Sporting Shoots; where- and how was it? (2018)

[jasper]

My earlier post showed dissatisfaction  with some of the refs. @willhewland called  it a tough shoot . I did not comment on the difficulty of the shoot. I have no problem with tough shoots . I have a problem ( dissatisfaction) with the reason for it being  a tough shoot .Which is that they don't want to be straighted again .  Once again you miss the point .

For the record. AA. Around 4000 targets this cutoff . Average around 86. 12 or 13 different grounds. If you didn't want to know , why try looking for me .

Good luck with your course setting.

Bye.

Jasper

 

[philmoss]

My earlier post showed dissatisfaction  with some of the refs. @willhewland called  it a tough shoot . I did not comment on the difficulty of the shoot. I have no problem with tough shoots . I have a problem ( dissatisfaction) with the reason for it being  a tough shoot .Which is that they don't want to be straighted again .  Once again you miss the point .

For the record. AA. Around 4000 targets this cutoff . Average around 86. 12 or 13 different grounds. If you didn't want to know , why try looking for me .

Good luck with your course setting.

Bye.

Jasper

Thanks Jason.........Obviously you dont venture to where the best sporting shooters are bred......over here in East Anglia 

Good luck with your shooting, wherever you go !! 

 

[Richard59]

Owls today, left Warwick at around noon, it rained then hammered it down all the way along M40 & A34 only to stop before 3, lucky us judging by the drowned rats from the earlier rotation. Thought it was a good shoot, we started on St5 a l-r then r-l which were a bit quick for me and I lost the first 5 before I awoke, as always had peaks & troughs ( as always its the l-r targets that I really struggle on) though overall I felt that Id shot this course better than some I have of late, not many big scores in a half a dozen in the 90s at most but cant remember who was HG, all told a good day on the clay.

Work has raised its head so my planned 7 hour round trip to drive, tea, loo, shoot, tea, loo, drive, loo, drive to AGL wont be happening, good luck to all that do.

 

[El Spavo]

Owls as well. My first registered, and didn't score particularly well, but was more interested in learning a few things than dazzling (which I wouldn't have done anyway! ardon: )and managed to switch a few things up in terms of trying new stuff with the fantastic help of the squad I was with.

Thanks in particular to Will, Steve, for their brilliant advice and energy, and Paul White (?? I think, can't exactly remember if that's what his embroidered gillet said) who I met for the first time and was a lovely bloke with some nice comments and advice.

And yes, the weather must have been pants if you got there to start around 12... luckily the 10am's got away with it!

 

[Sian]

I too went to Owls (don’t snigger William I’m weak willed!).  We were on the 12.30 rotation and it rained a lot.  The shoot itself was very good  but the horrible weather just meant we wanted it to be over.  I think as I am obviously not going to be able to just stop for winter I may just be more picky about the weather I shoot in.  Using Lola May instead of Dora was also hard going, so very different.  By the time I get used to her again Dora will be back from the gunsmith and I’ll struggle again.   I am definitely not going to AGL tomorrow.

 

[Richard59]

Owls as well. My first registered, and didn't score particularly well, but was more interested in learning a few things than dazzling (which I wouldn't have done anyway! ardon: )and managed to switch a few things up in terms of trying new stuff with the fantastic help of the squad I was with.

Thanks in particular to Will, Steve, for their brilliant advice and energy, and Paul White (?? I think, can't exactly remember if that's what his embroidered gillet said) who I met for the first time and was a lovely bloke with some nice comments and advice.

And yes, the weather must have been pants if you got there to start around 12... luckily the 10am's got away with it!

First reg, well chap I’m seeing only one non-classified score from the shoot and for a first up it’s a pretty decent one too, well done.

 

[El Spavo]

Very kind of you but if you mean Ryan Hogans 76, I was WAY off that sort of score!  I was never there for the score, but it was a fun shoot and apart from the driven stand I really enjoyed myself.

Put it this way, first stand was #3 and I didn't find a single one!

 

[Richard59]

Very kind of you but if you mean Ryan Hogans 76, I was WAY off that sort of score!  I was never there for the score, but it was a fun shoot and apart from the driven stand I really enjoyed myself.

Put it this way, first stand was #3 and I didn't find a single one!

Cant say I did well on st3 either, did though like the driven, didn't though like the next stand so its all swings & roundabouts so to speak, its all a curve very bumpy at times, good that you enjoyed yourself, as you gather form others here it does get addictive too and Im a clayaholic 

 

[El Spavo]

Oh, I absolutely love shooting and first to admit I'm a massively average shot at best, but I can't justify going out more than once a week, normally more like once a fortnight, as I have a young family to help support so never even entertaining I'll be up with the Hamsters & Wills of the world, but that's fine with me. I'll slowly plod along making little inroads here & there as I learn to shoot better, more efficiently, and more accurately from what's put in front of me, but nearly all the people I've shot alongside in the last 18 months of doing this have been lovely and very encouraging. So as expensive as it can be, it's a very pleasant sport to be involved in.

