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From the President - July 12th 2010 :


REMINDER------REMINDER-------REMINDER------- INTERCLUB COMPETITION THIS SUNDAY JULY 18TH MARYBOROUGH CLAY TARGET CLUB VERSUS FRASER COAST SPORTING CLAYS 10 AM TRAP MCTC, FOLLOWED BY SPORTING, CHURCHILL MINES ROAD, LUNCH AVAILABLE AT SPORTING CLAYS AT A VERY REASONABLE CHARGE. ATTENDANCE NUMBERS WOULD BE APPRECIATED FOR CATERING PURPOSES AND COMP NUMBERS. PLEASE PHONE LINDA, 41914656. THANK YOU.
This is our Annual Interclub shoot and it would be great to see a good roll up from our members. The trophy has been held by Fraser Coast Sporting Clays for the past two years and we need to return it back to our trophy cupboard so let's do it and have as many join in as we can for a great days competition and fellowship. Remember when shooting the discipline of sporting clays the secret is more lead, more lead, more lead. If I can remember!
What a beaut day had by all at our club last month for Holly's and Andy's Continental Championship competition and to have them both join us on the day. Targets were great and the competition results not bad although it did show that the first Saturday of the month is invaluable practice in this discipline for our members, proven by one Peter Lewis who attends this day regularly and who picked up the B Grade High Gun on the day.(The first High Gun he has ever won, well done.) Congrats to our winners and again to Irvine Wynyard who won the overall High Gun (3 months in a row) and to Greg Matthews and Glen Wyatt sharing AA, Linda McGregor A, had her eye in too, and C Grade Jack Zaric, which will certainly encourage him on to greater things. A BIG THANK YOU TO HOLLY AND ANDY FOR THEIR SUPPORT. Thank you also to our visiting shooters from kindred clubs; it is always a pleasure to have you join us. Steve Whitehead's portable trench layout proved popular at the end of the shoot with a number of shooters having a try and finding it a little different. Results through too from the Marlborough Club in New Zealand and our Trans Tasman Competition. As you are all aware our scores were very good from previous years however a new C Grade Junior shooter across the ditch in his first ever comp decided he would give everybody a hiding and won it for the Marlborough Club by 8 points. It is obvious that he will not remain where he is for long and full credit to Marlborough for their continuance of the clubs Junior program. There is always next year.
Over the past month members have represented our club at most of the nearby clubs, Bundaberg and Gympie and also at Mundubbera at their Central Burnett Citrus Two day Shoot. Malcolm Zipf shot over the two days and Greg, Nicho and myself on the Sunday. Zippy picked up a couple of A Grade events and the rest of us enjoyed a day out in the country. Nice and cool Sunday morning with a little ice on the windscreens. Very refreshing! A reminder that Bundy's Annual One day Shoot is on Sunday August 1st a week after our club comp and it will be an early start at 9.00AM. This is their first big shoot on the new ground and it would be great to see as many of our members join them on this day. Always great competition and wonderful sponsorship offered throughout the days program.
Our July (this months shoot) on Sunday 25th is our Annual 75 target Double Rise Championship day commencing at 11AM and we are one of the only clubs in Queensland to shoot this competition as a 75 target Championship event outside of the State and National Titles arena. It is frequently shot as two and one day events down at clubs on the New South Wales and Victorian border hence the good scores put in by these shooters at National level. I believe that our club average in double rise has risen well and obviously this has come from not only this comp but its inclusion in some of our monthly shoots throughout the year as well. It must also be said that the boys have the traps tweeked to throw as good double rise targets as you would receive at the National ground. This I believe has assisted. In your grade and overall, every competitor has the opportunity to clean up some of the booty that this day has on offer and I look forward to our strong membership support along with a good contingent of visiting shooters to join us on the day. The girls in the canteen will require some assistance on the day so if you can help it would be great and please bring some goodies for afternoon tea.
At our June meeting the club decided by majority vote to raise the monthly club competition fee by $5.00 across the board which includes Ladies, Veteran, and Intermediate. Juniors will remain the same and practice fees will also have a slight rise to $6.50. This decision has not been made lightly by the club with considerable research and ongoing discussions being given to club income and expenditure by Treasurer Brad. Please make note of these alterations when paying noms on the day.
We will have a General Meeting on this Sunday commencing at 9.30 am and your input is always welcome for the betterment of our club and its way forward. Please don't forget when you have completed your round refill the trap as this helps to keep the shoot moving. If you are not familiar on how to do this ask to be shown, it really is very simple and you will feel as if you are contributing to the overall success of the day.
Good shooting to all over the next four weeks commencing with our Interclub with Sporting Clays next Sunday AND REMEMBER MORE LEAD we gotta win it back, our own MCTC clubs 75 target Double Rise the week after, Bundaberg One Day the following, and Gympie Clubs monthly comp on August 8th.
Good shooting to all.

