The Great Diggle Egg Shoot
by Vince Bottomley
The weather leading up to this year’s Egg Shoot was awful – rain, wind and more rain! This is a competition organiser’s nightmare – after all, it takes roughly the same effort to run a competition for five shooters as it does for 50!
The day before was wet and windy and I hardly dared look out of the bedroom window at seven o’clock on the Bank Holiday Monday morning. Oh no, it was teeming down but at least the wind seemed to have abated. As I neared the range, I could see about half a dozen cars in the car park. Inside, the atmosphere was amazingly cheerful in spite of the horrible weather.
Normally, I would be numbering about forty targets in readiness for the rush but I played safe and did 16. Then another four turned up – and then a few more. Wow, we were up to 30 – not bad for a wet day – thank you guys. It must have been very tempting to
get back in bed!
The forecast said it would clear up for the afternoon so, I optimistically decided that we would shoot the 100 and 300 yard stages, have a leisurely lunch and then shoot 500 yards and of course the egg – hopefully in the dry! We are fortunate to have several covered firing-points at Diggle so for the 100 yard stage we all crowded into the benchrest range to get to know each other and kick-off the comp.
Stage one involves three shots at the Groundhog target and most go for the three-quarter inch diameter head bull, which scores 15 points for every clean hit but, cut the line and you only score nine! However, only one shooter cleaned it – well shot Steve Lewis using his strange looking 6XC tube-gun. We also give a small-group award at each distance and this went to Trevor Collins using an ex-Malcolm Cooper 3P rifle chambered in 308. The action is clearly a
When it rains, Diggle’s covered firing-points come in handy.
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