Just back from A1SG and their registered shoot, beautiful morning that felt more like June than March! Was second squad out - with CleverSC3 and a couple of others - I quite like the way they organised things at A1SG, ensuring that the registered shoots aren't too crowded by requiring entries and squadding with a maximum of four - also seems to make the reffing very consistent.
Shoot was pretty good - a few edgy g/a targets that caught a few out and an evil looper to finish the day at that I don't think many were hitting confidently. I particularly enjoyed one stand with a going away mini o/r with a crossing edge on bird. There was a nice pair of crossers r/l floating at distance with a l/r battue close in which I was all over until I dropped the last shot (still not sure why!), two stands of driven birds (one I straighted and one hit the first two pairs and then scratched the card) and an evil quick bunny folowed by a quartering target - the bunny caught loads out.
General consensus of my squad was that this wasn't an easy shoot to build a big score at. My card had I think three straights and a 7ex8 on it - but still I finished on a 66 with a few stands scoring only 3 or 4. I left 3 or 4 out there to some stupid consistency mistakes and a handful to just not knowing how to read and find the target.
On the upside I noticed when I got home, that it was almost exactly a year to the day since I shot my first registered shoot, a cold day where I took home a sobering 47. I'm well pleased having added on 19 shots in a year - and even more pleased it wasn't as bloody cold as last year!
Shoot was pretty good - a few edgy g/a targets that caught a few out and an evil looper to finish the day at that I don't think many were hitting confidently. I particularly enjoyed one stand with a going away mini o/r with a crossing edge on bird. There was a nice pair of crossers r/l floating at distance with a l/r battue close in which I was all over until I dropped the last shot (still not sure why!), two stands of driven birds (one I straighted and one hit the first two pairs and then scratched the card) and an evil quick bunny folowed by a quartering target - the bunny caught loads out.
General consensus of my squad was that this wasn't an easy shoot to build a big score at. My card had I think three straights and a 7ex8 on it - but still I finished on a 66 with a few stands scoring only 3 or 4. I left 3 or 4 out there to some stupid consistency mistakes and a handful to just not knowing how to read and find the target.
On the upside I noticed when I got home, that it was almost exactly a year to the day since I shot my first registered shoot, a cold day where I took home a sobering 47. I'm well pleased having added on 19 shots in a year - and even more pleased it wasn't as bloody cold as last year!
