Saturday
The IoM Easter Shoot, rifle section, was held over the weekend at Sinclair Range, St Johns in near perfect weather conditions. Good Friday was a day for practice for those involved and the visiting shooters made the most of the time available. Saturday was day 1 of competition with the men’s 3 position rifle and three locals took part in the 3 x 40 match. Just two, Ben Kelly and Mike Clague made the knock-out Olympic final of 8 and Mike Clague was first to leave the firing point with Ben Kelly, leaving in sixth position. It must be noted that these three, Clague, Kelly and Les Crowe are new to this discipline and not one of them shot badly as they were up against GB International shooters. The event win went to Richard Chasemore of Parkstone Rifle Club.
Details A, B and C of the 50 metre prone match were shot throughout the day and leading the pack when the results were posted was recently crowned Island Indoor Champion, Harry Creevy on 591 x 600. Full list of locals were :-
1 – Harry Creevy 99, 97, 97, 100, 100, 98 = 591
4 – Mike Duncalf 97, 98, 98, 95, 100, 97 = 585
8 – Ben Kelly 95, 98, 98, 98, 97, 95 = 581
14 – Andy Potter 95, 94, 96, 95, 98, 98 = 576
15 – Alex Trafford (J) 95, 99, 96, 95, 95, 95 = 575
16 – Michael Clague 95, 95, 99, 98, 93, 95 = 575
18 – Illiam Christian (J) 94, 97, 96, 94, 97, 95 = 573
20 – Gemma Kermode 97, 95, 95, 93, 96, 97 = 573
23 – Tracey Skelton 90, 96, 98, 96, 95, 96 = 571
24 – Bill Jones 96, 94, 98, 96, 95, 91 = 570
26 – Les Crowe 94, 96, 93, 95, 95, 94 = 567
29 – Jayde Lambert 93, 96, 92, 94, 92, 96 = 563
30 – Perryn Callister 95, 92, 94, 95, 93, 93 = 562
31 – Nick Brown 95, 94, 93, 92, 96, 92 = 562
33 – Andy Traynor 91, 94, 97, 93, 95, 88 = 558
34 – Thomas Clague (J) 89, 92, 92, 93, 97, 94 = 557
35 – Harriet Nuttall 95, 90, 90, 94, 94, 94 = 557
36 – Suzanne McKnight 93, 93, 89, 91, 96, 91 = 553
40 – John Brewis 93, 96, 95, 94, 92, 71 = 541
42 – Matthew Roosen (J) 91, 93, 92, 87, 90, 85 = 538
There were 48 entrants for the match. Class medallists were:-
Class X – Gold - Harry Creevy - 591
Class A – Bronze - Mike Duncalf - 585
Class B – Bronze - Tracey Skelton - 571
Class C – Gold - Alex Trafford – 575 Silver – Illiam Christian – 573
Junior Class – Gold - Alex Trafford – 575 Silver – Illiam Christian – 573
Sunday
Moving onto Sunday’s competitions, again details A, B and C of the second 50 metre prone match were shot throughout the day and on this occasion three shooters scored identical results – GB International, Mark Szymankiewicz and locals Andy Potter & Mike Duncalf all posted 590 x 600 to lead the event. Full results for the locals were :-
=1- Andy Potter 99, 96, 99, 98, 99, 99 = 590
=1 – Mike Duncalf 98, 98, 98, 99, 99, 98 = 590
10 – Nick Brown 98, 97, 99, 98, 94, 96 = 582
11 – Ben Kelly 98, 97, 94, 97, 99, 96 = 581
12 – Suzanne McKnight 98, 96, 97, 94, 99, 97 = 581
14 – Perryn Callister 99, 97, 96, 98, 95, 95 = 580
15 – Tracey Skelton 97, 96, 98, 94, 98, 96 = 579
17 – Bill Jones 97, 96, 96, 96, 94, 100 = 579
20 – Mike Clague 98, 97, 94, 97, 98, 93 = 577
21 – Illiam Christian 100, 98, 96, 92, 96, 95 = 577
23 – Gemma Kermode 94, 97, 96, 97, 96, 96 = 576
28 – Andy Traynor 96, 96, 98, 95, 94, 94 = 573
33 – Harriet Nuttall 96, 93, 94, 94, 92, 95 = 564
34 – Matthew Roosen 97, 92, 91, 93, 96, 94 = 563
36 – Jayde Lambert 94, 95, 89, 94, 90, 94 = 556
37 – Thomas Clague 95, 96, 92, 90, 91, 90 = 554
40 – Les Crowe 79, 93, 93, 93, 96, 97 = 551
The top eight ladies and top eight gents go through to the final.
