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The weather this weekend is forecast to be pretty dreadful and so the committee at Dartmoor have postponed this Sunday’s shoot by a week. The Dartmoor shoot will now be Sunday Sept 30th. Please let all your clubmates know.      

    FT or HFT? Twenty years ago a typical SWEFTA event would have consisted of  the main FT course and a selection of ‘side shoots’ such as long range, bell, snooker, and speed shoot, but invariably the most popular was the dump shoot, this consisted of targets, often unusually shaped ones, partially hidden behind […]

I’m afraid I was not at this shoot, but I’ll bet it was a corker and I’ll bet the cake was excellent too… cake that I missed being able to eat, the shame of it, how will I ever live it down? Well, cos I ate lots of cake on my holiday, so, that’s all […]

This is a rolling update of all those who have qualified for the SWEFTA Showdown competition, to be held at Shebbear on October 14th. Round 1 1. Bill Hartnoll 2. Neil MacKinnon 3. Rob Lamerton 4. James Head Round 2 1. Steve Franklin 2. John Martin 3. Tim Clarke 4. Nigel Palmer Round 3 1. John […]

Alfie has managed to arrange for catering at the North Petherwin shoot in just over a weeks time. There will be bacon rolls, burgers, etc, tea, coffee, and …… CAKE! Oh, no, hold on, no there isn’t any cake…erm, the snow froze it all and high winds blew it all away, no cake, nope, not […]

As we are just a week away from the start of the SWEFTA season, I think now is the time to release details of the new, new, new…. new random partnering system, it is very simple and will make very little difference to the booking in system and the time it takes to book in, […]

I am sorry to say that the SWEFTA shoot at the Avon Hawks scheduled for 11th of February has been canceled. Over the last few days the committee have been in touch with the Hawks and with a number of other clubs, but we have been unable to find an alternative venue in time. The […]

At the recent SWEFTA AGM a proposal was carried that means for the 2018 season, shooting partners will be selected at random. It was hoped at the time of the AGM that the selection of partners could be done using a computer programme and I would like to thank Bill Hartnoll for the huge amount […]

Paul Salmon has written a short article about the recent benchrest competition held at Dartmoor. Benchrest at Dartmoor

For those who were not there, the amended rules were adopted at the EGM this morning. The amended rules can be found in the documents folder.