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in case there were last-minute cancellations.
However, the WAA Secretary, Ian Harris,
kindly offered to run an extra squad on the
Friday.
He organised this extra squad for Friday
afternoon with a limited number of firing
points to accommodate the people who had
made it onto the waiting list. They shot whilst
the rest of the range was assembled. This
extra squad won’t be available next year; it
was just due to the overwhelming number of
people being unable to have a shoot.
There were more first time entrants than ever
before. It’s great to see people venturing out
from the comfort of their own club and seeing
what a national shoot is all about.
Whilst sticking to the ‘spirit’ of ISSF as much
as possible, we also try to make the Open
as relaxed and friendly as possible. Some
of the shooters had never been through
equipment control before, however, Harry
Preston and Iqbal Ubhi were on hand to sort
out any problems these first-timers had.
There were various trade stands selling a
variety of products and happily offering
advice.
There was some good shooting over the
weekend. Victoria Mullin was a junior pistol
shooter who won X class with a score of 572.
She started out in A class and was just so
good that she had to be re-classified to X
class!
In all credit, she was a junior, but elected
to shoot in the finals as a senior & shot
brilliantly.
(You can see from the finals results just how
close the scores were!)
There was a three-way tie for eighth place in
the pistol finals and there had to be a shoot
off between Chris Mason, Jim Newsome and
Peter Friend.
Five shots, with the highest score going
through to the finals.
Chris Mason just took it with the narrowest of
margins of 0.1 of a point!!
All the finals, and the shoot off, were shot on
Megalink targets. This meant that everyone
could see the scores as they were shot. A
very exciting event.
You can see the recorded finals results on
the WAA website, along with the full list of
results. www.welsh-airgun.org.uk
Approximately 11,000 targets were shot
over the weekend. With only four scoring
machines, and over forty different
competitions going on, it makes such a
difference when someone contributes an
hour or so of their time to help out.
A massive thank you to everyone involved for
making the day such a wonderful success.
Welsh Open Pistol Champion 2009 is
Stewart Nangle with a score of 572.
Welsh Open Rifle Champion 2009 is Chris
Hector with a score of 593
Welsh Open Junior Pistol Champion 2009 is
Craig Auden with a score of 558
Welsh Open Junior Rifle Champion 2009 is
James Huckle with a score of 588
Welsh Open Ladies Pistol Champion 2009
is Georgina Geikie with a score of 379 (tied
with Victoria Mullin but a final string of 96
versus 95 took the victory)
Welsh Open Ladies Rifle Champion 2009 is
Sharon Lee with a score of 393.
Welsh Closed Pistol Champion 2009 is Al
Green with a score of 561
Welsh Closed Rifle Champion 2009 is Rhian
Floyd with a score of 581
Hopefully I shall have two good feet which
will enable me to shoot at next year’s event!
and very much look forward to returning to
what is always a buzzing Open shoot which
attracts a large entry of shooters to pit
yourself against.
At this time, no date has been set for the
Welsh Open 2010.
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