Monday, July 14, 2014

Here we are coming to the end of Mondays shooting and I have time to update.
Sunday was at least a good weather day as far as sunshine but the wind decided to do its own thing and mess the shooters about and succeeded. There were obviously the lucky ones that caught good conditions but on the whole the wind won.
The Alexandra, shot at 600, will be resolved by a tie shoot between 2 competitors with scores of 50-10. Canada had high scores of 50-9 from George Wright and Geoff Woodman with 50-8. In the "next best" scores list Barry Langille had a 50-5, gets an HPS cross but no medal.
In the Alexandra FTR class, Ken Ferguson came came 2nd with 74-9 and Canadian shooters filled
4,5,6th positions.
The Daily Mail, shot at 500 was won with 75-15. Geoff Woodman was 48th scoring 74-8.
In FTR, Gerry Wiens was 3rd and Canadians also filled 4,5,6th places.
In The Duke Of Cambridge, shot at 900, was won with a 50-10 and Ron Dawson was 30th with a    50-5. Wendy Reid won the FTR with a 75-8, Andy Webber 2nd with a 73-9 and Ken Ferguson with a 72-3 was 3rd.
After a frustrating day for most, Jim Paton, Barry Langille and Geoff Woodman were placed high on the Grand Aggregate leader board on Sunday night.
We held the Canadian reception in the evening and we had probably over 230 people filling the house. It was a great night and we even had the tv. on with sound muted so patrons could follow the World Cup final. The German team were in fine spirits, literally. We eventually got everyone out and the house was restored to its original state.

I have provisional result of Mondays first match, the Times, shot at 300. At the moment the match was won with a 50-10. Condition were very difficult with a constantly changing wind. In the "next best" score category we saw Bruce MacDonald and Jim Paton scoring 50-6 and Ron Dawson 50-5.
Gerry Wiens won the FTR with 75-10, Ken Ferguson was 3rd with 75-7 and Andy Webber 4th with
74-4.
Shooting has finished for today and we are awaiting results from the Wimbledon TR and the dreaded Corporation. Very difficult winds in the Corp. with lots of 1,2 and 3's being shot. The morning gave twitchy winds from 7 minutes to 2 in between some shots. In the afternoon winds got up to 15 minutes. Many a grand agg. was destroyed today and I will report on actual scores tomorrow. Many people walking around muttering things like "disasterous"  "horrendous" and "I should shoot myself if I could read the wind". Positions on the Grand Agg. leader board will be interesting to see.
Until tomorrow................

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