Shooter wins fifth New Zealand title
PA Hamilton. C. F. “Brickie” Gunn collected his fifth New Zealand title when he won the. skeet championship at the national trap shooting tournament at Eureka yesterday. Gunn, from the Hawke’s Bay Central Gun Club, is one of the country’s most experienced marksmen. He held the national skeet title in 1975, and has won the prestigious New Zealand “high gun” award twice. He was one of 11 shooters from the 319 starters who gained 50 target possibles in the skeet to qualify for a sudden-death shoot-off. After one round of 25 targets in the shoot-off, Gunn, Merv Whitelaw (Melbourne), and Merv Cook (Ashburton) were the only surviving competitors who had not missed a bird. In the second shoot-off round, Cook missed his ninth bird, Whitelaw missed his eleventh and Gunn shot 12 to win. A surprising feature of the
skeet competition—the most varied event of trap shooting—was that only one other Australian besides Whitelaw shot a possible.
That was Bill Stevens from Brisbane, who was second in the New Zealand skeet last year.
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