It was a fairly stiff round however I started fairly well only missing the odd one or two until I got to and evil quartering left to right and a mini that really wasn't doing to much. I let it get to me and only scored a 2/8. The nest few stands I struggled to get back to my early form whilst everyone else including Adrian were shooting very consistently. I did finish the round much stronger with my last 3 stands scoring 7,7,7. I hadn't been counting my score at all however I did expect I had struggled to break 70 when people asked what I finished on. When the scores came through I had finished on a 72. I was chuffed with this considering I had missed 6 on a fairly straightforward stand. It was enough to get equal high gun with Adrian & Graham Long however Adrian pipped us on countback. Meaning I finished equal second and winning B Class. It was refreshing to have a new member shoot with us and a hopeful new member.
The DSG also held their AGM and I was very proud to be re-elected as secretary for a further year. After the AGM we had our presentations for the season and I was fortunate enough to win the Sporting & Skeet shield and get Second in the DTL shields. These shields were for overall high gun for the DSG over the season based on the 4 best shoots. I managed 106/120 on sporting, 94/100 on skeet and 90/100 on DTL.
Next season's DSG shields will be hotly contested with new members like Graham Long, Darrel White & Jamie Gutteridge taking more of an interest and also our existing members determined to get some honours.
So what a season; I never imagined in October last year that my shooting would come on so much and got so many honours. The confidence of winning the CPSA disabled shooter of the year has certainly spurred me onto do so well and the support of sponsors like Puff Baker & Joe Garnham of GBS have been terrific then the coaching that Phil Gray has given me has taken me to the next level.
I will certainly be looking to take a further step again next year and defend all my trophies and am going to attempt to add more disabled honours and able bodied honours to my trophy shelf.
I am likely to be going up a class into B and the aim for next year will to be pushing to get into A class.
