Agree. Hit my worst score in about a year. Bottom line is that I didn’t shoot well when I see how many people did better than me. Never touched two targets, I think not knowing the ground well caught me out. I think I was in front. I think it could have been adjusted given the windy day and an already tough course. It seems their shoots last summer were way less gruelling. Winter has darkened their mood a bit. Stupidly I needed to drop two on stand 13 to hit a dropped score but only missed one. My average took a big kick right in the sim pair today.
Been there Sian. I think with any sport/hobby, once the fun goes stop until you really want to go back to it. We stopped shooting years ago through buying a rundown house and spending all our money doing it up then after a few years Phil wanted to go back shooting but I wasn’t up to it, but I really enjoyed walking round with him, socialising, walking the dog and having a chat then all of a sudden I just thought I’d have a go again but I only have to have a few shoots where like you say, cage bar to high, clays wrong colour, hedges to high to see over and I do wonder why I bother! Do what you’re thinking of doing, have a break and just go and watch Tony. A break will do you the world of good and give us other ladies a chance
(only joking, love you really) 
Have you tried the EJC Challenge or the RBSS species shoot? Just something different, not registered etc..
No,I haven’t yet. I only ever shoot the EJC one once anyway. Maybe towards the end of it I might feel inclined.
It is nothing like 100 sporting. More like FSP really. Tough but interesting. RBSS is 5x 20 themed sequences. Sounds like fun.
aim straight at themAnother trip to Sporting Targets today while my licence application drags on.
Last time out, I tried out stands which I hadn’t shot before. Some quite fast targets, minis and “stiff competition stuff” as my instructor called it. Had my best day yet.
Today however was very different. Stated out on OR teals, no more than 30 yards out. Think I maybe hit 2/10!
Gave up and moved onto some easy loopers (my bogey target) and well... yep, didn’t hit any. Well that was until I stepped further back and moved my hold point to the trap and shot them as fast crosser. Nailed em after that.
Finished off with a 70 yard R-L midi. Got it no problem. In fact the first was launched without prior awareness and that happens to be my best shot.
Conclusion of the instructor I’m “an enigma, and do better the more difficult the target with greater accuracy when given least amount of time”. It’s a theme I’ve become accustomed to over the years
The thing is, I know the problem is my head is in the shot when I miss and isn’t when I hit. I just don’t yet seem to have that under control.
This took me some time to just get used to the process of the harder the shot doesn’t actually require more thinking (well, not during the shot)
I’ve now accepted that, but on the slower, closer stuff where I have more time, I’m cocking it up. Even being gun down isn’t helping like it used to
Anyone got some tips to help me have the same intense focus and “instinctively” shoot the fast/small window/long targets to the slow and close ones?
Would be MUCH appreciated
TiA
Just cannot be assessed on a forum but I feel sure I’d let you know what you’re doing if I saw you. It could even be that your focus comes back to the muzzle when shooting closer targets...@Charliedog that’s what I though I was doing.
Kept missing over the top. Even when shooting consciously and deliberately low. (My most common miss)
Instructor checked my gun fit, which was ok.
Checked to see if I was lifting my head. I wasn’t.
Another instructor at a different grounds a few months ago thought my eye dominance was switching, put Vaseline on my lens, problem “fixed.
Yet another instructor at a third grounds said my comb was too high and that “fixed it” (I’ve gone back to the comb raiser with mixed success).
Maybe I should just shoot the ‘harder’ targets
Seriously though, I think I can identify with maybe two or three things.
1/ My mount isn’t yet consistent, but I’ve hit clays with the worst of mount many times. (cheek not even registering with the comb or/and butt not in the shoulder properly).
2/ My head ISN’T engaged with what I’m doing.
3/ My head IS engaged with what I’m doing
Hmm... that sort of rings true actually Will.
