CharlesP
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Oh dear. Just when it was going so well.
I knew that changing guns wasn't going to suddenly propel me into the stratosphere, I'm much too old to believe you can Buy a Stairway to Heaven. I expected a bit of a blip as I became accustomed to my new toy, and I was massively surprised when on its first outing I managed a 74 at a registered ESP (I'm a 'B' classification). I went home quite pleased.
A couple of days later I went out to tackle some of the targets I had found troublesome, and came home satisfied that the transition would be less of a problem than I had anticipated. The trend continued positively a couple of days later.
Then it all went horribly wrong. Now I couldn't get my act together at all, perhaps it was the eye dominance correction patch falling off my shooting glasses. So I replaced it and nothing improved. Same cartridges, same clay ground, same targets. On my own everything was just fine, in a bunch of mates it all fell apart again.
It has come to a bit of a head this weekend. Pilford is a favourite of mine, and after a couple of months' cancellation due to floods I was really looking forward to it. My score was, I think, the lowest I've ever recorded there, and yesterday's shoot wasn't the toughest. And I broke my shooting glasses - Beretta ones with what I thought was a curly spring to keep them firmly on my head. In fact it was flimsy plastic, which being a Yorkshireman I spent hours repairing with superglue and cotton binding. I enjoyed the shooting, but for the life of me couldn't work out what was going wrong.
Today was Somerley, and if anything I have got worse, recording a 23 x 50. I can do much better than that, I was half expecting a 4 in front of my score, and my gang were puzzled too. The normal fluffy rabbits has given way to concerned sympathy (and when that happens you just know you're doing dreadfully). It's not the new gun, it functions perfectly. It's not the gun fit, that was fine a fortnight ago and nothing's changed. Anyway it feels right. It's not the cartridges because they haven't changed. Eye dominance is a thing I have almost tamed, and I'm convinced it's not that. I have paid particular attention to mounting the gun, and I'm happy that I'm shooting at the right spot.
All I can conclude is that it's all in the head.
Unless anyone has any ideas?
I knew that changing guns wasn't going to suddenly propel me into the stratosphere, I'm much too old to believe you can Buy a Stairway to Heaven. I expected a bit of a blip as I became accustomed to my new toy, and I was massively surprised when on its first outing I managed a 74 at a registered ESP (I'm a 'B' classification). I went home quite pleased.
A couple of days later I went out to tackle some of the targets I had found troublesome, and came home satisfied that the transition would be less of a problem than I had anticipated. The trend continued positively a couple of days later.
Then it all went horribly wrong. Now I couldn't get my act together at all, perhaps it was the eye dominance correction patch falling off my shooting glasses. So I replaced it and nothing improved. Same cartridges, same clay ground, same targets. On my own everything was just fine, in a bunch of mates it all fell apart again.
It has come to a bit of a head this weekend. Pilford is a favourite of mine, and after a couple of months' cancellation due to floods I was really looking forward to it. My score was, I think, the lowest I've ever recorded there, and yesterday's shoot wasn't the toughest. And I broke my shooting glasses - Beretta ones with what I thought was a curly spring to keep them firmly on my head. In fact it was flimsy plastic, which being a Yorkshireman I spent hours repairing with superglue and cotton binding. I enjoyed the shooting, but for the life of me couldn't work out what was going wrong.
Today was Somerley, and if anything I have got worse, recording a 23 x 50. I can do much better than that, I was half expecting a 4 in front of my score, and my gang were puzzled too. The normal fluffy rabbits has given way to concerned sympathy (and when that happens you just know you're doing dreadfully). It's not the new gun, it functions perfectly. It's not the gun fit, that was fine a fortnight ago and nothing's changed. Anyway it feels right. It's not the cartridges because they haven't changed. Eye dominance is a thing I have almost tamed, and I'm convinced it's not that. I have paid particular attention to mounting the gun, and I'm happy that I'm shooting at the right spot.
All I can conclude is that it's all in the head.
Unless anyone has any ideas?
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