By John Wood
July at the Woods Point Gun Club was one of the most difficult shoots of the year.
The first event included double rise, the last two events were all double rise, two targets thrown simultaneously.
Quick hands, good eyesight and good judgement were required.
It was an overcoat day but rain free, with the odd bout of sunshine greeting the competitors for the Eye Opener.
Daniel Chinn shot a great 30/30 to win the AA-grade cash.
David Frazer was successful in A-grade with 29/30.
Laurie Poile won B-Grade with 28/30 and Justin Broderick returned 24/30 to win the C-grade cash.
The main event was the 40 target Mixed Targets Championship incorporating 10 targets each of double barrel, double barrel points decision and single barrel, followed by five-pair double rise.
A perfect score was 60 points.
A gold belt buckle trophy went to the overall winner and the other grade winners shared three silver and gold buckles.
Rob Bevis from the Yarra Valley and Brendan Jones from Gippsland returned the best scores of 55/60 and after a short shoot-off, Bevis won the mounted trophy buckle with 72/80 and the AA-grade prize.
Mansfield’s Mick Ward was second in AA-grade with 54/60.
Jones won the A-grade buckle with 55/60 with Danny Hill second (54/60).
The B-grade buckle was won by Laurie Poile (50/60) with Geoff Hill taking second place (44/60).
C-grade saw a very happy Justin Broderick take the buckle (47/60) and John Desmond second (39/60).
Club secretary Daniel Chinn won the 20-pair Double Rise Championship outright with a score of 33/40, and AA-grade as well.
Rob Bevis was second in AA-Grade (39/50).
After a shoot-off between David Frazer, Meagan Graham, Brendan Jones and Danny Hill for A-grade, Graham took first (30/50) from Danny Hill (29/50).
Robert Lay won B-grade (26/40) with Geoff Hill second (26/50).
Jodie Stockdale won C-grade (19/40) from her partner Justin (17/40).
The day finished with the 20-pair Deauville Doubles Championship.
Bevis and Trevor Ewert paired up to make a formidable team and showed this by winning the event with a score of 19/20 pairs.
The team of Ward and Ken Skinner, Jones and Russell Brill and Daniel and Kirsten Chinn all returned 17/20 scores to go into a shoot-off for the minor places.
Ward/Skinner took second place with 20/23.
Chinn/Chinn were third (19/23) and Jones/Brill fourth (17/21).
The Overall High Gun winner was Rob Bevis and he was presented with a sash.
If he had not just missed winning event three he would have won every event of the day.
The club’s next shoot is the Woods Point/Mansfield shield on Sunday 18 August at 10.30am at Mansfield Gun Club followed by the King of the Mountain shoot the following weekend at Woods Point on Sunday 25 August starting at 9.30am.
