The Gold Coast Clay Target Club 2 Day and South East Zone Skeet Carnival Was Held on The

The Gold Coast Clay Target Club 2 Day and South East Zone Skeet Carnival was held on the 16th and 17th April 2016.

It was great to have 9 squads head to the Gold Coast for the last 2 day shoot in Queensland before the Nationals in WaggaWagga. Campers took advantage of the Clubs facilities and while Saturday was a little overcast, we had fine weather both days to enjoy the shooting.

We had 27 possibles on the scoreboard and 5 shooters were regraded up - Terry Morony, Rick Ball, George Findlay, Tahnee Davenport and Jonathan Liew. Congratulations on your great shooting.

A big thank you to all our wonderful shooters for making the weekend such a success, I was so proud of all the Skeeties who pitched in with refereeing/scoring and helping complete the programme.

My personal thanks to our hardworking Club Members, Debbie Young, Wayne Perry, Kent Mansfield, Mike Swale, Brian Zimmerman, Gary Crouch, Terry Morony, Kev Jackson, Natalie Pengelly and many others behind the scenes who made sure that we had good targets, full traps and beautiful club grounds.

A very special thank you also to our very generous sponsors - Alan Vacy-Lyle and Fragram Quality Tools, Ray Mahony and Australian Warranty Network, Jonathan Liew and Paradise Point Chempro and Craig McVean from Jacobs Well Tavern. I hope we did you proud!

Saturday our first event was a 25 target Cash Divide Eye Opener with plenty of possibles.

AA1st Laurie Rodden, Nick Aird, JacoPieterse, Dean Baird, Mark Fanning, Glen Graham, Lorraine Hughes and Chris Langley all on 25/25.

A1st Matt Rhue and Paulette Walker on 25/25.

B1st Tracey Ashton 25/25 and 2nd Roy Shelvey, Jacob Rhue, Bob Robinson and Clive Glasgow on 24/25.

C1st JohathanLiew 24/25 and 2nd Joanne Lincoln and Tahnee Davenport on 23/25.

Event 2 50 target Skeet Handicap

Overall Mark Fanning on a very respectable 143/143, 2nd Glenn Walker 140/141, 3rd Tahnee Davenport 117/126, 4th Marie Carmody 107/114 and 5th Jonathan Liew 97/106.

Event 3 was the 50 target Skeet Championship

Overall was Laurie Rodden on 62/62 after a 3 way shoot off under lights.

AA1st Glen Graham 69/70 and 2nd JacoPieterse 68/70.

A1st Matt Rhue 50/50 and 2nd Rick Ball on 49/50.

B1st Adam Corless on 52/52 and 2nd Kent Mansfield 51/52.

C1st Jonathan Liew 47/50 and 2nd Joanne Lincoln 47/52.

Sunday Event 4 was the South East Zone Skeet Championship

Overall winner Glenn Walker 54/54

AA1st Mike Swale 53/54 and 2nd Mark Fanning 57/58

A1stVaughan McInnes 55/56 2nd Paulette Walker 54/56

B1st Adam Corless 53/54 and 2nd George Findlay 52/54

C1st Jonathan Liew 2nd Tahnee Davenport 46/50

Event 5 50target ‘Ashton' Skeet Doubles

Overall winner is Nick Aird on 53/54

AA1st Glenn Walker 55/58, 2nd Laurie Sceresini 52/54

A1st Neal Dimmick 47/50, 2nd Vaughan McInnes 60/66

B1st Jacob Rhue 46/50 and 2nd Tracey Ashton 51/56

C1st Tahnee Davenport 43/50 and 2nd Jonathan Liew 40/50

Event 6 was a 25 target Super Handicap

Overall winner after a long fought battle under lights again is Nigel Hughes 99/99, 2nd Jacob Rhue 98/99, 3rd Glen Graham 91/93, 4th Clive Glasgow 90/91 and 5th Mark Fanning 88/89.

High Gun Result

Overall Mark Fanning 222/225

AAGlenn Walker 221/225

AMatt Rhue 217/225

BJacob Rhue 211/225

CJonathoanLiew 204/225

Ladies is Lorraine Hughes 218/225

Juniors won by Jacob Rhue 211/225

Veterans is Neal Dimmick 215/225

The South East Zone Teams are listed below with impressive qualifying scores.

Open Team

JacoPieterse shot 25 after 99 qualifying.

Adam Corless 25 - 99

Mark Fanning 25 - 99

Glen Walker 24 - 99

Nigel Hughes 24 - 99

Lorraine Hughes 25 - 98

Ladies Team

Paulette Walker 24 - 96

Marie Carmody 21 - 94

Jacki Richards 23 - 94

Veterans Team

Neal Dimmick25 - 97

Mike Swale 25 - 96

Kel Madsen 24 - 95