Discipline: SE Region FITASC
Venue: Southdown
Date: 9/10/11th Oct

Discipline: English Sporting Nationals
Venue: Doveridge
Date: 3/4th Oct

Discipline: National Inter-counties ABT
Venue: Southern Counties
Date:

Sussex sent 3 teams to compete at the famous Dorset ground and We all shot our best in the glommy October light and behold the ladies and Juniors Won and the seniors got runner up to the Winners Yorkshire.

Seniors                      Ladies                            Juniors

Steve Winsor             Jan Kerwood                  Aaron Smith
Dave Simmons          Audrey Rex                    Guy Franklyn
Steve Golding            Helen Robins                  Hanah Gibson
Mark Ashby
Gary Robins

Discipline: Sussex Skeet Doubles
Venue: Dartford Shooting Ground
Date: 27th September 2009

Sussex Skeet Doubles. Dartford.
Great weather, but not a lot of support from our own County!! Only eight shooters representing us, poor turnout.
But, the day was great fun and some interesting results. Tony Smith won the County Championship shield and badge for best senior, with a score of 98/100, again a personal best in this discipline following on from his performance at the British. Martyn Jones won the Veteran title, with a score of 93/100. Patsy Last won her first ever badge for the Ladies, with a score of 63/100. The Juniors and Colts badges were not awarded because no entrants in these classes. Well done to all how took part and thank you.

Discipline: Sussex Sporting Championship
Venue: Northall Shooting Ground
Date: 26th September 2009

A great day, well supported with over two hundred shooters and lovely weather, sun shone on everyone! The raffle alone, raised over £300, which will go straight back into supporting the youngsters representing the County for next year.
Results as follows:
High Gun and Champion went to Darren Barton for a great effort,91/100.  His sponsor Graham Oades from Easy Hit was very pleased.
The Ladies title was taken by Christine Atkinson with a score of 76/100. The Junior title was taken by Guy Franklin, with a score of 89/100, a well know name in the OSK but taking time out to support this shoot. The Colts title was taken by Dan Tarrant with a score of 64/100, another shooter taking time out from his usual discipline UT with good results. The Veterans title was taken by Martin Holden with a score of 86/100.
A big thank you to the Kerwood family and Northall workers for all their help and support, in putting this event on to raise funding for next year!

Have a go day, Northall.
Again, this year we were lucky with the weather and the sun shone and the people kept turning up! Some amazing people, who had never picked up a gun before, had excellent results, one of which was young Jacob Drudge, scoring 9/10, only age 12. A face we shall see on the grounds no doubt! Over 100 new shooters, of which about half, paid to have a second go. Several booked up lessons, there and then and we expect to see many new faces around the local grounds. Thanks must go to all who assisted on the day, with making this a great success!

Gary Robbins what a season!!
This shooter has spent a lot of time and effort to get into the County ABT team, but recently took time out, to enter the Mitsubishi Motors World Series,. He went on to win the title of Open Class Champion 2009 with a score of 33/40.
Well done from all your shooting friends!

Discipline: South East Intercounties UT
Venue: Nuthampstead Shooting Ground
Date: 23rd August 2009

Perfect weather at Nuthampstead Shooting Ground for the inter-counties UT and Sussex sent its strongest Team  to do battle for the Team championships and all five shot their hearts out and at the end of the day came second by 3 targets. Dave Simmons came third overall ,Tom Ward forth and Dan Tarrent Won the Juniors well done to all the Sussex Team.

Sussex Scores

Dave Simmons      94
Tom Ward             92
Steve Winsor        88
Charlotte Kerwood 88
Charlie Milne        85

Lady    Audrey Rex   62
Vet     S De Laaurenzy 68
Junior Dan Tarrent      80
Colt Aaron Smith       69

Discipline: Sussex FITASC Championship
Venue: Southdown
Date: 11th, 12th & 13th September 2009

The results for the Sussex FITASC Championship held at Southdown are as follows:

Sussex Champion - S. King (81)
Vets - J Dix & J Hughes (77) 
Ladies - S Curd (64)

Juniors & Colts were not represented.

