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2016 Coaker Everett Memorial Shoot

31/08/2016

The 15th Coaker / Everett Families Memorial shoot is over for another year.

Denis Coaker & Tony Everett with their band of helpers set what was arguably the best three day shoot in NSW and it goes without saying that the success of this shoot is due to the people who get in and assist Tony and Denis with range set up, cooking, office duties, range pull down and clean up. So take a bow you champions because if you were in Rio you would have got Gold!  

Over one hundred shooters and spectators attended the shoot over three days Friday 26th Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th August with glorious weather experienced across all three days.

The ranges were best described as challenging with the Everett Black duck stand introducing a special guest now infamously known as "Super Duck". This hard driven right to left descending crosser target across the dam caused many muffled curses in the shooting stand even from the most experienced shooter.

When this target was hit it drew cheers from fellow squad members and observers such was the skill needed to score a hit.

Tony and Chris Everett also had other well thought out target presentations with a seemingly easy 4 targets thrown as two lots of sim pair from traps 10 meters slightly left of the stand appearing to just float away slightly left to right of the shooter, they looked like an easy 4 targets. That is until you shot at them and wondered how did I miss that? Some shooters are still scratching their heads about that stand so you will have to ask Tony or Chris but I think all you will get is a wry smile.    

The Coaker range featured the timed targets that are a feature at this shoot and Denis did not disappoint with the Grouse Butt station having 10 targets presented in pairs at six seconds intervals, it sounds easy but when shooters were in the stand, time somehow speeds up.

This was followed by the High Pheasant station where 10 single targets thrown from two traps five apiece went flying overhead at 15 metres with 5 second between each target. Again as you were in the stand time moves quickly although a few cleaned this station.

The timed targets finished with eight rabbits thrown as singles 5 seconds apart with a twist, one was quartering away at close range of 5metres and another moving right to left at 15 metres. Time management was an issue for many on these stand.

The most common thing encountered by all shooters was the smiles generated by the hitting of targets and the good natured ribbing and encouragement (some call it sledging) by squad mates and observers.

Saturday night saw a whole lamb and beef BBQ feast cooked by our club Captain and Chef “Chrisso” with entertainment of live music provided by the Club.

I am reliably informed that a great night was had by all and that some of our members were in fine voice with impromptu karaoke, I will not cause embarrassment by naming them.

Special Stand winners.

Black Duck: Chris Barrowman & Steven Cooper tied 17

High Pheasant Station: Brett Hall 40

Grouse Butt Station: Stephen Payne 48

Bernie Rawson Station: Roy Butler 14

Classic Pheasant Gun: Denis Coaker 151

Side X Side Gun: Roger Sands 120

Grades:

High Gun: Stephen Payne 196

AA: Peter Kay 191, Bradley Richens 158

A: Brett Hall 193, Chris Everett 191, John Koolbanis 178

B: Roy Butler 160, Ken Purvis 158, Rob Murray 155

C: Mitchell Hook 151, Ben Hooper 150, Daniel Aqualane 150 (left)

Ladies: Amanda Madsen 124, Michelle Hooper 122, Angela Newman 111

Vets: John Barrowman 111

Sup-Vets: Roger Kerslake 180, Denis Coaker 151, Mick Quinlan 111

Junior: Tom Lyon 130

Sub Junior: Christopher Koolbanis 135, Lincoln Lyon 97

 

The Full shoot scores below are sorted by overall score not grade:

If you shot over the three days the best two single day scores are totalled to give an overall score.

Name	Grade	Score
Stephen Payne	AA	196
Brett Hall	A	193
Peter Kay	AA	191
Chris Everett	A	191
Roger Kerslake	SV	180
John Koolbanis	A	178
Chris Bourke	A	177
Luke Cross	A	176
Bruce Firth	A	162
Stephen Cooper	A	161
Roy Butler	B	160
Bradley Richens	AA	158
Ken Purvis	B	155
Rob Murray	B	153
Bill Weber	A	152
George Lyne	B	152
Alister Lyne	B	152
Mitchell Hook	C	151
Denis Coaker CPG	SV	151
Daniel Aquillane	C	150
Ben Hooper	C	150
Stephen Bell	B	149
Rodney McDermott	B	145
Craig Field	B	143
James Bryne	B	142
Craig McPherson	B	140
Chris Barrowman	B	139
Peter Reeve	C	136
Craig Dargan	C	136
Mark Notley	C	135
Jason Mouheit	C	135
Peter Tremble	C	135
Christopher Koolbanis	SJ	135
Graham Maslin	B	133
Dominic Lebnan	C	133
Allan McKenzie	C	131
Stephen Smith	B	130
Simon Abbott	C	130
Tom Lyne	SJ	130
Ben Sweetland	C	127
William Wright	C	127
Rod Carr	A	125
Stuart Cole	B	125
Amanda Madsen	L	124
Luke Notley	C	123
Rupert Backus	C	120
Roger Sands SBS	C	119
Colin Dorman	B	119
Sven Krollpfeiffer	C	119
Rick Hoolihan	C	115
Michael O'Dell	C	113
Brett Matthews	C	112
Michelle Hooper	L	112
Tony Annecchina SBS	C	111
Paul Lyne	C	111
Angela Newman	L	111
John Barrowman	V	111
Mick Quinlan	SV	111
Kathy Maslin	L	111
Chris Robinson	B	108
Adam Wallbridge	C	108
Henk Van Den Heuvel	C	106
Mel Philips	L	106
Les Townsend	SV	106
David Rourke	SV	105
Phillip Allen	C	104
Jason McGrath	C	104
Keith Lyne	SV	100
Greg Orford	C	99
Lincoln Lyon	SJ	97
Jenny Rushton	L	95
Nathan Rhodes	C	93
Abygael Rushton Butler	SJ	88
Ian Notley	C	85
Walid Issi (1 day)	B	84
Gabe Rushton Butler	SJ	82
Nicholas Lyne	SJ	80
David Hicks	C	76
Kerry Donald	L	73
Michael Vaughan (1 day)	C	71
Kevin Heywood (1 day)	SV	67
Geoff Menzies (1 day)	C	64
Neil Donaldson (1 day)	V	64
Lance Murphy (1 day)	C	61
Glen Bloink (1 day)	A	58
Simon Richardson (1 day)	B	58
Tony Monk (1 day)	B	57
Errol Tucker (1 day)	C	56
Clint Lyon	C	53
Bob Richardson (1 day)	SV	52
Anthony Corderoy (Retired sick)	A	51
Nic Easman (1 day)	C	45
Alistair Woo (1 day)	C	43
Harley Thomas (1 day)	C	39
Mo Ross (1 day)	L	38
Ian Piddington (1 day)	B	29
Adam Baker (1 day)	C	28
Paula Purvis (Retired sick)	L	8