Lothian Smallbore Shooting Association

Competitions & Results

The Association provides a wide-ranging selection of competitions for its affiliates.  All take place in the winter indoor season (October to March).

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This League was originally for teams of six, one card each.  Starting with the 1999-2000 season it was changed to be teams of four, two cards each.  This was due to the falling numbers of participants in the sport and the difficulties some clubs had in raising six-person teams.  This retrenchment has continued as clubs fall by the wayside, and is reflected in that we only run two divisions with seven teams altogether nowadays, and that's with one club fielding a B team.  The Matchplay league which is run concurrently was introduced at the same time to add more interest.

Division 1                  (for the Younger Shield & the  Div 1 Matchplay Trophy)
Division 2                  (for the Evening News Cup & the Div2 Matchplay Trophy)
Division 3                  (for the Maule Targe)
Division 4                  (for the Aitchison Cup)
Division 5                  (for the Mortimer Trophy)
Division 6                  (for the Scotsman Trophy)

Click here for results of the Champion of Champions matches

Click here to see the winners of the Hayhoe Cup for the highest average in the league.
Click here to see the winners of the County Silver Medal, which used to be awarded to the shooter with the highest average in the league who has not won it before.  However, it is no longer awarded on that basis, but on performance in County Teams.  This link will take you to the archive page for County competitions.

In 1976 another Shoulder-to-Shoulder league was introduced, shooting in the indoor range at the newly built Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.  It was for teams of three, and was shot at 50 yards initially but changed to 50 metres in 1980.  Due to the dearth of equivalent facilities elsewhere, this competition was unique certainly in Scotland and possibly in the UK and attracted teams from a wide area (eg Stirling, Dumfries, Berwick).  The competition was discontinued in 1991 because the range was closed due to safety issues and it proved too costly to upgrade it.  Here are the lists of winners of the three divisions which were run during the relatively short existence of this popular league -

Division 1                  (for the Mortimer Trophy)
Division 2                  (for the Scotsman Trophy)
Division 3                  (for the Division 3 Plaque)

Click here to see the winners of the Coronation Cup for the highest average in the league.

Click on the years below  to see images of the final results sheets for some of the years this league was running:

1980-81     1981-82     1982-83     1983-84     1984-85*

* This one contains all the individual averages as well so it's a big PDF (>1Mb) and will take a while to download on a dial-up line.

If more come to the surface, I'll add them in.