Tag: ABT

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

MV Summer Trap & Skeet

DTL League, Round Five

It was another busy day at Meary Veg with three competitions taking place.
First up was the fifth round of the Tower Insurance DTL league held in near ideal conditions.

The joint leaders after the first round were Mike Walker and Peter Kelly on 69 points in equal third place on 66 were Phil Ward and Stan Cross with junior Arran Wade, John Moore and Mark Riley next on 65.

After the second round the final results were in C class Brian Kelly was second with 86 points with Mike Whitehead in first place in C on 129. Ted Kermeen was third in B on 108 with Stan Cross taking second place on 116 but winning B class with 122 points was Dave Corlett.

In A class Phil Ward was in third place with 135 points with Arran Wade taking second place with 138 but just piping him for highgun by one point was Mike Walker with 139 points.

Results

Class A

  1. M Walker (139)
  2. Arr Wade (138)
  3. P Ward (135)

Class B

  1. D Corlett (122)
  2. S Cross (116)
  3. E Kermeen (108)

Class C

  1. M Whitehead (129)
  2. B Kelly (86)

Full Results

  1. 05 March
  2. 02 April
  3. 07 May
  4. 04 June
  5. 03 September
  6. 01 October

Olympic Skeet League, Round Five

The second shoot of the day was the fifth round of the Manx Petroleum’s Olympic skeet league which had the Parkinson Highgun cup up for grabs.

In first place also winning the Parkinson cup was James Bradley with 41 points, in second place on 40 was Stan Cross with Ted Davis third on 32. The handicap winner was Mike Whitehead with 40 points.

Results

  1. Arr Wade (J)(49)
  2. A Wade (49)
  3. S Craine (45)
  4. M Riley (44)
  5. S Skinner (43)

Full Results

  1. 05 March
  2. 02 April
  3. 07 May
  4. 04 June
  5. 03 September
  6. 01 October

ABT League, Round Five

The third and final shoot was the fifth round of the Sadler Agricultural Supplies ABT league.

The joint leaders after the first round were Father and son Alan and Arran Wade with both hitting 25 straights, in third place on 23 was Steven Craine with Mark Riley and Stan Skinner in equal fourth place on 22.

With both Wades shooting along side each other in squad two it going to be interesting to see who cracked first in the second round and it was Alan who missed his ninth target, so all eyes were on junior Arran to see if he could get 50 straight but it didn’t as he missed his 19th target to finish on 24 for a total of 49, but dad Alan, who  never gives up, ground a score out, chipping second barrelling  a lot of his targets to finish also with a  24 to tie with Arran on 49, Steven Craine was third with 45 points.

Results

  1. J Bradley (41)
  2. S Cross (41)
  3. T Davis (32)

Full Results

  1. 05 March
  2. 02 April
  3. 07 May
  4. 04 June
  5. 03 September
  6. 01 October

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

ABT Champions in Shoot-off

Isle of Man Balltrap Championship

The IOM Automatic Ball Trap Championship  and kindly sponsored once again by Sadler Agricultural Supplies was held at Meary Veg Santon with 14 competitors taking part in near ideal conditions.

The leader after the first round was Stan Skinner with a perfect 25 straight, in second place on 24 was Dave Corlett followed by John Moore in third place on 22 with Steven Craine,Calum Craine ,Alan Wade and Arran Wade next on 21.

Stan Skinner was still in the lead after round two on 47 with Alan Wade and John Moore in equal  second place on 44 followed by Rob and Dave Corlett on 43. Skinner was still in the lead after round three on 69  but his lead was cut to one point with Alan Wade hitting 24 to have a running total of 68 in second place ,John Moore was in third place on 65 with Steven Craine next on 64. 

So with all to shoot for in the last round Wade set the target to beat scoring 23 to finish on 91, Peter Kelly had his best score of the day 23 to finish on 83 to put him in provisional second place. John Moore had a mare in his last round scoring 17 to finish on 82 as did Rob Corlett who also finished on 82. In the last squad was Craine and Skinner who both could get into the top three, Craine finished tying for forth place on 82 along with Moore and Corlett so it was all down to Skinner to see if he could take the Championship and it went down to the last target of the round, hit it he is champion miss it he had a shoot off with Wade and he missed, so a shoot off was required over a full round of 25 and what a shoot of we had ,Skinner won the toss and elected to go first, hitting his first four targets but missed his fifth but Wade hit all five as he did to the other twenty to record a straight to win his first IOM ABT Championship by one point from Stan Skinner – well done Alan!

Shoot-offs and Medals for Mihailovits and Watterson

English Skeet Individual – Open

Paul Mihailovits followed a trio of 24s yesterday with another 24 and a 21 today under challenging conditions, taking him through to the final where he drew with Ynys Môn’s David Tavernor, necessitating a shoot-off.

Following sudden death of pairs on pad four Paul unfortunately missed the high bird, conceding gold to Ynys Môn and walking away with a well deserved silver medal and 140 points on the last day of the 2023 Island Games.

Rachel Bowen Matthews too found her form and made the final, where she scored 19 points placing her in fifth place amongst a field of 19 tough competitors – well done Rachel and Paul!

ABT Individual – Men

Shoot-offs were the order of the day for our Automatic Ball Trap competitors too, and although Mark Riley and Rob Watterson would both make the final it was Watterson who went on to claim bronze after going head-to-head with Sark’s Nicholas Dewe in a nail-biting finale.

This was the last bout for our clay-popping athletes in the 2023 Island Games, rounding off a week of highs and lows, of fun and friendship that’ll probably last longer than Jack’s sunburn. Cheers!

Full Results

Sporting Boys Bring Home Bronze

English Sporting Teams – Men

The English Sporting team consisting of Alan Kinrade, Stan Cross and Micheal Cross secured Bronze with a score of 158 in the mens team event today, just 5 points behind Guernsey over a course of 100 challenging targets.

Alan Kinrade, Stan Cross, Micheal Cross take third in Men’s Sporting Teams

Missing out on third by 9 points were Paul Mihailovits and Rachel Bowen Matthews, whose score of 168 saw them in fourth place behind Ynys Môn in the English Skeet Team Open.

Meanwhile Mark Riley and Robert Watterson finished the ABT Mens Team event in eighth place on 136, just one point behind Åland and Western Isles, and two points behind Orkney.

Full Results