April offer

[ips]

I was about to ask same question les.

A ruddy caddie, how lazy are sporting shooters

 

[Les53]

I was about to ask same question les.

A ruddy caddie, how lazy are sporting shooters

Well I've never seen a trap shooter with somebody carrying his gun. Maybe we should get the CPSA to give all trap shooters a caddie to carry the guns and shells between stands, possibly even load them for us! I think it could take trap shooting to a higher, more up market level. Said caddies could then clean the guns after use, get us into those little golf buggy things and take us back to the clubhouse. They could order the coffee/tea and pig sandwiches or pies, roll the ****, light the cigars etc. They could also drive us to and from the shoot, driving one's self is such a chore don't ya know, and so common too!!! :biggrin:

 

[SIMON-B]

I was about to ask same question les.
A ruddy caddie, how lazy are sporting shooters

Dont see many trappies walking to different stands and pressing their own buttons..

" thats when the fight started "

 

[ips]

Well I've never seen a trap shooter with somebody carrying his gun. Maybe we should get the CPSA to give all trap shooters a caddie to carry the guns and shells between stands, possibly even load them for us! I think it could take trap shooting to a higher, more up market level. Said caddies could then clean the guns after use, get us into those little golf buggy things and take us back to the clubhouse. They could order the coffee/tea and pig sandwiches or pies, roll the ****, light the cigars etc. They could also drive us to and from the shoot, driving one's self is such a chore don't ya know, and so common too!!! :biggrin:

Christ les dorset really is a 3rd world county you mean you don't have a man Friday ?

 

[Bitchippy]

Hi guys,

Let me explain. We have taken on a business as a going concern and are trying to take what is a cracking set up onto the next level along side that we have added a lot to the ground too. (New layouts, flush tower, mains electric, upgraded the stone lodge). Lady's wood has had almost an elitist and expensive reputation. We want people to know all are welcome at all abilities and from all walks of life.

Rounds have to be caddied due to the nature of the layouts and grounds. We are in the process of developing a number of practice/pay and play stands once a few issues are ironed out we hope to role that out soon. Yes the pay and play will be for members only but there will be a pay and play membership (A lot cheaper) alongside the full membership. ( member benefit will be 20p per clay on the pay and play)

To get people through the door and visit we have offered the 100 bird lesson on weekdays for £75 offer this month and also the monthly open comps on the last Saturday from May.

Keep the questions coming guys, I want to make this place work and threads like this help us improve.

Cheers

Chippy

 

[Les53]

Dont see many trappies walking to different stands and pressing their own buttons.. " thats when the fight started "

Its a long way between pegs mate!!!

 

[RobertBeard]

If the ground does not have a Claymate system installed then there is no way that you can shoot on your own.  Where this is the case the ground can provide usually find someone to come round with you and press the buttons for you.  Caddy is rather an exaggerated  term in my view as they don't carry your gun or bag etc.

The Claymate system comes at a price which is normally a premium on the cost of the clays as the equipment is dearer to instal but it allows a lone shooter to select  three second delay option which gives time to put down the button and get ready to address the clay.  I would reckon the premium per clay is between 3p and 5p per clay for the clay mate system but £30 for a caddy makes the cost 30p premium per clay though you might get some tips going around the course.

Its not therefore a case of sporting shooters being lazy and having someone to carry their gear but this ground making a charge to lone shooters to accompany them and press the buttons.

 

[ips]

Dont see many trappies walking to different stands and pressing their own buttons.. " thats when the fight started "

ah well Simon we don't need to we have posh automatic trap thingie that does that for us. Flaming eck sporting really is a medieval game all that button pushing went out decades ago. Get in the 21st century man

 

[ips]

I have a question.

"Flush tower"

I Aint climbing a ruddy ladder to take a dump.

 

[SIMON-B]

Dont see many trappies walking to different stands and pressing their own buttons.. " thats when the fight started "

ah well Simon we don't need to we have posh automatic trap thingie that does that for us. Flaming eck sporting really is a medieval game all that button pushing went out decades ago. Get in the 21st century man

Ian I have experienced a line or two of trappies grunting into microphones, couldn't shoot for laughing.eeugh, pawwwl, hooar.

" thats when the fight started "

 

[ips]

Can you not put button thing on floor and stamp on it when your ready for one of them coming towards or going sideways targets, (or is the mud to deep for that) don't need a caddy chap then ?

