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Don't know about pigeonwatch, but seeing this come up on latest posts has made me remember how great a contributor to this forum Hamster was. Much missed.

OK, I'll be the first to put my head above the parapet. E J Churchills today for their (and my) first ESP Reg of the year. No rain and no wind, felt like the first time for that combination for a while! I thought it was an enjoyable and interesting set of targets. A few more sim pairs than...

Does it have the same trigger mechanism as the standard 725s? My husband likes the balance of his 725, but the trigger is terrible. If it's they've changed it back to the inertia ones they've got on the 525 I might have a look at getting one for him

Interesting. Will have to have a look at that, I keep trying to persuade him to change because of the trigger issue and that might be an option. Can always get the auto-safety sorted by a competent gunsmith

That pretty much sums it up. Trigger isn't great, random unexpected increases in pull weight. Pins pitted really quickly, resulting in some cartridges with hard primers not firing. Got some hardened pins from the States and had those fitted, which seemed to resolve that issue. Probably best...

Husband has one. Not in vgc, blacking has worn off the action with use. Trigger is awful. Do you really want one?

Well done. Fingers crossed the Churchills tomorrow is OK weather wise.

Yup. She's good. Really helped me out with gun fit issues.

Barrow as well, I actually did OK on the quartering stuff, apart from on Stand 1 where I dropped 2. I had a really bad start, dropped 8 on the first two stands. Massively overled a simple climbing left to right and dropped three of them. Shot at it and it broke :cry:. Gave myself a good...

Started shooting 20 years earlier than I did.

Cheryl Hall covers that area. She's good whatever level you are at.

I wasn't going to chip in on this, but even as a mediocre shot I know that you can't deal with all targets using maintained lead and relying on it for everything will put you at a massive disadvantage. I actually like maintained lead on a lot of targets, but for anything quartering or requiring...

I hit the last one, there was a perceptible delay between the bang and the break.

Well shot, you did well on what I found a very tough round. I missed the first rabbit and the third dropping teal on Stand 1. Considering I hate dropping targets could have been a lot worse. Stands 5 and 6 did me over completely. Stand 8 was the sim pair wasn't it? 5 for me - managed to hit...

Barrow for me. I thought I wasn't shooting too badly at the moment, but I found it a brutal course today. There were half a dozen silly misses on my card, the rest I was just beaten by the targets.

Just put loads of cartridges through your gun on lots of different targets. You'll get to the point you don't spend ages thinking about lead you just automatically give it what it needs. Not on all targets, but the more you shoot the more you seem to be able to judge what it needs. For me...

Redricks for me as well, with a pretty inconsistent performance. Four out of the first six stands I managed to miss a target on the first pair and hit the rest - mainly by trying to take them a bit too quickly. Even slowing myself down a bit on the sim pair on stand 4 I managed to hit one of...

Stand 2 I straighted, the overhead was variable and you had to make sure you were well under it when the wind pushed it down, driven didn't need much. I'd guess that you probably gave that second bird on 8 too much. It didn't need a huge lead and I was hitting it as much below as I was in...

Ceyla hit 3 from 4. She reckoned you needed to be well below it, but it didn't need huge lead. I tried all sorts of lead, but neve adjusted the line so reckon I was probably over it.

Churchills yesterday for their regular monthly sporting. Enjoyed the course, I felt it was a little different from the recent shoots there - few low quartering targets and more stuff up in the air. Suited me as I like to shoot stuff like that where you've got time on it maintained lead and...