H & S GIPPSLAND SCHOOL COMPETITION

CLAY TARGET SHOOTING, SCHOOL COMPETITION

Zac Sporle ( Year 9 ) competed at Sale H & S Field & Game, Gippsland school competition on Monday. With challenging targets and tough competition, Zac came out with a score of 13/20. Well done Zac for representing our College, trying your best and Aiming High!

Students across the region  descended on the Sale Field and Game Range on Monday June 17, for the 2024 Howard and Schuback Inter School Clay Target Championships.

The 2024 Howard and Schuback Inter School Clay Target Championships is the 45th annual clay shooting competition, attracting thousands of students since its beginning in 1978.

Sponsored by Gary Howard and Gary Schuback with support from Winchester Australia, the event began at Anderson’s Paddock, on Maffra Road, Sale, using a manual trap with stacked hay bales as the ‘trap house’.

In 1979, the competition moved to the ‘gravel pit range’ at the Southern or rear entrance to Kilmany Park, with the manual trap placed in the pit, below the competing shooters. Schools from Bairnsdale and Traralgon participated for the first time in the second annual Howard and Schuback Inter School Clay Target Championships.

A long lever trap and trap house was built in 1980, by Bruce Houston, Viv Cooper, and students Morris Cox and Shawn Anders, with the help of park manager Eric Frith.

Eventually, the competition moved permanently to the Sale Field and Game Range at Longford, where it is still sponsored by H&S Firearms (Sale).

Congratulations again to Zac Sporle.