21 shooters from Sussex entered.

Discipline: South East Intercounties DTL
Venue: NCSC Bisley
Date: 30th August 2009

The Sussex Senior team today won triumphantly at the South East Region Intercounties at Bisley. Weather conditions were overcast, windy and drizzly but this did not deter the Sussex Seniors. Obviously it had some effect on the other 7 counties who took part as the team won by a clear 29 points to our nearest 2nd place rivals who were Surrey.

Congratulations must go to young Aaron Smith our Colt who shot extremely well to take the SE Region Colts Championship. Congratulations are also due to Richard Plester who was rewarded for his efforts by becoming placed and collecting some cash!

Well done to Jack Jefferis our junior and Audrey Rex our lady shooter who both shot very consistently throughout the day and finished on creditable scores.

Team scores as follows:-

S Golding         296
I Flower            295
S N Cole            292
J C Butler            290
K A Blighton        289
Veteran R Plester        286
Lady A Rex            275
Colt     A T Smith    285
Junior J Jefferis        274

P.S.

By the way my score and I Flower were 100/296 and 100/295 !!!

Steve Golding

Discipline: British Helice Grand Prix
Venue: West Kent SS

Five Sussex Shooters shot the British Helice Grand Prix at West Kent SS
John Foy ,Nat Foy, John Taylor ,Aaron Smith and Tim Woodhams and at the conclusion of the two day event John Foy Finished on 23ex25 taking the Bronze medal in the Mens well shot John.

Tim Woodhams County Rep

Discipline: Sussex UT Championships
Venue: NCSC Bisley
Date: 8th August 2009

Low entry at the Sussex UT ,Charlotte and Tom in Eastern Europe shooting a World Cup event plus the inter-counties OT the next day did not help, but those who went had a lovely day at the NCSC sunshine and great targets.
 
Scores as below:
 
Dave simmons             96ex100   County Champion
Tim Woodhams           93
Mark Ashby                89
Silvano DE Laurenzy    82            Veteren Champion
Audrey Rex                 79            Lady Champion
Keith Blighton              73

Tim Woodhams County UT Rep

Discipline: Sussex County DTL Championships
Venue: NCSC Bisley
Date: 2nd August 2009

The weather conditions were near to perfect with sunny skies and little breeze. The competition was well attended with competitors entered in all categories. It proved to be a very busy day for Bisley Gun Club as 16 squads had booked in to shoot.
 
At the conclusion of the day's shooting, four of the County's Champions had been established, the County Champion had yet to be decided, due to two of the County Shooters, John Offord and Keith Blighton,
returning scores of 98/288. A 'shoot off' for County Champion was conducted under the refereeing skills of Bill Logan (Senior).
 
The 'Shoot Off'' proved to be entertaining for the spectators as the lead went from Offord to Blighton, changing several times during the round of 25 targets. At the conclusion, John Offord emerged County Champion having beaten Keith Blighton by 1 point to take the title with a 25/71, whereas Keith shot a 24/70.  
 
Results:-    John Offord - County Champion & Veteran Champion.    Score:98/288.
 
                Audrey Rex - Lady Champion.                                       Score:97/282.
 
                Jack Jeffries - Junior Champion.                                     Score:95/277.
 
                Aaron Smith - Colt Champion.                                        Score:95/273.

Gibson gets GB vest
 
Hannah Gibson has recently gained her GB vest in Olympic skeet. At the 3 selection shoots she has attended she has made 2 finals. The most recent selection shoot was in Scotland where she shot 66/75 this put her joint third going in to the final. Not only was this score equal with the top two olympic skeet ladies but this was a minimum qualifying score, which has qualified her to compete for Great Britain at the World championships in Slovenia in August. Hannah is not the only person from Sussex going to the World championships we have Guy Franklin from Olympic skeet, Steve Scott from Double trap, Charlotte Kerwood and Tom Ward from Olympic Trap.    

