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Venue: Little River Sporting Clay Range – Victoria
28th & 29th July 2012
The Championship will be conducted over 200 Targets on Four Compak Layouts
Open 1st – 4th
Ladies 1st
Veterans 55+ 1st
Super-Veterans 65+ 1st
Juniors U/21 1st
A Grade 1st – 3rd
B Grade 1st – 3rd
C Grade 1st – 3rd

All the above placegetters will receive engraved plaques appropriate to their positions
The top five competitors overall will contest a 25 target final to decide the National Champion and placings.
All competitors including Ladies, Veterans, Juniors will be placed in their Grades for the awarding of prizes and they will be distributed as above.
Each Grade or Category must have the following number of competitors for distribution of 1st, 2nd and 3rd places :-
3 Entries 1st only, 4 Entries 1st and 2nd, 6 Entries 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Program:
Saturday 100 targets over 4 Layouts
Sunday 100 targets over 4 Layouts plus Top Five Final
Postal Entries only Closing date 30th June 2012
Maximum load permitted is 28 grams
Enquiries: National Office (Ray McFarlane) 03-52502327 or Fax 03-52502173 email: raymcf@pipeline.com.au
Squad list and start time will be available from the FGFA website

The World English Sporting is being held from 1-5 August in the Cotswolds.
This is being hosted at Campfarm, Sweetslade, Westfield SG and Windrush SG in Bourton on Water Gloucestershire GL54 3BX, and will all be on ‘greenfield’ sites.
As well as the 200 target World Championships, there will be other events during that week.
Prelims, FITASC and World Sportrap are all being offered during the week.
Entries are now open, and more information is avaialble on the CPSA web site:

http://www.cpsa.co.uk/news/championships/2012/02/01/championship-shooting-2012

The SCC and NZCTA are not sending any teams, but if you are in the area it may be well worth putting it in your travel plans!!

Following the successful completion of the Oceania, here are the FITASC Oceania Cup results.
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The North Canterbury Club wish to inform all South Island and visiting shooters that they are holding
their Club Compak Championships on Sunday 22 April. Good for those duck shooters who are duck shoots shot out (??) and want something a bit different with a competitive edge!!

NORTH CANTERBURY CLAY TARGET ASSN
PRESENTS
100 TARGET CLUB COMPAK CHAMPIONSHIP
SUNDAY 22nd APRIL
ENTRY $55
MEDALLIONS FOR HOA & GRADES
START 9.00 am
Match Sponsored by:
TARGET PRODUCTS
ENTRIES CLOSE AT 10.00 am
LUNCH, AMMUNITION, REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
Enquiries: nccta@xtra.co.nz or Andrew Buchanan: 027-4996937

Yesterday Brian won the Australian Grand Prix. This is an amazing effort from Brian as he had to compete against the best of the best, a former World FITASC Champion, a World runner up, plus a host of extremely experienced and shoot hardened Aussies.
Brian shot 189/200 2 targets ahead of John Younger to take the title.

Results here…

Thanks to Sharee Winsloe and Bradley Lietze for taking these images of the 2012 Nationals and FITASC Grand Prix.
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For all those shooters traveling to NZ for the Oceania or any people traveling with a firearm into New Zealand. Please read the following from NZ Police

“For overseas visitors who wish to clear firearms through Auckland International Airport please email, prior to embarking, matthew.stephens@police.govt.nz with your travel details, as the Police are no longer stationed at the airport.
By making this arrangement you will avoid delays clearing your shotgun, on arrival, through customs.”

Update: The email address above has been corrected.

The last qualifying event of the season, the North Island Sporting Championship was held at Wanganui/Rangitikei over the weekend. A reasonable turnout of shooters were treated to the usual high standard of targets thrown at Wanganui. The weather also behaved itself and made for a very pleasant weekend.
Results here…

Congratulations to the following shooters for making the NZ Teams to shoot at the 24th FITASC Championship of Oceania, Waikato Clay Target Club 27th – 29th April 2012.

Open
Brian Deadman – 485.84
David Alley – 464.59
Adam Green – 463.21
Des Coe – 462.84
Geoff Wells – 459.95 1st Reserve
Rob Carruthers – 455.32 2nd Reserve

Ladies
Tara Lawrence – 389.3
Emily Olsen – 382.37
Mel Hoverd – 317.28
Diane Lawrence – 305.42 Reserve

Juniors
Thomas Bishop – 465.21
James Cannard – 425.72
Jamie Peryer-Fursdon – 352.43

Veterans
Rod Bryant – 442.63
Geoff Hay – 424.42
Allen Alley – 422.09
Steve Gill – 412.43 Reserve

Super Veterans
Gordon MacPhee – 413.24
Graeme Brown – 401.41
Russell Cooper – 396.85
Ian Swale – 382.42 Reserve

All team members need to sign and return to Adrienne a completed Shooters Agreement As soon as possible. This needs to be done regardless if you have filled one in for another previous event.

Rotorua are hosting an Oceania warmup shoot on the Wednesday before the Oceania.

Wednesday 25th April 2012 Directions here…
100 targets
$65 + optional sweeps

Shooting starts at 8.30am, so get there early and squad up.

Ammo, refreshments and lunch available at the club.

Falcon
Fiocchi
Gamebore
NSI

The Sporting Clay Committee met at Cromwell and amongst the many issues discussed was funding for teams. An on going major issue for us. As you are all probably aware Sporting receives only $1 from the $3 collected in daily shoot levies, and with this must fund all team travel and any other expenses incurred.
To try and make our dollar go further we decided that while in New Zealand we would only pay the Team entries for Oceania. This would free up some money for Teams travelling to the FITASC Worlds in the USA. I realise that this is a departure from the norm, but thought it was the fairest way for all and make the dollar go further.
The SCC has requested urgent discussion with Council at their first meeting to try and elicit some more funding for USA team members. We have conveyed the urgency of this and have said we would inform shooters of the results when announcing the NZ Teams at the conclusion of the Oceania. We are hoping for a positive outcome from this meeting, and realise that Council are in the middle of looking at all funding issues and we hope that we are invited to be part of this process at some date.
SCC.

One of the most talked about events this year is the $1,000,000 Delta Challenge series. The series consists of five sporting clay events with purses totaling just over $1 million dollars. The series is laid out as four main events spread throughout the year with a one day ‘super final’ Challenge event on the last day of the series. The final Challenge event purse accounts for $300,000 of the $1 million total payouts and in order to be eligible to compete in the event you must shoot all four previous events in the series. more details…