Summer Skeet Mash-Up

English & Olympic Skeet

The final fixture of the summer series which was a combined English and Olympic skeet shoot. 12 shooters took part in near ideal conditions with Mike Whitehead being the keenest, turning up well before 9am (forgot about the clock)

The joint leaders after the English skeet section were Jeff Corkill and Roman Sammer with 24 points, in equal third place on 23 were John Moore and Michael and Stan Cross with Giulio Fabrizio, Liam Kirkpatrick and Mike Walker next on 22.

After a short break the Olympic skeet got under way and finishing in joint fourth place with 39 points were Giulio Fabrizio and Roman Sammer in third place on 42 was Jeff Corkill with Stan Cross taking second place on 43 but top of the shop with 45 points was Michael Cross, Well done Mike!

Next week is the first round of the Cu Plas Callow Winter Series DTL league with last entries at 10am.

Results

  1. M Cross (23, 22 = 45)
  2. S Cross (23, 20 = 43)
  3. J Corkill (24, 18 = 42)
  4. G Fabrizio (22, 17 = 39)
  5. R Sammer (24, 15 = 39)
G Fabrizio, R Sammer, M Cross, J Corkill, S Cross, L Kirkpatrick

Cross wears All-Round Crown

Manx All-Round Championship

The IOM clay Pigeon Shooting Club hosted the IOM All Round Championship kindly sponsored by Sadler Agricultural Supplies

The championship consisted of four disciplines SB DTL, ABT, English Skeet and Sporting and shot in that order.

The leader after the SBDTL was John Moore with 24 points closely followed by Michael Cross and junior Arran Wade on 22 with Alan Kinrade, Mark Barnett, Rob Corlett and Jack Clague on 21.

The next discipline was ABT and John Moore was still in the lead on 45 points with Michael Cross and Arran Wade in equal second place on 44 and followed by Alan Kinrade on 41 with Mark Riley now in fourth place on 40.

English skeet was next and Cross showed his class hitting all 25 targets to take the lead on 69 points with Moore now in second place on 66 followed by Kinrade in third place on 65, Mark Riley was forth on 63 with Arran Wade in fifth place on 62.

The final discipline was sporting shot over a very testing course of four stands. With the first four getting prizes we had to have a shoot off for third and forth place between Mark Riley and Arran Wade over a round of SBDTL. The result of the shoot off was  Riley claimed third place with 20 points to Wade’s 19, who got fourth place. The runner up in the Championship went to Alan Kinrade with 82 points but taking the Championship with 84 points was Michael Cross, well done Michael!

Results

  1. M Cross (22, 22, 25, 15 = 84)
  2. A Kinrade (21, 20, 24, 17 = 82)
  3. M Riley (19, 21, 23, 16 = 79 + 20)
  4. Arr Wade (J) (22, 22, 18, 17 = 79 + 19)
A Wade, M Cross, M Riley, A Kinrade

Rand wraps up Summer Skeet

The sixth and final round of the Colin Bowen Memorial English skeet was held at Meary Veg Santon with 22 competitors taking part in near ideal conditions, also with the news traps in operation.

Roman Sammer and Will Rand were the joint leaders after the first round with perfect 25 straights followed by John Moore and George Davies on 24 with Paul Mihailovits, Dave Corlett, Stand Cross, Michael Cross and junior Zac Bellhouse next on 23.

After the second round the final results were in third place in C class and making a welcome return was Peter Fabrizio with 43 points in second place on 45 was David Morgan but taking C class for the last time with 49 points was Roman Sammer.

In B class lady shooter Madeleine Simpson with 41 points with Giulio Fabrizio in second place on 44 but taking B class with 45 points was George Davies. We had a four way tie for third place in A class between John Moore,Michael Cross Stan Cross and Peter Kelly with 47 points with Peter hitting a straight in his second round . Second place in A class went to Paul Mihailovits with 48 points with Paul recording a straight in his second round but star of the day went to Will Rand who recorded his second straight of the day to take A class with 50 straight, well shot Will.

