Bank Holiday Bonanza

Trap Medley

The IOM Clay Pigeon Shooting club hosted the annual Trap Medley kindly sponsored once again by Creer & Kelly Ltd.

16 competitors took to the stands in near ideal conditions. With both DTL and Single Barrel DTL being shot on both ranges the leaders before the final discipline ABT were, in first place was DTL specialist Phil Ward with 136 points, in second place on 128 was veteran Jack Clague with John Moore in third place on 126, we then had four shooters on 125, junior Arran Wade, Peter Kelly, and the Craine boys Calum and Steven.

The last discipline, ABT was shot in reverse order of three squads, in the first squad Mike Parr had the best score of 66 with Rob Corlett scoring 63, in the second squad Steven Craine and Stan Skinner had the best scores with 69 points  followed by George Davies on 66. In the last squad were leader Phil Ward, Jack Clague, John Moore, Peter Kelly, Arran Wade and Calum Craine. Once all the scores were checked we had the following results:

The new Trap Medley Champion is Phil Ward with the only shooter to break the 200 barrier with 205 points in second place on 194 was Steven Craine with Junior Arran Wade third on 191.

Results

  1. P Ward (205)
  2. S Craine (194)
  3. A Wade (J)(191)
  4. G Davies (189)
  5. P Kelly (188)
  6. J Moore (186)

Manx Skeet Championship

On bank holiday Monday the Manx Skeet Championship was held kindly sponsored once again by John Moore and we had a new champion in Jeff Corkill scoring 45 points, we had a three way tie for second place between A class shooters Dave Corlett, Paul Mihailovits and C class Roman Sammer on 44 points.

Results

Class A

  1. D Corlett (44)
  2. P Mihailovits (44)
  3. J Moore (40)

Class C

  1. R Sammer (44)
  2. D Morgan (37)
  3. M Hepworth (32)

NSSA Skeet

In the afternoon the Manx Petroleum’s NASSA skeet competition was held  and we had joint winners with Stan Cross and Paul Mihailovits tying for first place with 48 points each, in third place on 47 was Dave Corlett with Jeff Corkill taking fourth place with 46 points followed by Roman Sammer in fifth place on 45 and to round of the top six were John Moore and junior Zac Bellhouse with 42 points.

Results

  1. S Cross (48)
  2. P Mihailovits (48)
  3. D Corlett (47)
  4. J Corkill (46)
  5. R Sammer (45)
  6. J Moore (42)
  7. Z Bellhouse (J)(42)