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DIE BONTEBOK
KA APJAG INTERTAK SKIET CALVINIA 30 OKTOBER 2021 By Greg Sykes
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hat a week! A quiet start to the last week of October suddenly went haywire, work picked up dramatically and it looked like I would be heading up to Jo-burg for last minute meetings. Wesleys’ boss was giving him a hard time over the amount of time he was off, shooting the various competitions and our boys in blue launched a totally unreasonable search warrant at Ludy’s place. Right up until Friday at 3 o’clock, we were all waiting for confirmation that we would still be heading up tot Calvinia for the annual Kaapjag Intertak shoot. Eventually we could wait for Ludy no longer and the rest of the team headed up in JC’S Kombi. Ludy was still dealing with the police, but as
we passed through Riebeek Kasteel to pick up Paul Harding, we heard that they were done for the week and Ludy had arranged for his brother to fly him up to Calvinia. By the time we were just shy of Clanwilliam dam, Ludy messaged to say he had just landed at the unattended dirt runway about 2 km away from the beautiful Ramskop shooting range just outside of town. A quick call to Anthony Swift, the chairman of the Boesmanland branch of Kaapjag, and a lift was arranged for Ludy back to the hotel. Thanks to Anthony who once again showed the hospitality of folks up in the country side. The rest of us arrived quite late and settled down to a good meal and a bit of the Cape’s finest red at the
Everybody ready to shoot 100m rooibok targets in the sitting position
local Blou Naartjie restaurant. The next morning bright and early we were on the range for a quick sight in and to help where we could with setting up targets and getting our two teams signed in. The admin flowed smoothly and after an opening prayer and quick match briefing, we were off to shoot. Kaapjag Central branch entered two teams into the event. We had our open team consisting of myself, Wesley White, Nols Meyer and his son Rohan. We also entered a senior team of Ludy Starke, Paul Harding, Jacques Buckle and Nelson Christiaanse. The actual shooting event was by far the best organised event that I have ever attended. Anthony and his team spared no effort in making the
Ramskop in the background and the shooters taking aim on the springbok target on 200m