 

[ips]

Ian I have experienced a line or two of trappies grunting into microphones, couldn't shoot for laughing.eeugh, pawwwl, hooar." thats when the fight started "

you've met my mate les then

 

[Les53]

Christ les dorset really is a 3rd world county you mean you don't have a man Friday ?

We don't even have a man "late Thursday" down here mate. In fact time down this way is of little consequence most of the time! Apart from the ABT and OT targets at SC, everything moves at a slower place down this way. You don't need to rush to the pub because because you rarely hear last orders being shouted, well not where I drink anyway, there is no rush hour, and three cars in a line is viewed as a traffic jam! There is no PC down here except for the local copper, we don't have a motorway in the county, we welcome foreigners, even the ones from Devon!!!

 

[Les53]

ah well Simon we don't need to we have posh automatic trap thingie that does that for us. Flaming eck sporting really is a medieval game all that button pushing went out decades ago. Get in the 21st century man

Yes but don't forget Ian......the buggers wander about, knee deep in mud, they haven't even cottoned onto concrete stands and paths yet, never mind micrphones!!!!  :fie:

 

[Les53]

you've met my mate les then

I only sound like that if I got a *** in the corner of me mouth! It's different when I have a bit of straw there!!!

 

[CharlesP]

I shall, after a few weeks fighting off manfully a life-threatening snuffle (which my good wife - in whom the Florence Nightingale gene is utterly absent - contemptuously dismisses as "a cold"), be braving the chill Dorset air tomorrow to threaten a few clays.

Having read on these pages the reports of a Middle Eastern competition I have already suggested that my local clay ground should be supplying Lobster Thermidor as a sort of free breakfast for us older members. My new suggestion about this 'caddying' business is bound to catch on. I won't go as far as my first thought which involved long blonde hair and a nurse's outfit (from the old days; it's a belt and stockings thing I think - not the shapeless hod-carrying outfit they all wear nowadays). But the possibilities are endless, as outlined by Les53 above.

I shall not sleep tonight for thinking of it.

Yet again I learn from this forum. Who said we older people don't listen?

 

[Bitchippy]

CharlesP it can be arranged...... Anyone know a gd wig shop?

 

[Les53]

I shall, after a few weeks fighting off manfully a life-threatening snuffle (which my good wife - in whom the Florence Nightingale gene is utterly absent - contemptuously dismisses as "a cold"), be braving the chill Dorset air tomorrow to threaten a few clays.

Having read on these pages the reports of a Middle Eastern competition I have already suggested that my local clay ground should be supplying Lobster Thermidor as a sort of free breakfast for us older members. My new suggestion about this 'caddying' business is bound to catch on. I won't go as far as my first thought which involved long blonde hair and a nurse's outfit (from the old days; it's a belt and stockings thing I think - not the shapeless hod-carrying outfit they all wear nowadays). But the possibilities are endless, as outlined by Les53 above.

I shall not sleep tonight for thinking of it.

Yet again I learn from this forum. Who said we older people don't listen?

Don't what Charles......eh......what......... :laugh:   Be careful with all this talk of nurses outfits, Ian (ips) is on a lot of pills for his blood pressure and the thought of scantily clad nurses could send him running for the valium and single malt!!!! :laugh:

 

[CharlesP]

I said nothing about scantily clad. That's down to your own fevered imagination. But I'm open to persuasion.

Blood pressure pills, yes, I refer to them as my 'five a day'. Not helped by three conversations with Hotpoint's customer sevices this afternoon. Mind you, at least it wasn't Talk Talk. As in "My name is Kevin" - yes sure it is, Kevin......

This caddying idea has really caught my imagination. All that faffing about with chiselling the caked soot off my Urika's innards after feeding it Hull's finest in the dampest winter on record. After handing me my slippers and Laphroaig she could whisk it off to be lovingly stripped (oooh!) and oiled (oh I say!) and checked for silky reciprocation (aaaah!) and returned gleaming and shiny. She could deal with the gun, too.

 

[Salopian]

CharlesP,

 I take exception to your innuendo about my son Kevin, he works very hard at his call centre to earn enough money to pay his way through university to enable him to achieve his ambition of becoming an MP. 

yours ,

Keith (Ranjit) Kumar.