World Sporting (+ FITASC, SportTrap and Prelims) - Open Thread

[GlenPresley]

ooooh thats harsh!!! But he has not got a GB Badge remember he had to hand it back!

Poor old Dennis he is good for a laugh and I talk to him just like I am doing now to his face and you have to admire him in some ways it just bounces off him and he gives back as good as he gets!

 

[Steve Lovatt]

I think we just have to accept we got it all wrong, we should have employed Mr Webb as a consultant because he does know EVERYTHING and he does such a better job of it all day in, day out.

So far we put the marquee in the wrong place, we should have brought his wife on site, Steve should have got lots of other people to set the targets :blink: we should have had more trade stands on site and managed all the shoot offs personally to ensure it all went smoothly (I can see CPSA going for that!!). Despite it being mid summer we should also have hired full lighting inside and out.

One thing's for sure, if he was on this forum - we'd be leaving it!!

Going to find a dark room to lie down in now.....

 

[Westward]

One thing's for sure, if he was on this forum - we'd be leaving it!!

Along with quite a few others - including the site owner!

 

[Salopian]

Allison, I take exception to you ridiculing Dennis Webb, that is for me to do so please join the queue.

IF we listened to Dennis we would all shoot at Southdown, John Dyson and Keith Roe would set the targets under Dennis's direction. I would personally shovel Offa's Dyke South to keep him down there.

If any of you are a friend of Dennis, just ask him to button his lip and enjoy his shooting. It is after all a leisure activity, or it is supposed to be.

 

[Fuzrat]

I think we just have to accept we got it all wrong, we should have employed Mr Webb as a consultant because he does know EVERYTHING and he does such a better job of it all day in, day out.

So far we put the marquee in the wrong place, we should have brought his wife on site, Steve should have got lots of other people to set the targets :blink: we should have had more trade stands on site and managed all the shoot offs personally to ensure it all went smoothly (I can see CPSA going for that!!). Despite it being mid summer we should also have hired full lighting inside and out.

One thing's for sure, if he was on this forum - we'd be leaving it!!

Going to find a dark room to lie down in now.....

I had a great time and enjoyed every bit of it, apart from maybe that l-r battue on the red course :.: yes the marquee could have been turned a few degrees to take account of the prevailing wind so as to funnel the delicious aroma of bacon and burgers better into the centre of the masses and the battue in the super final should have been a flash clay

Ps, thank your tea lady for me (dont know her name, the one that makes the cakes) for taking my order for her fine bakewell at Westfield and not letting anyone touch it until I had my slice on Saturday at Sweetslade Absolute diamond that one!

 

[Salopian]

Ah! so that's another of Dennis's complaints, No fish pie :.: :.: :.:

 

[Westward]

One target on red course which caused a good few to struggle was, IIRC stand 3, a medium high L-R crosser seemingly fairly ordinary, but the target was actually a rabbit clay.

I wouldn't have fancied taking that on with 8s!

 

[Will Hewland]

I came, I saw, it conquered. Missed them all and saw some on the floor with holes in. Having said that, they broke if you put the bulk of the pattern in the right place..

 

[Steve Lovatt]

Fuzrat - yes the bakewell is pretty damned good! Bless her! I think by the Sunday night though we'd pretty much killed most of the kitchen staff off..... couldn't believe how much everyone was eating!!

Not like Steve to put on a flying rabbit...... much! You've seen them before at both the grounds.... he just loves 'throwing money away' as Mr Nutbeam puts it!

Ah well, all over now. Even we've stopped waking up in the middle of the night panicking that we're still in the middle of it all!! Result :wink:

Hope to see you all again soon, will be great to be back to normal!!!!! :blink:

Ally x

 

[EdSolomons]

Yes lots ofpeople struggled on the flying rabbit it seemed. I mis read the first one but was all over the rest. 8s killed it pretty well for me!

