By JOHN WOOD
IN THE depths of winter, the hardy shooters at the Woods Point Gun Club enjoyed a reasonably fine day for the July Matlock Championships.
A day of Double Rise targets that in themselves were more challenging than the weather.
However, although the targets were quite good and the wind was negligible, the scores were low as was shown by not one perfect score being shot on the day.
Shooters travelled from The Yarra Valley, Gippsland, Melbourne, Mansfield and the Mornington Peninsula to compete.
Woori Yallock’s Daniel Chinn was the sole winner of the Eye Opener, 9/10, pocketing a handy cash prize.
Event one was 20 pairs of Double Rise from the 15 metre handicap mark.
Daryl Ewert with 30/40 won the Championship sash outright.
The scores and the Grade winners were:
AA – Rob Bevis, 28/40, 2nd – Trevor Ewert 22/40. A – Phillip Desmond, 26/40, 2nd – Ian Findlay 23/40.
In B grade, Richard Brown was 2nd, 19/40 to Daryl Ewert’s 30/40 win. Daniel Chinn took C Grade, 21/40 with Matt Ewert 2nd after a shoot off with Garry Ewert.
The main event was a 60 target Deauville Triples from 18 metres. Teams of two shooters, three targets thrown with only two shots per shooter allowed.
Richard Brown and Trevor Ewert took the championship sashes with a good score of 52/60 followed by Daryl Ewert and Ron Bevis in 2nd place 48/60.
Ian Findlay and Phillip Desmond’s 47/60 was enough to give them the 3rd place prizes while Peter West teamed with Matt Ewert to take the 4th, 50/75, after a shoot off against Daniel Chinn and Ron Press.
The final event was 15 pair of Double Rise Tower with Millgrove’s Rob Bevis coming to the fore, 24/30, to win the sash. Trevor Ewert’s 22/30 gave him 2nd place, Peter West hot on his heels with 21/30 for the 3rd place prize.
Richard Brown, Garry Ewert and Geoff Hill, all on 20/30, shot another 5 pair to settle 4th place, with Brown winning 29/40.
Rob Bevis finished a testing day of competition by taking the Overall High Gun sash, 100/130.
The Clubs Sponsors for the day were the Stewart Bus Company, John and Rose Butters, MHCP 4 X 4 and MMC Mowers.
The cool day was enhanced by a warm clubhouse and plenty of warm and nourishing tucker.
The next shoot at the Point is the Maori Creek Championships on Sunday 24 August, starting 10.30am.
Interested in seeing or learning clay target shooting? Contact John Wood on 9808 2693.
