Decided late yesterday to change my shooting plans for the weekend and go to Weston today, pretty glad I did.
As we were up early enough we decided to see how the queues were and try and get another 70 in at 4 counties after so we rolled up about 9.30 ready to start on the stroke of 10. Small queue to book on then off we went.
Started on the o/r teal by the duck pond and thought ok great I "do" teal missed the first 2 pairs out and couldnt work out why, had a little think and remembered I have made some quite major adjustments to my gunfit. Have added a jones style butt plate which has enabled me to drop my comb considerably, a great help on crossing targets as i dont have to be 3ft under them anymore but have to blot out teal now. Walked off with a 3ex8 there.
Onto a simo pair of incomers which I straighted then a curling dropping bird off the tower followed by a high r-l midi, walked off with just 1 midi to my name. Was way under the line of both birds, gonna take a while to get my sight pictures sorted with the adjustments methinks as the only one I hit was kind of by mistake, I thought I was way over the top of it.
Cant quite remember the next few stands (have shot 20 of them today) a nice bunny followed by a low quartering in was a decent stand for me only one bunny away and the quartering chondel and crossing midi where the pool shoot usually is was a great stand,
Finished off up the platform with a low r-l white clay followed by a high l-r floaty crosser which I straighted.
A tale of highs and lows for me today, 2 straights and another 4 or 5 with only 1 or 2 away mixed with a 1, a 2 and a couple of 3's for a 63. A good shoot as normal and a great score was achieveable, didnt do it justice but with my new gun setup I can deal with a raw average score. As they say "first, do no harm"
Was done and dusted by 11.30 with very few queues, and as I said to Ally would much rather have 13 stands and no queues as today and lose a pool shoot. Onwards to 4 C's for some lunch, more on that elsewhere.
As we were up early enough we decided to see how the queues were and try and get another 70 in at 4 counties after so we rolled up about 9.30 ready to start on the stroke of 10. Small queue to book on then off we went.
Started on the o/r teal by the duck pond and thought ok great I "do" teal missed the first 2 pairs out and couldnt work out why, had a little think and remembered I have made some quite major adjustments to my gunfit. Have added a jones style butt plate which has enabled me to drop my comb considerably, a great help on crossing targets as i dont have to be 3ft under them anymore but have to blot out teal now. Walked off with a 3ex8 there.
Onto a simo pair of incomers which I straighted then a curling dropping bird off the tower followed by a high r-l midi, walked off with just 1 midi to my name. Was way under the line of both birds, gonna take a while to get my sight pictures sorted with the adjustments methinks as the only one I hit was kind of by mistake, I thought I was way over the top of it.
Cant quite remember the next few stands (have shot 20 of them today) a nice bunny followed by a low quartering in was a decent stand for me only one bunny away and the quartering chondel and crossing midi where the pool shoot usually is was a great stand,
Finished off up the platform with a low r-l white clay followed by a high l-r floaty crosser which I straighted.
A tale of highs and lows for me today, 2 straights and another 4 or 5 with only 1 or 2 away mixed with a 1, a 2 and a couple of 3's for a 63. A good shoot as normal and a great score was achieveable, didnt do it justice but with my new gun setup I can deal with a raw average score. As they say "first, do no harm"
Was done and dusted by 11.30 with very few queues, and as I said to Ally would much rather have 13 stands and no queues as today and lose a pool shoot. Onwards to 4 C's for some lunch, more on that elsewhere.