OT Selection Shoot Nuthampstead

[jwpzx9r]

Our club will hold the league champs this weekend 84 shooters per day 100 targets per day there are only two trenches so there will be about a two and a half  hours between rounds... most trap shooters I know regard that break as  a necessary and advantageous time not a period of time hanging about You must sore or referee after you shoot so that takes half an hour in itself . By the way strange that a hundred or so shooters for an England selection and open shoot is regarded as a big entry. Well done to all who shot from the forum!

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I note this is or OT so may be a good turn out? Don't know how many we would get over here to be honest they would have to do it by region.

 

[ips]

Fare point Charlie. But 100 bird comps on two layouts when four are available is common here. Maybe Andrew is correct and the point was to replicate the time scale for world cup shoots I have no idea but it's feasible.

 

[Dog Tyred]

Ian, I can appreciate that some facilities simply impose those conditions as a matter of necessity as in only one or a couple layouts.  Having mobs standing around and two layouts idle is nothing less than inexcusable and inept (or greedy) management.

again, JMO but I feel your pain

Charlie 

to clarify: the shoot was a Team GBR and Team England selection shoot with the English Open Championship tagged on. The selected format was 125 targets as this is the typical format for International events.

The ground has four layouts but the ladies shot their 75 targets on one of these all day on Saturday, leaving three layouts for the men. 75 targets were shot on Saturday with everybody in the men's side shooting each of the three layouts. It was then decided on Saturday night that for fairness everybody would shoot the final 50 targets on just two layouts, meaning everybody shot exactly the same layouts throughout the competition. 

Hence, with 16 squads it took three and three quarter hours between rounds on Sunday. 

Not sure how else they could have done it really as if they had opened up more layouts on Sunday there would have been moans about fairness. "D layout has a better background than A or B layout, schemes are not the same, bla, bla bla".

Didn't really hear any major moans on Sunday, just saw a lot of people standing around looking a bit bored.

Wotcha gonna do?

DT

 

[jwpzx9r]

DT grin and bear it ? The way I see it if you are going to do a big show expect big time intervals, I think you will get this first hand at Ychoux even with eight trenches it will take some time as there will be a mega entry. How long do you think between rounds ?

 

[Dog Tyred]

DT grin and bear it ? The way I see it if you are going to do a big show expect big time intervals, I think you will get this first hand at Ychoux even with eight trenches it will take some time as there will be a mega entry. How long do you think between rounds ?

Not a clue John although I believe the shoot is spread over 4 days so 50 targets per day. You elect to shoot either morning or afternoon so only half a day at the ground at most. Not sure if they rotate AM squads to PM squads (and vice versa) on a daily basis or you stay in your selected half day? We shall find out soon I guess?

As for the Nutty situation, didn't really bother me. Went for a long walk, read the paper, did a couple of crosswords, smoked too much, some chitchat, lunch, drank tea, drank some more tea and a snooze  Oh! Are we on again ?....already !!

DT

 

[Wonko the Sane]

So standing around polishing the tool time is a better "international training" than shooting different layouts?  With 50 targets to shoot every one could've shot one old and one new layout and used all 4.  And are the layouts used so superior that the other 2 are commonly shunned?  I've seen some pretty crap venues on the ISSF vidi's.  I wonder how many whined about those.

Oh, yeah - those closed layouts were OK for the women and were too difficult for the men???  Can anyone guess the term that springs to my mind about that?

But like I said, I got no dog in that fight.  The customer is always right.  If everyone wanted to stand around for hrs then they got what they wanted.  Personally I didn't know it was that much fun, but then, I'm not British  

 

[ips]

Charlie mate hanging around and cuing is a national pastime for blighty

 

[jwpzx9r]

Not a clue John although I believe the shoot is spread over 4 days so 50 targets per day. You elect to shoot either morning or afternoon so only half a day at the ground at most. Not sure if they rotate AM squads to PM squads (and vice versa) on a daily basis or you stay in your selected half day? We shall find out soon I guess?

As for the Nutty situation, didn't really bother me. Went for a long walk, read the paper, did a couple of crosswords, smoked too much, some chitchat, lunch, drank tea, drank some more tea and a snooze  Oh! Are we on again ?....already !!

DT

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Greg I expect you will have about an hour or so which is ideal time for refocus and letting your eyes rest a bit before you shoot again. Its not long now till the big shoot. I think a lot of our club boys will be shooting that one. Hope you carry that 40UP induced good form into and through the comp. There will be a large number of French shooters obviously but I think the winner will be from the UK. On here the trap shooting facilities in the UK take a lot of bad press from many but despite this the UK continues to produce very good trap shooters as has been seen from previous comps, anyway I wish them, yourself and the lad well in this one and hope the Union Jack is seen and the national anthem is heard in many categories when they hand out the medals at Ychoux.

 

[Dog Tyred]

Thank you John

hope you are right on loads of counts but I suspect an hour may be a bit optimistic!

DT

 

[Wonko the Sane]

Charlie mate hanging around and cuing is a national pastime for blighty

​In the words of Valentine Michael Smith, "Waiting is".  I'm just not very good at that.   :yell: