Spring Prize

SPRING PRIZE

Open to all comers. To be awarded to the competitor whose scores in the Falla, the Renouf, and the Albany make up the highest aggregate score. For the concurrent Class B competition see Spring Prize B. First Prize: The Guernsey Coppersmiths’ Trophy, a large copper Guernsey can presented by Guernsey Cans (Coppersmiths) and first awarded in 1989. A tie for the first prize will be shot off on the spot.

2025	401.57v	MRM Millar^E
2024	402.43v	ASO Stewart
2023	390.38v	ER Welford^E
2022	404.63v	THD Dodds^W
2021	393.41v	PM Jory (9)
2020	—	NC
2019	395.38v	PM Jory (8)
2018	400.50v	LT Malčić
2017	397.39v	OM Hudson
2016	295.26v	PM Jory (7)
2015	398.46v	R Shaw^E
2014	399.50v	PM Jory (6)
2013	391.46v	PM Jory (5)
2012	394.46v	RF Perkins (5)
2011	252.32v	RF Perkins (4)
2010	399.44v	RF Perkins (3)
2009	403.53v	NJ Branch
2008	—	PM Jory (4)
2007	405.62v	PM Jory (3)
2006	404.54v	AJ Burton
2005	—	PM Jory (2)
2004	—	PM Jory
2003	—	NC Mace
2002	—	N Porter
2001	400.44v	CC Mallett Jnr^J
2000	400.49v	PW Ogier (3)
1999	155.21v	PW Ogier (2)
1998	397.52v	SR Rowe (2)
1997	386.42v	IJ Donaldson (2)
1996	—	BPS Yeadon
1995	—	PW Ogier
1994	—	IJ Donaldson
1993	—	RG Courtney (2)
1992	—	RF Perkins (2)
1991	—	SR Rowe
1990	—	RF Perkins
1989	—	RG Courtney

The Spring Prize has been contested 36 times and has been won by nineteen different marksmen. Peter Jory has the most wins (9) and holds the record score of 405.62v ex 405.81, which he achieved in 2007.

Richard Perkins won the event in three consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. He also holds the record for the longest time between Spring Prize wins of 22 years between his first win in 1990 and his fifth win in 2012.

Jerseyman Cliff Mallett Jnr became the first non-Guernseyman to win the Spring Prize in 2001, while Englishman Bob Shaw was the first non-Channel Islander to win the competition, doing so in 2015.

Peter Jory has the most wins (9) and holds the record score of 405.62 ex 405.81v, set in 2007. That year, he also set the Albany (final stage) record score of 150.26v ex 150.30v, and matched Andy Burton’s Renouf (second stage) then-record score of 150.22v (since beaten by England’s Matt Millar in 2025, with 150.23v), set the previous year.