John-R Jones
It was very gratifying to see the turnout for the 3rd Air gun and .22 Open Sight club champs. We hosted 10 shooters on the range. Not all 10 shot each event offered, i.e., only 3 of us shot the Air gun sport handgun. It was a very enjoyable day on the range; took us some time before we got started, we were just enjoying each other’s company. This did mean however that we consumed some of afternoon drinking time, we only adjourned to the bar at 16:00.
We were also graced by some visitors to the range after at least a 15 year sebatical; Allan ran into George and Hantie du Plessis in town one day and invited them back to the range for a visit, hoping to entice the back to start shooting again. Apparently Hantie was the Wolwehoek club champ for many years with handgun and was very good with shotgun and rifle too being a multiple time winner of the Holiday Inn shooting competition. Also, George and she build the bar counter in the club-house, apparently he owned a railway sleeper furniture manufacturing business. We hope we seen them again soon.
The wind was seriously bad, but despite that obstacle, some very good scores were posted; particularly by Jimmy Bekker who only missed on pig with the open-sight .22. We had to tie all the turkeys and ram down with wire to keep them standing upright.
The score for the various events of the day were as follows:
Notably consistent high performance from Allan Peters, Jimmy Bekker and Sharon Mladina, each scoring in the top 5 for each event.
