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Reviewing fixtures for next weekend and there isn't much on!

Whats Hornet Shooting Ground like? They have a registered on Sunday which is likely to be my most likely day to do some shooting.

 
Reviewing fixtures for next weekend and there isn't much on!

Whats Hornet Shooting Ground like? They have a registered on Sunday which is likely to be my most likely day to do some shooting.
Hornet is a good shooting ground,with a few stands in a wooded area and the rest of stands down the hill in between two fields!

 
Weather forecast for the Bank Holiday Monday shoot at Rixton & Astley Shooting Club, doesn't look too bad.

Colin and I will be at the shoot on Sunday pegging out the trap positions and trying to complete a new stand position in the woods.

If we manage to complete the test throwing of some clays from the proposed trap positions we will offer a 60 bird option at the Monday shoot.

Any members at a loose end on Sunday are welcome to give us a hand.

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www.astleygunclub.co.uk

 
Enjoyed it. Found it tough but to be expected. It wasn't the sort of shoot you'd do well in after over a year out of it... I think it was won on 91 by Steve Nutbeam.
Owls is, or I've found it to be quite a challenge due to the setting of some quick tight angle small window targets, the topography on a lot of the stands catches me, a fellow C class blunderer out, I'd say that as a first up after a sabbatical it was always going to be a big ask, you might have considered a more familiar ground first, though we all need to shoot different grounds mind so well done, onwards to the next.

Yes it was Steve Nutbeam high gun on 91, and no one else broke 90 and there was some stellar names there today, 

 
Owls is, or I've found it to be quite a challenge due to the setting of some quick tight angle small window targets, the topography on a lot of the stands catches me, a fellow C class blunderer out, I'd say that as a first up after a sabbatical it was always going to be a big ask, you might have considered a more familiar ground first, though we all need to shoot different grounds mind so well done, onwards to the next.

Yes it was Steve Nutbeam high gun on 91, and no one else broke 90 and there was some stellar names there today, 
Day off today Rich so thought I'd give it a go. I can't get to many shoots due to the lad playing rugby so unfortunately it is as and when... Nice ground though and I like a challenge.

Very good shooting from Steve.

 
Seen on web that a Will Hewland and a Matt Rutherford both had quite a day at AGL, well done both, no wasn't there spent a very pleasant afternoon at Longridge hitting some, no a lot of some very impressive targets, practice targets I'll admit but some toughies none the less. 

 
Yep. AGL for what I had hoped would be a quick trip.

Turned out everyone else in SE England had turned up to a ten stander...lots of queues and a nearly three hour round.

Great to see a number of ShootClay members there, and Will finishing one behind Ed Solomons.

Changes I have made for this season seem to be settling in.... Managed a sporting PB of 82....

 
Yep. AGL for what I had hoped would be a quick trip.

Turned out everyone else in SE England had turned up to a ten stander...lots of queues and a nearly three hour round.

Great to see a number of ShootClay members there, and Will finishing one behind Ed Solomons.

Changes I have made for this season seem to be settling in.... Managed a sporting PB of 82....
Yes it was a tame, easy, boring, required no effort at all, etc I missed 18 just to make it interesting?

 
I made the error of turning up at Hornet this morning on my own in the rain and wind and shot very badly with a 57.  

I shot 100 targets Friday and 200 yesterday, I know I'm trying to push myself but I should have looked at the forecast and stayed indoors. 

Nothing on next weekend really so I'll have a bit of time away from it until the next registered at EJC. 

 
I made the error of turning up at Hornet this morning on my own in the rain and wind and shot very badly with a 57.  

I shot 100 targets Friday and 200 yesterday, I know I'm trying to push myself but I should have looked at the forecast and stayed indoors. 

Nothing on next weekend really so I'll have a bit of time away from it until the next registered at EJC. 
It was nice to see you and the weather was atrocious when we shot.  Did you notice when we finished the bloody sky turned blue, it stopped raining and the wind dropped!!!!  Anyone that went out then should have done well.  Such is life.

 
Nowhere today as decorating  :frown:  but Cheshire Shield on Thursday, hopefully Hodnet with be open Tuesday evening for a bit of practice :smile:

 
It was nice to see you and the weather was atrocious when we shot.  Did you notice when we finished the bloody sky turned blue, it stopped raining and the wind dropped!!!!  Anyone that went out then should have done well.  Such is life.
Nice to see you to Sian, did you go anywhere else?

For the first time ever I questioned myself what I was doing, need to be smarter in future.

 
Nice to see you to Sian, did you go anywhere else?

For the first time ever I questioned myself what I was doing, need to be smarter in future.
Yes went on to Four Counties and luckily missed the worst of it.  Just a bit of wind on the exposed top stands.  Put today behind you, it was horrible weather.  It's not the worst weather I've shot but it made me think about how nice and warm my bed would have been but only for a few minutes.  I can't help myself.

 
Shot Cambridge today for the first time for a registered, As I turned up it started absolutely shafting it down, me and the 5 other blokes in the squad were standing waiting for our referees whilst they were still in the clubhouse waiting for rain to pass which it did, lucky there was a strong wind so was dry by the time I was on stand 3. Managed to shoot a 59, which I am chuffed with. My last three registereds have all been 59,53,59. If someone last year had told me I would pushing onto 60's, i would have bit there hand off. Good variety of targets out there today, obvious varied with wind but a great target over the pond at cambridge today which was a pair of incoming ducks, simo pair, one came low and flat, and the other came high and swung with the wind, real fun target!

All in all very pleased, will shoot the registered there again!!

 
Meltor Gun Club held a FITASC shoot today so I had my first go at this which meant shooting at all the targets from a gun down position for the all the targets.  The ground normally puts on 50 or 60 sporting so we had 2 sets of 3 traps at each end of the ground with 4 stands for each which made the targets very different from each stand.  We shot 3 singles and 3 on report pairs from each position giving us a 72 bird shoot overall.  Top gun was 52 ex 72 and I was about 6th with a 38 which I was quite pleased with as they were all pretty long, high birds which is just the sort of practice that I need.

For those down on holidays, from 1st May the shoot changes from Sunday morning to Monday evenings.  I can provide location details if required.

 
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