GWCT’s Ceredigion Committee hosted their 3rd Clay Shoot at the Dovey Valley on Sunday 16 March, welcoming 100 guns. Squads of 6 were faced with 10 stands with varying challenges, on a sunny but crisp morning.
Shooting wasn’t the only activity on the go at the event. The GWCT Wales student, Kaylee Fay, led on craft activities for all ages using empty, colourful cartridges – from large art installations to small feather buttonhole decorations, which made use of the used cartridges discarded by attendees from the stands.
Attendees were fuelled by delicious food catered by the onsite café, with the addition of Cambrian Burgers and Steak Baguettes cooked on the barbeque getting raving reviews from all!
The competition ran throughout the day, with guns lapping up the atmosphere and trying their best to aim high for the top prize! At the end of the day attendees listened in anticipation to Owen Williams, GWCT Cymru chair thank all for supporting elaborated on the work being done on the ground by the GWCT team in Wales.
GWCT Cymru chair presented prizes to the top score, second best score and lowest.
The results:
- Top Score 86 - Michael Jones – PRIZE Cambrian Birds Game Peg donated by Cambrian Birds
- Second Best Score 81 - Marcus Rigby, James Dalton, Tim Simmons - PRIZE Cartridges donated by Dovey Valley Shooting Ground
- Lowest Score 15 - Jake Beaumond - PRIZE Dovey Valley Gold Shooting Lesson Voucher donated by Dovey Valley Shooting Ground
Michael Jones was presented with a prize worth £1000 donated by Cambrian Birds by the owner Anthony Price and Owen Williams.
From entries and raffle nearly £1,300 was raised for GWCT Wales, which will fund conservation work on the ground across the country.
Owen Williams, GWCT Wales chair who was part of the first team to head out on the course during the event said, “Everyone, whether serious clay competitors, or lesser mortals like myself enjoyed the varied, but testing 10 stands.
I had the honour of being the first ever squad to shoot the brand new very high driven pheasant stand No 9 which was so hard I christened it "sobbing in your pillow'. We are grateful to Dovey Valley Shooting Ground for hosting us again this year as well as donating prizes, and look forward to next years competition”
The date for the 2026 Clay Shoot will be released soon. Please keep an eye out and join us again next year!