Competition Rules

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The Rules for our competitions have been updated. This is mainly to bring them up to date with the change in the name of the Association. There are no substantive changes except to the CYOH Team competition.

CYOH: this one was well out of date and has a lot of changes including changing the award to be the Burton Cup and removing the requirement of a minimum Start of 5 (to make it the same as the Burton used to be in its SSCA days). There is a new section for the new Individual CYOH.

Individual Postal League: Mostly changes to do with local scoring to reflect current practice.

Team Postal League: Headings updates and a new section concerning the highest individual average and best-improved team awards.

S/S League: Headings updates mostly.

World Cup 2020-21

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The fourth and final round of the postal Final stage of the 2020-21 ‘World Cup’ competition has just finished and the winners and losers are now known. Take the World Cup link above to see the details, but the headline is that the winner for the first time is Alan Anderson of Hawick. Congratulations to him. He beat Alan Gordon of Dulnainbridge in the final on countback, having tied on 196.

A big thank-you to all who took part in this somewhat depleted and Covid-hit competition. We got through it though. The next one is just starting and hopefully we can get through it ‘normally’.

Shoulder-to-Shoulder League

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Well, the 2021-2022 season is now with us and we can get back shooting in a proper shoulder to shoulder competition with the first match taking place on Thursday 14th October between Prestonpans and Balerno & Currie at the Prestonpans range.

It is a much depleted league this year with only 4 teams taking part due to Hawick having road closure issues due to flooding and both Prestonpans and Watsonians only fielding one team instead of two due to the pandemic.

I wish everyone good shooting in the coming competition and all to stay safe and free from COVID-19.
GM

The Calendar of Matches PDF file is available to view on the S/S League page.

New – Benchrest league launched

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The LBTSA will be running a short-range Benchrest League this season. It will be run roughly along the same lines as the prone Individual League, with both scratch and handicap competitions being run concurrently. No experience is necessary! The closing date is the end of November so there is plenty of time to get things together for the start in January.

We are particularly keen to encourage newcomers to benchrest shooting to give it a go, hence no need for an initial declaration of averages, but experienced hands are also welcome.

Please see this Benchrest Introduction document for further details. Affiliated clubs will be sent that doc and the entry form and both are also available in the Forms & Minutes link in the sidebar.

Our thanks go to Alan Anderson of Hawick for thinking this up and agreeing to run it. Please contact him if you have any queries.

Team entries due Now

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Entries to the Association’s team competitions (Shoulder-to-Shoulder League, Team Postal League, CYOH) close on Monday 6th September. Get them in now!

The closing date for the Individual Postal League and the Individual Championships is 29th November.

The closing date for the ‘World Cup’ competition is 13th September.

Secretaries of affiliated clubs have already been sent the entry forms, but they can also be downloaded via the ‘Forms & Minutes’ link in the sidebar (use Contact Us if you do not know the password).

Where’s all the News?

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The News page for the period October 2020 to August 2021 has been archived. Please take the News Archives link in the sidebar for a link to it and all previous annual News archives.