Horne Gatton Bottom 25th March

[Will Hewland]

I went there today with some mates including two young lads, one doing his first shoot outside of his school shoots.

Lovely day, but a cool breeze.

Not their easiest shoot actually. I fell over badly on two stands. I missed 4 dolly up minis over the top, which dropped like a stone. Also over lead a crosser that I could not believe needed nearly nothing. These accounted for half my losses today! Finished on an 80 but nowhere near good enough.

There was a deceptive pair of l-r crossers shot from a platform. GD missed three on there just before me, so glad not to miss more than that myself..

What really hurt was missing two on the soppy sim away pair! Trying too hard, hit the last six early and without thinking.

Saw Hamid there who I guess will have scraped a high 80 or even a 90?

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[Hamster]

Yes I managed a 90 in the end which I was happy with , I don't often get embarrassed with missing but lost 2 going aways from the right and 2 R/L gimmes which were excruciatingly hittable.

What saved me though was a 9 on the L/R pair off the platform which by the sounds of it I shot better than GD, and a 10 on that yellow submarine going away combo which I smoked by shooting very very early :lol: . Don't worry Will, I dropped 4 on that dropping mini too, 2 off the first trap and 2 of the reports, so my 90 actually felt OK in the end given all the plebbmeister misses.

 

[Will Hewland]

The first killer for me was just after I met you. The first stand in the field. Incomer and r-l crosser. Dropped first two pairs and one more. Just could not believe how far under the incomer I needed to be and how little lead (a foot) the x-er needed. Card wrecker.

People were struggling with that trailing teal stand near the top woods. I shot them one the way down. Still missed one..

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[Hamster]

The first killer for me was just after I met you. The first stand in the field. Incomer and r-l crosser. Dropped first two pairs and one more. Just could not believe how far under the incomer I needed to be and how little lead (a foot) the x-er needed. Card wrecker.

People were struggling with that trailing teal stand near the top woods. I shot them one the way down. Still missed one..

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They sure had a lot of sneaky long incomers didn't they? I did OK as it happens, the trick is not to panic or shoot early, let 'em come right in. They had a very well though out incomer on the top stand too, they all ended up in a killable position inside the drive, as long as you didn't fire too early. Glad the R/L didn't just catch me , the teal was no probs, I invariably shoot them on the way up and just blot/brush them out with the bead with a fast moving gun.

As always high scores come when you don't miss the easy ones .

PS, I had a polite chat as I was handing the card in, told him I enjoyed all the stands cept the flopping away pairs off the manual trap :frown: , I did kill them all but I really don't think these belong on a registered round.

 

[Hamster]

Hey Will you only missed out on a class place by four targets which I'm sure you know you could have got, looks like it was hard enough as GD is joint 2nd on 95 and Jamie Brightman HG with 96.

 

[Will Hewland]

Yeah, talk is cheap but it could easily have been my day..

That hand trap needs two people to man the stand. Surely a years trapper pay saved would pay for a decent pair of auto traps!

Cheers W

 

[Hamster]

Yeah, talk is cheap but it could easily have been my day..

That hand trap needs two people to man the stand. Surely a years trapper pay saved would pay for a decent pair of auto traps!

Cheers W

You'd think so, there's a write up on Horne in this months Pull where they claim to be investing in new traps. :lol: