Shooting Ground not paying class winner

TerryTibbs · Nov 24, 2024

Has anyone had similar?

A young lad I shoot with won his class at a CPSA ESP 100 Registered in October, he has contacted the ground on numerous occasions to try and secure his winnings. The club are giving him the runabout, and ultimately not paying out. Lots of excuses about we need to calculate the winnings etc, let me get back to you.

On the odd occasion I have won anything, its usually a brown paper envelope waiting behind the counter.

Whats the best way to resolve this? He isn't fussed about the money, it's more the principle. We all pay in and the club isn't paying out?

jonz · Nov 24, 2024

I would contact the CPSA , it a competition under their rules so ultimately they should enforce them. Hope you get it resolved but it’s something I hear a lot of with some ground owners being worse than others

FESkent · Nov 24, 2024

Name and shame them?

Deleted member 230 · Nov 24, 2024

I'm afraid there's a lot of clubs that like the benefits of cpsa reg shoots, but rarely run them to the letter of the rules. This is where the cpsa should come in..................

Martinj · Nov 25, 2024

I agree with Jonz if the club are operating a CPSA Reg competition the CPSA should be informed and should be able to apply some pressure or demand that they do not use the CPSA's name.

I also agree that the club should be named and shamed Terry?

Big G · Nov 25, 2024

If the club isn’t paying out as per CPSA rules the CPSA shouldn’t give them reg shoots.

Cash22 · Nov 29, 2024

TerryTibbs said:
Has anyone had similar?

A young lad I shoot with won his class at a CPSA ESP 100 Registered in October, he has contacted the ground on numerous occasions to try and secure his winnings. The club are giving him the runabout, and ultimately not paying out. Lots of excuses about we need to calculate the winnings etc, let me get back to you.

On the odd occasion I have won anything, its usually a brown paper envelope waiting behind the counter.

Whats the best way to resolve this? He isn't fussed about the money, it's more the principle. We all pay in and the club isn't paying out?

What's worse than that is a small shoot in Wiltshire has for many years run several "charity shoots" and this is usually followed by the husband and wife upgrading there vehicles, the wife usually a new Mini and the husband upgrading his Land-Rover!

FESkent · Nov 30, 2024

sets a very bad example we need to be encouraging young people into the sport. If not resolved I would at the very least be emailing the CPSA requesting they take appropriate action.

TerryTibbs · Nov 30, 2024

The lads going to pass this onto the CPSA, he has tried to resolve this 5 different times through email, face to face and phone calls with the ground. Same stance of let me check the results and see if we have funds available etc.

It’s a nice little ground, with a good clubhouse and the staff are in general are lovely. Spent a couple of grand in the past shooting there so it’s an unfortunate situation.

It’s based in the South East not far from the midlands.

Figgy · Dec 9, 2024

Bad form not to pay out the correct amount in prize money. Hope the CPSA sort it.

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