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Colin , who is one of my best shooting mates , didn't run the shoot. He lived and worked on the farm that owned the ground. It was run by Pymy (I forget his first name) and I think it was Arthur Par, but I could be making that up. It was an awful long time ago.

Is that Pim Robertson ? his wifes name is Denise . I was told he had something to do with the shoot at Lakenheath back in the day.

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Pim and Denise did run Lakenheath long before I started shooting, but I know Pim's claim to fame is that he taught Suzi Quatro to hit clays and never stops telling me !!!!!!

I also remember Dave Fletcher running 50 birders, though I did hear sadly that he passed away, but those were the days !!!!

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Sorry to hear that Dave is no longer with us, I am guessing that those shoots at Lakenheath would have been mid to late'80's..am I right..?

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Yes you are right, a lot of changes since those days. The club house was run by the Americans and if you were a member, the food and drink was discounted, and good stuff it was as well. The atmosphere was excellent, great fun was the order of the day. Still you know the saying "One door closes, another opens"

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We are very pleased to announce that today we have entered into a strategic partnership with Laporte Clay Pigeon Traps and The Clay Pigeon Company based in Bottesford.

 

This is very exciting news for us, especially so as we will be using the all new machine design throughout our ground when we open!

 

More details about our other strategic partners will be announced in due course!

 

Stuart (EL)

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Hi stuart,

 

This is all good news.

 

All you need now is a good target setter who knows how to put on a decent Sporting layout and the punters will come rolling in.

 

Keep them happy with a minimum of 12 stands for a 100 birder, employ proper scorers and you've got it made. :good:

 

Cat.

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Hi all,

 

Some news on the ground as promised!

The temporary clubhouse is due to arrive in the next two weeks - weather and temperature dependant! - and we are currently refurbishing the skeet fields, which is a mammoth task to say the least, but they are starting to look very nice!

 

Pictures of the main gates are live on Facebook and Twitter, but I can't seem to figure out how to put them on here....... Can anyone help?!?!

 

Stuart

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yep i`ll be going too.....

 

the excellent thing about lakenheath was it was open saturdays and sundays. most of the places i shoot are either pop up clubs or reduced hours on saturday.

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Hi all!

 

Some pictures of the installation of the new temporary clubhouse this last week!

 

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Plus a little taster of our Skeet range improvements.......

 

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There we go! Thats the updates from this week, will post some more at the end of next week!

 

Stuart

 

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Look forward to this re opening. Learnt to shoot there in the early eighties

Then it was run by the Americans only had skeet and down the line

American beer and food was great was cheap shooting as well used to bunk of work to go

It was still a good place to up until the fire if a little pricey / unfriendly

 

Good luck with the venture. I am sure you will do well

 

R33SY

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Some more update pictures of our work on the Skeet ranges for you all to have a look at!

 

As it was before we started.......

 

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As it was during work..........

 

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Range 1 90% finished...........

 

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Still a very long way to go, but things are going well!

 

Stuart

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