SWEFTA

Sunday the 3rd of May saw Duchy Shooting Association host round two of the South West England Field Target Association Summer league. Sunday saw 33 competitors on the FT course and 40 taking part in HFT with shooters travelling from as far away as Wales and Dorset. Duchy was very happy to welcome so many […]

Seven smiling faces turned up on a lovely sunny morning for Round 4 of the East Devon FTC BR championship. Tom hung on until 9.15am just in case a latecomer or two might swell our ranks, but then it was time to get going. As luck would have it, I ended up with the number […]

Today’s weather forecast was worrying – 18mph winds with 45mph gusts. The direction was west southwest, meaning that it came predominantly from behind the benches. This always provides some of the most challenging conditions encountered during our benchrest matches, as it gives rise to those ‘fishtailing’ winds which are continually changing from left to right.And, […]

The scores from Shebbear Round 1 are now live: FT:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wlZX0hLsu3kXpDVsrMOsQH_x_N6-3kyAZhDtOybh7vs/edit?usp=sharing HFT:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1loeNBasTFPi8DogH021pSEpNzLIqWuWZxgMOVWh7x9k/edit?usp=sharing These links will be valid all year, so please keep a note of them if you want to check at any time. However, I will take the sheets offline while I’m updating scores, so no sneak peaking until I send a message the scores […]

Ten competitors signed on for Round 3 of the ED summer BR league and the sun shone, a welcome change after the winter we have just enjoyed. I found myself in the first detail again and for my first card, the breeze was relatively steady and predictable. What wasn’t possible to read was whether the […]

Benchrest competition at Dartmoor has become something of a success story, we were slightly apprehensive today as we weren’t sure exactly how many would turn up for this – the first match of the season. However, our fears were unfounded and an easily manageable 17 shooters drew their numbered disks from the hat to determine […]

Many thanks to everyone who braved the weather yesterday… I’ve said that a lot this winter! I hope you all had a great day and have managed to dry out… What could have been nicer than shooting at lots of silly small targets, in the cold, wet, windy, foggy weather. Madness, but great fun The […]

The last day of winter delivered some fine weather for the final round of this year’s competition – dry and occasionally sunny, but with the usual tricky wind conditions.  As we were limited to Dartmoor’s three benches it had been agreed to field teams of 10 – in order to ensure that the match concluded […]

I arrived at the club for 8.30am, as advised at last Thursday’s practice session. When I walked down to the range, it was already a sea of brightly coloured windicators of all types being precisely laid out by Tom, Justin and Gary. Jerry had the kettle on and a tea in his hands. I was […]

Following Dartmoor’s first round annihilation by the Pyworthies, a message had been sent out appealing for a good attendance today in order to redress the balance. 15 Dartmoor members responded, which together with our visitors from West Devon gave a total of 25 for today’s match. We had anticipated the possibility of running out of […]