Just in from ST, top brekkie as usual and warm welcome
Bit gusty but had some intermittent sun so not too bad. Started good with a straight. Stand 2 I dropped my last battue (although the ref seems to have missed the little nugget I took off the front of the floaty low first bird, which prompted me to think "wonder if he saw that" and forget the battue was coming hence slashing wildly infront) hey ho thems the breaks. Stand 3 I dropped 1 going away bird, tricky to see I thought with the dark background rabbit then look up into the white cloud but thats just my eyes.
On to 4 and I dropped my second teal, pure laziness. then the wheels fell off a bit. Stand 5 I couldnt find the r-l dropper and a stupid miss on the frisbee made me 5 away here. Stand 6, the black second bird got hammered down on the first 2 pairs with gusts of wind up its arse, found the orange on the second pair then lost it again but found the last two blacks for another 5 away
A steady run round 7,8,9&10 only dropping 3 on these. I really enjoyed the 1/4ing chondel and r-l crosser on 10, straight here with the chondel needing a fair whack of leed.
On to the l-r curling away rabbit/ drivenish mini combo. Pair dead, miss rabbit in front, same again and pair dead for a 6. Stupid mistake missing the second rabbit but doing the same on the next pair was pure idiocy
I enjoyed stand 12, r-l rabbit and dropping/curling in orange from the left. I dropped the first pair, dropped the curler on the second then cleaned them up for a 5. Our squad seemed to struggle here, not because you couldn't see the orange curler, as the sun was out it showed up quite well today. Everyone was giving the curler a bag of leed in front but little underneath. When I found it it was only about a foot in front but about 5 feet under! just goes to show they dont have to be 60yrd pencils to make them tricky
I dropped 3 on the tower driven and a pair of straights finished me off really well.
Final total a 95 which I am more than chuffed with. If I hadn't screwed up 5&6 so badly the ton was there for the taking. Was Jnt 8th in B last time I looked so a decent result. I thought it was a bit tougher than last year but still fairly steady and enough there to keep Mrs Fuz happy (60 for her)
Summing up, great targets, nice people and we will be back next year. A fond goodbye for a while to the hedge-monkeys, I'm off to skeet again next week