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Churchills yesterday. Started well, straight on the first two stands, dropped two on each of the next two and then straight on the next three. A combination of tougher targets and me getting the yips a bit because I was on for a PB resulted in 10 away over the next three stands. PB blown, all...

Oxfordshire Shooting School on Friday. Too many quartering targets for my taste, but I suppose that's what they have to do at a small ground. I effed it up from the start, dropping 5 on a sim pair of teals, then it was sloppy most of the rest of the way around, dropping odd ones and twos...

We did! And it worked, let my heart rate drop before I had to get in the stand. The pink one I was taking late, which is what I'd usually do, but pretty sure I was over the top on it. Hit it by pushing the gun to it before it peaked. That second target on 12 was a 70mm, even smaller than a...

Only Saturday and my competitions this week are done. EJC on Thursday. Started solidly, straight on 3 of the first 4 stands, just the 2nd bird on the scaffold catching me out, dropped 3 not giving it enough in front. Then the mini-meltdown started. Tricky sim pair on 5, dropped 3. Stand 6 I...

Barrow for me on Sunday, first time this year. Back to being cold and windy! One stand I struggled with, a nasty sim pair of left to rights, first bird going like a bat out of hell, only hit it once. The rest of the course was littered with lots of stupid misses due to lack of concentration or...

Churchills yesterday. Sun out, not much of a breeze, it was lovely after shooting in drizzle and gales for so long. Bit of a change, with refs on each stand, but all ran smoothly and no waits on any stands for my squad. Think I prefer it the way they used to do it though, bit more banter with...

After a very brief foray into SxS ownership I'm selling my old English single trigger SxS. 30 inch barrels, cyclinder and 1/4 fixed chokes, good fun on clays, but I need the cabinet space. Message me if interested and I'll take some photos to send across.

Did the local club open comp, wish I hadn't bothered. Some standards the target presentation was totally different every time. Had one stand had an incoming looper which ended up as an outgoing looper. I think it was supposed to be about 30 yards, reckon it was more often 50 yards out when I...

I've done a grand total of 1 registered ABT shoot and 1 registered DTL shoot. The pegs are 3m apart centre to centre. If you hit with the first barrel, you open your gun, discharge your spent cartridge and leave the one in the second barrel while you move. It's not like wandering around a...

AGL for me on Friday as well. The only high point was that I got to shoot in Sian's squad. I had a complete melt-down on stand 8, couldn't hit either of them. I did OK on both sim pairs only one away on each of those, but only managed to straight the first and last stands. Finished on a fairly...

If you want minimal mucking about, go for one of the ladies guns Bavarian mentioned. I've got a Beretta semi-auto with a Vitoria stock and the only alteration I had done was an adjustable comb as I like to see a lot of rib when I shoot. They are good for length and pitch. I personally wouldn't...

Endorse what Freddypip said, apart from the barrel length point. I'm a shortarse with a stock not much over 13 inches and my gun has 30 inch barrels without it causing any problems. As long as you can adjust to avoid it being front heavy then you should be fine with longer barrels. I very...

How much do you want to spend is the obvious first question? Personally, I'd go for a K80 Parcours with a bespoke stock (in fact, I did). However, if I didn't want to spend Kreighoff money and was starting out on my clay shooting journey I'd probably at this quite closely...

I shot Redricks as well, I found it tough, made worse by the wind. Sim pair on the first stand would have been ok in calm conditions, but when I shot it I found both birds very wind affected. The same applied on the other two sim pairs as well, although even in calm conditions I think the 2nd...

Churchills yesterday for their 2nd Reg ESP of the month. I felt they set this one considerably tougher than the last couple, confirmed by only 3 scores of 90 or more from 120 shooters, including more than 20 AA and AAA shooters. Started innocuously enough, but they ramped it up pretty quickly...