RobertBeard
Moderator
I chose this as my first registered shoot as of course the Growler was held there but we knew in advance that Jim French had designed the course and no stand would be as previously and nobody would have seen the course or shot it in advance.
There were 12 stands each with a mix of 4 or 5 pairs, mostly on report but there were a few simultaneous pairs.
I was on the 1pm squad with a good team with Steve Lovatt from on here who kindly introduced himself and then introduced me to some of the others.
I was the only newbie and felt that I was in a group of very good shooters and was somewhat concerned that I was going to embarrass myself.
I made a nervy, poor, slow start with a whitewash on the first stand which didn't look especially difficult and didn't seem to be to anyone else but I didn't lock onto either the quartering going away left to right or the right to left looper.
The weather was neither too hot nor too cold and only a very few targets appeared to be affected by the wind and the course was interesting and certainly challenging.
Steve thought that there could be a 92 out there for the taking but he was top of our squad with 84. I was tail end charlie and scraped up 32 kills which was obviously a disappointment but I've got to start somewhere and have obviously been lulled into false sense of security shooting Ashcombe too much and not venturing further afield.
For this first shoot there were only about 50% advance bookings and a total turnout for a new registered midweek shoot of 30 which was evidently up to expectations. I expect it will grow in popularity.
No doubt Steve can add some more detail about the stands and targets but there quite a few where you shot below and downhill which were probably more testing than most.
Excellent company and a very enjoyable day once I'd got a few kills under my belt. I was told afterwards that I was shooting at the targets not where they were going. I was giving them leed but obviously not enough!
More practice and more lessons required! :scratchhead:
There were 12 stands each with a mix of 4 or 5 pairs, mostly on report but there were a few simultaneous pairs.
I was on the 1pm squad with a good team with Steve Lovatt from on here who kindly introduced himself and then introduced me to some of the others.
I was the only newbie and felt that I was in a group of very good shooters and was somewhat concerned that I was going to embarrass myself.
I made a nervy, poor, slow start with a whitewash on the first stand which didn't look especially difficult and didn't seem to be to anyone else but I didn't lock onto either the quartering going away left to right or the right to left looper.
The weather was neither too hot nor too cold and only a very few targets appeared to be affected by the wind and the course was interesting and certainly challenging.
Steve thought that there could be a 92 out there for the taking but he was top of our squad with 84. I was tail end charlie and scraped up 32 kills which was obviously a disappointment but I've got to start somewhere and have obviously been lulled into false sense of security shooting Ashcombe too much and not venturing further afield.
For this first shoot there were only about 50% advance bookings and a total turnout for a new registered midweek shoot of 30 which was evidently up to expectations. I expect it will grow in popularity.
No doubt Steve can add some more detail about the stands and targets but there quite a few where you shot below and downhill which were probably more testing than most.
Excellent company and a very enjoyable day once I'd got a few kills under my belt. I was told afterwards that I was shooting at the targets not where they were going. I was giving them leed but obviously not enough!
More practice and more lessons required! :scratchhead:
