MELBOURNE GUN CLUB 

CLAY SHOOTING COMPETITION

The weather on Thursday 23 April was warm and pleasant for the second year of what is becoming  an ever increasingly popular event on the Inter- school Shooting Calendar.   An increased number of students attended this years event, some travelling in excess of 200 kms. 

The 20 squads of students keep the scorers on the 6 grounds busy all day.  A group of 8 students even attended from the Hutchins School in Tasmania. 

The day was a 'Mixed Discipline Program' consisting of 10 DTL10, Skeet and 10 Sporting Targets.  The individual events were Under 15 girls, Under 15 boys, Over 15 boys and Over 15 girls.  There was a Top Gun trophy for the Top Shooter on the day and a Teams Event, for groups of 5 students from the same school.  

There were some very impressive scores shot by a number of students.  It was encouraging to see the results of what was obviously some great coaching from teachers and others at the various schools and clubs from which students had originated.  From the number of very positive comments that were made, I am confident that all that attended this year will be back in 2016.  

I would like to extend an invitation to any schools that did not attend this year to consider coming to our event next year.

The eventual winners and their schools were; 

Under 15 girls 

1st - Bonnie Rowland (Lilydale)

2nd - Emily Marshall  (Gippsland Grammer)

3rd - Jacqui Taylor (Maffra)

Under 15 Boys

1st - Jack Stockdale (Leongatha)

2nd - Ben Howson (Lilydale)

3rd - Josh Keedle  (Lilydale) 

Over 15 Girls

1st - Aislin Jones (Nagle College)

2nd - Abbey Tayler  (Maffra)

3rd - Jorjeana Anderson (Gippsland Grammer )

Over 15 Boys

1st - Ben Atherton (Wongthaggi)

2nd - Ethan Downey (Camperdown)

3rd - Kyle Morrow  (Lilydale) 

The Teams Event was won by Gippsland Grammer;  

Rylee Barling, Sammuel O’Hara, Solomon Jones,  Cameron Cleal and Em Marshall.  

The overall winner for the day after a close shoot off for the Top Gun Trophy (sponsored by Feralex Pest Control) was Rylee Barling from Gippsland Grammer.  Rylee was also a member of the schools winning team.

Garry Bennett