Pent/Finlux 2009

SRA Pentagonal & Finlux Results

5th July 2009

Tayside were runners-up to West of Scotland in the Pentagonal TR Match (best 5 scores per team). Fife won the Finlux F Class Match (best two scores per team).

At 900yds the wind was tricky, and a sudden downpour took us by surprise about halfway through this distance. At 500yds, wind was easier and it stayed dry.

Having them up before starting at 500 guaranteed that it stayed dry.

Not putting up the gazebos before starting at 900 meant that we had to put them up in a hurry halfway through

Peter Hunt accepts the Finlux trophy on behalf of the winning Fife F Class team

James Bell with the Wooden Stick for the lowest F Class team score

John Macdonald, Captain of the winning West of Scotland team, with the Pentagonal trophy

Mike Barlow, Captain of the Fife team, with the Wooden Spoon for the lowest team TR score

Pentagonal (TR Teams)

Finlux (F' Class Teams)

District / Position		500X	900X	Total
1^st West of Scotland
	A Mabon	73.11	74.12	147.23
	J Potter	74.08	70.06	144.14
	C Lamont	74.08	70.05	144.13
	M Barton	70.07	73.10	143.17
	W Buchanan	72.09	69.05	141.14
	J MacDonald	68.06	69.07	137.13
	A Allerman	65.03	68.05	133.08
				719.81
2^nd Tayside
	K Baxby	73.07	71.05	144.12
	R Scott	73.09	70.06	143.15
	A Macpherson	70.05	67.01	137.06
	J Bell	69.02	67.06	136.08
	I Conacher	71.03	65.04	136.07
	J Macrae	62.03	62.01	124.04
				696.48
3^rd East of Scotland
	W Lakay	72.09	73.09	145.18
	C McEachran	74.09	67.07	141.16
	R Aitken	70.08	67.03	137.11
	A Webster	71.04	66.04	137.08
	N MacDonald	69.05	63.03	132.08
	S Melville	64.03	63.02	127.05
	L Borman	66.02	60.02	126.04
				692.61
4^th Fife & Kinross
	M Barlow	74.12	71.05	145.17
	M Peebles	73.08	71.08	144.16
	R Taylor	69.06	65.02	134.08
	B Woodroffe	71.08	56.04	127.12
	H Fox	57.01	66.05	123.06
				673.59

District / Position		500X	900X	Total
1^st Fife & Kinross
	H Inglis	86	68	154
	P Hunt	83	74	157
				311
2^nd East of Scotland
	R Gow	74	76	150
	J McKee	74	74	148
				298
3^rd West of Scotland
	A Macpherson	78	70	148
	R Scaglione	70	72	142
	C Young	72	67	139
				290
4^th Tayside
	J Bell	74	69	143
	P Burbridge	74	69	143
				286

Notes: Pentagonal (TR): best 5 scores from 8; and not per distance

Finlux (F): best 2 scores from 3; and not per distance

F-class shooters; most shooters continued to use the old method of scoring; recording 'Vee's as after the decimals, and some shooters recorded using the newer method of a 'vee' scoring 6; all scores have been adjusted to the 'vee is 6' method.

Also, as was pointed out on the range, the Finlux trophy came into being through AJMunro's son who used to (still does?) run a television shop in Pitlochry. Back then Finlux [from Finland!] were a major supplier of satellite receivers and hence the shape of the trophy. Back then, rural Perthshire was an important market for the new satellite industry; the guests in all those shooting lodges needed satellite television reception to keep up to date with the latest in their back-at-home soaps; Germany, Italy, etc.