Bellbird’s Turner family had plenty of reasons to celebrate at the recent NSW clay target shooting titles in Wagga Wagga.
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Tom Turner won the state double rise championship and overall AA grade high gun and was inducted into the NSW Clay Target Association Hall of Fame.
Tom’s daughter Taylah, 19, took out the ladies double barrel championship and son Jack, 14, won C-grade double barrel and point score.
Tom started shooting at the Cessnock Clay Target Club when he was 12 with his late father, Tom senior, and his children are proudly carrying on the tradition.
Tom and Taylah paired up to win the family doubles title at the Australian Clay Target Championships in 2012, an event that Tom had won as a teenager with his father.
Now 41, Tom has won numerous state and national titles, competed at the Sydney and Athens Olympics, and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games this year.
Following the Glasgow Games (where he made the semi-finals of the men’s double trap and finished equal fifth), Tom travelled to Spain for the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship in Granada.
He is ranked in the top 40 shooters in the world for the men’s double trap.
It’s also been a big year for Taylah, who represented Australia at the Universal Trench World Championships in Italy.
Tom and Taylah will travel to Brisbane this weekend to compete in the last Australia Cup shoot for the year.