis Championship 25 Single Barrel Championship 

25 Single Rise Championship 

Entry as Per NZCTA rules. Targets @ 28 c Mini’s @ 35c 

Ellis Webber N/S Skeet $5-00 Buck Knives N/S/ DTL $5-00 

Ammo, Lunch & Refreshments Available 

9am start both days 

Secretary Dennis Brough 035781400 

President Craig Bason 035789110 

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THAMES 

16 March ATA Shoot 

First Event 1st Brian Hartley 96, 2nd Tim 

Fuller 95, 3rd Dave Wordley 94. 

Second Event 1st Tim Fuller 98, 2nd Brian 

Hartley/Ron Thomassen tied 96, 3rd Gary 

Vittle 94. 

Third Event 1st Neville Crawford 99, 2nd 

Dave Wordley 98, 3rd Paul Schmidt 97. 

WAIHORA 

10th February Sporting Champs - Sponsored 

by Harper Contracting. 

Open & Trophy 

H.O.A J Woolley 87/100. A Grade 1 G 

Maniatis 85, 2 I Crafts 81, 3 S Gawn 80. B 

Grade 1 M Welsford 74, 2 D Pilbrow 74, 3 R 

Madden 74. C Grade 1 H Denton 72, 2 N Kerr 

69, 3 M Tyson 61. 

Club Champs A Grade G Maniatis 85, B 

Grade M Sheppard 74, C Grade M Tyson 61. 

23rd February 

Skeet Trophy - A: P Lassen 25, B: J Bradford 

24, C: T Walker 23. 

Open single barrel champs - A: C Wesley 

20/20, B: G Cameron 17, C: W Field 20. 

24th March - Ballingers H&F Beretta 

Challenge 

A Grade 1 P Lassen 70/76, 2 G Cain 68, 3 S 

Lemon 67. B Grade 1 W Watts 67, 2 R Denton 

64, 3 D Pilbrow 62 C Grade 1 T Walker 59, 

2 J Reilly 58, 3 A Washbourne 57. Juniors 1 J 

Jenkins 59, 2 A Washbourne 57, 3 W Field 56. 

Ladies G Dennis. 

WAIROA 

February 

Skeet 1st round A grade K Ellison 24, S Bell 23, 

R Spence 21, B Grade C Jones 23, D Dockary, 

I Howatson 22, C Grade B Ballantyne 18, P 

White 14, C Wiig 11. 

Skeet 2nd round A Grade R Spence, S Bell 

24, K Ellison 23, B grade D Dockary 23, I 

Howatson, C Jones 21, C grade B Ballantyne 

20, P White 19, C Wiig 17. 

Points Score 50 tgts A grade S Bell 149, R 

Spence 140, K Ellison 128, B grade D Dockary 

137, B Ballantyne 136, I Howatson 130, C Wiig 

89. 

Single Barrel 50 tgts A Grade S Bell 49, R 

Spence 43, K Ellison 40, B grade B Ballantyne 

43, R Wood 42, D Dockary, I Howatson 41, C 

grade C Wiig 13. 

Triples 30 tgts A Grade K Ellison 47, S Bell 46, 

R Spence 37, B grade C Jones 42, D Dockary, 

R Wood 38, C Grade C Wiig 18. 

WAKATIPU 

17 March Trophy Shoot 

WR Shaw Memorial - 20 targets Single 

Barrel – George Ellingham 20/20. 

Pilsener Trophy – 20 targets Single Rise – 

Fraser Mackenzie 28/28. 

Mountaineer Trophy – 20 Mini’s Bob Waugh 

32/32. Morris Family Trophy – 15 Pair Double 

Rise – Peter Chatfield 28/30. 

Alpine Butchery Trophy Over 30 Pair 

Double Rise – Peter Chatfield 54/60. 

WANAKA 

16 February 100 N/S skeet. 

1st 50 targets. 50 Clark Pirie, Harry Worker, 

Lindsay Rogers. 49, Ray Anderson, Grant 

Taylor. 

