The scrub rough club at Blenheim hosted the South Island North Zone Championship over the weekend. The folks up the Awetere valley did a great job by all accounts, putting in a big effort to setup 4 old style fields and were rewarded with a good turnout Saturday and Sunday. Results here…
August 17th, 2010 George Digweed on iTV Meridian video
July 27th, 2010 Compak vs 5-Stand
With the up coming New Zealand Compak Championship and the move away from 5-Stand, we thought we would highlight some of the changes coming your way. Hopefully most of you have read over the Compak rules by now and you are quite familiar with the changes, however here is a brief summary.
Largely there is little difference between the two apart from some minor procedure changes and slightly more defined target trajectories.
Shooting procedure:
- 6 Man squads.
- The extra shooter waits behind stand 1 to view the targets.
- Stand 1 shoots first after each stand change.
- Gun mount is free ie. you can shoot gun up on any target.
- No sighters, the targets will be shown at the beginning of the day, squads must backup to view the targets.
- Once shooting starts, shooters are allowed only 10 seconds between targets.
- There is no need to call out your targets before shooting, the ref. has a copy of the menus in front of him. This helps speed up the round.
- The menus are designed so that the last target of each pair is the first target shot by the next shooter.
Field layout:
- It is recommended that a Compak field has at least 6 traps
- All targets must fly over a 40 x 25 meter box in front of the shooting stands, at some stage in their flight.
You can download the Compak rules or if you have any questions please contact the Sporting Committee or your local councillor.
July 22nd, 2010 Target Setting
Below is an article copied from the Field & Game Federation of Australia’s June Newsletter. It details some important points and considerations for field designers and target setters. It was written by Ray McFarlane, arguably one of the most experienced and hard working field designers we have in the Oceania, possibly the world.
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July 19th, 2010 2010 World FITASC Championship
George Digweed has won the 2010 World FITASC Championship in Laterina Arezzo Italy, with an impressive 197/200 (Also shooting 100 straight over the first 2 days). He was chased hard by Ben Husthwaite on 195 (this years World English Sporting Champion).
All the scores are now on the FITASC website.
July 9th, 2010 2010 World English Sporting results
The CPSA website has the latest results from the World Sporting at Lakenheath. The next 10 days will be very interesting if your interested in Sporting Clays, the World Sporting this weekend and then the World FITASC Championship next weekend in Laterina – Arezzo – Italy.
2010 World English Sporting results
June 18th, 2010 Barrel length, does size matter?
I’ve been doing a bit of research lately on shotgun stock measurements and barrel configurations. Here is an interesting article, that offers some good ideas.
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June 8th, 2010 South Island, Nth Zone Sporting Championship
The team from Awatere Valley in Blenheim, will be holding the South Island, North Zone Sporting Championship on the 28th – 29th August this year. To their credit they are have decided to run the 100tgt event on 4 old style FITASC fields, with a trophy shoot on the Saturday.
To help with the running of the event they have asked for all shooters interested in attending to let them know.
This is not a pre-entry, it is just give the Awatere committee some idea of the number that will attend.
If you are thinking of traveling to Blenheim for the South Island Sth. Zone then please fill in the form below.
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May 31st, 2010 2010 NZ Compak Championship, entries open
We are very pleased to announce the New Zealand Compak Championship, to be held at Waikato CTC, 3-5 September 2010. The event replaces the 5-Stand Nationals and will now increase to 200tgts over 2 days. You can enter online now!
With this change to Compak, we would like to point out a few of the changes.
6 man squads
No.1 Shooting stand starts first after each rotation.
Shooters rotate to the right, as with 5-Stand.
The extra shooter waits behind stand 1, to view the targets before he/she shoots.
No sighters. Target will shown to the first squad of the day only! All other squads must backup to view the targets.
Nothing to earth moving really. You can read more in the Compak rules.
May 13th, 2010 2011 World English Sporting, Entries open
All those shooters planning on shooting the World English Sporting Championship next year at TVDA, the online entries are open. TVDA have put together a very nice website for the event where you can enter online, order ammunition/merchandise and pay with PayPal.
May 12th, 2010 A sad day
It is with much regret I must inform Sporting Shooters of the death of Johannes (John) Martens. I’m sure all regular sporting shooters who knew John well, will with us , be thinking of his long time partner Yvonne at this time. John was one of the true characters of our sport and no longer will that cigar be seen puffing over the hill, accompanied by long time friend and partner in crime Andy Veltmeyer. John lit up most situations, taking little seriously, and his wit and charm will be surely missed by us all.
The servive for John will be at 3:30 on Friday (May 14) at the Morrison Funeral Home Henderson. Leave a comment
May 12th, 2010 Article: 2010 FITASC Championship of Oceania
16 N.Z. shooters made it to Renmark-Berri (2 ½ hrs North-East from Adelaide) for the 22nd Oceania Sporting Clay tournament. Fortunately to reach Remark you have to travel thru (well near it anyway) the famous Barossa Valley and some of us took full advantage of the wine tours and tasting for a few days preceding the event. Two soft practice fields, set purposely to trap the unwary, were set up for Friday with competition commencing on Saturday for 3 days. The set up was 8 (old style) par cours each one of 25 targets from 4 shooting stands, Saturday and Sunday you shot 3 par cours each day, and Monday 2, totalling 200 targets. Read more »
May 2nd, 2010 Images from the Oceania
Thanks to Ian Swale and Ron Madden for these images of the Oceania in Renmark last weekend. View images…
April 30th, 2010 22nd FITASC Championship of Oceania, results
At last, the Field & Game website has been updated with the Oceania results from Renmark Australia.
22nd FITASC Championship of Oceania results
Overall results
Category results
Team results