July-August 2010 - New Zealand Clay Target Association

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SPORTING CLAY OCEANIASixteen N.Z. shooters made it toRenmark-Berri (2½ hrs North-Eastfrom Adelaide) for the 22nd OceaniaSporting Clay tournament.NZ Junior Team takes 2nd placeNew Zealand Open Team 2ndNZ Super Veterans team takes 2nd placeFortunately to reach Renmark you haveto travel through (well near it anyway)the famous Barossa Valley and some of ustook full advantage of the wine tours andtasting for a few days preceding the event.Two soft practice fields, set purposely totrap the unwary, were set up for Friday withcompetition commencing on Saturday forthree days. The set up was eight (old style)par cours each one of 25 targets from fourshooting stands, Saturday and Sunday youshot three par cours each day, and Mondaytwo, totalling 200 targets. The openingceremony was a little disappointing forus as everyone of us was in No.1’s (severalwearing poppies as a mark of respectfor ANZAC weekend, appreciated bysome Aussies). After the superb Maoriwelcome and challenge in Rotorua forthe last Oceania, we thought the Aussieswould try to top that, no flags of nations,no national anthems and as is normal asmall gift to shooters was missing. Onecan only imagine they were still gettingover the incredible efforts they had put infor the World Champs last year and werestill recovering from all that work. On theother hand though they threw all mannerof targets at us and being a relatively flatground, employed towers, cherry pickers,high stands and speed. One stand had a 20meter cherry picker which was 76 metersfrom the stand, the target was on edgeand driven down landing 50 odd meters toyour right. Probably a 60 meter plus target.Most of the guys seemed to handle it ok,shooting three or four out of the menu. Ithink it was the ‘biggest’ target there, butevery trap was either tilted over, had thespring wound right up or had the targetsdoing a couple of things in the air, makingthem very tricky and hard to read. As usualwe were made to feel very welcome withthe usual banter and bull…. filling up thedown time, catering and refreshmentswere up to the normal Aussie standardand most probably put on a pound or two.Two of the N.Z. shooters departed from thenorm this year and had camper vans, oneunfortunately seemed to be in all sorts ofstrife most of the time, and poor Ian Swalehad erected his awning only to have the10 gunshot
CHAMPIONSHIPSwind come up and blow it over the roofof the camper while still attached at oneend! At one stage Gordon MacPhee wasin fits of laughter, struggling to tell theassembled multitudes what he had seen,and I’m not totally sure of the order, butIan and Richard Foster standing on theshoulders of the other trying to get in thecamper window. Yes the keys were lockedinside!! Gordon was just a bit slow to gethis camera out! On the social front some ofus had found, on our last visit to Renmark,a stunning little restaurant right in themiddle of the bush, the Mallee Fowl, oldwooden tables, rabbit traps holding tablenumbers. Just ask Ray McFarlane how realthey were as he, while trying to set one toshow a couple of townies, sprung it on histhumb!! The place was full of Australianoutback memorabilia stuck in every sparespace, the food, cooked on a huge hotplateand grill in the middle of the restaurant,was superb. Some of us went for a secondnight when the Aussies booked it out and itseemed to become an engagement partyfor Carla Battistella and Jeff Zammitt. Jeffwho incidentally on talking to Ray Bishopabout duck shooting, immediately bookeda ticket to N.Z. for opening weekend. Theywere in my squad and what a great couple,Carla has been following Jeff around for awhile and has now started shooting, evenshooting a 20/25 which a lot of experiencedshooters couldn’t match.David Alley and Thomas Bishop weretop New Zealanders home overall eachon 164/200, followed by our other twojuniors, James Canard and James Rastick.Thomas Bishop, only a young junior withmany more years before moving intoseniors, is making junior sporting shootingvery healthy indeed. Add to that the twoJames’s gaining international experience,things are looking good. They wereshooting well, and finished on 157/200 apiece, and what a thrill it was to see thetwo boys foot it on those big shoot offtargets in front of an appreciative gallery.Sox Pilipasidis won the event on 183;current World FITASC Champion DamienBirgan was second one target behind on182. In other classes, juniors took 2nd, 3rd.and 4th. Thomas Bishop second outrightand James Rastrick over James Canard ina shoot off. Graham Brown (148/200) wonSuper Vets with Gordon MacPhee 3rd.(141/200)In the teams New Zealand took silverin all the categories except Ladies wherewe disappointingly didn’t field a team.The open and Veterans teams, I must saywere convincingly beaten, some might saythrashed, but our Junior team was beatenby 1 target 486/487, and the old super vetstoo by 1 target 417/418 a very good effort,showing the Aussies had a real fight for theclean sweep.This shoot was also the final of theOceania Cup; it’s a culmination of theOceania tournament points plus oneof the two Grand Prix that were held inGeelong and Alexandra. In the SeniorsDamien Birgan was first, followed by SoxPilipasidis then Chris Brown, Renae Birganwon ladies, Juniors was won by youngAussie Paul Adams with N.Z.ers ThomasBishop second and James Rastick third. InVets we managed a 15th with Allen Alley,19th Ron Madden and 20th. Neil Winsloe,room for improvement I think. Super Vetsfared better with Ray McFarlane 1st, BryanRafferty (Aust) 2nd and our own GrahamBrown 3rd with Gordon MacPhee 4th.Richard Foster 5th. and Ian Swale 7th.We are hoping that people get onboard and try for these International cupsas there is plenty of opportunity to shootthe qualifying matches. Remember youonly need to shoot two of the three, onlyone, the Oceania being compulsory. One isalways held in Geelong, next year’s Oceaniais due to be held in New Caledonia aroundEaster and our Grand Prix, hopefully inMarch and being hosted by Wanganui.Ron Madden for the Sporting Committee.NZ Veterans team takes 2nd place (L-R) Ron Madden, Ian Swale, Neil WinsloeSuper Veterans winner Graham Brown with Gordon MacPhee 3rdgunshot 11
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