Battle of the Regions 2021- George

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Hunter Field Target‘s iconic Battle of the Regions will be held in George 13 & 14 November 2021 hosted by Outeniqua Airgun Club at the George Sport Shooting Club range.

This event started a few years back & has been on everyone’s calendar as a “go to” event in the HFT community. Unfortunately the 2020 event got bulldozed by the unfortunate epidemic state in our country & all over the World.

Hope to see all the old faces & plenty new ones this year.

Prepare yourselves for an epic battle between George, Capelands, PE & hopefully Gauteng as well this time around.

Battle of the Regions 2019 video made by Walter van der Merwe.

Please note that due to the current circumstances we will only be allowed to continue with our sport and utilise these facilities if we strictly abide by the rules and ensure strong protocols are followed at all times.

As with all other shops / businesses / etc. you will be required to complete a health questionnaire before being admitted and your temperature taken. If your temperature is higher than 37.5 (degrees C) or you answer Yes to any of the health risk questions you will be requested to leave the premises. There will also be a compliance officer/s to ensure we all remain safe so please adhere to all protocols, alternatively you will be requested to leave the premises immediately.

I’m sure, like me, you are all eager to take up your favorite sport and get outside again so we would really appreciate your co-operation at all times.

A few things to take into consideration should you plan on attending any of the upcoming events:

  • Only participants and guardians will be admitted to the range – no visitors/spectators will be allowed.
  • Please ensure that you bring a suitable face mask, ensure it is worn properly and at all times.
  • You will not be able to share a shooting mat or any other equipment with other shooters (except with someone from your household) so please ensure that you bring all your necessary equipment.
  • Though we will endeavor to ensure as safe an environment as possible and implement all protocols required, please consider the impact to you and or your family if:
    • You are a person at risk
    • Someone in your household is a person at risk
    • That there may be participants attending that work in a high risk environment

Battle Of The Regions Scoring

Scoring Groups:

Group 1. PCP

Open PCP
Ladies PCP
Junior U/18 PCP

Group 2. Recoil

Open Recoil
Ladies Recoil
Junior U/18 Recoil

Group 3. High Power

High Power all

Group 4. Junior U/13

Junior U/13 all

Shooter score:

Day 1: Shooter score as percentage of applicable scoring group max for day.
Day 2: Shooter score as percentage of applicable scoring group max for day.
Total% = Day 1 % + Day 2 %

Region Team score:

Best 4 Total% per region summed. (Excluding High Power and U/13)

Classes:

Open PCP
Open Recoil
Ladies
Junior U/18
High Power
Junior U/13

Shooter must nominate class before day 1 shooting.

Time Information

Saturday:
8am will be setup of range & shoot-in range
9am Basic safety briefing with shoot-in to follow
10:30am Competition Safety briefing with first leg of Battle of the Regions 2021
After competition each entrant will receive one Boerewors & one cold drink.
Sales of extra Boerewors & cold drinks will be available.
Afternoon: Preparation for leg two on Sunday.

Sunday:
7am will be setup of range & shoot-in range
8am Basic safety briefing with shoot-in to follow
9am Competition Safety briefing with second leg of Battle of the Regions 2021
Prize giving to start soon after all scores are in.

Entry fee: R100

Link to Entry Form

SAHFTA League George 14 Aug 2021

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Another great day out on the range @ Outiniqua Airgin Club in George, Western Cape

Starting off we only had a slight breeze head on, half an hour later it became a wind, making it quite a bit more difficult.
This was a new Range built by me & Elvin over the level 4 lockdown period.
Sadly not our normal quantity competitors, but never the less everyone enjoyed the new challenge.
Troyer difficulty = 32.9
Mem no.EntrantScoreAir RifleScope
Zoom x Paralax		Pellets
PCP OPEN
19-5022Bennie Botha56Daystate MK4BurrisCometa 8.44
19-5001Ulrich de Jager52RSA VeldtDiscovery 10×25JSB 10.34
19-5041Peter Robinson46AA S400BSA 10×25Cometa 7.87
19-5021Kobus Blignhout41AA S400Discovery 10×25QYS 8.49
19-5033Johann Kotze38CZ 200NS 9×25QYS 9.58
LADIES PCP
19-5023Michele Botha53AA S400NS 10×30JSB 8.44
JUNIOR PCP
19-5034Johanelle Kotze52CZ 200Discovery 10×25JSB 10.34
19-5002Marissa de Jager48RSA VeldtNS 10×25JSB 10.34
Cronje de Villiers38Hatsan AT44-10Discovery 10×25JSB 10.34

SAHFTA Nationals 2020

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The SAHFTA committee have decided to postpone the 2020 Nationals. Currently no new date will be set. Going forward every two weeks the committee will reassess the situation and will as soon as possible schedule a new date.

