Shoot reports and news 2025

[Daz W]

OK, I'll kick it off then. Happy New Year all.

Northampton Shooting ground for me on Sun 5th. Cold, raining, snowing and foggy. At least the wind kept down. Fortunately they'd tweaked the course to make some allowances for the weather. Possibly a bit too much. Although I thought it was a very good shoot, a couple of stands were a bit too soft IMO ( especially stand 1). Guaranteed I'll get my pants pulled down on the next one when they dial it up to compensate.

Anyway came out of the gate really well, straighted the first 3 stands. Lazy hold point of the first bird on 4 caused my first miss. Followed by one of the teals on 5. Went over the top of it. Teals are my kryptonite , so wasn't overly disappointed dropping the 1. Dropped the first big battue on 7, right forward lead, not enough drop. Straighted 8, 9 & 10. Lazy single miss on 11. Stand 12 straight through.

Went into the last stand 4 away. Pair dead, pair dead, pair dead. Then that little voice in my head "hit this last pair and you've got an cracking score". Went from trying to hit them, to trying not to miss. You can guess the rest. Missed the first by trying not to miss it, then too busy calling myself random expletives and dropped the 2nd.

Finished on a 94. Which although is a registered PB for me, the last pair on the last stand is going to be a sore point for a while.

 

[Richard59]

Coleys, 8th Jan, think the cold put a few off that said have been (as have many others) when the place has been colder. thankfully no breeze but a low almost dusk sort of light so sadly no glaring sun to blame for a bit of a struggle on my part. Overall it was a pleasant enough course, a simple looking pair of close orange going aways St1 caught a few out, St2 had a fairly rapid low r-l that was more of a handful. St5 had a simo pair of crows, similar to those which have caused grief for me in the past, not so today, my downfall was St6 a fairish r-l looper followed by a slightly closer l-r looper, I had not a clue, a very rare blank, ref Jim tried to perk me up by mentioning that he had a few 0s. Another wobble on St10 which was a fairly straightforward looking r-l crosser followed by a closer slower l-r, redeemed myself slightly at the closing two stands so that I carded my age, no not overly disappointed as I shot some very well, there were some that really could have done better with and yes a few that I really did struggle with.
Squadded with a young Jacob O who carded an exceptional 95, swear if the chap had followed anyone else but me he could have won the shoot.

 

[Freddypip]

Just think - if you card your age - the only way is up !!