Scores April 15th

Rained all afternoon.

An excellent layout with a set of super targets (for some) this week. For a change, Len’s gun was the only one playing up this week. (Bad joke, it was blamed for missing too many simple targets) but apart from that, several high scores were returned.

Geoff Pomroy broke 87 clays beating his 80% mark for his fifth consecutive shoot. He is certainly setting himself a high score benchmark that few of us can get near just lately. Top scratch gun again Geoff, well done. Jonathan Skelding was runner up with 80 shattered targets leaving Len’s 73 to take the scratch Bronze position, Geoff’s mighty 87 also scooped the Handicap top spot by 2 and a half points from Jonathan. Handicap 3rd place went to Simon Honeybourne, anothr 3 points behind. All easily beat their handicap average with special credit to SImon who has been steadily improving for many weeks. Great work Simon, Keep it up.

Some sad news From Andrew Wilson,Robert Wilson’s son, this week.

The Butlers Coffin Dodgers lost one of their most avid and longest serving supporters last week when ‘Big’ Robert Wilson passed away. Robert died on the 3rd of April, a date when, coincidentally, a band of his old shooting partners shared a naustalgic breakfast together in Worcester.

Robert was an imposing presence yet a very quietly spoken and gentle man. He always enjoyed his shoots and even when his health was declining and he had to reduce his shooting, he frequently joined us and enjoyed the social intercourse from mixing with his mates on wednesday mornings.

His funeral will take place at Redditch Crematorium, (B97 6RR) on Thursday the 30th of April at 2.45pm. His family have invited his mates from the Coffin Dodgers to his funeral and to a celebration of Robert’s life afterwards at the Westmead Hotel (B48 7AL) on the Redditch Road. If you would like to attend, drop me a line on WhatsApp or Messenger to 07836 367889 so I can advise Andrew of roughly how many of us Dodgers will be there.