Results

Class A

  1. W Rand (50)
  2. P Mihailovits (48)
  3. P Kelly (47)
  4. S Cross (47)
  5. M Cross (47)
  6. J Moore (47)

Class B

  1. G Davies (45)
  2. G Fabrizio (44)
  3. M Simpson (L)(43)

Class C

  1. R Sammer (49)
  2. D Morgan (45)
  3. P Fabrizio (43)

100 League

  1. P Mihailovits (97)
  2. R Sammer (95)
  3. D Corlett (91)
  4. J Corkill (88)
  5. M Hepworth (77)
  6. M Whitehead (76)
G Fabrizio, J Moore, G Davies, P Kelly, M Cross, W Rand, R Sammer, S Cross, P Mihailovits, D Morgan, M Simpson, P Fabrizio

Next week is the rearranged IOM All Round Championship sponsored by Sadler Agricultural Supplies. The sheet is up in the club house for the annual presentation dinner, please make every effort to attend to pick your prizes up.

The winter fixture list is now available on the web or hard copies at the club house along with the latest news letter. Would all cup holders please return them for engraving.

Another Skeet Cup for Roman Sammer

English Skeet Summer League, Round 5

The fifth round of the Colin Bowen Memorial English Skeet league was held at Meary Veg Santon with 15 competitors taking part in near ideal conditions and to add spice to the competition the Cesar Leonetti Handicap cup was up for grabs.

We had a five way tie after the first round with A class shooters Rachael Bowen Matthews, James Simpson, John Moore and C class shooters Roman Sammer and Mike Walker (who brought his trap gun instead of his skeet gun) all hitting 24, on 23 were another two C class shooters in Mike Whitehead and Brian Kelly.

At the end of the second round we had Mike Walker and Brian Kelly in equal second place in C class with 45 points but taking C class with 48 points and joint highgun was Roman Sammer. Steven Rand was third in B class with 35 points with Madeleine Simpson in second place on 36 but taking B class with 37 points was George Davies.

Paul Mihailovits was in third place in A class with 46 points, who shot the only straight of the day in his second round, but we had a tie for first place in a between James Simpson and Rachael Bowen Matthews on 48 points.

The winner of the Cesar Leonetti handicap cup was C class winner Roman Sammer with 61 points.

Results

Class A

  1. J Simpson (48)
  2. R Bowen Matthews (48)
  3. P Mihailovits (48)

Class B

  1. G Davies (37)
  2. M Simpson (L)(36)
  3. S Rand (35)

Class C

  1. R Sammer (48)
  2. M walker (45)
  3. B Kelly (45)

Handicap Cup

  1. R Sammer (48)
  2. M Whitehead (55)
  3. B Kelly (55)

Riley Lifts Summer Cup

2023 Summer Club All-Rounder

The IOM Clay Pigeon Shooting club held their annual Club Championship which was sponsored by Paul’s Gunstocks.

With sixteen competitors taking part both ranges were in use at the same time. English skeet and DTL were first to be shot and the leader was Mark Riley with 145 points in second place on 140 was Peter Kelly with Jeff Corkill in third place on 138. The leading lady was Nicky Barnett on 96 with Zac Bellhouse being the leading junior on 131.

The next two disciplines were ABT and Olympic skeet and Mark Riley was still in the lead on 262 but only by one point from Jeff Corkill in second place on 261, Paul Mihailovits was in third place on 256 with Stan Cross forth on 253, Mark Barnett was in fifth place on 247 and making up the top six was John Moore on 242.

The final discipline was sporting and once all the scores had been verified we had the following results. Zac Bellhouse was the junior champion with 254 points. In C class Mike Whitehead was third on 202 with Nicky Barnett taking second place on 222 who also won the ladies and winning C class with 263 points was Roman Sammer. In B class Mark Barnett was third on 307 with Stan Cross taking second place on 308 and in first place on 321 was Jeff Corkill. Peter Kelly was third in A class on 287 with John Moore in second place on 299, first place in A class went to Paul Mihailovits with 322  points who was also the veteran winner but the new Club All Round Champion with 328 points was Mark Riley – well Done Mark.

Results

High Gun

  1. M Riley (328)

Class A

  1. P Mihailovits (322)
  2. J Moore (299)
  3. P Kelly (287)

Class B

  1. J Corkill (321)
  2. S Cross (308)
  3. M Barnett (307)

Class C

  1. R Sammer (263)
  2. N Barnett (L) (222)
  3. M Whitehead (202)
M Whitehead, R Sammer, J Moore, M Riley, S Cross, P Mihailovits, Z Bellhouse, N Barnett, P Kelly, J Corkhill