What a difference a day makes - short run up to Weston Wood for me today, only 45 mins - and in bright sunshine the whole way.Quick bacon roll before booking on an heading out. Weather stayed decent all the way round, some bright sunshine which made a couple of stands a bit challenging - but all-in-all a lovely day to be out shooting.
We went the 'wrong' way round - starting at the pond with a battue right to left, with an O/R bird off the tower - then into the woods. Watched Amber Hill pulverising some battue l/r on the next stand with a nice dollied up incomer - lovely stand to make you think about changing gun speed and keeping steady for a second bird. There was an excellent stand with a high right to left off the tower with a driven midi on report - sun straight in your eyes for the natural kill point - so logical solution was an early kill on that and then more time for the midi - tough stand with bright sunshine. The g/a straight bird and low incoming on report was a tricky pair - curling just enough to miss. The looper left to right followed by quartering right to left did for me - I couldn't get them at all and properly confused myself trying to work things out - onwards and downwards!
Enjoyed the stand with a high right to left followed by the jumping bunny - was great to watch people smoking the bunnies in mid-air - that was my only straight of the day. Stand 1 on the mound was another bunny - quick left to right bunny followed by a flat right/left on report. Stand opposite the pool shoot was the pair of simo teals and then the 'extra' stand squeezed in next to the pool shoot was lovely - an overhead g/a with a right to left midi that must have had ice on it by the time I broke it two out of three times - about 10 or 12ft lead by my reckoning.
We finished on the platform - with a quartering left to right and a fast incomer left to right on report - suitably tricky. I took a 57 - some silly mistakes and one or two rubbish stands, not sure if I am going to get back the form I had in January - but practice, practice, practice seems to be in order.
I saw plenty of ShootClayers there - my squad was Fuz, Mrs Fuz and TipTop and we saw Andy S, Phil, Clever, Mrs Clever, LHS and his very funny entourage! Apologies if I've missed anyone! (edit - of course, had a quick chat with Chris Childerhouse as well)
Lovely day out in the sunshine, I cannot wait until it starts getting warmer!
We went the 'wrong' way round - starting at the pond with a battue right to left, with an O/R bird off the tower - then into the woods. Watched Amber Hill pulverising some battue l/r on the next stand with a nice dollied up incomer - lovely stand to make you think about changing gun speed and keeping steady for a second bird. There was an excellent stand with a high right to left off the tower with a driven midi on report - sun straight in your eyes for the natural kill point - so logical solution was an early kill on that and then more time for the midi - tough stand with bright sunshine. The g/a straight bird and low incoming on report was a tricky pair - curling just enough to miss. The looper left to right followed by quartering right to left did for me - I couldn't get them at all and properly confused myself trying to work things out - onwards and downwards!
Enjoyed the stand with a high right to left followed by the jumping bunny - was great to watch people smoking the bunnies in mid-air - that was my only straight of the day. Stand 1 on the mound was another bunny - quick left to right bunny followed by a flat right/left on report. Stand opposite the pool shoot was the pair of simo teals and then the 'extra' stand squeezed in next to the pool shoot was lovely - an overhead g/a with a right to left midi that must have had ice on it by the time I broke it two out of three times - about 10 or 12ft lead by my reckoning.
We finished on the platform - with a quartering left to right and a fast incomer left to right on report - suitably tricky. I took a 57 - some silly mistakes and one or two rubbish stands, not sure if I am going to get back the form I had in January - but practice, practice, practice seems to be in order.
I saw plenty of ShootClayers there - my squad was Fuz, Mrs Fuz and TipTop and we saw Andy S, Phil, Clever, Mrs Clever, LHS and his very funny entourage! Apologies if I've missed anyone! (edit - of course, had a quick chat with Chris Childerhouse as well)
Lovely day out in the sunshine, I cannot wait until it starts getting warmer!
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ended up with 3 straights, two 1's, a 2 and the rest 1 away or just around 50%. The longer stuff I am nailing now but seem to have lost the close whippy stuff that I used to mince ??? Still managed a 64 so not too bad and around average but really frustrated I cant seem to put everything together on the same day :angry: Really loved the close rabbit, thrown along the deck at a ramp which lobbed it about 10ft in the air, think Steve has been reading the funny target thread :lol: 
