Catton Carl

Well it looks like you all had a blast, I must appologise for not being able to be around that much but sadly due to work i had to look after the horse trials down the road, Sparky and crew did a grand job running it all and im sure you will all be welcome back next year, If any of you have any picture you would like to share on Catton riflesports face book that would be great and i will pick a few and piut them on ther new riflesport web site when i get round to doing it,..... and if you havent had enough your welcome to come again this saturday ... Straight shooting and see you all next year if not before. Carl Catton Rifle Sport.

Sounds like you all had fun it does make it worth while when we get to hear about how you all got on. alot of work goes into the days and it would not be possible with out all the help I get and of course everyone turning up. Sandra did say something about felling a giant in the horse box..... wasnt completly sure what she was up to but now it all makes sense, will look into to slip protecton for the next shoot. Cheers lads and lasses Carl

Just a few of the metal targets ready for the weekend, this should give you an idea of what your shooting at. The blue fox picture is one of our original targets we have now retired him and he will go to a safe place of rest,

Hi Ian Its basicly a chance to zero and practise in a realistic enviroment, we take over catton estate for the day, set out loads of different types of targets from animal images to metal reactive targets at 400 + yards and closer, plenty of chance to shoot as much ammo as you can bring, its not bench rest shooting or any sort of competion. just a group of like minded people improving ther skills and making some new mates along the way. have a look at the web site www.cattonriflesport,co,uk im sure there are plenty on here who could vouch for us as well. carl

Just to let you all know that the rifle shoot on Saturday 4th is booking up fast and im only going to allow a handfull more to come, so if you would like to attend please contact me asap so i can get your name down.

Looking like its going to be a busy weekend, ive ordered some good weather so no excuses not to come,

insure you would enjoy it Dougy may even put on some sausage cobs as a treat...

between 350 and 450 should be enough to see you through the day

Clay Shooting Day................ just a few ideas if you are interested, As some of you may realise we have just started up the simulated driven clay shoots on the Catton Park Estate Derbyshire , the venue for the last four years pigeon watch rifle shoots, the simulated game lorries were used on the event and all that shot them did seem to enjoy the thrill and speed of the targets produced. Now could you lot handle a full day of this..... ? 5 drives all in different locations around the sporting Catton Park Estate using some of the actual drives used on the pheasant and partridge days, all the drives are done to simulate game birds and normally end up with glowing barrels and happy faces. Some very high testing pheasants scores of fast partridge whizzing over your heads, we can also simulate ducks coming into a pond or pigeons dropping in on fields to feed . you never know what to expect other than a very challenging fun day, The day starts with a Bacon cob and tea / coffee served in the Catton Hall Shoot room, a short briefing of what to expect of the day and you will all receive full safety equipment for you to use on the day and take away with you at the end of the day, You will then all be taken to the first then second drive of the day in our gun trailer , so no need to use your own vehicle. we then stop for elevenses .... a little sloe gin or a soft drink and a few nibbles. then off to do a further 3 drives at the end of the day you will of had the chance to shoot at over 3000 clays and buy this time worked up an appetite so then off to a local pub for a steak dinner and a couple more guzzlers, vegetarian option available "a Carrot" The basic day is booked around 14 people although this can be adapted or changed to your preference £180 per person cartridges not included, but we can supply them. ALL cartridges MUST be fibre wad. if any of your are interested in setting up a day then pass on your interest to fruitloop or myself, if there is more of you that would like to do this then I'm sure we could get the price down a bit, look forward to seeing how this goes..... Carl

good to see you all had a good time and got home safe, good to see you all again and hope the new ground met with your expectations, will look into booking one for next year for you as long as you all want to come again. hope the clays went down ok we have all put a lot of effort into building the machines and now looking forward to getting them out for proper..... may be a pigeon watch simulated game day..........?? with BBQ well have a think about it. Thanks again for coming and a pleasure to see a professional safe bunch of shooters that respect they sport and know how to enjoy themselves as well, great weekend see you all and more I hope next time Carl

Just like to say thankyou to all who came on the pigeon watch weekend shoot at catton as always it was a pleasure to meet you all and great to see all the comments and photos, I got a feeling tnat thks is going to snowball into a classic event, those of you who were sitting on the fence about coming have just missed out on of the best laughs , and im sure plans are kn the way to making next years even better. Thanks again all who came, safe shooting Carl

Great pics im sure there are plenty more to come and a few vids

Looks like the banter has started all ready. Just to answer a couple of questions, I will find you some logs to burn....... but I recon you lot like goin in the wood to "find logs" just don't pick up the wet ones. As Far as dogs are concerned I don't mind as long as the usual .. clean up well behaved etc.... please note is a very noisy environment even for gun dogs and the amount of noise round the camp fire can get bad.... Hope to see you all there looking forward to seeing some old and new faces..... any body got anything new that would like to try target wise let me no and will see what I can do. regards Carl...... Get reloading

Some top photos and some very odd comments not sure what went on when I left........ but my parents always said what goes on in the woods stays in the woods..... but a top weekend and genuine great company thanks to all that came and hope to see you again soon.