Trev Cecil

 

 


Pan Pacific Masters Games - Gold Coast 6-14 November 2010 -



Members' achievements around the traps in 2010:
Bundaberg January 3rd Malcolm Zipf A Grade 50 DB PS 147/150. High Gun 194/200
Gympie January 10th Brad Murphy
Malcolm Zipf
C Grade 25 DB 31/31. C Grade High Gun 131/155
A Grade 25 DB Cont 25/25
Bundaberg January 31st Greg Matthews
Malcolm Zipf
Trev Cecil
AA Grade 25 CD share 25/25
A Grade 25 CD share 25/25
B Grade 25 SB 23/25; 25 DB Cont CS 23/25
Gympie February 14th Greg Matthews
Linda McGregor
AA Grade 25 DB Cont 48/48
A Grade 25 DB Cont 29/30. A Grade High Gun 147/150
Kingaroy February 6-7th Malcolm Zipf
Neil Berry
Trevor Cecil
A Grade 2nd 30 Medley CS 74/75
HC 4th 31/32; Veteran High Gun
HC tied 5th 29/30
Moonie February 21-22 David Nicholson AA Grade 25 DB share 25/25
New Zealand Nationals
February 27
Neil Berry Super Vet High Gun
NZ Minis Championship Super Vet
NZ Triples Championship Super Vet
Bundaberg March 7th David Nicholson
Greg Matthews
Jack Zaric
Trev Cecil
AA Grade 25 CD share 25/25
AA Grade 25 PS 75/75
C Grade 25 SB CS 20/25
B Grade Graded HC 25/25
Gympie March 14th David Nicholson
Malcolm Zipf
Brad Murphy
AA Grade 2nd 50DB 48/50; AA 2nd 50 Medley 97/100
A Grade 1st 50 DB 52/53
B Grade 2nd 50 Medley 87/100
Wandoan March 20-21 David Nicholson AA Grade share 20 DB CD 20/20
Gympie April 11th Greg Matthews
Vince Dollisson
AA Grade 25 DB 47/47
B Grade 25 Medley 44/50; B Grade 25 Continental 23/25
Roma State Carnival May 1-3 Paul Anderson
David Nicholson
AA 2nd 25 QCTA PS 227/228
Member of winning SEZ open team
Gympie May 9th Vince Dollisson
Trev Cecil
B Grade 1st 50 Medley 89/100; B Grade 1st 50 DB 49/50
B Grade 2nd 50 DB 46/50
Bundaberg June 6th Greg Matthews
David Nicholson
Malcolm Zipf
AA Grade share DB CD 25/25
AA Grade 25 SB 24/25
A Grade 25 SB 24/25
Gympie June 13th Kevin Perkins AA Grade 25 DB 54/55; AA Grade DR 26/30; AA High Gun 148/155
Central Burnett Annual June 19-20 Malcolm Zipf A Grade 3rd 50 DB CS 52/54
A Grade 1st 30 PS CS 104/108
A Grade 1st 20pr DR CS 33/50
QCTA State ISSF, Brisbane July 9-11 Kevin Perkins 200 tgt Olympic Trap, Overall 2nd, 187/225, Olympic Trap Masters 166/200,
Olympic Trap Open Postal Team No 2 45/50, State Open Team No 2 166/200

New Zealand Clay Target Association President visits Maryborough Clay Target Club (and opens our eyes to initiatives in developing our sport)

Keith Livingstone - President of the New Zealand Clay Target Association - visited the Maryborough Clay Target Club for some practice on 7 April 2010. He was in town for the wedding of one our members and couldn't resist the opportunity to come and shoot some practice at our club.

Shooting with a borrowed gun Keith still managed to hit 75 out of 75 targets, with only two second barrels required. After watching such an exemplary demonstration of shooting skill, we would hate to see how well he can shoot with his own gun.

