Recent content by Bebo

Barrow for me on Sunday, first time this year. Back to being cold and windy! One stand I struggled with, a nasty sim pair of left to rights, first bird going like a bat out of hell, only hit it once. The rest of the course was littered with lots of stupid misses due to lack of concentration or...

Churchills yesterday. Sun out, not much of a breeze, it was lovely after shooting in drizzle and gales for so long. Bit of a change, with refs on each stand, but all ran smoothly and no waits on any stands for my squad. Think I prefer it the way they used to do it though, bit more banter with...

After a very brief foray into SxS ownership I'm selling my old English single trigger SxS. 30 inch barrels, cyclinder and 1/4 fixed chokes, good fun on clays, but I need the cabinet space. Message me if interested and I'll take some photos to send across.

Did the local club open comp, wish I hadn't bothered. Some standards the target presentation was totally different every time. Had one stand had an incoming looper which ended up as an outgoing looper. I think it was supposed to be about 30 yards, reckon it was more often 50 yards out when I...

I've done a grand total of 1 registered ABT shoot and 1 registered DTL shoot. The pegs are 3m apart centre to centre. If you hit with the first barrel, you open your gun, discharge your spent cartridge and leave the one in the second barrel while you move. It's not like wandering around a...

AGL for me on Friday as well. The only high point was that I got to shoot in Sian's squad. I had a complete melt-down on stand 8, couldn't hit either of them. I did OK on both sim pairs only one away on each of those, but only managed to straight the first and last stands. Finished on a fairly...

If you want minimal mucking about, go for one of the ladies guns Bavarian mentioned. I've got a Beretta semi-auto with a Vitoria stock and the only alteration I had done was an adjustable comb as I like to see a lot of rib when I shoot. They are good for length and pitch. I personally wouldn't...

Endorse what Freddypip said, apart from the barrel length point. I'm a shortarse with a stock not much over 13 inches and my gun has 30 inch barrels without it causing any problems. As long as you can adjust to avoid it being front heavy then you should be fine with longer barrels. I very...

How much do you want to spend is the obvious first question? Personally, I'd go for a K80 Parcours with a bespoke stock (in fact, I did). However, if I didn't want to spend Kreighoff money and was starting out on my clay shooting journey I'd probably at this quite closely...

I shot Redricks as well, I found it tough, made worse by the wind. Sim pair on the first stand would have been ok in calm conditions, but when I shot it I found both birds very wind affected. The same applied on the other two sim pairs as well, although even in calm conditions I think the 2nd...

Churchills yesterday for their 2nd Reg ESP of the month. I felt they set this one considerably tougher than the last couple, confirmed by only 3 scores of 90 or more from 120 shooters, including more than 20 AA and AAA shooters. Started innocuously enough, but they ramped it up pretty quickly...

I'd recommend Cheryl Hall for gun fit, she sorted out an issue I didn't even realise I had. If you're short and have short arms then you might want to have a look at guns with stock made for female shooters. Beretta does the Vitoria stock on quite a few of their gun and that's about 13.5in I...

I did AGL yesterday as well. Probably shot it earlier than you as the rain was just starting as we finished Stand 12. I can't say I thought it was the best set of targets out there. Overly dominated by going aways and they had a couple of sim pairs that I thought were a bit daft. Other stands...

I do it, I don't even realise I'm doing it until it's pointed out to me. Not so much before calling, but when waiting for a clay to get to where I want to kill it. Don't give a f*ck if you don't like it, I've paid for my time in the stand I'll do what I want with it. Maybe if you looked at the...

Think your bad stand was 6, mine was 5. Pleasure shooting with you today. As you say, a bit softer than the last one but it wasn't a round of gimmes. Still stuff there to trip you up.