This is a hugely popular clayshooting competition. Entrants will be able to shoot for their preferred magazine and an enticing array of prizes can be won; a Browning Heritage shotgun, a Laporte trap, Gamebore cartridges, Taittinger champagne and cash prizes. This year, the side-by-side category has been reinstated, the winner of which will receive an overnight stay at Luton Hoo House and a Landrover off-road driving day courtesy of Stratstone.
Royal Berkshire Shooting School (RBSS)
The Handicap Challenge offers a unique handicapping system, which gives average club shooters the chance to compete on a par with high-level competition shots and have a genuine chance of winning, with an entry fee of just £49.
The competition starts on Thursday 2 February and takes place over 11 weeks. The culmination of the Handicap Challenge will see 60 finalists meet at RBSS for the final on Tuesday 2 May, where the top 40 CPSA handicapped scores and the top 20 RBSS handicapped scores will be invited to go head to head over a new 100 target layout for the title.
Dylan Williams
Dylan Williams, Managing Director of RBSS commented: “We are extremely proud, in our 25th anniversary year and the 16th anniversary of this event, to have our industry’s three most prominent clayshooting magazines come on board with this initiative. I would like to take this opportunity to thank David Stapley at Browning, all at Gamebore, along with all of the other sponsors, as it is their support that ensures that we can host such an event and provide such an entertaining competition for clayshooters of all levels. This ensures great fun and literally the chance for anyone to win.”
To qualify, fill in one of the vouchers printed in the February, March and April issues of Sporting Gun; February and March issues of Shooting Gazette; any Shooting Times issue in January, February and March. Entry is £49. You can shoot for the Shooting Times Cup, Sporting Gun Cup and Shooting Gazette Cup, by using these vouchers.
For further details or to book your place to shoot the Handicap Challenge 2017, please contact RBSS on 01491 672900 or visit Royal Berkshire Shooting School
For a list of rules for the 2017 Royal Berkshire Handicap Challenge, click here.
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