GUN shearers Jason Wingfield and Shannon Warnest travelled from Victoria and South Australia to take on New Zealand in the Trans Tasman Cup at the Old Errowanbang Woolshed near Carcoar on Sunday.

With the help of teammate Daniel McIntyre of Glen Innes, they defeated the New Zealand team 321.18 to 388.48 in the shearing test match finals.

The Australian win ended a deadlock in the competition and was the third win in a row for the Australians, who had previously won the cup on New Zealand soil.

“They’ve got a fairly good crew,” Mr Wingfield said of the New Zealand team.

“We won the last two Trans Tasman Cups, there was one at Warrnambool and one in Masterton, New Zealand.”

The shearers each had to shear 16 sheep, eight merino and eight cross-bred with a point added every 20 seconds.

Mr Warnest said merinos had denser wool and required different equipment and shearers had to use their left hand more when shearing them compared to the crossbred sheep.

This weekend was the first time the Trans Tasman Cup has been run at Errowanbang, the historic property granted to explorer William Lawson after he crossed the Blue Mountains.

Although Australia won the shearing, New Zealand won the blade shearing test match 328.45 to 363.29 and the woolhandling 38.46 to 42.63.