2nd 50 targets. 49, Ewen Pirie, Rex Smart. 

48, Blake Holden, Grant Taylor, Brian 

McGarvie, Lindsay Rogers, Lyndon Sanders, 

Brian Thurlow. 

High overall off the gun, Lindsay Rogers. 

High overall handicap, Lyndon Sanders. 

2 man teams, Off the gun, Lindsay Rogers 

and Lindsay Maxwell. Handicap, Ben 

Robertson and Locky Woods. 

17 February J W Haugh memorial team 

challenge 100 Skeet. 

1st 50 targets A grade, 50, Rex Smart, 49 

Grant Taylor, 48 Harry Worker. B grade, 48 

Bob Waugh, 46 A Radford, 45 Peter Nelson. 

C grade, 41 Ziggy Potoczny, Callum Carbon. 

2nd 50 targets. A grade, 50 Lyndon Sanders, 

49 Jim Marshall, Harry Worker, Grant Taylor. 

48, Rex Smart. B grade, 47 Robbie McBride, 

46 Doug Smith, 45 A Radford. C grade, 40 

Ziggy Potoczny. 

Alexandra won the J W Haugh Trophy for 

2013 and Wanaka was runner up. 

WESTERN LAKE 

August 

Single Rise Champs: A Grade 1st Joe 

Houghton, 2nd Garth Gadsby, 3rd Andrew 

Sim. B Grade 1st Ronnie Gadsby, 2nd equal 

Rick Smith, David Donald, 3rd Alison Sim. 

C Grade 1st Leanne Sweeney, 2nd Don 

Staples, 3rd Drew Rogers. 

Double Rise Champs: A Grade 1st Joe 

Houghton, B Grade 1st Ronnie Gadsby, C 

Grade 1st Joel Milne. 

Jared Rogers HOA: Joe Houghton. 

Enid Evans C Grade Novice: Leane Sweeney. 

McQuilkan Double Rise Trophy: Joe 

Houghton. 

October 

Single Barrel Champs A Grade 1st Joe 

Houghton, B Grade 1st Sam Donald, C 

Grade 1st Bruce Jensen. 

Triples Champs A Grade 1st Mark McGhee, 

B Grade 1st Lance McGhee, C Grade 1st 

Bruce Jensen 

Rogers Family Triples Trophy: Mark 

McGhee. 

Patrons Aggregate Cup: Mark McGhee. 

Timber Plate Box Shoot: Gareth Sweeney. 

November Collinson Cup 

Team Winners 1st Hutt Valley A with 100 

points, 2nd Western Lake 1 with 97 points, 

3rd Wanganui/Rangitikei with 96 points. 

January 

Jury Cup won by Andrew Sim. 

G & M Pilcher Trophy won by Joe Houghton 

G & M Pilcher. HOA Trophy won by Andrew 

Sim. 

WOODVILLE 

6 January 

Rory Smith Memorial Skeet (on handicap) 

Barry Hunt after shoot off with 18 shooters. 

Judy Mabey Skeet Plate (off gun) Mike 

Davidson after shoot off with 4 shooters. 

25 Single Rise Smith Memorial Plate Paul 

Keeley after shoot off with 6 shooters. 

25 Single Rise County Cup Mike Meehan 

after shoot off with 14 shooters. 

25Pr Double Rise Butcher/Larsen Cup HOA 

Paul Wilkey 48 1st A grade Brian Smith 44 

1st B grade Chris Higgie 46 1st C grade Kim 

Bergerson 37. 

3 February 200 Target Products Sponsored 

Shoot. 

HOA Mike Meehan 296 A grade 1st Shane 

Quinn 294, 2nd Dave Smith 293 3rd Vance 

Butcher 292. B grade 1st Barry Hunt 289, 

2nd Liam Quinn 276 3rd Chris Higgie 269. 

C grade 1st Kim Bergerson 263, 2nd John 

Woodmass 146. Juniors 1st Mitchell Dean 

284, 2nd Liam Quinn 276, 3rd Ross Challies 

260. Veterans 1st Ian Halliwell 282, 2nd= 

Ross Elliott, Rick Spence 274. 