Talking after shooting was completed, he said that we have a wonderful facility for our community, but suggests that we should be promoting it further by running some high profile events such as corporate challenges and school programs. While we have run school programs in the past, we haven't done so for a few years. I know that Victoria has a very strong schools program, but is this something we should be looking at on a national basis to ensure the future of our sport?

Keith explained that In New Zealand, school programs are seen as a vital aspect of the sport. Through their Association's efforts, the majority of schools in New Zealand have clay target shooting as part of their curriculum (as a sports option, along with the more traditional sports such as netball, soccer and rugby). This year alone they have approximately 600 school students taking part in regular practice and competition.

Apart from generally getting young people involved in an interesting and challenging sport, they see the schools program as a means of identifying kids with the talent to go on to represent their country in the various disciplines of clay target shooting. They run training camps for Down the Line and Skeet, plus regular competition among participating schools and weekly practice. They identify those with the talent to participate in special training for the international shooting disciplines of Olympic Trap and Skeet.

The schools program has done a great deal to improve their results in international competition. For the first time ever, New Zealand holds both the Glenn Trophy (DTL) and Glenn Cup (Skeet). Keith sees the schools program and their Association's work in developing young talent as key to their success in these Trans Tasman events. In addition, he was happy to point out that New Zealand's Open Team beat Australia's at the recent World DTL Championships held in South Africa.

By coincidence, Keith's visit came just before Maryborough Clay Target Club's annual Trans Tasman competition against our sister club in New Zealand, the Marlborough Clay Target Club. They hold the trophy at the moment and with all the good work the New Zealanders are putting into talent development in their sport, it seems that we will have to work very hard to get it back.

As an aside, in the latest CTSN (May 2010), there is an article from Tony Turner of the Canberra International Clay Target Club about 'Growing your club and growing our sport'. It makes some salient points about the age profile of our sport and outlines some of the ways they have been working to gain more shooters, including 'come and try days' and corporate shoots. I would suggest that we all need to take notice of the success of the New Zealand Clay Target Association, the Canberra International Clay Target Club and Victoria's schools program and get out there promoting our sport and getting as many new shooters involved as we can.

A national program to involve schools in the sport is possibly the very thing we should be looking at to bring young shooters into the sport. Even if we only get one or two new shooters out of each batch of students who come to the sport through this avenue, it is worth the effort. I know that many individuals and clubs are doing good work in promoting and growing our sport, but some coordination and initiative at State and National level might be just the thing to get the attention of our target groups.

Linda McGregor
Secretary/Publicity Officer
Maryborough Clay Target Club


Queensland Police Service - Shooting Clubs Newsletter No 1 2008

Extension of Weapons Act Licence Expiry Dates

Over the next five years all licences (excluding 1 year limited licences and licences issued to a body) will be extended to have the expiry date coincide with the licensee's next birthday.
Existing licences expiring on or after 1st October 2008 will be issued with a written notice on secure watermarked paper advising that their licence has been extended to coincide with their next birthday.
Please note: it is a condition of the Commissioner's approval that the written notice must be held with the licence until the latter is renewed or replaced. Both the notice and licence now form the licence for the purposes of licence production to a police officer or firearms dealer under the Weapons Act 1990 and other legislation requirements.

Example:
Licence due to expire 1.11.08 and the licensee's birthday is 11.3.YY - written notice has been sent to licensee extending the licence to 11.3.09, on which date the licence now expires and will be subject to the new renewal date. Once the expiry date on the licence is reached, the written notice identifies the new expiry date for that licence.

Should you require further information please do not hesitate to contact Weapons Licensing Branch via email or telephone 07 3015 7777


 

The Queensland Clay Target Association

"Friends of the Hall of Fame Club"

  Purpose: To appropriately fit out the QCTA Hall of Fame in Roma
Membership: Open to anyone who wishes to assist with the completion of the QCTA Hall of Fame
Levels: Gold Membership $200. Silver Membership $100
Recognition: Members will receive distinctive lapel pins recognising their membership and level of contribution. Member's names will be displayed in the Hall itself.

For further information please contact the QCTA
Phone 1300 667278 / 0419880080 or email
Payments may be sent to QCTA GPO Box 947, Brisbane 4000 - please include your name, address, phone number, email address and membership level (ie Gold or Silver)