With another good turn out for the FFTA winter league all was good. Richard had set us a good all round course up at Colne and with the cold start and very little wind we knew it would be a high scoring round.

Top score for the day came from Hereward’s Red Gallagher with only 1 miss out of 30 targets . Very good going.

Spring was high scoring too with Nathan and Tony Y coming in with a 3(27). Neil and myself partnered Nathan and that was very impressive shooting from Nathan. With those two at the top of their game the Paul James British Recoiling Championship is going to get very interesting to watch in just over a months time. If you are interested in taking part in this competition booking will start at the beginning of February

A few whistles on the day due to sticky targets in the frost and a failure on anther stand but the Colne Valley crew come to hand very quickly to get the shoot started again.

Hopefully we will see you all at Lea Valley on the 19th February for the presentation shoot. We are stating at 9.30 for this one with briefing at 9.15. If you could be there and sign in by 8.45 this will help the stats team sort the lanes out prior to shoot.

Good day to you all

Phil

This weekend sees the last round of the 2022/23 Fenlands Winter League. We will be heading to Richard’s Colne Valley ground which always keeps you thinking what wind to give the last few targets in the plantation area of the course.

Looking at the tables of results it’s going to be interesting to see who comes out top in A grade with just as few points difference in the top 3 shooters.

Spring gun has been the same with Gareth being on top all season but lurking in the depths is a guy called Nathan just waiting to pounce on the leaderboard.

Briefing will be at 9.45am with the shoot commencing straight after.

See you all there

FFTA Comp Sec

David Elvin topped the Main session with a 29 missing T 30 a long stander and Nathan came top of the Springer round with a 28. Good shooting from the both of you.

Another mention is Mollie who had a very good Open round score of 25 in her first competition away from her local club. Certainly one to keep the regulars on their toes.

In the Team competition we had Broadlands come in top with 98 followed close behind by Hereward with 96. This will be a good season watching these 2 clubs go head to head with each other. Team score is based on the top 4 scores from that club.

Can I say thankyou to all who turned out to Broadlands and we will see you all hopefully at the next shoot.

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Quite a few of us from the FFTA turned out at this year’s BFTA Euro’s competition held at Wold Farm. I had a good walk of the course due to being located next to the Woodland walk we are used too. A few targets had to be changed on the lake side but nothing major. I started on lane 2 with Craig Corbett so I knew it was going to be an enjoyable day. After last years event with little to no wind we had certainly got it today. Right to left over the lake and having to come out of kill on most. After that we entered the open field for one lane for the infamous Crowzilla. Mmm so what do we do here. Looking at the plate there was not many hits but misses all over. Pulled the line and my choice of straight down the middle worked a treat. On to the woodland part which I thought was really well set up. Not much wind in here on the Saturday until the last few lanes which got you thinking. Day 1 all in all a good day with a 43/50 hitting 9/10 of my standing shots.

Day 2, Started of well with starting proceedings and marshalling inn the wood for an hour. Wind I thought was a little stronger today out there. A little pep talk to James Kay about his standers and looks like it paid off him. On to my shooting. Well, hit-miss it was for the first 5 lanes and now I’m ready to give in . Head was not there today but Eggie kept me there and I did pull it back to get a 40/50 but that was not enough to keep up there. A really good weekend and nice to see so many new faces entering and putting in some very respectable scores.

Photos courtesy of Paul Whitehouse(CSFTA) & Brian Haych(SWEFTA)

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