ChrisPackham
Well-known member
Interested on views in respect of a friendly clay get together where a clay is visibly hit but not broken, should this be killed or lost? My understanding is that it should be scored as lost.
You must have very good eyesight unless it is quite a big holeA piece has to be visibly seen to have broken away, in practice this means you're going to have "dusted" ones scored as loss regardless of whether they make the clay appear to change course a tad, personally if I see a hole(s) appear on a driven which doesn't break I'd score it as a hit because a hole is proof of a missing piece.
I stand corrected, not seen it myself but agree is sounds possible.Hammy is correct. With orange clays against bushes and good sunlight it's common to see a puff of orange dust. I once had to score a miss for Richard Bunninng (of all people) when he 'dusted' an orange rabbit clay thrown as a quartering away. He wasn't best pleased but accepted my decision. Just to add insult to injury he missed out on HG by a single clay...
Driven clays are highlighted against the very light background of the sky so holes tend to be really obvious, not so much with rabbits because they of course tend to be shielded against much darker backgrounds which would mask even multiple holes.You must have very good eyesight unless it is quite a big hole
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