The Great Egg Shoot
Sunday 1st May 2016
Sunday 1st May was not the greatest day to find the drive to attend Phillips Point Range, with overcast skies, a driving and gusting north westerly wind with intermittent rain showers and worse intermittent horizontal snow!
However four persons braved the conditions to compete in the annual egg shoot, an intermix of shooting disciplines, targets and distances, consisting of five separate targets which you had a maximum of five rounds to shoot at each.
Target 1 was the advancing man from 10 metres to be shot single handed in your weak hand.
Target 2 was the all black 50m round precision target, shot from 15 metres single handed strong hand.
Target 3 the black & white 25m round precision target shot from 20 metres two handed (only the centre black area to score).
Target 4 was two clay pigeons at 25 metres, any free standing shooting style and any unused rounds if both targets hit gained 10 bonus points each.
Target 5, the name sake of the shoot, was a single egg at 30 metres, again any free standing shooting style can be used and If the egg is broken any remaining unused rounds will give you 10 bonus points each.
Taking into account the disciplines and the weather to compete in, unsurprisingly the scoring was up and down with Rob Hoy coming fourth, Graham Didlick third, Nevin Middleton second but exceptionally well done to Charlotte Middleton who came First. Charlotte actually matched Nevins score of 189 but the decider was that Charlotte was the only one to hit the egg!