24 competitors attended the County Championship shoot at Appleton, on a rather hot and 'sticky' day. Sadly 3 people had to pull out due to the dreaded Covid, and a further competitor was unable to attend due to a car accident (she is OK, not so the car I understand 😪) That aside the competition went extremely well, and we must thank our County Stats Officer (Gavin Scott-Brooker) for all his efforts.
I would also like to extend all our thanks to Appleton for allowing us to use the facilities, and especially to Neil Gibbons for all his efforts in preparing the range beforehand, and all the work he did on the day with scoring, and general admin to ensure everything ran smoothly. I should also mention Wayne Davies who acted as Chief Range Officer throughout the day, and ensured the smooth and safe running of the ranges.
This year we had a number of new competitors, for some this was their first foray into Out-door shooting, whereas for others it was just their first County Championship, and I would like to say well done to everyone who attended, and from the various comments I heard during the day I think everyone had a great time - whether or not they walked away with any Silverware -
That's what was on offer on the day. Sadly the Silver Trophies have to be given back after a year, but they will be engraved so anyone who wins a Cheshire Trophy will have their name immortalised for ever 😀
The competition runs as a Double Dewar course (thats 40 shots at 100 Yds and 40 at 50M) - this equates to 2 hours shooting, plus however much of a break is taken between distances. I managed to get my shooting done and dusted by 12:00 so I could help with the organisation - which actually was well in hand by the time I'd packed my gear, so I was able to keep a weather eye on what was going on and chat to a few people about the shoot, the range, and their feelings about the day (oh and I did do a bit to help out taking shot cards to stats an .... Oh no that was about it really 😀 It did leave me free to take som photo's though, especially of the winners (see below)
OK, so the Boring Statistical bit:
A Class was won by Simon Green with an aggregate score of 788 ex 800; I came second after a count back on 100 Yds (well a fairly distant second to be honest) with a score of 774
B Class was won by Adrian Henson with a score of 771; and Eddie Thorn (Snr. I believe!) was second with a score of 768
C Class was won by Mahinda Kularatne on a score of 726; with Peter Elliot second on 719
D Class was won by Warren Tidwell with a 725; and Jim Delaney came second on 723
The Ladies was taken by Jane Newing with a score of 774; the Juniors by Shelbie Marsland with a 759; and the veterans by Mike Arnstein with a 771
In the Club Pairs Sunderland (Messers. D & D E thorn) were victorious with a score of 1532; and Wilmslow A (Messers. G Scott-Brooker, and N Almond) came second with a 1531 - Very close competition there!!
The Club Team of 4 was won by Grange (P Elliot, W Tidwell, J Delaney & J Diamond) with a score of 2855, some 200+ points ahead of Wilmslow (J Redwood, M Kularatne, J Beck, A Henson)
Therefore the Cheshire & North Wales County Champion for 2022 is Simon Green - our congratulations to him for an excellent shoot.
The bad news for all the winners is that they have to make sure the trophies are cleaned before returning them to me next year. Oh yes and all class winners will automatically be 'bumped up' to the next class for the Championship in 2023 🙄
I have several photos of the winners of all the competitions if anyone would like a copy of their photo please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and I will happily forward a copy:
Finally I hope everyone enjoyed their day at Appleton,and hopefully we will see you all again next year for the 2023 Championship - and please feel free to tell everyone at your club what a great day it was, and maybe share this final photo undertow title of "Look at what you could have won!"
The full Results from the day can be found here, anyone who is not currently registered to use the Members Only section of our site can register here which will give you full access to all the Members Only content.
Finally Thanks to everyone who took part in the Competition, making it such a successful day 
Neil Almond
Cheshire & North Wales County Captain.