Tag: ABT

Automatic Ball Trap (ABT) is a popular variation of trap shooting – see our beginners section for more information.

Kelly and Mihailovits Medley

Trap Medley, 25 August

The annual Trap Medley was held at Meary Veg Santon in very poor wet and windy conditions.

The first discipline was normal DTL and the leader at this stage was Mike Walker with 66 points, in second place on 64 was Jack Clague with Peter Kelly in third place on 63. The next discipline was Single Barrel DTL and once again Mike Walker was top scorer with another 66 to lead on 132 in second place on 126 was peter Kelly with John Moore now in third place on 122.

The final discipline was ABT and with the weather getting worse the scores reflected this. In  fifth place on 151 was Jack Clague, with John Moore taking forth place on 155, in third place on 159 was are leader after round two Mike Walker on 159 and taking the runners up spot on 161 was Phil Ward, but the winner with 168 hitting 42 in ABT was Peter Kelly.

Results

  1. P Kelly (168)
  2. P Ward (161)
  3. M Walker (159)

Manx Skeet Championship

On bank holiday Monday the Manx Skeet Championship was held kindly sponsored by John Moore.

Paul Mihailovits and Jeff Corkill  led the way after the first round on with Dave Corlett in third place on 18.

Corlett had the best second round scoring 23 to finish in third place on 41, Jeff Corkill was second on 42 but Mihailovits repeated his first round score of 22 to finish on the winner with 44 points.

Results

  1. P Mihailovits (44)
  2. J Corkill (42)
  3. D Corlett (41)
  4. J Moore (38)

NSSA Skeet Championship

In the afternoon the NASSA Skeet championship was held and we had the same first three but this time a shoot off was required to find a winner between Paul Mihailovits and Jeff Corkill who both scored 48 and it was Mihailovits who was the winner by one point with John Moore in third place on 47 followed by Dave Corlett on 43.

Results

  1. P Mihailovits (48+4)
  2. J Corkill (48+3)
  3. J Moore (47)
  4. D Corlett (43)

Mihailovits All-Round Champion

The club all round championship sponsored by Paul’s Gun Stocks was held at Meary Veg Santon in dry sunny conditions held over five disciplines.

The leader after the English skeet were Paul Mihailovits, Jeff Corkill, John Moor and junior Zac Bellhouse all with 72 points. After the next discipline, DTL Paul Mihailovits was in the lead on his own with 144 points with junior Zac Bellhouse in second place on 137 followed by John Moore in third place on 134.

Mihailovits was still in the lead after the ABT on 198 but we had Michael Cross in second place now on 191 with Peter Kelly , third on 189. Olympic skeet was next and we had a new leader in Michael Cross on 251 with Paul Mihailovits in second place on 246 with Zac Bellhouse in third place on 245 followed by Brian Faragher in forth place on 241.

The final discipline was sporting, and we had a complete turnaround for the final positions. In sixth place overall was junior Zac Bellhouse with 278 points, fifth place went to Brian Faragher on 280 with Stan Cross taking forth place on 287, one point ahead in third place was Peter Kelly on 288, runner up with 302 points was Michael Cross but winning the Club All Round Championship with 312 points was Paul Mihailovits, well shot Paul.

Results

High Gun

  1. P Mihailovits (312)

Class A

  1. M Cross (302)
  2. P Kelly (288)
  3. J Moore (272)

Class B

  1. S Cross (287)
  2. B Faragher (280)
  3. Z Bellhouse (J)(278)

Class C

  1. A Vishnjov (208)
  2. M Whitehead (181)

Bumper League Weekend

It was a busy weekend at Meary Veg with four league shoots taking place. First up was the fourth round of The Tower Insurance DTL league held in near perfect conditions.

Summer DTL League, Round Four

We a tie for the lead after the first round between Peter Kelly and Phil Ward with 25/73 straights, in equal third place was Mike Whitehead with a 25/72 straight closely followed by lady shooter Lyn McCloud with a 25/71 straight.

At the end of the second round Mike Whitehead finished in third place in C class on 46/134, in second place on 47/136 was Ted Kermeen and in first place on 46/137 was Rob Marshall. John Moore was second in B class on 42/120 with Calum Craine taking B with 48/140.

Peter Kelly was third in A class on 44/123 with Manx champion Mike Walker in second place on 48/142 ,Mike having a perfect 25/75 in his second round, but winning with 50 straight and 148 points was Phil Ward who also had a perfect 25 straight in his second round which also earned him the Ian Faragher High gun cup.

Results

Class A

  1. P Ward (148)
  2. M Walker (142)
  3. P Kelly (123)

Class B

  1. C Craine (140)
  2. J Moore (120)

Class C

  1. R Marshall (137)
  2. T Kermeen (136)
  3. M whitehead (134)

League

  1. 17 Mar
  2. 14 Apr
  3. 19 May
  4. 11 Aug
  5. 22 Sep
  6. 20 Oct

Olympic Skeet League, Round Four

The next event was the fourth round of the Manx Petroleum’s Olympic skeet league with the Parkinson high gun cup up for grabs.

