State championships run & won

Gavin Dyson & Reece Fleming take the honours at SA Sporting Clay title shoots

The Mount Gambier Gun Club hosted the South Australian State 100 target Sporting Clays Championships earlier this month in sunny conditions but with an odd light sprinkle.

Even though there was some slight dull lighting late afternoon the shooters still achieved some high scores.

The major sponsors for the day were The Limestone Coast Fishermen’s Cooperative, Stuart Bowd Rural Contracting and Timothy Lloyd

The event was held over two five stand sporting layouts with the competitors shooting 25 targets at each layout, enthusiastically the competitors started out, obtaining some credible scores in the first 50 targets.

The layout traps were then changed to add a bit more of a challenge to shooters skills even then some shooters shot a perfect 25/25 at a layout .

After four rounds of 25 targets shoot offs were needed to ascertain the winners of some grades.

Gavin Dyson and Jeremy Kent shot off for overall honors with Gavin emerging victorious by one target and taking out the SA State Sporting Clays Champion for 2023.

Jeremy Kent 104/110 took out AA grade with Joe Densley 97/110 in second place.

Bruce Oakley 98/110 narrowly edged out Kevin Mules 97/110 to win A grade.

Scott Fleming 85/100 won B from Rolf Bugden 80/100, Terry Howard 79/100 won C from Len Decandia 76/100, seasoned shooter Kevin Mules 89/100 won Veteran grade from Neville Kent 86/100 and Janette Densley 85/100 won the Ladies division from Nicola Dunn 74/100.

Reece Fleming 57/100 won the SA State Junior Champion title from Tom Clark 54/100 .

The SA State Sporting Clays team will be Gavin Dyson, Jeremy Kent and Bruce Oakley to compete at Wagga Wagga later in the year at the Australian National Sporting Clays Championships.