V35 #7 Jul 1982 - Australian Clay Target Association

NATIONALS '82 Cont'd from page 4
0 Winner of the 1982 Grand Australian Handicap, 15 years
old Jan Schuster pictured with Ross Levinsohn of Bousteads.
rifles. In third spot were Bill and Ken Stevens from Xpswich.
Q'ld., while Tom and Thelma Meadows from Brisbane, the
only husband and wife team in the phcings filled 4th place.
Another father and son combiiation, Ron and Brian Garth,
Frankston/Australian Club, Victoria, finished fifth.
Saturday May 15.
Double Barrel day greeted us with a break in the weather.
Until now, Greg Newey's cowboy hats were to be seen on most
heads, to keep the sun at bay. Though still warm, (warmer
than Melbourne anyway) the stiff breeze sent cloud and
frequent showers scudding across the grounds. We were told
it was turned on to make the Mexicans feel more at home.
Conditions certainly were difficult for the shooters and from
an entry of 522, only 12 possibles were shot.
The shoot-off wasn't to last long, inside 30 targets we were
down to Barry Kahle from Royal Aero, N.S.W. and Larry
Dimasi, Mildura, Victoria. These two didn't go much longer
either when Kable let his 97th target go without breaking,
leaving Larry Dimasi, the fruit grower from Victoria's Far
North West as the 30th Australian Double Barrel Champion.
Larry's good form over Easter at his home club when he
broke the long break record with 536 targets, prompted him
to make the journey to Brisbane. This was a popular win to a
fine sportsman, and earned him the Grand European Shotgun
kindly donated by Winchester Australia as his major prize.
Barry Kable was left as the winner of A Grade with 96/97, Don
Wilson from Tatura, Victoria, won B Grade with 76/77 and
Stuart Boyden, Moree, with a score of 49/50 captured the C
Grade. trophy.
Adr~an hayes again - mfiected the Veterans Division prize
with 49/50.
The second Womens Double Barrel and Second Junior
Double Barrel Championships were run in conjunction with
the Open event. Thirty ladies had entered to do battle for the
trophies again donated by Winchester Australia. The winner
was Deserie Huddleston of Griffith, New South Wales, who
took home a Winchester Model 101 Pigeon Grade Trap gun,
with a score of 49/50. Second place and a dress watch was won
by Vicky Deeley of Gemfields, Queensland, on 47/50, with
Thelma Meadows, Brisbane, Third 46/50.
Twenty four juniors lined up for the Junior Double Barrel,
with trophies for the event also donated by Winchester.
Up for grabs was a Model 101 Pigeon Grade Trap gun - for -.the
bp junior.
Fifteen year old David Wilson, son of Rex Wilson and a
student at Henry Kendall High School in Gosford, New South
Wales. won the day after a shoot-off with Chris Warren -- nf --
~oorowa, N.S.W. -
David, who has been shooting for 2% years won with a
score of 56/57 from Chris 55/56, and Scott Hetherington, Mt
Gambier, S.A., in third place, 48150.
A highlight of the Presentations this day was the award of
the Val and Fred Horton Trophy for the oldest Competitor.
Ninety one year old Jim Medway from GunninglDalton club
in N.S.W. was presented with his trophy by National President,
Laurie Connors.
Sunday May 16, Single Barrel
Conditions were again difficult on the Sunday morning as
482 competitors did battle for the 28th Australian Single
Barrel Championship. So difficult in fact that nobody managed
a possible.
At the days end, it was a squad of five 49's who were to shoot
off for the title. Graham Willett, Stephen White, Stan Collins,
Bill Iles, all from Victoria, and Pud Burgess from New South
Wales. First to go was Collins, with his clubmate from
Bairnsdale White, dropping his very next target to exit also.
Bill Iles missed his 5'7th target to leave the contest a match in
two, between Pud Burgess and Graham Willett. Pud duffed
his 60th, Wilett shot his and it was a31 over. A fine win to
Graham Willett and very sweet after his disappointment
earlier in the week. Along with the Eley silver badge went a
Franchi Over and Under, kindly donated by Eley Ammunition
as part of Willett's spoils.
A Grade was won by Pud Burgess. 58/60.
A find double went to Nanette Meredith of Korumburra.
Victoria, when she took out "B" Grade and the Ladies Division
of the Single Barrel.
0 Placegetters m the second AusIralian Ladies Double Barrel
Championships, L to R Vicky Deeley 2nd Deserie Huddleston
1st. Thelma Meadows 3rd.
Cont'd on page 8
AUSTRALIAN CLAY TARGET SHOOTING NEWS-JULY 1982