2008 Surrey Olympic Skeet Championship

NCSC Bisley Sunday 25^th May 2008. 

If it comes as a big surprise to see the Surrey report for Olympic Skeet being written by Adrian Berry I can assure you it comes as an even bigger surprise to me. Bearing in mind that it is only the second time I have ever shot the discipline and the other time was three years ago.

I was the only Surrey Committee member that turned up so it has been left to me.

I found myself in squad 1 on peg 1 so I had to ask the referee on ever station what the sequence was. Any way after a number of gun warnings it seemed to be going well with a 21 on the first layout even managing to hit the low house on station eight with my 32 inch sporter but I knew it wouldn’t last only managing a 14 on the next layout followed by two 18’s.

The weather wasn’t very good to start with but the rain and clouds soon disappeared to leave us with a very pleasant day.

Once again a dismal turn out from the Surrey Shooters with only two Ladies, two seniors and one Veteran making the effort.

Pip Watson shot consistently to end up with a winning score of 77 making her the Surrey County Champion and the Surrey Lady Champion.

Katy Poulsom had three good rounds, struggled a little as I did on the second round but still shot an excellent score of 73 to become runner up.

A  big thanks to Barry Desbrough and his staff at the NCSC who all worked very hard to put on the County Championship for Surrey, Sussex, Greater London and Kent.

  Pip Watson 

County & Lady Champion 

 

Report by Adrian Berry

 

(Photo copyright Adrian Berry)