No bird. How many is too many?

[Simbo]

Southdown today with Charles Milne and Dave...............yes he whipped me on the Double Rise and took the silverware...........well done!

Onto 100 Reg Sportrap after a cuppa. Just the three of us in the squad, so a quick ton shot should be on the cards!

Layout 1 to start and by peg three we have a 20 minute trap breakdown with a few no birds thrown over our heads.

Layout 2 is smoother with a fluttering clay that caused a few chuckles.

Layout 3 now the fun really starts, looper from the right........no bird, no bird, no bird........ I thought about calling it a day and returning for a refund but we pressed on.

Layout 4 with a big smile I told the young ref that we don't want any no birds. Of course he had no control over the ones that we got.

I wouldn't be far out if I said that we had 50 no birds between the three of us over the hundred targets each.

No excuses but I'm sure that we all lost one or two kills because of this.

So.........How many is too many?

 

[Rosso]

I shot the Sportrap and 100 reg sporting the last shoot in October at Southdown or as a bud of mine calls it BreakDown. 

Every Sportrap layout delays, breakdowns, no birds, all squads catching each other up.

The sporting was a complete joke with breakdowns and significant no birds on almost every stand. It was a long hard day which really pissed me off to the point I left early not finishing the card. A lot of complaints that day. 

I travel a long way and am contemplating is it worth going back. 

When it's good it's good but by golly when it's bad it's totally bad. 

Perhaps we should ask for refunds.

 

[Jan Powell]

I wouldn't be far out if I said that we had 50 no birds between the three of us over the hundred targets each.

No excuses but I'm sure that we all lost one or two kills because of this.

So.........How many is too many?

Anything more than two or three per round is unacceptable really. They're usually down to the trapper being a little rough when they're placed in the stack. I'd much rather they take an extra few minutes to fill the trap carefully than have to put up with broken targets.

 

[ips]

how did the dr go ?

 

[Doug Pinnegar]

Whilst no birds are annoying; watching people deliberately throw cartridges on the floor rather than the bucket whenever they get a no bird is more irritating. 

Saw this a few times today at Weston. It's a bit of a slap in the face to the shoot host. 

 

[Simbo]

For my second attempt Ian, I found it hard. 63. My brother won the trophy with 80

I was told afterwards that my hold point was half as low as it should have been.

We shot it in two rounds of 50, don't know if this is the norm.

I always took the straightest target first. After a slow start I managed to speed things up, giving me better kills.

I did have some good pairs killed but peg 1 on my second round I missed 3 pairs on the trot?

Good fun but it'll probably be another 12 months before I shoot it again, in C class!

 

[ips]

it's hard going this dr mallarkey and there is so little of it its hard to get to grips with it.

 

[Simbo]

Whilst no birds are annoying; watching people deliberately throw cartridges on the floor rather than the bucket whenever they get a no bird is more irritating. 

Saw this a few times today at Weston. It's a bit of a slap in the face to the shoot host. 

Not guilty............... in fact, I did a spot of picking up whilst the trap was being repaired. A tidy site is a happy site

 

[Rosso]

If you get a lot of no birds or trap breakdowns it always the shooter that suffers, lose concentration, is it coming or isn't it go for It - miss it we all lose targets at some point.

Perhaps a rule change might be an idea, may be after two no birds on a stand every no bird after should scored as a kill and the report bird let out that way the shooter gains and does not lose out. Or at least something like that.

Just a thought.

 

[Mike L]

Was there yesterday with my missus and FIL, traps were still crappy.?

 

[Deershooter]

Anything more than two or three per round is unacceptable really. They're usually down to the trapper being a little rough when they're placed in the stack. I'd much rather they take an extra few minutes to fill the trap carefully than have to put up with broken targets.

some one should have told Beverley shooting ground this in 2008 at the English open single barrel I had 18 no birds on one round of 25 

 

[ips]

ouch.

 

[Jan Powell]

some one should have told Beverley shooting ground this in 2008 at the English open single barrel I had 18 no birds on one round of 25 

Here we go again...

 

[Deershooter]

Here we go again...

the trough hurts 

 

[Hamster]

the trough hurts 

Metals ones can be a pain but a nice wooden one is really quite safe. 

 

[Jan Powell]

the trough hurts 

Oh dear.

 

[Hamster]

That doesn't even makes sense Deershooter, but I see it defo flushed one usual suspect out.

 

[Jim Wheeler]

hmmm,,  that is a pleasantry that somewhat lowers my opinion of someone to below the ocean floor,,,,, 

 

[wylye]

Play nicely children. We're all supposed to be friends here.