30th April 2010
In just over a week the FT summer season will kick off with the BFTA Championships at Newbury on Saturday 10th April followed by the Inter-regionals on the Sunday.
This will be the 24th year of the BFTA Championships and the list of winners is impressive. In 2008 Ian Taylor took his 2nd title and followed this by winning the Worlds in Northern Ireland. Last year Nick Murphy triumphed after a shoot-off with BFTA chairman Roger Moy; Nick then showed he was the best spring gun shooter in the UK by winning the GP series. So to win this one you'll need to be at the top of your game.
It will be a 40 shot course with shooters feeding on at lane one in squads of ten and anyone with a BFTA card can enter.
And then the following week the big one, the GP series, begins in the North-west at Tawd Vale. I love the GP series and find there's always a great atmoshpere wherever we go. Let's hope for a dry Tawd!