Yeah, and the one after the driven was a pig too!

 

[Bebo]

AGL today. Definitely don't think it was overall as tough as last month, but there were still three or four tricky stands. I was going pretty well until Stand 12. Tricky sim pair of left to right crossers. The further out target would have been testing even if it had been a report pair. Managed to drop 6 on that one, finishing on 79.

 

[chippy]

Cambridge shooting ground today. It could have been a very good round but spoiled by a few stupid targets. A rabbit down a hill obscured by weeds until about 50 yards when it was edge on. I saw so many people shooting it in exactly the right place but not breaking it. And some eyesight tests which could have been solved with different colour clays. I hit 81.

 

[Sian]

Weather was so much better today, not too cold and bright, far more pleasant.   Having managed to stay at home on Friday and not shoot AGL, yeh me I went to Southdown and shot the sporting and Sportrap.  Enjoyed both, just one silly green on green which I just couldn’t pick up at all that cost me 5 in total on that stand, missing the black one out of pure frustration.  I did miss some dollies today but shooting with Lola whilst Dora is being fixed always takes me a while to get to grips with her again.  We then went on to Horne and again I missed some silly ones but enjoyed myself and realised I haven’t been there since February.  Overall a good day and the M25 behaved except for the two morons who wanted to come into my lane without seemingly seeing me alongside them!  There’s been so many fireworks going off that outside resembles a scene out of The Fog.  Scores ESP 77, STP 83 and Horne 86.

Cambridge shooting ground today. It could have been a very good round but spoiled by a few stupid targets. A rabbit down a hill obscured by weeds until about 50 yards when it was edge on. I saw so many people shooting it in exactly the right place but not breaking it. And some eyesight tests which could have been solved with different colour clays. I hit 81.

Looked at the scores and wondered whether it was a bit silly in places. 

 

[Bebo]

Away in the camper again this weekend.  Was going to practice at Kibworth yesterday, but didn't fancy getting soaked, so the OH spent the day hauling carp out of a lake.  Was planning on doing Grange Farm today, but was called off, so we diverted across to Orston.  Good shoot, everything visible and nothing really silly.  I was shooting pretty well until my penultimate stand, where I totally misread a pair of crossers.  Wasn't giving them enough respect and managed to drop 7 there, to finish on 73.  Last shoot for me before the cut-offs.  Won't make A, but have finished on my highest average so far so not too unhappy.

 

[mpmilo]

Hi all, shot my first ever registered  competition today at Southdown, been shooting clays for 18 months now, I was told i would be unclassified for first 3 shoots, then put into  whatever group after that. Ive just looked on cpsa site and im down as B , So just wanted to know whether i was given the wrong info and im graded from very first shoot. Its all new to me.

Cheers Marcus

 

[Richard59]

Hi all, shot my first ever registered sporting today at Southdown, been shooting clays for 18 months now, I was told i would be unclassified for first 3 shoots, then put into  whatever group after that. Ive just looked on cpsa site and im down as B , So just wanted to know whether i was given the wrong info and im graded from very first shoot. Its all new to me.

Cheers Marcus

The webpage shows your running average & classification not your actual classification. You will need to shoot the minimum target requirement before you can again a class, it’s all clearly explained the CPSA webpage, do read through the notes about the changes being implemented.

And no you were not mis-informed. 

 

[mpmilo]

Ok understood, many thanks for reply, Yes i saw the notes on changes and will read up on it, as i say it s all new to me.

 

[Iggy]

Doveridge today for the first of their Winter Series. Sensible targets in the main but a couple of stands badly setup into the sun. Very busy probably due in part to Grange being cancelled. Dropped too many silly ones and finished on 81. 

 

[chippy]

Northampton today another excellent round 13 stands with just one a slight eyesight test. Some nice crossers and sim pairs. Big scores from what was not a gimme round. My 86 was nowhere in A.

 

[Doug Pinnegar]

I was gutted to miss out on the Honesberie series final shoot off today. I qualified a couple months back and was super excited until a slight mishap on Thursday night. 
 

The A&E staff diagnosed it as ‘transient dislocation of the patella’ with some possible complications to be revealed by MRI. No weight bearing at all which means that unless I had a shooting stick I’d be buggered. I played it safe and stayed at home rather than attempting to get around undoubtably muddy/slippy areas on crutches. 
 

Last chance to have fun in B class now gone as I’m up in A now. Certainly a competitive class.

 

[Bebo]

Horne cancelled and nothing Registered on with a 2hr drive, so I did the local 100 bird open shoot at Willow Farm. Overled a simple looper on the first stand I shot to drop 5. Dug in after that and only dropped another 8 the rest of the way round to finish on 87. Was a lovely warm still morning, really enjoyable to be out in it.