Wow - was exhausted last night, too tired to look at a PC.
A fun weekend all-in-all - as people have pointed out, Saturday was a stiff shoot - made all the more tricky by some very unpredictable wind and rain showers. I once again showed I cannot shoot in the wind... dropping plenty, especially when lots of leeed needed. Finished on a lowly 50, but that was only made better by the fact a lot of good FITASC shooters were well off their averages. Nothing to complain about the layouts - 2 on the Windrush site, with 1 back at Westfield and 1 at a remote location up the road from Windrush (the rockiest field EVER!) - Steve really tested people with the tower birds on the Westfield layout (peg 3), and the 60? yard crow with a rabbit clay was something to aim at (hit it in the single, missed in the doubles) - and my only personal complaint was the job lot of green clays - for a colour blind shooter, those are hard to pick up on a lush grass background (Westfield Peg 4 was one example and the remote field Peg 3 G/A bird)
Sunday was better for me - a calmer day all round, all the layouts on the familiar bits of Westfield - Valley was typically hard (I never like the curve of the land there and struggle reading lines, Top Field was good stuff, including a monster left to right tower bird that only a couple on our squad found (not me) and a nice little dingly dell peg at the top in the hedgerow (love that pink bird through the fence). Wood layout had some nice variety, driven birds on Peg 1 and a new platform (well new to me) with some tough rabbits (one with loads of spring, one with a limp and asthma), the final peg was all over the water of the little pond - nice bright pink birds in the woods and the only Peg 4 I straighted all weekend. Barn was another good layout, although we were all feeling tired round there... Peg 3 did for me, with a pair of tricky crossers across a sloping backdrop.
I finished day one on 12, 13, 10, 15 = 50 - awful, and no excuses I was not up to the challenge - so much to learn! Day Two felt better - 14, 17, 22 (Wood), 16 = 69 to make 119 for the weekend... well under what I was hoping for - but a great weekend.
Organisation was pretty good, with a big marquee on Saturday at Windrush - and the Westfield clubhouse always marvellous. My squad was great fun - with some people I hadn't met before - we ended up bonding in the blitz spirit of the wind and rain on Saturday - and that carried us through the bitter end on Sunday.
Nice work to Ed on the GB place (engines fired up), and good to see Gav B, Darkside and few others from ShootClay around the place.
A fun weekend all-in-all - as people have pointed out, Saturday was a stiff shoot - made all the more tricky by some very unpredictable wind and rain showers. I once again showed I cannot shoot in the wind... dropping plenty, especially when lots of leeed needed. Finished on a lowly 50, but that was only made better by the fact a lot of good FITASC shooters were well off their averages. Nothing to complain about the layouts - 2 on the Windrush site, with 1 back at Westfield and 1 at a remote location up the road from Windrush (the rockiest field EVER!) - Steve really tested people with the tower birds on the Westfield layout (peg 3), and the 60? yard crow with a rabbit clay was something to aim at (hit it in the single, missed in the doubles) - and my only personal complaint was the job lot of green clays - for a colour blind shooter, those are hard to pick up on a lush grass background (Westfield Peg 4 was one example and the remote field Peg 3 G/A bird)
Sunday was better for me - a calmer day all round, all the layouts on the familiar bits of Westfield - Valley was typically hard (I never like the curve of the land there and struggle reading lines, Top Field was good stuff, including a monster left to right tower bird that only a couple on our squad found (not me) and a nice little dingly dell peg at the top in the hedgerow (love that pink bird through the fence). Wood layout had some nice variety, driven birds on Peg 1 and a new platform (well new to me) with some tough rabbits (one with loads of spring, one with a limp and asthma), the final peg was all over the water of the little pond - nice bright pink birds in the woods and the only Peg 4 I straighted all weekend. Barn was another good layout, although we were all feeling tired round there... Peg 3 did for me, with a pair of tricky crossers across a sloping backdrop.
I finished day one on 12, 13, 10, 15 = 50 - awful, and no excuses I was not up to the challenge - so much to learn! Day Two felt better - 14, 17, 22 (Wood), 16 = 69 to make 119 for the weekend... well under what I was hoping for - but a great weekend.
Organisation was pretty good, with a big marquee on Saturday at Windrush - and the Westfield clubhouse always marvellous. My squad was great fun - with some people I hadn't met before - we ended up bonding in the blitz spirit of the wind and rain on Saturday - and that carried us through the bitter end on Sunday.
Nice work to Ed on the GB place (engines fired up), and good to see Gav B, Darkside and few others from ShootClay around the place.
