Fly Results - Silverdale November

Despite the recent wet weather the range was fairly dry with cloudy skies with almost calm conditions looked ideal. However the still conditions made it difficult to pick which way the air was moving with nothing showing on the flags but air moving all the same, this resulted in a little left to right and some vertical which caught out a number of shooters. Kathy Dundas shot a PB and took her first Fly win ahead of Ed McGrann and grandson Keagan not far behind.
Some “L” Plates were attached to my bench and the usual fun and games seeing it was my first Fly shoot in years, fortunately the guys could not get me in one of those Blue “SSAA Try shooting vests” they issue at the range!

The rain held off till we were back in the shed scoring so it made for a much better day than expected. Results below include shooters local clubs where they do the majority of their shooting as we would like some encourage others from the local clubs to come and participate in the Fly.


Place               Name                                  Score              Club
1st                    Kathy Dundas                 275.4               WSRC
2nd                  Ed Mcgrann                    268.5               SISC
3rd                   Keagan Mcgrann Jr     258.6                SISC
4th                   John Gilbert                   258.5                SSAA - Wollongong
5th                   Tony Souter                    257.7                SSAA -Syd
6th                   David Dundas               254.1                 WSRC
7th                   Peter Cowie                    229.0                SSAA -Syd
8th                   Keith Dowell                  223.3                SSAA -Syd

Best Target: Ed Mcgrann 59.1
Best Group: Ed Mcgrann 31mm

Our next Fly shoot will be held on the 12th December, as it’s our last shoot of the year and almost xmas I will be again offering a bottle of 12yo Scotch for the winner.


David Dundas

Congratulations to Kathy with 275.4, that's an impressive score. 270+ has only been  shot  8 times out of the last 34 registered 500m fly matches since the start of 2012.

Nick

its at 200 yds nick

Congratulation Kathy well shot and impressive see you at the BAY i hope next year and bring your great performance with you. I love the rimfire as well and we are lucky that you guys travel to the bay for the shoot really enjoyable keep it up.
cheers Les

Oops thought this was the 500m fly shooter forum?

Thanks All, will pass on the comments to Kathy.

Her Fly shooting is improving all the time. The conditions were very calm which helped the scores get up there as not many shooters have a 270+ score at Silverdale.
The competition is vevy tight with last months winner (Keith Dowell) finishing last on Saturday and just goes to show you can not have a bad card else you will be down the leader board - Consistancy wins.

Hopefully, we will get some new target frames built so we can have some more shooters in 2016.


Dave

Hi Les

The Batemans Bay shoot is the first shoot that goes on the calendar so we will be there with bells on. All the Sydney shooters enjoyed their trip south this year and we want to get more shooters down there for 2016.
We are having our xmas fly shoot and lunch next month and I will rev every one up to see who might be interested. Hopefully we can get around 12 shooters from Sydney this year for the rimfire and maybe a couple of those will shoot the 500m Fly as well.
Unfortunately the 500m Fly is no longer shot in Sydnety as no one stepped up after Dave Waters organised the event years ago at the Hornsby range. Its been so long now I doubt it will every get started again which is a real shame, just needs a couple of Hornsby shooters to step up.


Regards

Dave

I have to admit I thought it was 500m as well and thought WOW they had their shit together on that shoot lol. Well done to all that shot, the 200 is really seeing some great scores. I am assuming it's rimfire?

Cheers

Years ago we thought 250+ was a great score so we got a trophy to put the few names on it if they scored 2 x 250+ in a calendar years - in the last 2 years we have doubled the number of names on the trophy.
What to do - This year I got a new trophy for anyone who has shot a 280+ which has only ever been done a couple of time at our club. Ed Mcgrann shot a 284 earlier in the year so is the only name on the trophy so far but I am sure in a year or two we will have some more.
Got a bottle of Chivas already for the next shoot.


Dave

Great results !!  And well done Kathy !!

Fantastic to see club results on here.

David, if you are interested, I would be happy to make you a results page where you can post and store your 200 fly club results every month.... that way over time you will build historical results pages.  Maybe start it off for 2016 ?

You would just need them in either PDF or Excel format to post.


Cheers

Anthony