Made the journey down to Southdown for the 100 reg sporting SE Inters/England selection shoot. Was weeing with rain all the way down there but the forcast said clear from about 12. Found the ground quite easily and pulled into the carpark. Was a sea of mud which unfortunately due to the amount of rain weve had lately wasnt wholly unexpected.
Booked on and had a quick cup of coffee before heading out about 12 into the persistant drizzle. Damn you BBC weather!
Targets were a good mix, pretty much something for everyone. I thought it was quite a "technical" layout where hold points had to be thought about and spot on. A couple of big midis out there that needed some big lead but paired with a sensible other bird making all stands 50 percentable for the average shooter. Some tricky reads needed on birds that looked easy, for example a r-l bunny along the top of a bank followed by l-r bunny. The r-l was just running straight along the bank but the l-r was just following the contour down meaning a a misread line put you way over the top of it.
A veritable whos who of dignitaries in the sporting clays world with Ms Hall and Easton, Big Ben, GD, our own Ed S and many others on show to marvel at and hopefully learn something from. Cheryl shooting a tremendous 97 to be HG when we left.
Finished up with an excellent burger and a suprise that my 73 was good enough to be in a 3 way tie for 2nd in C when we left
only trailing a by 1. Still rueing the silly little ones that got away. Mrs Fuz ended on 44 which marked a good 5 clays higher than average weekend for her over 270 targets
Booked on and had a quick cup of coffee before heading out about 12 into the persistant drizzle. Damn you BBC weather!
Targets were a good mix, pretty much something for everyone. I thought it was quite a "technical" layout where hold points had to be thought about and spot on. A couple of big midis out there that needed some big lead but paired with a sensible other bird making all stands 50 percentable for the average shooter. Some tricky reads needed on birds that looked easy, for example a r-l bunny along the top of a bank followed by l-r bunny. The r-l was just running straight along the bank but the l-r was just following the contour down meaning a a misread line put you way over the top of it.
A veritable whos who of dignitaries in the sporting clays world with Ms Hall and Easton, Big Ben, GD, our own Ed S and many others on show to marvel at and hopefully learn something from. Cheryl shooting a tremendous 97 to be HG when we left.
Finished up with an excellent burger and a suprise that my 73 was good enough to be in a 3 way tie for 2nd in C when we left
only trailing a by 1. Still rueing the silly little ones that got away. Mrs Fuz ended on 44 which marked a good 5 clays higher than average weekend for her over 270 targets
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