 

[Fuzrat]

Knocked the front edge off the first one then missed the rest over compensation methinks

 

[EdSolomons]

Mostseemed to give it too much, and neglected the line. They were shooting it in the best place (competing to it on the way down) but not realising it was dropping more than traveling l-r.

Rabit clay so heavy and slow, drops pretty fast though! What about the battue about 3 or 4 stands later. That took a bit of lead! Loved it!

 

[ExSCA]

I don't think I got close to that left to right battue... some said it was unfair, I just thought it was a big boys target - I thought it needed 12/16 feet of leeed - but not sure as I say, didn't find it - I liked the way it just 'disappeared' when it got to the turn. The incomer got dusted though.

 

[mick]

one complaint i would have and its only small is the fact i had to fork out 64 quid at ian coleys for eleys. i rang alison 2 weeks prior to the shoot to order shells like it said on the website, she said she would ring me back and take my order when she was ready. i never heard from her. also i saw no problem with keeping shells at a world sporting event? i also found the catering quite poor in all honesty, i got a burger 1 day and if barely filled half the bap! i got a lettuce and onion bap. as for the shoot, enjoyed blue much more than red, thats all i can say really. oh and the bus trips to and from the ground were a bit of a pain by the end of the weekend i thought. do you many of you guys buy shells of coleys? i saw the same shell i got for under 50 elsewhere online. i know its only 14 quid, but its the principal of getting ripped off

 

[EdSolomons]

I don't think I got close to that left to right battue... some said it was unfair, I just thought it was a big boys target - I thought it needed 12/16 feet of leeed - but not sure as I say, didn't find it - I liked the way it just 'disappeared' when it got to the turn. The incomer got dusted though.

Tough bird, had to attack it to get a kill really. Big lead and a little under it where I killed it. Maintained about 18ft I'd guess but that was very early on in it's flight. Broke lovely though as it had somuch pace on it.

 

[Chipper]

Fuzrat - yes the bakewell is pretty damned good! Bless her! I think by the Sunday night though we'd pretty much killed most of the kitchen staff off..... couldn't believe how much everyone was eating!!

Not like Steve to put on a flying rabbit...... much! You've seen them before at both the grounds.... he just loves 'throwing money away' as Mr Nutbeam puts it!

Ah well, all over now. Even we've stopped waking up in the middle of the night panicking that we're still in the middle of it all!! Result :wink:

Hope to see you all again soon, will be great to be back to normal!!!!! :blink:

Ally x

That was a cracking target Ally, one of the few I Straighted, just needed decent shell £& bit gun movement OMG, and the long battue on the red course was a brilliant stand BM3 carts and big lead blew it to pieces ahhhh.....

 

[Steve Lovatt]

OK OK now you're all getting a bit 'targetty' on me.......

I saw most of the targets from behind the traps, putting out the boxes of clays in 28 degrees blue sky, yellow sun, no airconditioning (do I sound a little bit pissed off in that sentence?!), but on the whole I'm getting the impression that it was good.....?!

Personally, I'd rather that flying rabbit had been a flying standards as the boxes are somewhat lighter

Let's hope he keeps it all together for Garlands on Sunday.....

Ally x

 

[ickle47]

first of all i would like to congratulate stuart clarke on winning this event 93 on the blue course was great after not so good on the red course and i think this is the best world event that i have shot in the 17 years since i started shooting great targets great atmosphere(which has been lacking recently at this event) and great ground i hope the cpsa realize this and do not go back to some flat bit of ground with no character very very well done to all those involved.

i wouldn't mind if the shoot was there every year it was a million % better than previous years and a lot better than the ground at san antonio(which i will be going to next year with my new mate stu)

 

[Steve Lovatt]

David (ickle47) - you've made my day! Thank you

The amount of work that went into that 5 days is indescribable, given the choice between giving birth again or preparing and running the 5 days I'd have to say it would be a very touch choice!!!

Amazingly good to know it was appreciated.

Ally

 

[Salopian]

Ally,

I had an email last week from a friend of Wendell Cherry & David Radalovich, both of them thought that the shoot was great with brilliant targets.