THERE was a good rollup for Bermagui Field and Game Club's Christmas shoot held on Sunday with 11 squads of shooters and their families travelling from Canberra, Goulburn, Sydney, Bombala, Illawarra and the usual contingent from Cooma.
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The shoot was conducted as two events; the first being two rounds of 37 targets shot over 13 stations and the second event, the long awaited George Digweed Challenge.
Mark, Chris and Jan Raabe with the help of Pat Tennant spent most of the previous Friday and a lot of thought into setting up the course for the first event.
Most stations comprised multiple traps with single targets and report pairs to be shot by B, C and Ladies grades. There was a further impediment for A grade and AA grade shooters in that the single targets became report pairs and the report pairs became simultaneous pairs.
All up, one of the best and most challenging courses that have been set at the range. Some very healthy shoot offs were needed to establish placegetters with Mark Gschwend edging out Gav Moulding in AA grade, Tony Crome over Mario Magrin in A grade and Ron Manly in B grade.
The George Digweed Challenge event started with shooters amassed and taking their turn to shoot at a springing teal type target at distances increasing at five metre intervals from the trap.
Bruce Arthurson was still hitting the targets at distances where most of the more highly graded shooters had dropped out and was the clear winner of C grade.
Adam Shiels also hung in with a group of A/AA shooters until he and Nev Brady were the only shooters to be successful at the 50 metre mark. Both shooters balked on their first attempt at the 55 metre mark until Adam was successful on a subsequent attempt that will see his name engraved on a perpetual trophy. Not a bad effort when you consider that the target had travelled at least a further 10 metres horizontally from the trap. This was also a fund raising event and $330 was raised for the Leukaemia Foundation.