worldsporting

[SoR]

I saw this format on line and a few names of elite shooters that are registered, who use this site so how come no one has mentions it are we all just cpsa as the regular format cos that format handicap doesn't work?

 

[Chard]

I shot a Worldsporting (or World Supersporting) Sportrap thingey at Southdown last Summer.

Well, it wasn't really Sportrap, it was like a proper Sporting course but with three different targets on each stand.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Problem is availability. I don't know a lot about it, but apart from Orston and Southdown, I'm not sure where else they do it.

 

[Will Hewland]

Are you confusing this with something else? I think Worldsporting is a business name for a handicapped ESP shoot; not a three trap sporting discipline..

 

[Westward]

It has come up on here, about a year ago I think. Very few grounds seem keen to join in and without them it isn't of much interest to most sporting shooters.

IIRC Wylye hosted a WS shoot last year so perhaps Ian will see this and give us the ground owners perspective.

 

[Chard]

Are you confusing this with something else? I think Worldsporting is a business name for a handicapped ESP shoot; not a three trap sporting discipline..

Yes, but I think there's Worldsporting and World Supersporting :hyper:

This was the handicap thing, I think it's the 3 traps that make it "Supersporting"

 

[Will Hewland]

Ah, right ho.

 

[SoR]

I think on the world sporting web site it says a mix of 2 (club shoot) or 3 (elite shoot) traps set out by the ground but they only list 4 grounds I the UK and if they haven't got the ground s behind them I guess it will never work . It is handicapped though.

 

[Chard]

I'm not thick, but I do remember being completely baffled by it all.

I stood at check in, nodding my head like a halfwit, thinking that they had managed to make a very simple thing extraordinarily complicated.

If it fails, I believe it will be as much to do with the incomprehensible rules as availability of grounds.

It was a great shoot, good targets, very testing, but I went on to shoot their Sportrap layout afterwards and ended up not handing my card in, so I still don't have a handicap. I rang Southdown afterwards to try and rectify it and get a handicap, and although the lady was very nice, I came off the phone more bewildered than ever and I notice my score was never registered :biggrin:

This was the competition I got 76 or 78 can't remember. I notice here they don't mention the Super bit. Perhaps they're confused too. Kinnell.....

 

[wylye]

World Sporting is run by Mark Oliver, a poster on this site. He can give you all the info about the principles of his handicap system, which is very interesting.

It can have three traps on a stand as it is not registered, CPSA rules state a maximum of two can be used for English Sporting. So-called super sporting is not a recognised discipline by the way so it can use as many as it wants.

From my point of view, we tried it twice and didn't get the entries so that was the end of it for me. Shooters may well carp and moan about registered shoots but they still turn out in their hundreds and that's the market we are in.

 

[Will Hewland]

Agreed. There is enough variety within sporting shooting to keep most of us happy, without the need for great format change.

I do enjoy RBSS as an annual event, (and rate its handicap system quite highly) but wouldn't want it to be my all year round format.

 

[madds]

We do not run, nor have ever run Super Sporting in NZ. By the sound of it may be it is something for winter shoots if it is compact.(did not mean Compak)

Can someone explain exactly how it works, how many stands, traps, targets etc. I presume it amounts to 25 per round.

CHEERS!! 

 

[SoR]

www.worldsporting.net/

I think thats the link have a look

Edit:

 

[EdSolomons]

Madds; its set up like a normal English sporting round, so say 12 stands, but up to 3 traps per stand. You could have A or B, then B or C then A or C finishing with a pair (for example).

So like a hybrid or sporting and compak.

 

[madds]

Thanks you Ed and SoR. Sounds like something we could do this winter with 40/50 shooters.

Appreciated.

 

[SoR]

In nz do you see many shooters using kolar guns madds?

Steve

 

[Will Hewland]

They have special light versions, known as diet Kolars.

 

[madds]

SoR seriously I don't think I've seen 1 use in battle here.

I would say Beretta and Perazzi are the dominant guns, and with the aggressive marketing, Blazer are becoming popular too.

We do have Mark Vessey living over here now from the UK and he's cleaning everyone up.

He is using his extremely well worn old Browning (or Miroku)

There are a few Kreigoff's about as well and one or two 'proper' Brownings.

 

[PhilS]

They have special light versions, known as diet Kolars.

Brilliant Clever.

Just going to wipe my coffee off the screen  :lolu:   :lolu: :lolu:  

 

[Will Hewland]

Brilliant Clever.

Just going to wipe my coffee off the screen  :lolu:   :lolu: :lolu:  

Yes, really I'm Tim Vine..