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There’s a lot of clay shatter around there. Stick it in a slip, quick!

It might be that in a very slow moving and traditional industry, it’s still a comparatively “new” name so not as trusted yet. Give it another decade, might be better..

The most open ended question with no solid answer. But it fascinates us all as we’ve all been there.. “Not bothering with comps” does place you in the “no idea why you’re doing it then” category to me. 😅. But that doesn’t make me right, just different. However it means your drivers for change...

No I was later. 9am looks best time tomorrow, before the nasty winds at lunchtime. Good luck!

Cancelled Northampton tomorrow looking at the 55mph wind forecast yesterday. Of course it’s improved a bit now.. Will be interesting to hear how people get on with the wind.

If anybody can translate, I’ll read it.

Play cartridges, it’s easier and they make far more difference..

I have a 694 and just bought another Beretta 1/4 choke so use two same.

I’m knackered. I’ve shot 5 days out of the last 8, much of it freezing weather. I did get through today well enough at Redricks. Wasnt my highest score of all the shoots, but I only missed 1 clay that I would call “silly“, so a decent end to the marathon. I’m now having a huge break and will not...

I used to pattern at 10,20,30. Then realised I was wasting my time really. 15 yards tells the tale for what I want. Longer is just an exaggeration of that result.

Yeah… I wasn’t saying cartridges are only capable of 16 yards. But if you want to compare patterns, what emerges at 16 yards is very telling. Can’t recall where I read it was the optimal distance to study the results but makes sense to me. I usually do 15..

I don’t think this is the point, all the wear is from the combustion of the primer on the tip of the pin surely.

That’s why the accepted optimal distance for evaluating patterns is 16 yards.

I do, but really long edge on targets are pretty unusual these days so in reality it’s mostly fine. The Westfield course had none. Didn’t do the pool shoot

I use 1/4 choke. That’s half as much, because I’m only half as good as a World Champion.

EJ Churchill is a great resource for you and you’ll meet people if you go there. Once you’ve got going with some practice rounds, try the Thursday CPSA shoots which are shot in squads (groups) and that’s a good way to watch and chat to others.

Pro Fibres are a classy shell that hold a decent pattern. As Martin implies, worry about everything else.

I take the barrels off and press a penny over the firing pin hole on the breech face. Pull the trigger. You can feel a good hit, it almost hurts your finger. Anything less, a sign of something wrong.

Unlikely the new gun (although Browning firing pins will do this to you in the future, they aren’t the best).

Another decent course at Hornet / College farm today but wow was it biting cold. I knew it was 1 degree so had dressed as well as you can and still shoot but.. We started in the shady corner by the field platform where a North wind blew at us. Two stands there and missed a few as just struggled...