By JOHN WOOD
BRIGHT, warm and sunny conditions greeted the competitors at the Woods Point Gun Club for the 2015 Jack Scott Memorial Championships.
Jack was a founding member and the club’s first life member and the club and his family hold this shoot in his memory each year.
Only one shooter, Daryl Ewert, managed to shoot the Eye Opener clean to receive a quite handy cash prize.
The main event was a 50 target Double Barrel Trophy. Peter West and Trevor Newman shot the best, 49/50 each, and after only one target in the shoot-off, West claimed the Trophy 51/50. Newman took the AA Grade prize 49/50 with Phillip Desmond 2nd, 48/50.
West won A Grade, 49/50, Daryl Ewert was second on 48/50. Laurie Poile took B Grade, 54/57, with Robert Lay next on 53/57, while in C Grade, Steve Bedggood had a good win, 47/52, from Daniel Chinn on 46/52.
The Jack Scott 20 target Handicap was next with Newman shooting the only 20/20 to take the championship sash outright. After the shoot-offs Bedggood was second on 25/26, followed by Ewert, 24/26 and John Butters, 23/25.
The day finished with a 20-target Jack Scott Tower championship. Darren Clark and Phillip Desmond both shot 20/20 with Clark eventually winning the sash 28/28, and Desmond second with 27/28.
Newman was again among the winners with third place, 24/25, and Kevin Kirley fourth with 31/33.
The Overall High Gun was won well by Newman with an excellent 88/90.
The first of the two annual Woods Point v Mansfield Team shoots, shot over the handicap event, was won by Woods Point 93/100 to Mansfield’s 89/100.
The day was sponsored by the Scott Family, Don and Ann Woods, Eddy and Roz Woods and Tom and Cheryl Apps.
The next shoot is the Streuber Buckle shoot on Sunday, 22 March.
Contact 9808 2693 for more information on high country clay target shooting.
