Annual Tour, May 2026, Eaton Hall, Doveridge

Annual Shooting Tour - May 2026 - Eaton Hall, Doveridge

1 st Bob Beckman 230 Fri 80 + 34 114 Sat 76 + 40 116

2 nd Darrell Etherington 209 Fri 69 + 28 97 Sat 82 + 30 112

3 rd Steve Carr 204 Fri 77 + 24 101 Sat 71 + 32 103

4 th Graham Jackson 201 Fri 62 + 25 87 Sat 77 + 37 114

4 th Johan Widlund 200 Fri 75 + 26 101 Sat 69 + 30 99

6 th Darren Garrett 188 Fri 75 + 18 93 Sat 58 + 37 95

7 th Steve Scrivens 183 Fri 65 + 16 81 Sat 73 + 29 102

8 th Terry Trevatt 175 Fri 65 + 22 87 Sat 54 + 34 116

9 th Brendan O’Reilly 172 Fri 69 + 17 86 Sat 52 + 34 86

10 th Steve Harman 163 Fri 67 + 30 80 Sat 50 + 33 83

11 th Dave McGuire 157 Fri 69 + 13 82 Sat 60 + 15 75

1 st Steve Scrivens 300.000 Score 183 -17 on average of 200

2 nd Johan Widlund 299.921 Score 200 -20 on average of 220

3 rd Pete Wyatt 299.693 Score 152 -48 on average of 200

4 th Pete Mendham 299.691 Score 137 -53 on average of 190

5 th Geoff Pelling 299.545 Score 137 -63 on average of 200

6 th Steve Carr 299.436 Score 204 -41 on average of 245

7 th Steve Harman 299.353 Score 163 -62 on average of 225

8 th Brendan O’Reilly 299.214 Score 172 -63 on average of 235

9 th Darrell Etherington 299.168 Score 209 -46 on average of 255

10 th Tyler Wyatt 299.154 Score 158 -72 on average of 230

12 th Terry Trevatt 299.103 Score 175 -65 on average of 240

The 41 st Annual Tour, also know as the “Jolly Boys Outing”, was to the newly revamped Eaton Hall Shooting Ground in Derbyshire. The shooting ground was amazing, the weather was great and some good food and a beer or three. Huge thanks to our resident Travel Agent, ‘Jive Bunny’ Brendan. A great job and a huge challenge to arrange everything, well done for another fantastic tour. A big thank you to all the team at Eaton Hall Shooting Ground in Doveridge for a very warm welcome, a huge selection of shooing, and some very challenging targets. We managed to fit in English Sporting, Sportrap, and DTL. The shooting ground was amazing with many different stands spread over a huge area. The clubhouse has a great restaurant, we all had customised buggies so didn’t have to walk between stands. They even have Helicopter Pads for the more elite visitors. The order of the day was a quick ‘Nifty Fifty’ on the way up on Thursday, 150 birds on Friday, 100 Sporting in the morning followed by 50 Sportrap after lunch. Then, for Saturday, a 100 Sporting birds in the morning, followed by Lunch and then a very challenging 50 birds on the DTL area to finish. the DTL proved to be very tough and destroyed some good score cards!! The food this year was excellent with a massive selection of everything at the New Water Margin Chinese with an all you can eat buffet on Thursday evening - and boy did we eat some food. On Friday, we celebrated the infamous ‘Shite Shirt’ evening with an excellent meal at the great Cosy Club Restaurant. Some very good food and a few very dodgy shirts!! Congratulations to Johan for winning this year with the most horrendous Duck Shirt and top marks to Brendan for giving his shirt away to some complete stranger in the middle of Derby Town Centre. For Saturday, we polished off some huge steaks at Emily’s Steak House Restaurant. Especially 2Bob and Johan who had a cow split between them. Some fantastic food and great service from all three venues - great choices from our Travel Agent. In between all the eating a fair few pints were downed at the White Horse Pub, a few great nights including some great 80’s Disco and a Ska Band on one evening.

The Trophies This year we have Trophies for ‘High Gun’, 2 nd and 3 rd place in straight shooting. In the handicap shooting we have Trophies for 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd place. And, instead of the usual ‘Wooden Spoon’, this year we have the ‘Losers Trophy’ for the worst straight shooting score.

