Three way tie for overall high gun

The Mount Gambier Gun Club held its annual two-day Supershoot on the weekend of January 18 and 19 with Saturday having sunshine all day with some windy conditions later and Sunday being fine and sunny proving favourable apart from gusts of winds for shooters to obtain some perfect scores.

As in previous years many dedicated trap shooters travelled to the Mount Gambier club to be warmly welcomed and find the club grounds picturesque and equipment to be in excellent condition as the committee and members had spent considerable time preparing for a successful two-day Supershoot.

Friday was practice in the afternoon with a lot of the shooters taking advantage of this time to fine tune their guns, ammunition and mindset.

Early morning practice on the Saturday resulted with shooters arriving early, practising and organizing which squad they would like to participate in and nominating for the two days. After all this the competition started on time at 10am.

Competitors, 126 in all, travelled from Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and all over South Australia to contest the six events vying for a share of the $22,000 worth of prizes on offer.

Each event prizes were for the grades AA, A, B, C and each grade was rewarded from first to fifth placegetter prizes.

High Gun prizes over the 2 days events were awarded to Overall, Grades, Veteran, Ladies and Junior.EVENTS:Event 1 Pick Avenue Deli & Bakery 25 tgt Pointscore Championship Five shooters attained a perfect score and shoot offs were needed in the grades to ascertain the placegetters.

They were quite quickly done moving on to the next competition.RESULTS:AA1st Gavin Height 78/78, Dallas Fisher 83/84, 3rd Rob Hunter 82/84, 4th Sam Rundell 89/90, 5th Brent Farnsworth 88/90A Grade1st Rito Borzillo 119/120, 2nd Andrew Evans 116/120, 3rd Lias Hawker 73/75, 4th Doogy Skinner 105/108, 5th Craig Elliott 104/10B Grade1st Adam Megson 81/81, 2nd Dale Robertson78/81, 3rd Stuart Bowd 86/87, 4th Glen Wilkinson 85/87, 5th Peter Winser 73/75C Grade1st Doug Harris 74/75, 2nd Ian Urch 73/75, 3rd Frank Kentish 71/78, 4th Val Dehne 70/75, 5th Jorja Rundell 69/75Event 2 Mount Gambier Community Bank (Bendigo Bank) 25tgt Single Barrel Championship High scores were attained as the shooters tried to win the cash prizes on offer and once more shoot offs were the order of the day.RESULTS:AA 1st Sam Rundell 40/40, 2nd Jamie Dunn 39/40, 3rd Gavin Height 42/44, 4th Tom Clark 41/44, 5th Stephen Holdsworth 29/31.A Grade1st Bruce Dean 24/25, 2nd Neil Ham 26/28 , 3rd Dennis Ryan 25/28, 4th Steve Russell 40/43, 5th Lisa Hawker 39/43B Grade1st Toni Hogg 29/31, 2nd Grant Stevenson 28/31, 3rd Danny Hill 26/29, 4th Adam Megson 24/27, 5th Gerald Hopgood 23/26C Grade1st Frank Kentish 23/25, 2nd Chris Gardiner 22/25, 3rd Doug Harris 23/27, 4th Jorja Rundell 23/28, 5th Lenny Dobbins 22/28Event 3 South West Freight 25tgt Double Barrel ChampionshipThis was the last event for the first day of competition and the shooters were showing their fine marksmanship with 25 competitors shooting perfect scores and shoot offs started and continued into the early evening.RESULTS:AA Grade 1st Harry Brown 136/136 , 2nd Ash Hawker 135/136, 3rd Ashley Bolwell 132/133, 4th Don Pratt 103/104, 5th Gavin Height 64/65.A Grade1st Amanda McCrone 50/50, 2nd Tony DePadova 49/50, 3rd Pete Minhard 30/31, 4th Jesse Murrell 28/29, 5th Greg Tapscott 26/26 B Grade 1st Heath Telford 27/27, 2nd Darren Murrell 28/29, 3rd Leigh Dunn 27/29, 4th Martin Collumb 30/31, 5th David Hirth 29/31C Grade1st Lenny Dobbins 25/25, 2nd Ricki Kelly 24/25, 3rd Robert Marcato 23/25, 4th Brian Case 29/32, 5th Michael Rudd 28/32

The George Yoey Club Team Competition was held over the three events on Saturday with the team entry conditions being one competitor from grades AA, A, B, C plus one from Vet, Lady or Junior from the same club .

The Colac team of AA David Fenn, A Ryhs Hirth, B Daniel McCrone, C Chris Gardiner and Amanda McCrone Lady won the $500 prizemoney, sponsored by Guy Yoannidis.

A Junior Highgun prize for the day was donated by Scott Fleming with Harry Brown 119/125 winning the cartridges as prizes

Sunday dawned bright and sunny but with some winds thrown in yet high scores again were shot and shoot offs were required in all events.

So after some practice for the shooters the competition started up at 9.30am as all were ready to fire off.Event 4 Zema Estate Winery 25tgt Single Barrel Championship This event had an overall prize in memorial to the late Matt Zema consisting of personally selected premium bottles of Zema Estate wine and after a shootoff of the five shooters who had perfect scores the overall winner was Stephen Holdsworth with a perfect 34/34RESULTS:AA Gradest Max Medhurst 30/31, 2nd Greg Pridmore 39/40, 3rd David Fenn 38/40, 4th Tom Clark 26/27, 5th Ash Hawker 25/27 A Grade 1st Ian Heard 33/34, 2nd Graham Menhennet 25/26, 3rd Greg Kessegian 24/25, 4th Pete Minhard 28/30, 5th Doogy Skinner 27/30 B Grade1st Brian Spring 22/25, 2nd Gerald Hopgood 24/28, 3rd Garry Allison 21/25 , 4th Stuart Bowd 22/28, 5th Quinny Quinlan 37/42 C Grade1st Mick Rudd 25/30, 2nd Peter Klieve 24/30, 3rd Ian Urch 19/25, 4th Jorja Rundell 23/30, 5th Ricki Kelly 21/29Event 5 Winchester Australia 25tgt Pointscore ChampionshipWith Winchester cartridges on tghe line shoot offs were again needed despite the slightly windy conditionsRESULTS:AA Grade1st Allan Pollock 99/99, 2nd Wayne Sanders 98/99, 3rd Rob Hunter 89/90, 4th Tom Jenkins 86/90, 5th Sam Rundell 82/84 72/78 A Grade1st Bob Chamberlain 74/75, 2nd Tony DePadova 85/87, 3rd Glen Carroll 84/87, 4th Lisa Hawker 122/126, 5th Doogy Skinner 121/126 B Grade1st Brian Spring 73/75, 2nd Martin Collumb 72/75, 3rd Leigh Dunn 77/81, 4th David Hirth 74/81, 5th Heath Telford 70/75C Grade1st Mick Rudd 65/75, 2ND Aaron Pretlove 70/81, 3rd Peter Klieve 75/87, 4th Val Dehne 74/87, 5th Paul Sanders 63/75Event 6 Trident Tyre Centre 25tgt Continental ChampionshipThis event was fiercely contested with 13 shooters attaining perfect scores and 25 with 24s and so it took some time to finish those shoot offs to decide the winners. AA Grade 1st Allan Pollock 97/97, 2nd Greg Pridmore 96/97, 3rd Don Pratt 84/85, 4th Ash Hawker 75/75, 5th Mark Newcombe 46/47A Grade1st Rhys Hirth 30/30, 2nd John Hawker 29/30, 3rd Stephen Holt 28/29, 4th Harry Clark 42/43, 5th Neil Ham 41/43B Grade1st Peter Winser 37/38, 2nd Rodney Gilcrist 34/36, 3rd Daniel McCrone 32/34, 4th Danny Hill 28/30, 5th Heath Telford 27/29C Grade 1st Lenny Dobbins 24/25, 2nd Val Dehne 23/26, 3rd Peter Bourne 22/26, 4th Garry Bowd 22/25, 5th Peter Klieve 25/292 Day Highgun WinnersOverall & AAShared by Ash Hawker 243/250, Jamie Dunn 243/250 & Sam Rundell 243/250A GradeAmanda McCrone 280/300B GradeDavid Hirth 229/250C GradePeter Klieve 229/270VeteranAllan Pollock 237/250 & Gavin Height 237/250LadiesLisa Hawker 279/300JuniorHarry Clark 235/250

The two day shoot was enjoyed by all and 72 successful shooters won prizes from the $22,000 prize pool and are again looking forward to returning next year to try out their marksmanship abilities.

The Mount Gambier Gun Club again thanks all the sponsors and those people who helped make this shoot run smoothly and successfully all the people behind the scenes the quiet achievers the Shoot Marshall, catering helpers, trap technicians and grounds maintenance, who give so generously of their tim.

The event was sponsored by Pick Ave Deli & Bakery, Bendigo Bank, South West Freight, Zema Wines, Winchester, Trident Tyre Centre and Greg Kessegian, Ken Atkin, Dunn School of Shooting along with Scott Fleming, South East Vets, Andrew Hoare, Max Medhurst, Guy Yoannidis, Warren Lindner, Dale Robertson and Brian Spring for their generous and ongoing support to make our Supershoot a most successful and entertaining event so this will be a great start to the 2025 competitions