Class medallists were:-
Class A – Silver (on count-back) – Andy Potter - 590
Bronze (on count-back) – Mike Duncalf – 590
Class B – Gold - Suzanne McKnight - 581
Silver - Tracey Skelton - 579
Class C – Gold – Nick Brown - 582
Silver – Perryn Callister - 580
Bronze - Illiam Christian – 577
Junior Class – Gold – Illiam Christian – 577
Veterans – Silver – Nick Brown – 582
Teams of 4 – “E-Lemon-aters” – Duncalf, Roosen, McKnight and Traynor –
Bronze - 2307 x 2400
Teams of 2 – “The Chuckle Brothers” -
Gold – Duncalf and Potter 1180 x 1200
Ladies Final – Kermode takes bronze
Sunday afternoon closed the weekends competitions with both ladies and gentlemen’s Olympic Finals. In the first final, the ladies, the island was represented by no less than 4 young ladies. Once again these finals are a knock-out match and unfortunately, first to leave was Perryn Callister followed by Suzanne McKnight then Tracey Skelton, leaving Gemma Kermode to see off two international visiting shooters, Zoe Bruce and Erica Jones. Kermode left the firing point in Bronze medal position leaving Scottish International, Sheena Sharp and GB shooter, Karen Butler to take silver and gold respectively.
Gents final
In the gent’s final, the pressure was on the two locals Andy Potter and Mike Duncalf from the start but they appeared to rise to the formidable challenge. First to leave the firing point in this knock-out competition was Ashford Rifle Club’s shooter, Keith Adair followed by shooter from the Island of St Helena, Simon Henry who is well known to many locals. Richard Chasemore from Parkstone RC was next, closely followed by Chippingham Rifle Club’s, Nick Clark. This left Duncalf, Sam Harris, Mark Szymankiewicz and Potter – Duncalf left the firing point in fourth position, losing by just .06 points, Harris took Bronze leaving Szymankiewicz who was beaten into Silver position by .09 points by local shooter, Andy Potter who claimed the Gold. This match proved to be a terrific, tense and entertaining final, which was enjoyed by a large group of supporters.
In the weekend aggregate matches, the following shows the final positions of each local competitor:-
2 – Mike Duncalf 585 + 590 = 1175 x 2000
6 – Andy Potter 576 + 590 = 1166
8 – Ben Kelly 581 + 581 = 1162
14 – M. Clague 575 + 577 = 1152
15 – Tracey Skelton 571 + 579 = 1150
16 – Illiam Christian 573 + 577 = 1150
18 – Gemma Kermode 573 + 576 = 1149
21 – Nick Brown 562 + 582 = 1144
23 – Perryn Callister 562 + 580 = 1142
27 – Suzanne McKnight 553 + 581 = 1134
28 – Andy Traynor 558 + 573 = 1131
30 – Harriet Nuttall – 557 + 564 = 1121
31 – Jayde Lambert – 563 + 556 = 1119
32 – Les Crowe 567 + 551 = 1118
33 – Thomas Clague 557 + 554 = 1111
35 – Matthew Roosen 538 + 563 = 1101
Aggregate Classes were:-
Class A – Silver – Mike Duncalf – 1175
Class B – Silver - Tracey Skelton – 1150
Class C - Gold - Illiam Christian - 1150
Bronze - Nick Brown - 1144
Hopefully, next week’s column will have several more results which are in hand, but due to column space, I am unable to give them here.
Dates for your Diaries
The Isle of Man Rifle Association are holding their Annual Dinner and Prize Presentation on Saturday at 7.30 pm at the Mount Murray Golf Club. If last year’s dinner is anything to go by, it will be an excellent evening. Hopefully, all clubs have now informed Lorrie Thompson regarding ticket numbers.
Due unavoidable date clashes, the IoM Shooting Club will not be holding a Monthly Handicap during April – the next Monthly Handicap will be on Sunday, May 3rd at 10.30 a.m.
