The Deeside Darlings got off to a fantastic start last week at Deeside Activity Park for their first all ladies clay shoot.
Cilla Wood, who’s idea it was to make this new, exciting all ladies club, and named it Deeside Darlings, is the marketing manager at the Park, was just overwhelmed with the interest and demand when she launched it on the Deeside Activity Park’s facebook page last month.
So much so that she has gone on to arrange the 2nd Deeside Darlings date even before the first one had taken place.
Royal Deeside saw the 14 ladies of mixed shooting abilities, shooting 40 competition clays each under full instruction from Ken Howie, the owner of Deeside Activity Park, and Donald Brooker, chief instructor for the Park. After their shooting the ladies then returned to the Bull Ring, where Farmer Ken went on to the knife and served up his very famous Cairnton Aberdeen Angus Sunday Carvery lunch to the ladies, showing farm to fork at its very best.
Now everyone is a winner in the Deeside Darlings, but the lady with the highest score on Sunday was Kelly Bowie, taking away a fantastic prize from the first shoot sponsors for the day, Atholl Countrywear.
Keeping with shooting traditions, after being served a glass of hot Bullshot in the Bothy before the day started, the ladies did a Shoot Sweep with Atholl Countrywear kindly suppling gift vouchers for the winner Sara-Jane Duffus. All money collected from the Shoot Sweep is going to Ewing Cancer, MacMillan Scotland Charity.
Jade Anderson, one of the Darlings, said she "has had a hoot of a shoot at Deeside Activity Park for the first Deeside Darlings clay shoot. I shot not too badly, but room for improvement, so roll on the next shoot in January for more fantastic clay shooting, followed by the best Sunday carvery I have ever had."
Ken Howie commented, "The Darlings had lots of ladies with guns, lots of clays shot, lots of laughter - which is what shooting is all about. You don’t have a bad shot, you only have unsafe one."
Deeside Activity Park is a farm diversification company for Cairnton Farm. The outdoor activity park offers a wide range of outdoor pursuits including quad biking, 4x4 off road driving, target shooting, fishing and many more with first class conference facilities, farm shop and an award winning coffee shop all on-site.
There are lots of events coming up at Deeside Activity Park in 2017, so make sure you check out the website and Facebook for more information.
If you'd like to become a Deeside Darling, call Cilla Wood on 01339 883536.