Do you remember your first registered?

[LadyGameGun]

I know I was a grouch at my first

 

[Guerini Guy]

Hi Kelly  -  never bothered me too much, probably 'cos I never beat myself up about a bad score.

I love the competition side of shooting but, above all, I do it because I enjoy it. For me a good score is simply a bonus.

If you really want to excel then it is probably worth your time and money to go to a good coach early on. Keep us updated how you get on ?

 

[ExSCA]

I cannot forget... I blogged it on shootclay... A1sg... Forty something


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[paul b]

When i first started i was told that a 100 reg comp should be looked at as 50 singles and any pairs you hit are a bonus.Use two shots at the easyer one of the pair if need be,50% of something is better than 100% of nothing 

 

[Will Hewland]

My first two were at EJ Churchill. (First one was just before I got my CPSA membership, so score didn't go in). Back then, they didn't mix the course up much and I was practicing there once a week, so I hit a 72. I went to Caterham the next day and got a shock with a very different type of shoot, all new to me, but despite the reality check putting me on a hard fought 57, my love of the sport was ignited by the challenge and variety. That was in September 2005 and its been a journey ever since.

 

[SIMON-B]

Oh yes only too well, I have been shooting for fun for nearly 20 years, first reistered shoot last year, the gun didn't feel like mine, the vest didn't fit, cartridges sounded different and targets looked like they were 100 yards away. Culture shock, but highly addictive.

" thats when the fight started "

 

[V8 90]

Mine was in 1989 at East Yorkshire Shooting ground now know as Beverly Clay Target Centre - I did 76 & was well chuffed with myself !! Just need to get back where I was all those years ago & then progress.

 

[Nick Selby]

Westfield last June.....struggled but luckily had some good blokes to go round with. Only shot a couple more since due to other things getting in the way but hope to shoot more this year.

 

[radrac]

Last Sunday of January 2012 at Weston Wood (3 months after picking up a gun for the first time)...56, swiftly followed by a 30 the following week!!!  :fie:

Few targets been and gone since then...

Scores a lot better now (most of the time)!

Still can't get enough!  :nyam:

 

[chippy]

Mine was high lodge and i hit 55 it was 2002 or 2003.i could hit anything which needed no lead and miss every thing that did.12 years later not much has changed.

 

[teepee1234]

First ever Gunsite shoot, April 2012.  First meet up with some of the guys from here, too, and feeling out of my depth as a real newbie.  Remember walking out, looking at the first set of targets and thinking, "Dear God, you want me to shoot THAT??"  Had never seen anything like it!

Shot 48, and with some encouragement from the new shooting buddies, carried on.  Lots of practice, some coaching, more registered, and ended up shooting around 18,000 in the first 12 months. 

(My name is Tony, and I'm an addict).  

 

[Sian]

27.08.12 at Longridge and managed 34/100.

 

[Gnasher]

My first registered was the English Open Sporting in 2003 at Somerley. Went on my own, didn't have a clue what I was doing and hit 48/120. I'm surprised I hit that many.

 

[shootinguru]

My first registered shoot was 100 ISU skeet at the old Blandford and Dorchester Gun Club  (Southern Counties) in 1968! there was no English sporting then apart from the British Open etc  ., no local sporting shoots so it was E.skeet (Ugh) ISU skeet (big boys skeet) or DTL  there was no ABT and very little OT or UT?

It was a time when men were men and women were glad of it! :crazy:

 

[Mick Shaw]

I've only been shooting 48 years, so dont want to rush into registered competition's just yet !! reved:

 

[Nicky T]

Remember it well; a 44 at Southdown shooting round with Rob Gray and Martin Papworth

 

[PhilR]

A 100 English Skeet at Bedford GC in 1977, thankfully I can't remember the score.

 

[ehb102]

I'm having flashbacks now. It was last January at Cambridge, it wasn't fun, and that wasn't the shooting. I didn't know anyone on the squad and I wasn't exactly made welcome, apart from an old chap who tried coaching me (unasked) and really got up someone else's nose because he was "putting him off". I was left with the view that when a man says "it's very friendly" they mean no one punches you, no one trips you up and no one steals your cartridge bag. 

 

[Sian]

Your a brave girl Liz.