Team Northall go to Europe
 
Guy Franklin and Hannah Gibson, went over to Slovenia with coach Dan Kerwood and Guy's Sponsor Rodney Hoffham. They competed in the European Grand prix, in preparation for the world championships, which are being held at the same ground. The Grand prix saw a lot of tough competition. This did not seem to phase Guy who made the Olympic skeet junior men's final and came home with a silver medal. Hannah's first outing abroad proved hard work yet she came home with a bronze medal.  

Discipline:      Sussex Double Trap Championship
Venue:            NCSC Bisley
Date:               12th of July 2009

A brave 5 Sussex souls plucked up the courage to compete in the Sussex Double Trap Championship held at NCSC Bisley on the 12th of July. With targets as tricky as ever dancing in the on-coming breeze.  Charlie Milne managed a very credible 108 to just clinch the title and trophy for 2009.  Sussex Veteran winner was once again Paul Pantzer with a 70, and first time out in this discipline Dan Christian with a very fine 97 a well deserved Jnr win.

Discipline:      South East Counties Team Double Trap Championships
Venue:            NCSC Bisley
Date:               19th of July 2009

Exactly one week on was the South East Counties Team Championships of the same discipline.  A hotly contested event with a confident team captain having finally secured Steve Scott and Charlotte Kerwood able to shoot together for once.  The rest of the team being Steve Winsor, Dave Simmons, Charlie Milne, Dan Christian (Jnr), Aaron Smith (Colt), Paul Pantzer (Vet), Natalie Golding (Lady).  On the day things started to go wrong with Natalie unable to attend through illness and horror of horrors Steve Scott phoning 1.5 hours before the squad time to tell me that his young nephew had probably picked up his car keys and buried them somewhere.  With his assurance that he would continue looking.  It soon dawned on me that the County’s no1 Double Trap Olympic hopeful would not be able to make it to the shoot.  Luckily for the rest of the team Mark Ashby (who had just turned up for a bit of practise) was sweet talked into taking Steve’s place.  Feeling slightly less smug the team put in an impressive performance to finish in second position overall out of seven Counties, with Charlotte becoming Regional Lady Champion and Charlie placing second in B Class.  If anyone reading this report happens to see Steve Scott out and about, could you please tell him that Steve Winsor would like a quiet word, thanks.

 Report by The Hot Spanner

Discipline:      Inter-Counties Helice
Venue:            Invicta GC
Date:               28th June 2009

A long and hot sunny day at Invicta GC with Berkshire getting their first IC win in the South East Region well done Berkshire.
As you can guess Sussex Team did not win this year but Aaron Smith won the Colts and John Foy shot a great 18ex20.
So to the scores

John Foy              18ex20
Tim Woodhams     17
Ivor Dadswell         16
Steve Cole            13

Audrey Rex                 Lady    15
Nathaniel Foy              Junior   11
Aaron Smith                  Colt   11   (Photo below)
John Taylor                    Vet   15

Discipline:      Inter-Counties ABT
Venue:            NCSC
Date:               14th June 2009

Hazy sunshine at the NCSC for the Inter-Counties ABT and a keen Sussex Team went to defend the Trophy.  Nobody told us that someone had moaned about the NCSC ABT targets were to high and the NCSC had lowered them with Layout A being the lowest,so Sussex start shooting on Layout A which sounded like a concerto for the hooter!
So we were in a hole which we could not dig out of and ended up in 5th team place with Dan Tarrent saving the Day by winning the Colts.

Scores below

Tim Woodhams  94
Steve golding     93
Gary Robins      90
Steve Winsor     90
Charlie Milne      85

Audrey Rex      Lady  74
Aaron Smith   Junior   80
Dan Tarrent       Colt   87
Barry Heath       Vet   78

Tom Ward competed it the World Universal Trench Championship held at Southern County’s Shooting ground Dorset over the weekend of the 3rd,4th and 5th July.

As part of Team GB Tom achieved a score of 189 x 200 the highest in the team which helped secure a team bronze medal. Tom also won an individual Bronze medal for combined scores from competitions held over 2008 and 2009. He has achieved a world ranking in the junior categories (under 21) of 3rd in the world.

