July 21st, 2011 - Comments(0) Christophe Auvret 2011 FITASC World Champion
Christophe Auvret has won this year FITASC World Championship, with a complete display of dominance, shooting 100 straight and finishing on 198/200. 2nd Charles Bardou (FRA) 193, 3rd Anthony Materese Jnr. (USA) 191
A complete list of scores is on the FITASC site.
The GB Team report can be found here.
There are also some good images on The World Championship FaceBook page
July 21st, 2011 - Comments(0) 2011 World Compak Championship
This is an excellent video about this years World Compak Championship in Estonia. You can find the full results on the FITASC site
July 15th, 2011 - Comments(0) 2011 World FITASC results
The FITASC site has just been updated with the scores from the first day.
You can also find a live blog at shootclay.co.uk
And some images of the USA team on Facebook
Update: The Lost Target has some images here…
July 7th, 2011 - Comments(9) Sporting Calendar
We have upgraded the Sporting calendar to make it easier to find the events you want to attend. You can select the type of events to display in the Calendar by pressing the buttons at the top.
Please leave a comment and tell us what you think.
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June 27th, 2011 - Comments(1) South Island Sporting Clay Shooters Club Inc.
Sunday the 26th. June saw a bit of sporting clay history with a new club, the South Island Sporting Clay Shooters Club Inc., holding their first shoot, a 50 target re entry event. That in itself is relatively rare down here, plus the fact it’s a club without a ground and purposely so. We eventually hope to raise money through running shoots applying for funds and end up with around 30 traps and trailers/truck depending on the group wants. As well as the first shoot, we held our first meeting and elections. Neil Winsloe is President, Tim Scott Vice, and David Reid with the money, plus a motley group of us as committee!
June 27th, 2011 - Comments(0) NZ teams information
The second qualifying shoot for the year is nearly upon us, The North Island North Zone Sporting Championship at Waikato on the 30 – 31 July, followed closely by the Presidents cup in Rotorua on the 14th August. We have updated the NZ teams page with important information regarding team qualifying for the next 12mths. Here are a few points that may differ slightly from previous years.
The North Island Sporting Championship is the last Oceania qualifying round and is where the team will be announced. 17 – 18 March 2012 Wanganui/Rangitikei.
The North/South teams funding has become slightly more defined. The team that crosses cook straight for the Nationals will receive $150 travel money per team member. The last North/South qualifying round for the year is the South Island Sporting Championship in Greymouth, this will give team members time to organize their travel plans before the Nationals.
We are intending to send a full compliment of NZ teams to the 2012 World FITASC Championship in USA. you can find more details on qualifying and funding on the NZ teams page.
Please keep an eye on the qualifying results, if you are placed in the wrong category, email the SCC or let one of us know at the next shoot.
May 30th, 2011 - Comments(0) 2011 European FITASC results
479 shooters competed in this years European FITASC championship in Soria, Spain. You can find the results here…
May 10th, 2011 - Comments(0) 2011 Compak Championship, Entries open
The entries for the 2011 New Zealand Compak Nationals are open. Details here
April 28th, 2011 - Comments(2) 2011 Oceania Results
Surpurb efford from the Ladies WELL DONE!! Maybe it could possibly feature on the front of Gunshot.
The NZ Teams won the Ladies and were second in the Open, Juniors and Vets
Individuals:
Damien Birgan HOA. (Shot last 50/50) 174/200
Tara Lawrence Ladies HOA 146/200
Thomas Bishop 2nd Junior 161/200
Darryl Groundwater 2nd Vet 156/200
Oceania Cup:
Damien Birgan 1st
Adam Green 5th
Mel Hoverd Ladies 3rd Ladies
Darryl Groundwater 1st Vets
Rod Bryant 3rd Vets
Thomas Bishop 2nd Juniors
April 18th, 2011 - Comments(0) New FITASC Referees
Congratulations to Tim Scott, Richard Foster, Warren Philpott and Rob Carruthers who have just received their FITASC referees card and badge from FITASC.
Other current FITASC Referees include Mitch Whatley, Geoff Wells, Ian Swale, Rob Smith, Ron Madden and Albie Hanson.
April 13th, 2011 - Comments(0) George Digweed and long range crows!
Fieldsports spent the day with George Digweed for a spot of pest control. Video here…
April 12th, 2011 - Comments(1) 2012 Nationals and Grand Prix dates announced
The NZCTA has just endorsed the Sporting Clay Committee’s recommendation for the South Island Sporting Clay Shooters Club to run the 2012 Sporting Clay Nationals and the 3rd Annual NZ FITASC Grand Prix. The event will be held at Northburn Station, minutes from Cromwell on the Tarras-Cromwell Road. The area is absolutely perfect in many ways; its location in Central Otago which has an abundance of accommodation from 5 star+ to camping grounds, Queenstown is 40 minutes away with Wanaka, Clyde, Alexandra, Luggate well within easy driving distance, and not forgetting Cromwell only minutes away. More info…
Northburn is a working vineyard and has a restaurant which we will be able to use in conjunction with others, combining that with 34,000 acres to ‘play’ in, I’m sure this will be a very memorable event indeed in Sporting shooting history.
N.Z. Nationals, 18/19 (Sat/Sun) February 2012.
They will be conducted over 16 stands per day of ‘new style’ FITASC (16 stands, 3 traps per stand)
The 20/ 21st. will be lay days to explore Central, Southern Lakes, or even the Haast-West Coast area a couple of hours away. This will allow the Club to reset and reconfigure the shooting fields.
The Grand Prix, 3 days, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. February.
It will be conducted over 8 ‘old style FITASC Par Cours shooting 75 targets on Wednesday and Thursday and 50 on Friday. There will be 2 prize giving’s one after the Nationals and one after the GP both to be held in the vineyard setting of Nothburn. The North/South match will be shot at the conclusion of day 1 of the Nationals, and it is hoped that the team shooters will all be squadded to shoot in the PM.
Entries will open on line on the Sporting Clay page in early spring, and more details will be available at that time. There will be plenty of time to enter before cut off and the fields have no cut off as far as entry numbers are concerned.
Ron Madden
March 27th, 2011 - Comments(5) 2011 NZ FITASC Grand Prix results
Congratulations to John Younger from Australia, for taking out this years NZ FITASC Grand Prix on a 175, the competition was very close right to the end and as usual the weather was challenging at Wanganui, but the fields and targets were of the highest standard.
Results here…
March 15th, 2011 - Comments(0) NZ FITASC Grand Prix shooter information
March 9th, 2011 - Comments(0) 2011 Australian Grand Prix results
The Australian FITASC Grand Prix was held over the the weekend, by all accounts it was very successful. Darryl Groundwater emailed me these comments this morning…
“Hi Guys, Missed a great shoot on the weekend. The weather was perfect and the targets were excellent. Interestingly Damien Birgan won the shoot on a 184. The same score he shot at the Warrnambool World on 09.
The eight rounds were clerverly laid, specifically with the deception of showing simple looking targets until you fired the shot, then frutstration sets in. The target curl that we have been practicing was not evident and most were driven straight, however there were many that had a limited window to shoot through and this caught us off guard. Most targets were well inside of 40 yards with a few boardering on the limit, once again they used midis in these instances which gave one the impression they were out further.
Over all a great shoot. Brian Deadman’s 173 was impressive as he shot an 84 on the Sat.”
Read the results