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 12th, 2010 Article: 2010 FITASC Championship of Oceania
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
April 13th, 2010 2010 FITASC Oceania, squad list
The Squad List for the 22nd FITASC Championship of Oceania has been posted on the Field & Game website.
April 10th, 2010 NZCTA Sporting Clays Website
You may have noticed over the last few months, the Sporting Clays website has slowly changed as we upgraded things. The Sporting Clays committee hope to use the site to keep shooters informed of news and events from around New Zealand and the rest of the Sporting world.
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April 6th, 2010 Results from the Australian Grand Prix
Congratulations to Damien Birgan, taking out the Australian Grand Prix over the weekend. You can find more results here…
April 3rd, 2010 TVNZ article on Duck Shooting
Duck shooting season starts in May. TVNZ Breakfast’s Charlotte Bayliss joins duck shooters at a gun club in Christchurch as they practice their skills. TVNZ Ondemand…
March 31st, 2010 Images from the 2010 New Zealand FITASC Grand Prix
Thanks to Ron Madden for these images of the New Zealand FITASC Grand Prix in Alexandra. If anyone else has photos of the event and would like to share them, please contact the Sporting Committee., we would really appreciate it.
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March 29th, 2010 European FITASC Championship, import licenses
To the attention of the Federation FITASC members
Dear Sirs,
We pay your attention to the following:
1) According to the Legislation of the Russian Federation the documents acceptance of import licenses for registration of the weapon by foreign citizens is carried out not later than 1 month before entrance.
2) Registration of participants of the European sporting championship 2010 will be over on April, 30th 2010.
On the assumption of the circumstances above, we ask you to be registered beforehand on competition and grant the necessary information for official registration of papers.
On the FITASC site you can find the necessary information about formalities (firearm form, official invitation, customs declaration), the transfer and accommodation.
The Russian Shooting Union is ready to assist you in problem of timely registration of the gun permit, accommodation and of the sportsmen taking part in the competition.
You are welcome to the European Sporting Championship 2010!
Best regards.
Russian Shooting Union.
March 26th, 2010 Article: New Zealand FITASC Grand Prix for 2010
On Saturday the 13th. March 120 competitors lined up at the Alexander Clay target Club for the first Sporting G.P., it is a step up from our Sporting Nationals and was set out to be a challenging and reasonable demanding shoot.
It has been the dream of the Sporting Committee for a number of years, and after an initial attitude from some with every reason why we shouldn’t do it, we persevered and now undoubtly it is firmly fixed on our calendar and in my opinion was overall, a success.
Before Saturday though, months of planning, recce’s, phone calls and E-mails had been going on and along with that we had incredible generous sponsorship from Graeme Brown (Target Products), not only in the form of 12 brand new Promatic traps for our use (plus he set 2 of the fields) or his son Hayden who was the main trap mechanic, but he also gave several thousand in cold hard cash, as did Neil Winsloe and his company Cleanburn Energy Systems, and on top of that Neil was Event Director.
The Alexander Gun Club chipped in with cash as well as manpower to help run the shoot, which indeed in it self was very generous as there were a few light-hearted, funny comments about the ‘Arkwright’s’ taking in all the cash. Thanks to Blake Holden for supplying his Laport traps to run two of the fields especially when he had a large Break One shoot on Saturday evening. Certainly much appreciated. Thanks also to Peter Morrison and Casey for their extremely efficient running of the office, and the attitude ‘we can do anything you require’, while it was a Sporting Clay Committee event, special mention must be made of Rob Carruthers and his leading the way with a large screen TV with consistently updating results, overall and classes. It certainly had the local DTL boys wondering why they don’t have such technology!! It was of constant focus during the event by all the shooters.
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March 25th, 2010 Fieldsports interview with George Digweed
Probably the best shot in the world, George Digweed has won seven World FITASC Championships, nine World Sporting Championships, thirteen European Championships and fourteen World Cups. He runs pheasant shoots and you wouldn’t want to be a pigeon in his home county of Kent at this time of year. Just as the pigeons are hammering the farmers’ crops at this time of year, so is George out hitting the pigeons. A one-time British pigeon shooting recordholder (661 to his own gun in one day), we’re out pigeon shooting with him next to beautiful Bodiam Castle. It is a not-to-be-missed story of one man and his gun. Learn George’s tips on how to shoot high volumes of pigeons, hear about how shooting has dominated his life, and be amazed as he knocks down long-distance pigeons.
March 24th, 2010 NZ Team for the 22nd Championship of Oceania
Following are the confirmed teams for the 22nd Championship of Oceania in Renmark next month. If you have any queries, please let Geoff Wells or Neil Winsloe know straight away.
All team members need to sign and return to Neil a completed Shooters Agreement before you leave NZ. This needs to be done regardless if you have filled one in for another previous event.
Open
Adam Green
David Alley
Allan Alley
Glen Rastrick
Junior
Thomas Bishop
James Rastrick
James Cannard
Veteran
Ron Madden
Neil Winsloe (Team Manager)
Ian Swale
Super Veteran
Graham Browne
Gordon MacPhee
Dick Foster
Team member requirements – Black NZ Blazer and NZCTA tie, white shirts, black trousers, black shoes for opening ceremony, and closing ceremony as you all should end up with a team medal of some sort.
You all need to look after your own individual entry, and pay for this upon arrival at the ground in Renmark. You will be reimbursed upon return to NZ from the NZCTA. Neil Winsloe will handle the Team Entry fees separately.
March 15th, 2010 2010 New Zealand FITASC Grand Prix, results
The first New Zealand FITASC Grand Prix was run at Alexandra over the weekend. The fields offered some of the best target presentations seen in New Zealand this year. Read more »