Good to hear you got back safe Ben and thanks for making the effort to come all the way to see us again. A true gent and sportsman we will all look for ward to seeing the old landy come bumping up the track next year. Stumfelter not sure if we need to see all the photos if they were that bad you have to watch that fruitloop he does this in the wood and blames bears !!!!!!!!

Good to see you all enjoyed the event and Catton. Was great to see you all and a pleasure to shoot with you all.good to see a few young ones shooting and hope that we can do this all again next year. Thanks to sparky for his help and the use of his exerlent targets that got a right battering. Hope to see a few more pics from the weekend Carl

Good to see a nice few of you coming and I will try my best to make sure you have a good time I have already got the sheep on there so they are now settled ! I do have a shoot this weekend so if you fancy a go let me no. The pw weekend has been a relaxed shooting event and this year should be as good if not better if yournotsure about the event or coming all I can say is come and see and you will all be made very welcome and you will have a gret time and meet some good honest shooting people. I am looking into some chalenges and will be intalks with sparky on somethings tokeep you all interested. Dont hold back this is a possible yearly event so get your payments to sparky and have a weekend you will be talking about for a long Time Regards and looking forward to meeting some of you Carl

Any one hanging on the fence about coming to the weekend ? Have a look at Shooting Sports June issue and a big thanks to Chris Parkin AKA "Fister" for the write up. Its on page 58 centre spread. Pics are from last years pigeon watch shoot, and im not sure but I recon I can see Gandalf walking down the field in front of his landy. If any one would like to no more about the shoot or have any questions you can give me a call 07809 721869 Carl

This Sunday 28th Rifle shoot at Catton park Derbyshire, Your last chance to get some sneaky practise in before the pigeon watch show down in June. 200 to 400 yd metal reactive targets Loads of animal image targets up to 200 yards airgun Range in woodland .22 rimfire range put on by "sparky" woodland walk and shoot burger bar open from 8.30 ish Shooting starts at 10am £20 per person for the day Rural Toilets www.cattonriflesport.co.uk Tel 01827 383200 Cheers hope to see some of you there Carl

My bantams have just started to lay now and there eggs are small but if they are to easy will have to get the quail eggs out........... I sense lots of .17 brass on the floor

This is looking good. We may well have to find a larger field....... dont worry we have plenty, The .17 challenge seems to be taking shape Loooking forward to meeting some more of the PW members Carl

Forgot about the no powder bit oooooooooooooooooooooooooo this has some life in it . I sense some **** taking coming on Fruitloop invents never ending powder

Big thanks to all the lads from the pigeon watch that came to the shoot today hope you all enjoyed it and plenty of ammo appears to have been used. The weather could not have been better and as I type I can feel how it has burnt my face....... not bad for Feb. The ground was abit sticky but we seemed to get away wiith it and you all managed to get on and off the area ok. Massive thanks to sparky for his help and letting us use his .22 rim targets we are going to use them now on all the shoots so dont forget to bring your rimmys on the shoots. I have put some photos from today on my web site www.cattonriflesport.co.uk they are on shoot report feb 2013 look forward to seeing you all again at one of the shoots and of course the PIGEON WATCH WEEKEND SHOOT at Catton Carl

Shoot dates for 2013. 17th February Sunday. 28th April Sunday 2nd June Sunday 8th & 9th June Sat / Sun Pigeon Watch weekend (see other post on here) 18th August Sunday And thats it for the year hope some of you can manage to get to some of the shoots they are relaxed and great fun and you will be shooting with like minded people. If you need any more help or advise on the shoots please dont hesitate to contact me, details are available on www.cattonriflesport.co.uk

Will set up some spuds abit closer so you can get some practise on hitting them before you move out to the .17 normal distances 200 yd plus I will even put a couple of special ones out at 400 Carl