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3 Smashed, hey just like my score at clays🙄

Thank you, I was enjoying the read. Quick download now before they go😉 👍

Maybe I'm just a tight old Yorkshireman or a little more sceptical as I age. How much!  Seems a lot of brass and hassle to take you're guns abroad to fire a few cartridges, that you have to buy there anyway. Wouldn't it be cheaper to hire a gun or buy one outright and sell it at the end of the...

Hi, At least you're in gods own county 😁 I don't shoot at competitions but happy to shoot any sort of clay. Pigeons when I'm invited.🙄 👍

I was enjoying reading the advice, unfortunately the link no longer works.☹

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How about this one? Saw it on evil bay earlier £2.95, free p&p, bound to be some useful tips😁

Thanks, I've never seen a competition but understand the basics. For me Skeet is somewhere to practice quietly on my own and if I want to work off just one stand or two, that's ok as there's never a queue. 

Just for the tally books,  what is the "snake". The link needs you to sign in. One of the places I shoot the 2 skeet ranges are always empty or at the most maybe 2 people using them. I often use them to practice my crosses. If I step back a few yards I can shoot Compaq on the first one. Again...

I bought three, two spent too much time on interpretation of rules and how stands should be laid out for competition.  The one below is a complete beginners guide, laid out in simple terms, step by step over a course of lessons. If you've ever instructed or maybe taught - any subject, you'll be...

You mean other than play with it in the house and pretend you're shooting err practising? 😉

If it was 53 donkeys🐴 there would be a national outrage and mass demonstrations......... people tied to trees, fighting the police......but I digress🤔 🙉🙈🙊 It was what the coach was talking about a couple of sundays ago when I  said I couldn't tell the difference when firing, between 8s and...

Just as in Angling, where 8, 9 and 10 are now common place. When I was a kid, 8 was often referred to as dust shot. Now instead of using 4 or 6 we nip two or three 8s on instead.  I did hear, but am maybe mistaken, that at the last Olympics the GB team were given some 9s to try and found they...

I've got to say, I don't like almost everything you wrote, but i respect your right to it. I also unfortunately think, there's more than a ring of truth to it. Lead will inevitably go the same as it has for Angling. We can accept it or fight to prolong it. Personally I'll fight to prolong its...

An embarrassing 3☹

For angling purposes lead was deemed safe to use for wildlife in sizes 8 and smaller and over 1oz. It's now common in sizes 8 to 10, although I couldn't possibly even see to use sizes 10 and below. It was the RSPB that had it banned they deemed birds, especially Swans ate lead in sizes 6, 4, 1...

I've been to the factory a few times, first to collect a  repair when I was still Army. When I came out and was on the lorries doing container work I used to load for export there, i just felt free to have a walk around the factory. They make some really good gear, I have a few of their products.

Unfortunately lead was banned in the 80s except in sizes 8 and smaller. No one has yet come up with anything better to replace it, although there are many "alternatives" available.  Tungsten is popular but expensive.  Like many now, I use groups of 8s bunched together or strung out but close to...

I wear a Snugpak windproof shirt, which is a pullover in fleece with a very windproof and waterproof enough pertex outer. It comes with two detachable hoods, one in fleece and pertex and one in just pertex, neither of which I use. Zip pocket on front, two zip pockets on sides and zips up the...

If you look further down in "New Shooters" I started a topic on vari focal glasses that may help you. To cut a long story short, distance vision prescription with a grey polarising shatter proof lens work for me. (Budget frame) Less than the cost of a slab.