The joint leaders after the first round were Jeff Corkill and Ted Davis on 21 with Stan Cross next on 20. At the end of the second round Jeff Corkill and Stan Cross finished in joint second place on 39 but pipping them with a total of 40 points and winning the Parkinson cup was Ted Davis.

Results

Overall

  1. T Davis (40)
  2. S Cross (39)
  3. J Corkill (39)

League

  1. 17 Mar
  2. 14 Apr
  3. 19 May
  4. 11 Aug
  5. 22 Sep
  6. 20 Oct

ABT League, Round Four

The next shoot was the forth round of the Sadler Agricultural Supplies ABT league. The leader after the first round was Phil Ward with 22 points, in equal second place on 21 were Rob Watterson and Calum Craine. Calum Craine finished in third place on 41 with Phil Ward and Rob Watterson in equal first place on 43.

Results

Overall

  1. P Ward (43)
  2. R Watterson (43)
  3. C Craine (41)

League

  1. 17 Mar
  2. 14 Apr
  3. 19 May
    11 Aug
  4. 11 Aug
  5. 22 Sep
  6. 20 Oct

ABT League, Round Three

The final shoot of the day was the postponed Sadler Agricultural Supplies ABT league and the joint winners were Stevie Craine and Rob Watterson with 44 points with Peter Kelly in third place on 37.

There was two cups to be won the first one the J D Faulkner High gun cup and we had the have a sudden death shoot of for this and Rob Watterson was the winner by one. The second cup was the Peter Kelly handicap cup and this went to Ted Kermeen with a total of 50

Results

Overall

  1. S Craine (44)
  2. R Watterson (44)
  3. P Kelly (37)

League

  1. 17 Mar
  2. 14 Apr
  3. 19 May
    11 Aug
  4. 11 Aug
  5. 22 Sep
  6. 20 Oct

Skinner Knuckles Through

Isle of Man ABT Championship, 4 August

The IOM ABT Championship kindly sponsored by Sadler Agricultural Supplies was held at Meary Veg Santon in dull overcast conditions.

The leader after the first round was Arran Wade with 23 points in second place on 21 were Stan Skinner and Mark Riley with Liam Kirkpatrick and Nigel Moffatt next on 20. Stan Skinner was the new leader after round two on 44 points with a three-way tie for second place between Riley, Wade and Moffatt on 42 followed by Watterson on 41.

Skinner was still in the lead after round three on 65 but now Watterson and Riley were in second place on 63 followed by Wade on 62. With all to shoot for in the last round Riley set the target to beat with 83 points but Skinner in the second squad scored 22 to finish in the lead on 87.

Watterson, who was in the last squad, had to hit a straight to beat Skinner but he missed his first target out which meant he had to hit the rest to tie with Skinner, he nearly done it but the pressure got to him and he missed his last target to finish on 86 one behind the winner Skinner on 87 – well done Stan!

Results

  1. S Skinner (87)
  2. R Watterson (86)
  3. M Riley (83)
  4. A Wade (80)
  5. N Moffatt (80)

Next week is the forth round of the Tower Insurance DTL in the  Ian Faragher H/G cup up for grabs, along with the fourth rounds of the Manx Petroleum’s Olympic skeet which has the Parkinson H/G cup and the Sadler Agricultural Supplies ABT leagues in the afternoon.

Cross Makes it a Hat Trick

Fabrizio All-Round Championship

The Fabrizio All Round Championship was held at Meary Veg Santon in dry sunny and at times blustery conditions shot over five disciplines.

The leader after the first two disciplines, English skeet and DTL was last years champion Michael Cross with 146 points, in second place on 137 was Peter Kelly with Paul Mihailovits in third place on 134 followed by John Moore on 133, with Stan Cross and Liam Kirkpatrick making up the top six on 131.

The next two disciplines to be tackled were Olympic skeet and ABT and Cross just increased his lead to 27 points scoring the third best score on ABT (57) and the best score on Olympic skeet (69) for a running total of 272 with John Moore now in second place on 250 followed by Paul Mihailovits in third place on 245. Peter Kelly was next on 239 with Stan Cross only one point behind Kelly on 238 and in equal fifth place on 228 were Jeff Corkill and Giulio Fabrizio.

The final discipline was Pro sporting and in C class Mike Whitehead finished in second place on 224 with Giulio Fabrizio taking the class with 282 points. Junior Zac Bellhouse was second in B class with 282 points but winning B class with 292 points was Stan Cross. John Moore finished second in A class with 286 points but taking A class with 305 points was Paul Mihailovits, but the star of the day was Michael Cross who shot consistently throughout the day to retain the Fabrizio Cup for the third year running with 326 points, well done Michael.

Results

High Gun

  1. M Cross (324)

Class A

  1. P Mihailovits (305)
  2. J Moore (286)

Class B

  1. S Cross (292)
  2. Z Bellhouse (J)(282)

Class C

  1. G Fabrizio (282)
  2. M Whitehead (224)