Empress Shield 2025
Popham Hosts This Years Competition.
We saw a great turnout of 11 members for this years Empress Shield, sponsored by it’s creator Unick & held at Popham in the format of a team event. The teams consisted of 2 members both shooting 70 clays and the winners were decided with handicaps. Only 12 points separated the teams with all teams hitting the desired 100 with handicap.
The results were as follows (all scores are equated to 50).
| PLACE | TEAM MEMBERS | SCORES | HANDICAPS | TOTAL |
| 1st | Pikey & Capp | 46 & 39 | 12 & 15 | 112 |
| 2nd | Big Mac & Smudger | 42 & 39 | 12 & 17 | 110 |
| 3rd | Sturat & Dynamite | 43 & 40 | 8 & 18 | 109 |
| 4th | Hunter & Albert | 40 & 38 | 12 & 17 | 107 |
| 5th | Spiced & Robbo | 43 & 38 | 11 & 11 | 103 |
| 6th | Unick | 37 (x 2) | 13 (x 2) | 100 |
This year Pikey retained the trophy, although his partner this year was Capp and not Unick like last year. Pikey was also the highest actual and with a solid partner performance they pipped Big Mac and Smudger to the title.
1st Place – Empress Shield & 250 Cartridges Each.
2nd Place – Bottle of Wine Each.
Last Place – Shooting Mugs.
Once again a huge thank you to Unick for not only creating this event over 10 years ago but for again sponsoring the event, choosing the format & providing some very generous prizes.
