Scores before and after...

[Jan Powell]

Registered is back on for DTL, ABT, OT, UT, Skeet and Sportrap with a few minor changes. Sporting is a little more complicated.

https://www.cpsa.co.uk/news/coronavirus-covid-19/2020/06/01/resumption-of-cpsa-registered-shoots/5417

 

[ColinD]

The beauty sports this weekend will see things put to a test. Park local to me I’m told was rammed to the gunwales yesterday. 

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Had to check what gunwales were, my late Father was in the navy and always refered to them and the saying as 'gunnels'

 

[Lloyd]

Had to check what gunwales were, my late Father was in the navy and always refered to them and the saying as 'gunnels'

I‘ve never heard it pronounced  any other way than “gunnels” myself. 

 

[Robden]

I‘ve never heard it pronounced  any other way than “gunnels” myself. 

Here you go:   Gunwales' is pronounced like 'gunnels' and it is often spelled that way too. ... That suggests that the gunwales of a ship were its 'gun walls', which is exactly what they were - hence the spelling. They were the strengthened area for the cannons, on the old sailing warships.

 

[El Spavo]

Navy have odd ones every now and then. Forecastle is generally pronounced forksal.

 

[ChrisPackham]

Probably due to the volume of Rum consumed..

 

[El Spavo]

I have to wait another baker's dozen of years for this, but I surely look forward to exactly that. Meanwhile I can practice to the point from where I can teach her once the day comes... 

Been thinking about this quite a bit and as much as the wife loves the thought of me and the boy going off to shoot, I'm not convinced it'll be a viable option when he gets old enough, purely down to the huge expense this hobby carries.

Think I'll take up fishing with him instead when the time comes.