Tom has also recently qualified for Team GB in the Olympic Trap World Championship to be held in Slovenia during August this year. When he returns he will be representing England at the home internationals which will also be held in Dorset in August.

So far this year Tom has won GB Team Gold in Grenada, Spain, Brithish and UK titles and Grand Prix.

Tom Ward returned triumphant from Granda, Spain with Team GB Gold on Tuesday 2nd June.

The 4 day 200 target event was shot in temperatures of 38 degrees and all competitors’ experienced strong winds and rain on the Saturday.

Tom got of to a good start scoring 46 x 50 and 44 x 50 over the first 2 days. He then went on to drop only 1 target out of his last 100 shooting the last 75 straight. Tom finished on 189 x 200 achieving a new personal best and the Team Gold medal.

This is the first medal Team GB has won for some years and only 4 targets separated the top 3 places.

Tom said that standing on the podium, watching the Union flag being raised while the National anthem was being play was one the highlight of his shooting career.

South East Region of the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association

Discipline:      English Skeet
Venue:            Dartford Gun Club
Date:               May 31st 2009

Glorious sunshine, great targets, great food and great atmosphere – what more can I say.

The reigning champions, Oxfordshire, held their lead right until the last squad was in but Kent emerged the Champions with Oxfordshire in second place and Greater London in third.

The champion after a shoot of with the Essex Junior, Jack Greenleaf, was John Watson from Sussex despite him having a senior moment and losing a target because he forgot to put a cartridge in!!!
The Lady Champion was Trudi Johnston from God’s Own County, the Junior Champion of course was Jack Greenleaf, the Colt Champion was Tom Corbin from Kent and the Veteran Champion was John Watson.

The day ran smoothly and I would like to thank all the team at Dartford for an excellent championship

Click here for the full results

Sandie Buckler
South East Regional Secretary

Discipline: Sussex ABT Championships
Venue: NCSC
Date: 31st May 2009

What a glorious day at Bisley Camp with 15 Sussex entries,it was clear from the start it was going to be a high scoring day with Steve Golding and myself opening with 25 straights and Dave Simmons and Aaron Smith with 24s.
So to final scores now ordinarily Dave Simmons and my score of 97 would be a winner but no someone let Steve Golding have another Miroku and behold a perfect 99, shame he went birds only, making our Chairman Sussex ABT Champion .
Audrey Rex won the ladies on 83 and Graham Webb took the Veterens also 83.
Dan Tarrant won the colts with 92 and Aaron Smith took the juniors with 90 watch out for these two youngsters in the future.
Other notable scores were Charlie Milne 93 with a Side by Side and New face on the scene Gary Robins shot 94.
Our usual thinks to the NCSC for a great day.

Tim Woodhams ABT Reop Sussex CPSA

An update on Thomas Ward

Thomas Ward’s form continued over the weekend of the 23rd and 24th May when he took part in the Olympic Trap UK Championships held at Nuthampstead Shooting Ground.

Trailing the leaders by 3 targets on Saturday with a score of 66 x 75 he started Sunday with a 23 x 25 followed by a 24 x 25 giving him a score of 113 x 125 and the UK Junior title by just one target.

Thomas can now add this to list of achievements this year which include winning the Junior titles at the following events; Southern County’s Olympic Trap Grand Prix, Britannia Grand Prix, Olympic Trap British Grand Prix.

Discipline: Sussex Helice Championships
Venue: Invicta Gun Club
Date: 24th May 2009

Poor turnout did not spoil the day at Invicta Gun Club for the Sussex Helice Championships, bright sunny weather light wind and we still miss the odd one!
So to the scores I managed to Win the seniors with 18ex20 but even with a low turnout it was touch and go with Sussex Colt Aaron Smith hot on my tail with a blistering 17ex 20,if he had not had a target over the fence I might be writing a different report today, John Taylor won the vets on 15ex20, Aaron Smith won the colts on 17ex20 and Audrey Rex won the Ladies with 14ex20.

Tim Woodhams Sussex Helice Rep

Thomas Ward’s Olympic Trap season has got off to a cracking start. At the first major Grand Prix event of the year held at Southern County’s in March he won the junior title with a score of 186 x 200 and a gun. His form continued, winning the Britannia Grand Prix title in April while in between qualifying for the Great Britain Universal Trench team.

His form continues and he has just won the British Grand Prix Olympic Trap held in Southern County’s on the 9th/10th May. He was some 7 targets clear of his nearest rival with a score of 186 x 200. Here he picked up a Breitling watch,Beretta shotgun and 3000 Eley cartridges.

He has recently returned from Germany where he represented Great Britain in the Suhl Junior International Competition where 36 countries took part. Although not gaining a podium position,he did shoot a personal best score.

Tom fly’s to Granda in Spain on the 25th May as part of Team GB to compete in the European Championships and if his current form continues a European title is possible.

Discipline: Inter Counties Olympic Skeet
Venue: NCSC
Date: 10th May 2009

What a great day at Bisley, all the team were well focused and this showed in the results. The team finished in third place overall out of the six competing counties. Guy Franklin shot 95 and had to have a shoot off for High Gun, but was beaten by H. Noria from GLN, but great shooting anyway. Guy still took the high gun in the Junior class. Steve Franklin put in 76, always great to watch with his unique stile! Dave Marten started slowly, but pulled it back to take the third place in D class. Hannah Gibson shot a 75 to take joint second in the ladies. Charlie Adam put in a 66, not having shot the discipline since September, so very good effort, along with Dan Tarrant's 63, taking second in the colts, only the second time shooting this discipline, again another great effort. Must not forget Martyn Jones score of 65 in the veterans class. Must thank all the shooters who took part for their efforts and great to have a full team for the County in this discipline, not one of the easiest!

Discipline: Sussex Olympic Trap
Venue: NCSC
Date: 19th April 2009

A brave 8 Sussex members made the effort to enter the County Championships held at NCSC  on 19th of April.  The attendance was low due in part to the Grand Prix held at Southern Counties on the same day, try as we do it is inevitable to have some same discipline clashes.  I am happy to report that we did however manage to cover a shooter in all 5 categories – Senior, Lady, Veteran, Junior and Colt.  A fresh April morning with the normal Bisley breeze made for testing wind battered targets.  The going was tough for most shooters with the exception our very own Dave Simmons who made it all look easy posting a very convincing 94 ex100 to take the Sussex title and a very well deserved high gun overall.  I was particularly pleased to see two young shooters, namely Aaron Smith and Daniel Tarrant, both of whom shot very well taking the Junior and Colt titles respectively (Aaron 66) (Daniel 75).  The ladies high gun was won by Audrey Rex (47) and Sussex Veteran Barry Heath, after a 33 year lay off from shooting (64).

Report by The Hot Spanner

Discipline: Sussex English Skeet
Venue: Bisley
Date: 12th April 2009

Great day was had and the event was well supported by the Sussex shooters, for once the sun shone and the rain held off.

Martin Brister took the overall Championship and the Senior title with 99/100.
John Watson took the Veterans title, very well shot John.
Dan Tarrant took the Colts title, first time shooting this discipline and finishing on a straight in the last layout !
Sallyanne Remnant took the Ladies Title for the second year running.
Sadly no one entered the Junior class, so title not awarded, but well shot also to Aaron Smith in the Colt class.

Discipline: South East Region English Sporting Inter-Counties
Venue: Southdown
Date: 4 & 5th April 2009

Southdown was the venue for this year’s Sporting Inter-Counties which also doubled as the first England Selection Shoot of the year, drawing talented hopefuls from the four corners of the kingdom.

Shot on either Saturday or Sunday, shooters were subjected to the full force of Southdown’s spiteful inventory:
40 yard plus curling crossers, angled battues and an array of long range midis launched from the customary Southdown cranes were particularly difficult to read over the dead ground either side of the lane.

Guns would really have to work hard to build a score over this course of fire and many top internationals had difficulty maintaining their averages.
The average score of the 319 shooters taking part was 73, remarkably low for an event of this type, attracting 47 AAA and 63 AA shooters.

Our own Steve Clark led the field shooting a phenomenal 96 early on Saturday morning in thick drizzly mist. This score stood unchallenged for the entire weekend, despite Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday presenting near perfect conditions.
Well done Steve, a jaw dropping score over an extremely tough layout!

Special mention must also be made of young Dan Tarrant, 12 years old and representing his county for the first time he put in a stonking 80 to take 3rd place in Colts.

Ray Effamy did us proud by winning Vets with a solid 87.

Cheryl Beacham came tantalisingly close to placing in the Ladies, her 66 just one target short of 3rd place Jane Maloney (former Beretta World Champion). Nice one Cheryl!

Sussex Seniors came 3rd with 423 points behind Berkshire on 428 and champions Kent on 441.

Well done to all who took the time and effort to turn up to represent their county. A solid performance on which to build before the Nationals.

Seniors:

Steve Clark 96 (High Gun)
George Digweed MBE 88
Richard Effamy 82
Tom Bury 81
Henry Devall 76

Veteran          Ray Effamy 87 (1st place)

Lady               Cheryl Beacham 66

Junior             Dan Whittaker 78

Colt                 Dan Tarrant 80 (3rd place)

Other notable performances from Sussex shooters were:
Robin Jackman 90 (who missed out on a Senior team place by a whisker), Darren Barton 87 (hang in there Darren, keep shooting like that and you’ll be in County Vest soon!) and Dan Christian, fresh out of Colts on a creditable 81.

Cliff Goodwin.

Discipline: Sussex All Round
Venue: Fareham
Date: 29th March 2009

The Sussex All Round yesterday (29th March) at Fareham. Placings were as follows:-

Steve Golding  High Gun  91

Ladies Audrey Rex   71

Veterans  Derek Campion   78

Juniors Kieran Budd    72

Colts  Aaron Smith  73

Discipline: Sussex County Championships Olympic Skeet
Venue: Bisley
Date: 22th March 2009

A great day out, lovely weather and good company !

Guy Franklin shot an amazing 97/100 to take Junior title and also the overall Sussex County Champion title with the  highest shot of the day. Fantastic shooting. Martin Jones shot 66/100 to take the Veterans County Championship place and Dave Martin shot 85/100 to take the Senior County Championship place. Hannah Gibson shot 82/100 to take the Ladies County Championship title and Dan Tarrant shot 56/100, his first attempt at this discipline, to take the Colts County Championship title. Supporting the team were also Steve Franklin who shot 80/100 and myself, who managed 56/100, first time shooting this and I managed to get one on station eight!

For those people who have not had a go  at these trap disciplines, all I can say is go along, people are friendly and helpful and enjoy themselves. More support is needed!

Dates for your Diary
4th May          Sport trap                   Southdown
31st May         ABT                            NCSC
10th May        Olympic Skeet Inter        NCSC
7th June         E Skeet Inter                Dartford

Discipline: Sussex Single Barrel Championship
Venue: Bisley Gun Club
Date: 15th March 2009

The County Single Barrel Championship was held on Sunday 15 March 2009 at Bisley Gun Club. The event was very well attended by Sussex Trap Shooters. Not only was the weather glorious with warm sunshine and very little wind affecting the targets, there was also some glorious shooting too.

Steve Cole shot a remarkable 98/100 to become the 2009 Single Barrel Champion, the highest score of the day, such shooting also ensured he took the Bisley Gun Club 'Single Barrel' Champion title. well done Steve.

Both the Senior and Veteran titles' were closely contended. Jon Butler shot a magnificent 97/100 to finish one target behind the Champion. John Offord, last year's Champion, took the Veteran's Title with a score of 88/100, closely followed by Richard Plester on 87/100.

Audrey Rex became the County Ladies Champion shooting 71/100 and Aaron Smith, one of the County's up and coming young shots, took the Colt's Title with a score of 79/100.

report by: John Offord