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Shoot offs the order of the day

The Mount Gambier Gun Club holds its annual Two Day Supershoot earlier this month

The Mount Gambier Gun Club held its annual Two Day Supershoot earlier this month.

As in previous years many dedicated trap shooters travelled to the Mount Gambier Club to be warmly welcomed and find the club grounds picturesque and equipment to be in excellent condition as the committee and members had spent considerable time preparing.

Friday was practice in the afternoon with a lot of the shooters taking advantage of this to finetune their guns and mindset even though the temperature was quite hot. Early morning practice on the Saturday resulted with shooters arriving early, practising and organising which squad they would like to participate in and nominating for the two days. After all this the competition started on time at 10am.

Competitors,107 in all, travelled from Victoria , New South Wales and all over South Australia to contest the six events held across two days vying for a share of the $21,000 worth of prizes on offer. Each event prizes were for the grades AA, A, B, C and each grade 1st to 5th placegetter prizes. High Gun prizes over the two days events were awarded to Overall, Grades, Veteran, Ladies and Junior.

The Pick Avenue Deli & Bakery 25Tgt Pointscore was the first event with shooters eagerly waiting their turn in the bright sunny conditions some shooters attained a perfect score , shoot offs were needed in all grades to ascertain the placegetters these were quite quickly done moving on to the next competition.

AA Winners 1st Gavin Height 102/102 , 2nd Harry Clark 101/102, 3rd Greg Pridmore 104/105, 4th Martin Collumb 103/105, 5th Don Pratt 97/99. A Grade 1st Allan Jones 75/75, 2nd Adam Roll 77/78, 3rd Matthew Robinson 76/78, 4th Steven Chambers 88/90, 5th

Denis Blok 87/90. B Grade 1st

Michael Sutton 74/75, 2nd Nick

Rishworth 74/78, 3rd Michael Rudd 73/78, 4th Jordyn Brown 79/84, 5th Vince Petraccaro 78/84. C Grade 1st Garry Allison 72/75, 2nd

Peta Polgreen 70/75, 3rd Daniel McCrone 68/75, 4th Garry Bowd 85/93, 5th Doug Rohde 82/93.

Event 2 was the Mount Gambier Community Bank (Bendigo Bank) 25Tgt Single Barrel was next up and again the shooters were in fine form with some perfect scores attained trying to win the cash prizes on offer and once more shoot offs had to be performed in the now rather hot conditions with the following results.

AA Grade, 1st Tom Jenkins

28/28, 2nd Max Medhurst 30/31, 3rd Darren Watts 29/31, 4th Martin Collumb 28/29, 5th Bill Jorgensen

27/29. A Grade 1st Rito Borzillo

37/37, 2nd Jesse Murrell 36/37, 3rd

Rhys Fischer 42/43, 4th Adam Roll

41/43, 5th Andrew Evans 35/37. B Grade 1st Vince Petraccaro 32/34, 2nd Jordyn Brown 31/34, 3rd Nicola Dunn 24/27, 4th Lawrence Mirabella 28/31, 5th Darren Murrell

27/31. C Grade 1st Toni Hogg 32/35, 2nd Daniel Robinson 31/35, 3rd Peter Klieve 22/25, 4th Ian Urch 23/27, 5th Garry Allison 22/27 Event 3 was the South West Freight 25Tgt Double Barrel was the last event for the day and in these hot and bright conditions, the shooters were showing their fine marksmanship with 25 competitors shooting perfect scores, shoot offs started and eventually the AA Grade was taken out by David Fenn 62/62, 2nd James Hipwell 61/62, 3rd Gavin Height 51/52, 4th Jamie Dunn 47/48, 5th Willis Jenkins 39/40. A Grade 1st Andrew Estcourt 36/36, 2nd Chris Dalrymple 35/36, 3rd Slap Comensoli 31/32, 4th Andrew Hoare 31/32, 5th Rhys Fischer / Mathew Cocks, B Grade 1st Kaylene Estcourt 28/28, 2nd Vince Petraccaro 33/34, 3rd Lawrence Mirabella 32/34, 4th Jordyn Brown 25/26, 5th Brian Case 28/29 . C Grade 1st Ian Urch 27/27, 2nd Daniel McCrone 26/27, 3rd Toni Hogg 24/25, 4th Rolf Bugden 24/26, 5th Garry Allison 23/26.

The George Yoannidis Club Team Competition was held over the three events on Saturday with the team entry conditions being one competitor from grades AA, A, B, C plus one from Vet, Lady or Junior from the same club.

The Mount Gambier “Jerry’s” team of AA Don Pratt, A Peter Winser, B Brian Case, C Garry Bowd and Steve Chambers Veteran won the $500 prize money, sponsored by Guy Yoannidis .

Sunday saw high scores again were shot and shoot offs in all events were necessary so after some practice for the shooters the competition started up at 9.30am as all were ready to fire off .

Event 4 was the Zema Estate Winery 25Tgt Single Barrel was up first with shooters eagerly squadding up to try and win the prized personally selected Zema Estate wines on offer. This event had an overall prize in memorial to the late Matt Zema consisting of personally selected premium bottles of Zema Estate wine and a shooting jacket, the overall winner was David Fenn 25/25

AA Grade 1st Gavin Height 24/25, 2nd Amanda McCrone 28/30, 3rd Jamie Dunn 27/30, 4th Wayne Jenkins 31/34, 5th Warren Lindner 30/34, A Grade 1st Steven Chambers 26/29, 2nd Bob Chamberlain 25/29, 3rd Andrew Evans 23/27, 4th Tony De Padova 28/33, 5th Adam Roll 25/30. B Grade 1st James McKinnon 22/25, 2ND Michael Sutton 25/29, 3rd Jordyn Brown 24/29 , 4th Darren Blok 22/27, 5th Wally Wombwell 21/27, C Grade 1st Doug Rohde 22/30, 2nd Ben Kentish 21/30, 3rd Daniel McCrone 18/25, 4th Bernadette

Mt Gambier

Peters 21/29, 5th Ian McArthur 20/29. Event 5 was the Winchester Australia 25Tgt Pointscore was shot with enthusiasm with contestants trying hard to win the Winchester cartridges even in the windy conditions shoot offs were again needed .

AA Grade 1st Tom Jenkins

74/75, 2nd Darren Watts 73/75, 3rd Bill Jorgensen 78/81, 4th Ashley Bolwell 77/81, 5th Chris Jorgen

74/78. A Grade 1st Kevin Mules

75/78, 2nd Jesse Murrell 74/78, 3rd Mathew Cocks 70/75, 4th Rito Borzillo 81/87, 5th Slap Comensoli

80/87, B Grade. 1st Kaylene Estcourt 77/84, 2nd Michael Sutton

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