A ripper day at MGC on Saturday 7th of February, the place was buzzing. 100 shooters on the ground for the days event's PLUS a corporate day had everyone busy!!!
With the weather as perfect as it gets the mercury hit a warm 34 degrees, but with the cool breeze made it comfy to shoot.
We also hosted MCC for a team shoot over the 50tgt Double Barrel which MCC defeated MGC to take home the cricket bat. Well done MCC Clay Target Club!
First event for the DTL was a 25tgt Point Score and it was Andrew Brady recording the only clean score with 75/75 well done Andrew!
25tgt Point Score
OA & AA: A. Brady 75/75; S. Incani 72/75
A: F. Santoro 74/75; B Woodward 70/75
B: J. Brady 74/75; R Godfrey 71/75
C: A Maltman 73/75; L McKepn 69/75
4 shooters shot the 25/25 clean turning the Laporte Grand Prix 24 Clays to balls of white smoke. A lengthy shoot off was held and it came down to Roger Esplin and Michael Engel who both shot another full round. Into the next bracket they went with Roger taking the spoils.
25tgt Single Barrel
OA & AA: R. Esplin 54/54; A Brady 31/32
A: D Johnston 25/26; D Ball 24/26
B: M Engel 53/54; Rob Williams 24/25
C: S Pellegrino 23/25; L McKeon 28/36
DB was shot in 2 visits of 25, and 4 shooters shot clean with a 50/50 on the board, and the shoot off got under way. It was great to see young Kye McDonnell achieve his first ever 75 break!! Well done Kye. But it was again Andrew Brady taking the OA honours from Stephen Incani with 103 straight.
50tgt Double Barrel
OA & AA: A. Brady 103/103; S Incani 102/103
A: K McDonnell 78/79; T Preston 51/52
B: M Cecchetto 51/52; M Engel 50/52
C: B Battle 45/50; A Maltman 45/51
Over on the UT layouts you could tell a World Championship was about to be held as the scores were as high as we have ever seen them!! Nathan Cassells a well shot 99/100; Danny DiPietro 98/100; Catherine Skinner and Craig Henwood a 97/100 and Todd Malone a 96/100 all world class scores.
OA - N Cassells 99/100
AA: D DiPietro 98/100; C Skinner 97/100
A: R Pistone & E Cox 94/100
B: L Chapman 92/100; D Milhuisen 91/100
C: J Dagher 90/100; C Hughes Gage 85/100
Thank you to everyone who helped run the day's events, a big thanks to the volunteers in the office. It's fantastic to see people jumping in and helping make our events for all disciplines run so smoothly. Presentations all done by 4:30pm is a testament to this so thank you!!
Next weekend we have DTL Competition with 50tgt Points and 50tgt DB as well as UT practice available on all 4 layouts. Please note there will be no Skeet or 5 Stand practice next Saturday as we begin the 44th World Championships for Universal Trench!!!