Shot my first 100 registered yesterday and made a compleat balls of it!!! I know (mostly I think) where I went wrong, stopping my swing as I pulled the trigger 
I've been shooting with rifles alot the past few months and the shotgun has never been out of the cabinet scince beaters day. That's not unusual for me, but I've never had this stop swinging to aim type of thing going on in my head before!?!? The first stand I shot was an easy l to r setteler that hung in the wind before dropping followed by a tricky fast r to l overhead going away crosser 3-10......nothing for the first 2 pair, shot the next 3 droppers (after I mentaly slapped myself for taking aim and stopping) but couldn't mentaly slap myself out of taking aim at the second bird!*$%@!!! This pattern continued for the next 3 stands with a 3-10 3-10 and 4-10, then I get a realy fast going away crosser and a looping, from the right, high dropper that the wind was doing strange things to, got my swing going on the crosser and shot the 5 of them and missed the dropper by swinging way through it every time. BOOM, my swing was back!!! 7,8,7, on much tricker stands than all my 3's. 5 and 4 to finnish, the 5 was simo driven phesants off a tower in front, 1 standard 1, midi, crossing, shot the first one, hit the (very low) bar on the cage and diden't even fire the second barrel, only managed one of each pair. The last stand was a easy l to r fast going away (missed 1 behind :angry: ) and a horrible midi teal fired simo, from some rough ground to the left, up and out like a rocket and dropped like a stone, most people could make nothing of it!!!
The reason I've posted this on the psyhology thread is I felt my head was just not in it yesterday, first i drove 25 miles to a ground who shut every year for Feb/March but were advertised to open on Sundat 1st April......gates were locked, shut. :angry:Turned round to drive the 35 miles (back past my house) to the next ground, motorway slip road shut :angry: then almost get wiped out by a lorrie changing lanes to avoid an accident and almost sh*t myself :angry: By the time I got to the ground I was pretty pissed off, didn't quite feel myself. I was very tempted to shoot a round of skeet to calm myself down and get my swing going, but didn't........what I wonder is, would it have helped? Should I have just had something to eat and not went rushing out onto the sporting? Was it just i've been shooting so much with the rifle that my brain just wants to aim at rather than swing through? Yesterday was like a mad rush, got up, milked the cows, fed the cows, got my nephew started spreading dung, rushed away to one ground to practice, shut, rushed over to another, rushed round the stands, three stands had mamoth ques waiting for traps to be sorted, rushed back home to milk the cows again, put out dund after dinner until after 9pm for the 4th night in a row, can't stop thinking over how I missed so many clays and where I went wrong on each stand..... What's your thoughts? There's a 100 FITASC on the same ground next week, should I batter on or go practice and straiten my head out?!?!
I've been shooting with rifles alot the past few months and the shotgun has never been out of the cabinet scince beaters day. That's not unusual for me, but I've never had this stop swinging to aim type of thing going on in my head before!?!? The first stand I shot was an easy l to r setteler that hung in the wind before dropping followed by a tricky fast r to l overhead going away crosser 3-10......nothing for the first 2 pair, shot the next 3 droppers (after I mentaly slapped myself for taking aim and stopping) but couldn't mentaly slap myself out of taking aim at the second bird!*$%@!!! This pattern continued for the next 3 stands with a 3-10 3-10 and 4-10, then I get a realy fast going away crosser and a looping, from the right, high dropper that the wind was doing strange things to, got my swing going on the crosser and shot the 5 of them and missed the dropper by swinging way through it every time. BOOM, my swing was back!!! 7,8,7, on much tricker stands than all my 3's. 5 and 4 to finnish, the 5 was simo driven phesants off a tower in front, 1 standard 1, midi, crossing, shot the first one, hit the (very low) bar on the cage and diden't even fire the second barrel, only managed one of each pair. The last stand was a easy l to r fast going away (missed 1 behind :angry: ) and a horrible midi teal fired simo, from some rough ground to the left, up and out like a rocket and dropped like a stone, most people could make nothing of it!!!The reason I've posted this on the psyhology thread is I felt my head was just not in it yesterday, first i drove 25 miles to a ground who shut every year for Feb/March but were advertised to open on Sundat 1st April......gates were locked, shut. :angry:Turned round to drive the 35 miles (back past my house) to the next ground, motorway slip road shut :angry: then almost get wiped out by a lorrie changing lanes to avoid an accident and almost sh*t myself
:angry: By the time I got to the ground I was pretty pissed off, didn't quite feel myself. I was very tempted to shoot a round of skeet to calm myself down and get my swing going, but didn't........what I wonder is, would it have helped? Should I have just had something to eat and not went rushing out onto the sporting? Was it just i've been shooting so much with the rifle that my brain just wants to aim at rather than swing through? Yesterday was like a mad rush, got up, milked the cows, fed the cows, got my nephew started spreading dung, rushed away to one ground to practice, shut, rushed over to another, rushed round the stands, three stands had mamoth ques waiting for traps to be sorted, rushed back home to milk the cows again, put out dund after dinner until after 9pm for the 4th night in a row, can't stop thinking over how I missed so many clays and where I went wrong on each stand..... What's your thoughts? There's a 100 FITASC on the same ground next week, should I batter on or go practice and straiten my head out?!?!
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