World class sporting targets and Southdown go hand-in-hand and it goes without saying that this championship will probably be the best English Sporting for years. Club Directors Shaun Miller and Greg Swan have put together the shooting event to include a three day Sportrap with £29 re-entry, a 25 bird pool shoot with flash prizes and a fantastic high gun prize. Don’t miss out on the shooting party of the year, on Saturday evening with a BBQ, hog roast, bar and band.

Course Director Shaun Peckham has come up with a new layout and is incorporating new stands and shooting positions that will not have been shot before. This coupled with the other ground improvements should prove to make this one of the best shooting competitions this year.

Book today to ensure your place and squad if you want to keep up-to-date on this and other Southdown shooting events and news, sign up here to get updates by email or text.

Thank you once again.’

Regards Mick Bannister Secretary of the Surrey county C.P.S.A.

Prize fund £30,000; H/Gun Beretta 687 EELL

Entry fee: £75.00

As per previous competitions we will be using both the lane and our valley to provide two 100 bird sporting layouts.

The Southdown Grand Masters will only be available to pre booked entries to allow us to cater for the larger numbers this competition attracts.

So book early to avoid disappointment and complete this application form or call us on 01903-877555.

Other notable scores included junior Chris Papworth who also shot an impressive 96 and colt Sophie Weller with a score of 69. Cheryl Hall won Ladies class in both the Sporting and Sportrap with scores of 95 and 92. A really exciting day for Southdown and our competitors!!

Our next registered Sporting and Sportrap event takes place on February 13th. We look forward to seeing regular competitors and encourage anyone who has not tried out one of our competitions to come have a go.

Paul Rendell and Gerry Keegal kept the day relevant and interesting packed with useful and up-to-date information. We believe this is an excellent, value for money training day which we would recommend to all shooters.

In addition to our new Safety Offices, Shaun Pekcham and Gun Instructor, Mhairi-Ann Hill are also trained CPSA Safety Officer.

Congratulations goes to Ref’s Alex, Arnie, John, Mark, Robert, Scott and Tony who all passed with flying colours so there can be no arguing now, not that there were any in the first place!!

September has again seen four well-attended competitions, the most important being the CPSA Greater London, Surrey, Sussex and Kent FITASC Championship. With well over a hundred entries, we shot four layouts over three days. I’m pleased to say our head instructor John Hughes won his class to become Sussex Senior FITASC Champion 2010 with a score of 86.

Other notable wins were junior’s Dan Christian who won the class with a score of 79, Nathan Hales who is now Kent Junior Champion and the overall winner Mark Winser, who took the high gun to become Kent County and overall competition Champion with an excellent 92. It really does feel like we are getting back to the Southdown of old, so thanks again to all our regulars and the competitors for your support.

Those of you who have been up to the club in recent weeks will have noticed new fencing and gates going up, and along with other continuing improvements, I think we are making headway into really smartening up the place. Because of the interest in club developments, I have started including photographs on our Facebook page, so if you want to keep up-to-date please look us up online. The long overdue clubhouse works have just started and we hope to have the first floor completely renovated by mid November, which can’t happen soon enough for me.

Finally we have started stocking Hull Cartridges so we now offer a huge choice of shells from both Lyalvale and Hull. If you want a specific cartridge or game load that’s not in stock please ask Helen, who will be pleased to get you a special order.

Coming up in October we have the South East Region Inter County FITASC Competition from the 8th to 10th, the regular 100 Reg Sporting combined with 100 Reg Sportrap on Sunday 17th and 31st which are really good fun if you like your shooting to be a bit more testing and finally two clubman 80 bird competitions on the 3rd and 24th, so don’t miss out. If you’ve not entered before come and have a go, you never know you might win something and don’t forget we pay out on the day so there’s no hanging about.

Another date for your diary is our firework party on Friday 5th November – look out for our flyers for more details.

This year 36 guests shot the competition and as most were new to shooting, qualified instructors were on hand to help. The event format included a practice round with our instructors providing guidance and support, followed by a really exciting and what turned out to be very competitive competition.

The high gun prize was shared by Andy Allan and Martin Gosmark with a score of 25/30. The best team award went to Alan Kentfield, Leo Farrow, Tim Parsons, John Beacon and Phil Seear. In line with tradition we had a save the clay prize for the competitor (who will remain anonymous) who managed to preserve the greatest number of clays, which we really do appreciate.

The sweepstake was very successful and raised over £100 for the Worthing Mayors Charity, the challenge this year was to guess the total number of target hits, this was won by Jeremy Wotton who piped Richard John by 1 point to guess the total hits which was 749.

John, a well know face on the southern shooting circuit, shot a very credible score of 82/100, proving that as well as being able to talking the talk, he can also walk the walk.

At the other end of the scale, Dan Christian won junior class with a score of 79/100 and Nathan Hales was crowned Kent Junior Champion with a very strong 52/100. Both names to watch for in the future!

The September FITASC Competition was the second such event since taking over the club. Club Course Director, Shaun Peckham, set out multiple layouts, three new and one old system which were well received by competitors who saw some challenging targets on the gallops and valley layouts.