3 March 

50 Skeet A grade 1st Kim Owen 49, 2nd Eric 

Dais 46, B grade 1st= Nathan Barbridge, John 

McKinstry 47, 3rd Ash Turnbull 46, C grade 

1st Gary Clarke 45, 2nd Dave Peck 44, 3rd 

Chris Higgie 40. 

50 Single Rise A grade 1st= Kieran Rutten, 

Ross Elliott 48 3rd= Dave Peck, Mike 

Meehan 47. B grade 1st Gary Clarke 47, 2nd 

Dave Woolford 46, 3rd Vic Smith 45. C grade 

1st Ian Buick 43, 2nd Tony Plaisted 41, 3rd 

Guy Sinclair 35. 

10Pr Double Rise A grade 1st Mike Meehan 

17, 2nd= Paul Wilkey, Eric Dais 16. B grade 1st 

Chris Higgie, 16 2nd Dave Woolford 13, 3rd= 

John Wilkey, Vic Smith 12. C grade 1st Tony 

Plaisted 12, 2nd Ian Buick 11, 3rd Guy Sinclair 

8. ■ 

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shoot calendar 

may 

11-12 Wairoa Eastland Classic 

18 Wanaka Central Otago Districts 38 

19 Thames Dick Claude Memorial 

18-19 Wanganui 2 x 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

19 Auckland Met Ric Griffin Memorial 150 DTL 56 

25-26 Taupo BOP Districts 

26 Balfour Taylor Memorial 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

26 SI Sporting Clays Perazzi 100 10 

June 

1-2 Marlborough Nelson Provincials 58 

1-2 Whangarei Northland Provincials 56 

1 Wakatipu 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

2 Wakatipu 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

3 Alexandra 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

8 Nightcaps Romco Tools 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

9 Southland McKenzie Tropy 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

9 Te Kuiti Bullfrog Cup 36 

15-16 Hutt Valley Willie Paurini Memorial Shield 18 

16 Thames Ernie Thornton Memorial 48 

22-23 Taupo Great Lakes 200 Skeet Nth/Sth 38 

22-23 Gorge Road Beretta 350 6 

30 Woodville Dale Shield 48 

30 Waitemata Jim Senton Memorial 38 

JulY 

6-7 Hutt Valley 3 x 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 18 

7 Auckland Met 150 DTL & 100 Skeet 

13 Southland SI Secondary School Champs 

20 Timaru 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

20-21 Wanganui Rangitikei Manawatu Districts 

20-21 Rotorua 2 x 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

21 Southland 25yr Anniversary 26 

August 

3-4 Dunedin Otago Provincials 

3-4 Taumarunui King Country Districts 

11 Rotorua 100 Sporting Presidents Cup 

16 Moa Creek 3 x 20S/R Bodkin 

17 Wanaka Bodkin Shield 

18 Alexandra Bodkin High Gun 

17-18 Wanganui Rangitikei 2 x 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

24-25 Waitemata Auckland Provincials 

25 Southland 100 Skeet Nth/Sth Spring Trophy 

31/1. Sept. Thames 2 x 100 Skeet Nth/Sth 

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punchy, my favourite is the 24gram Quattro series” 

Tony Truss - Rotorua 

Have you won any shoots lately using NSI ammo If so, we 

would love to hear from you, either ring us on 0800 228 934 or 

send an email to themaimaisupplies@xtra.co.nz 

New Shipment of Zoli Shotguns and Rifles arriving soon … 

Steve and Catherine from The Mai Mai 

Supplies are proud to be the sole agents in NZ 

for these quality Italian made Shotguns and 

Rifles. If you would like to receive more 

information please don’t hesitate to contact 

us: 

Competition Shotguns from $6,500 

Game Shotguns from $4,500 

Available in 12, 20 and 28 gauge

“Another review from a lady shooter – still 

to come

64 gunshot

May-June 2013 - New Zealand Clay Target Association

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