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Social Club were hosts this year to the league’s Charity Christmas Shoot, where
shooters from across the league took part in two competitions using open sighted
rifles. The Bill Amos competition involves all shooters using the same rifle, a Webley Mk 3 that was originally owned and used by Bill Amos for over 40 years. The rifle is now owned by Brian Portman who kindly provides the gun each year for the league to use. Each shooter had 5 shots at the target to amass the highest score of the evening but most found that mastering the gun with its front and rear sight very challenging. Fred Williams who has shown his skill with this gun over the recent years was yet again victorious with a score of 22.1. Second place went to Andy Smith with a score of 21.0.
In the second competition, shooters were invited to bring their own open sighted rifles to compete with. Again they were a llowed 5 shots but this time had to accrue a qualifying score of 22.0 to get into the final shoot-off. The qualifying score however seemed unobtainable for all shooters as the highest score of 20.0 was shared by Trevor Morris, Fred Williams and Rachael Brookes. Therefore the winner was decided by a shoot-off between these 3 shooters, where Trevor Morris was declared the winner after shooting a score of 21.1. Rachael Brookes was secondwith a score of 20.1.
Thursday 22nd December saw week 14 of the league competition where Binton A met Binton B and Wilmcote took on Home Guard. In the first match, Binton B took an early lead with an impressive 33 from Bill Fleming and scores of 31 from Jon Packard and Chris Green (a season best for Chris). John Parrott and Chris Reed shot steady scores of 31 for the home team and Andy Smith managed just 30. Michelle Dale hit two 4s followed by five 5s to level the scores with a superb 33. Brothers Joe and Sam Powell shot scores of 29 for the away team (a season best for Sam) and Gordon O’nions shot 24. Following two solid scores of 30 from Neil Bragg and Alan Dyer, Binton A took lead of the match before Neil Beningfield chipped in with 32 to bring the home teams total to 217. Ben Chamberlain and Roy Clarke were last on for the away team getting scores of 31 and 29 respectively. Once the lowest score of the eight shooters was scratched, Binton B totaled a score of 213 which was not enough to surpass the A team.
Over at Wilmcote Social Club, the Wilmcote team faced visitors from the Home Guard club. First on for Wilmcote was Paul Clingan who was unfortunate to not pick up his 3rd league possible this season after missing the bull on his 7th shot. His score of 34 combined with a season best score of 30 for Lyn Brookes left Wilmcote with a strong lead. Home Guard started with Richard Mills who scored 28 followed by a score of 29 for Jackie Mills. Joshua Bridge was up next and could only manage a score of 25 while Haydn Taplin did slightly better with a score of 27. Wilmcote’s lead was extended further with scores of 31 for Brian Adshead, Andrea Norris and Alan Brookes. John Maycock and Paul Boazman shot good 30s while Tim Stephens shot an impressive 32 to bring Wilmcote’s total to 219 after scratching the lowest score. The Home Guard team finished off with scores of 26 for Irene Parsons, 30 from Bill Gately, 31 from Sam Goodman and 28 from Derek Powers to bring their team score to a total of 199.
The Webley Shield begins with matches on the 5th January 2012 where Binton B meet Home Guard, Clifford WMC meet Avenue-RBL and Binton A are away to the MEB team.