WHFTO World Championships 2019 – Poland

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The World Hunter Field Target Organisation 2019 World Championships will be held in Poland on 22/23 June this year. https://whftc2019.pl

With pleasure I can announce that Team South Africa will be:

Jan van der Vyver – Open PCP

SAHFTA Team ZA - Worlds 2019

Lourens Streicher – Open PCP

SAHFTA Team ZA - Worlds 2019

Luan Rossouw – Open Springer

SAHFTA Team ZA - Worlds 2019

Cynthia Streicher – Ladies

SAHFTA Team ZA - Worlds 2019

Team ZA’s progress at the championships can be followed here:

https://www.airrifle.co.za/threads/49013-WHFTO-World-Championships-2019-Poland

SAHFTA Nationals 2019

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The first ever South African HFT Nationals will be hosted by the Port Elizabeth Air Rifle Club on 30th and 31st March 2019. The top six competitors will travel to Poland in July to represent South Africa at the 2019 WHFTO World Championships

Please use this form to enter: https://goo.gl/forms/9JxjhcCRrQFstN542

Venue:

More information can be found at: https://www.airrifle.co.za/threads/49229-SAHFTA-Nationals-2019

SAHFTA welcomes all spectators to this event.

WHFTO World Championships 2018 – Overview

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The World Championships 2018 took place between the 3rd and 5th August at the Baroque Chateau and Park, Choltice, Czech Republic.

Four intrepid local shooters formed Team South Africa and competed at the championships; they are Jan Van Der Vyver, Michael Olivier, Zelda Bothwell and Brett Bothwell. Michael & Jan shot the open class, Zelda in open ladies and Brett shot the springer class.

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They ended the competition in fine form for a team on debut.

Final day scores for Team ZA.
Open: Michael: 20th with a total of 141 & Jan: 79th with a total of 129
Springer: Brett: 7th with a total of 124
Ladies: Zelda: 11th with a total of 118
Team: Team ZA: 6th with a total of 512 (amended)

Full competition results can be found here: https://www.whfto.com/index.php/whfto/worlds-2018-results

SAHFTA extends their gratitude to WHFTO and their hosts, the Czech Airgun Field Target Association for hosting an excellent championships.

WHFTO World Championships 2018 Match Report – Two

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Hi guys,

Apologies for the slow reply!

Firstly, a huge thank you for the awesome support and well wishes.

So leaving Cape Town was easy enough, flight was good (managed to get an emergency seat!)The moment we landed in Dubai is when the fun really started, after a mad dash to the next security checkpoint we started queuing. I think I was one of the first ones from the SA gang to go through…that was until they scanned my bag and discovered the spare Hawke I had in there.

So the rest of the team managed to get through without too much of an issue, while I’m still trying to explain why I have a rifle scope in my bag, at that stage I told my girlfriend to go with the rest and that I will catch up with them.
When the security guy was eventually satisfied that I’m not doing or smuggling anything illegal, I was on my way!I’m convinced I broke Bolts 200m Olympic record carrying a back pack and trying to put my belt back on chasing after the others! 🙂

The last leg of the flight was all good until we started getting these little red cards explaining the luggage situation…not cool.

So after we realized the luggage is only going to be arriving much later, we went exploring. My word, what a beautiful city.

Evening came and finally also the rifles and luggage. Piloting a space ship on the wrong side of the road is kinda “fun”.I think we planned to be on the sight in range at 8am the next morning…that did not happen.

I was very fortunate, no scope issues or nothing.

My first shots were hitting the intended target…happy days! I was somewhat surprised that the chrony readings were much lower than expected, not that it bothered me that much…POI was still all the same.

After some hours of shooting we went home, I was satisfied and ready for the next day.

I woke up the morning feeling good and excited for the day ahead. At sight in all was still good. After the safety briefing it was the long walk to lane 10 on Alpha course.
At lane 10 I met my one shooting partner from Poland, awesome guy. We waited and waited and then realized the other person is not coming.

The whistle went and the game was on, I’m up first. All good and 2 points in the bag 😁 I had a fantastic start, dropping my first 6 targets, then a wobble of 2 face plates in a row. After that wobble all was good for a while until I missed a few more. My word…no feedback from the targets and no idea where or why you missed.Tough day at the office 🤔

Day 2,

Sight in was good and then the rain came…I think we waited about an hour for the rain to pass.
The shooting went well, I could feel the pressure towards the end.

Good thing Brett was shooting not too far from me, a joke and a smile here and there kept everything in check.I was very chuffed with my score for the day. It made up for the disappointment of day one.

All in all this was another fantastic trip and experience. Made lots of new friends!

I am jealous of the guys living in Europe that can attend events like these on a more regular basis.

Thank you again to everyone for the support and help.

The road to Poland 2019 starts here.

Michael Olivier – SAHFTA – Team ZA

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