shoot off in british open sporting ?

[ips]

Just read the following on CPSA web site. Never heard of a shoot off taking place at a later date. :huh:certainly never heard of it in trap anyway.

Interested to here what others think for instance do you beleive that if you arent still there to shoot off then either you both share the prize or even if neither shooter could be bothered hanging around to collect there prize then neither of them win etc etc ??

QUOTE

Congratulations to Maxim Lukin for winning the ‘C’ Class title for the British Open Sporting. Both Maxim and David Naylor were absent at the end of the event at Fauxdegla so a shoot-off at a later date was arranged at Beverley Clay Target Centre. On Saturday 8th December they both met, Maxim having flown in from Russia, and proceeded to, in front a group of spectators, battle for the title. It was a very close run thing with Maxim only beating David by one target

 

[Darkside]

The British Sporting Open is shot over 4 days, it's maybe not always a case of "cant be bothered" staying to the Sunday, it was maybe a case of "can't"...

 

[ips]

Argh so you may shoot on the first day and not be there at all on the last ??

 

[EdSolomons]

Correct

 

[ips]

Thanks you learn something every day. Didnt realise it wasnt the same format as trap. Makes sence now i suppose.

 

[Richard59]

Does seem a bit of an effort etc for C class though, aware everyone travels to the main competitions but if I had shot well enough to top one of the lower classes B C I would rather share the honour than try and reach those dizzy heights weeks after the event, feel for the "runner up" on this one.

 

[RobertBeard]

I think its a miracle he came ack from Russia to contest this.

I would have thought that honours would be best shared as CirenRich50 suggests above.

 

[Jan Powell]

I don't shoot Sporting so I may be missing something here but as I understand it you're present for the shoot off or you forfeit it, irrespective of the circumstances. I ended up in the English Open Skeet shoot off a few years ago having shot my score on the Saturday. I had to return to the ground on the Sunday if I wanted to win it, even though it was 150 mile round trip.

 

[ips]

My point exactly

 

[pete121]

This occasionally happens when we get two or more winners on the same score and none of them are available for a ‘shoot off’ on the final day of a multi-day first past the post championship, leaving the title unresolved.

We usually contact everyone involved to arrange a mutually convenient ‘shoot off’ at the next possible opportunity as well as asking if any prize money involved can be split by mutual agreement. The title (trophy, medal and badge) must be decided by a ‘shoot off’.   

Pete

 

[Guerini Guy]

"I had to return to the ground on the Sunday if I wanted to win it, even though it was 150 mile round trip"

Moscow is a bit further than 150 miles though - slightly different circumstance don't you agree?

 

[Richard59]

Is this the same guy who has shoot well enough that he is now AA class, reckon the "runner up" must be kicking his cat

 

[Richard59]

It appears that the " runner up " is now an A class average shot, from C to A and AA in one period, thats pretty impressive shooting. Still think that the lower classes if tied should be shared.

 

[Darkside]

C class was won with 99/120, 82.5%...first prize was a gun, not the easyist thing to share 50/50

 

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C class was won with 99/120, 82.5%...first prize was a gun, not the easyist thing to share 50/50

I can hear the shouts.....'bagsy me the grade 1 stock.......you can have the ported, back bored, forcing coned, fixed top barrel, muller choked bottom barrel ...26 incher.....'

L. O. L.