Straight Shooting Results

Below is the breakdown of the final scores and rankings for Straight Shooting. This year, we shot 150 on the Friday, 100 Sporting in the morning and 50 Sportrap in the afternoon, and a further 100 Sporting on the Saturday morning, and 50 DTL in the afternoon, giving a maximum score of 300.

Handicap Shooting Results

1 st Place Steve Scrivens with a Handicap score of 300.000

2 nd Place Johan Widlund with a Handicap score of 299.921

3 rd Place Pete Wyatt with a Handicap score of 299.693

And to finish …. a few special awards and interesting photos ....

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Below is the final scores for Handicap Shooting. The total straight score out of 300 is shown to the right of the Handicap Score together with how well you shot above or below your expected average, Green if you shot above average and Red if you shot below.

‘High Gun’ Bob Beckman with a score of 230

2 nd Place Darrell Etherington with a score of 209

3 rd Place Steve Carr with a score of 204

11 th Tyler Wyatt 157 Fri 60 + 21 81 Sat 61 + 16 76

13 th Andy Catton 299.064 Score 120 -95 on average of 215

The Team Scores

Winners Tyler Wyatt Darrell Etherington, Bob Beckman Kevin Strudley, Darren Garrett, Steve Carr Andy Catton, Pete Wyatt & Graham Jackson 1596

Losers Johan Widlund Steve Scrivens, Steve Harman Mike Evans, Terry Trevatt, Geoff Pelling Brendan O’Reilly, Dave McGuire & Mike Evans 1415

The Poshest Burger in Derbyshire Eaton Hal’s very own fully branded Brioche Bun Cheeseburger - and very tasty it was too!!

The Empty Champers Award Awarded to ‘Jive Bunny’ Brendan for his sterling efforts in arranging the ‘Jolly Boys Outing’ - not an easy task by any means

The Shorted Person Award 2026 Yet again, awarded to Darrell, now the fourth year in a row!

I’ve not had a Drink - Honest Luckily in true F&F style, we had a camera ready for Brendan’s Musical Chairs performance

Graham’s new invisible Camera Graham demonstrates the new invisible camera, made by Beretta we believe !!

Bored are we? Brendan seems a little bored, we think he was waiting for Steve Carr to get a round in!!

The Best Pyjamas of the Tour Steve Carr’s Stirling effort with a two piece Pyjama Suit with some Pink Flamingo’s - what was he thinking ??

The Fastest Beer of the Tour Very clearly won by 2Bob for his 20 second downing of a pint - we think he might have been thirsty

13 th Pete Wyatt 152 Fri 59 + 22 81 Sat 62 + 9 71

14 th Graham Jackson 298.994 Score 201 -55 on average of 205

14 th Geoff Pelling 137 Fri 61 + 14 75 Sat 43 + 19 62

15 th Pete Mendham 137 Fri 61 + 13 74 Sat 33 + 30 63

15 th Kevin Strudley 134 Fri 58 + 22 80 Sat 30 + 24 54

17 th Andy Catton 120 Fri 46 + 6 52 Sat 49 + 19 68

15 th Darren Garrett 298.953 Score 188 -62 on average of 250

16 th Robert Beckman 298.878 Score 230 -40 on average of 270

17 th Kevin Strudley 298.816 Score 134 -96 on average of 230

18 th Tim Pretty 298.140 Score 86 -144 on average of 230

The Loser Andy Catton with a rubbish score of 127

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The Shite Shirt Award

Despite some stiff competition with Steve Carr’s Pyjama Suite, Darrell’s ‘glow in the dark’ Frilly Thing, Dave’s ‘oven ready’ Baco Foil and some other extremely dodgy shirts, our very own Happy Swede, Johan Widlund won with the most horrendous shirt. It was so popular, the chicks were all over him!! - A well deserved Award.

18 th Mike Evans 91 Fri 41 + 3 44 Sat 28 + 19 47

19 th Tim Pretty 86 Fri 76 + 10 86 Sat 0 + 0 0

20 th Jack Pretty 73 Fri 61 + 12 73 Sat 0 + 0 0

21 st Billy Anderton 30 Fri 0 + 14 14 Sat 16 + 0 0

19 th Mike Evans 297.726 Score 91 -149 on average of 240

20 th Jack Pretty 297.714 Score 73 -162 on average of 235

21 st Billy Anderton 297.603 Score 30 -195 on average of 225

11 th Dave McGuire 299.140 Score 157 -73 on average of 230