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May 2007 PDF Print E-mail

Berkshire New - Nicola Heron.


The Berkshire County Championships for 2007 have now officially begun and it was a very wet and windy day that greeted the Berkshire brave for the UT County Championship held at the NCSC Bisley on the 4th of March.

Ken Harman, Stephen Halfacre, Carl Miles and Eric Davis set the standard with first rounds of 23. Ken continued his challenge shooting 25 straight to go 48/50 at the halfway stage, in hot pursuit were Carl 47/50 and Stephen 46/50.
The weather was certainly not worrying the leaders!
Yet another 25/25 for Ken put him 5 targets clear going into the final round, even a late surge from Stephen Halfacre wasn’t enough.

Ken dropped only 2 more targets to win both the County Championship and the Veterans Championship with an impressive score of 96/100.
Well done to Stephen Halfacre 92/100 and Carl Miles 90/100.
The Ladies Championship was won by Karen Ricketts 80/100. She is definitely another one to watch this year.
Then we come to the juniors, where were you juniors? Not a single junior entered the competition so the new trophy will have to wait until next year before being presented.
A big thank you goes to the sponsors and all who came and got very wet, supporting the UT.

The 11th of March was a very different story though for the Single Barrel County Championship which was again held at the NCSC Bisley.
This time there was no need for waterproofs because the sun was shinning all day, it was glorious.
A slight wind was doing it's very best to make the targets look interesting by throwing them up and down at will and it may have been an optical illusion but the grass seemed to be growing quicker than the targets, but, that said, one can still make a mess of this discipline as some of our regular trap shooters found out. At least there was no crying and a round of OT seemed to put minds at rest that there was still shot in the cartridges.

Ken Harman, who is obviously going to be one to watch, shot a fantastic 90/100 to win the Single Barrel County Championship.
The Veterans Championship went to Eric Davis on a score of 88/100 and one of our Juniors Simon Clarke was hot on Eric's tail with an impressive bid to worry the men by shooting a very good 86/100. This not only put him in 3rd place overall but made him the winning Junior Champion. He got to take home one of the new silver Champions cups. Well done Simon, make sure you get the money back off Grandpa.
I am afraid that I trailed behind at 82/100 to take the Ladies Championship, but I am now out of therapy and looking forward to the next challenging shoot.
Thank you again to all our sponsors especially Dowling Field Sports who donated our new juniors cup.

Now come on Berkshire !!!! We know there are more juniors and more ladies out there and we want to see you competing. By the time this appears in print you may have started shooting the April Championships for English Sporting (8th April Four Counties), DTL (15th April at Bisley Gun Club) and ABT (28th April at NCSC) so those results will appear in next months issue.
Diary date for May is the English Skeet County Championship at the NCSC Bisley on the 27th.

Shock horror alert!! Can you believe it, the CPSA will not give a list of Berkshire members to the CPSA Berkshire Committee! Apparently big brother won't let them. How crazy it that?
So, we do not know who you are or what you like to shoot and we can only contact you through the CPSA.  How daft is that? If you do not like being herded and you actually want to be informed about shooting in Berkshire within the month it happens then please join our database. It is really important, really easy and all details given are protected. You can email me direct at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or telephone me on 07831-429119.

I would like to thank Andrew and Stephen Halfacre for all the extremely hard work they have put in over the years on the Berkshire Committee. Much of their time was spent promoting Berkshire shooters and reporting their achievements, driving many miles to protect our interests at Regional Committees and (as I found when I entered the County) just being genuinely friendly and helpful to all who came into contact with them.
They now get to enjoy their shooting and have a well earned rest.

The down side is that I am now tasked with writing the articles for Berkshire....and I need your help....so if you have any news, views or photographs from the shoots please send them to me for inclusion in this column and for the Berkshire website. www.berkshirecpsa.co.uk . It is your County tell us your stories and show us your wins.....

Finally... news from across 'Le Tunnel'. The Berkshire Helice shooters were at it again annoying the French in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris on the 3rd and 4th of March. The Ladies result was Berkshire 2 - Paris 0.

Stop press...AGM news.
It was a perfect day for 'Pigeon' at the CPSA AGM held at Peterborough on the 24th of March. Sanity prevailed and the 'Pigeon Preservation Society' won the vote, therefore proving the value of democracy. Let's hope this is now the end of it and that the CPSA can move forward without alienating its many game shooting members!
The second vote saw 'David and Goliath' revisited. Our 'Champion' and Chairman Saul Pitluga, prevailed and felled the 'Giant' COE, liberating and leading the previously 'lost tribes of Berkshire' into the Promised Land (of the South East Region). So that is 'milk and honey' for all then!
Thanks to all who supported Berkshire with their proxy or by attending the AGM and voting with us. A special thanks must be said to the 'two wise men' Phil Seuerre and Eric Davis who have been fighting this battle for ten years. For information of the change to all of Berkshire's inter-counties selection shoots please check on the Berkshire website at www.berkshirecpsa.co.uk or contact any member of the Berkshire committee.
 
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