Andy S
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Me and Hazel went down to Bisley Gun Club today to further investigate this Down the Line shooting. Any way the day diddn't start to well what with Hazel not feeling good and to further compund the issue something went Clunk on her car just before we turned into Bisley. Found the Bisley Gun Club pavilion, which is quite smart in appearance, with hot and cold food and drinks available, plenty of tables to sit at and even a pool table.
Went up to the booking in area and spoke to, it turned out to be Jane and introduced ourselves and explained that we had not been there before. Jane explained that there was a reg comp on or practice, however if you where shooting the comp you had to shoot this first. Hazel said she would just shoot the practice so we signed onto a squad of 5 with me on peg 1 and Hazel on peg 3.
Our squad was called as we were getting ready and over we went to layout, where by I explained to the ref that it was the first time of shooting DTL in a squad, who said by way of reply "you can pull the trigger can't you :smile: " On to peg 1 I went and the ref call peg 1 to call
for a target for the squad to se, which I did and then he called line ready, upon which I mounted the gun and called pull, bang first target dead. Peg 2 closed his gun and called pull and we were off for 5 targets on each peg, with the ref calling out 2 - for a seconed barrel kill or loss for a miss. After 5 targets the ref called unload and change and we moved down a peg. We had an slight interruptioin to the shooting as someones mobile rang, which is a big no-no in DTL and you can be docked points in acomp. At the end of this 25 I had a 22-60 score (22 kills a massing 60 points so a few second barrels there). Hazel shoot a 13-36, which wasn't bad considering she wasn't well and her car might have an expensive fault. After thanking the ref and brief talk with the fellow squad members it was back to the club house for tea.
We booked on for a 2nd round and whilst waiting John Skeet turned up as he was meeting a friend there, so we had a brief chat before heading out. This time a squad of 3 and I managed a 22-66 and Hazel again scored 13-36.
After shooting we had a good chat about all manor of shooting related things with, it turns out the club president, who invited us back in 2 weeks time, well he said Hazel could go but as I beat him, turns out he was in our squad and it was his phone which rang, he would reserve judgement on me.
I have to admit that I really enjoyed DTL and next time I will probably enter the 100 bird reg comp.
ps Turns out the front driver side spring is broken on Hazel's car so she will be on her bike to work next week.
Went up to the booking in area and spoke to, it turned out to be Jane and introduced ourselves and explained that we had not been there before. Jane explained that there was a reg comp on or practice, however if you where shooting the comp you had to shoot this first. Hazel said she would just shoot the practice so we signed onto a squad of 5 with me on peg 1 and Hazel on peg 3.
Our squad was called as we were getting ready and over we went to layout, where by I explained to the ref that it was the first time of shooting DTL in a squad, who said by way of reply "you can pull the trigger can't you :smile: " On to peg 1 I went and the ref call peg 1 to call
for a target for the squad to se, which I did and then he called line ready, upon which I mounted the gun and called pull, bang first target dead. Peg 2 closed his gun and called pull and we were off for 5 targets on each peg, with the ref calling out 2 - for a seconed barrel kill or loss for a miss. After 5 targets the ref called unload and change and we moved down a peg. We had an slight interruptioin to the shooting as someones mobile rang, which is a big no-no in DTL and you can be docked points in acomp. At the end of this 25 I had a 22-60 score (22 kills a massing 60 points so a few second barrels there). Hazel shoot a 13-36, which wasn't bad considering she wasn't well and her car might have an expensive fault. After thanking the ref and brief talk with the fellow squad members it was back to the club house for tea.
We booked on for a 2nd round and whilst waiting John Skeet turned up as he was meeting a friend there, so we had a brief chat before heading out. This time a squad of 3 and I managed a 22-66 and Hazel again scored 13-36.
After shooting we had a good chat about all manor of shooting related things with, it turns out the club president, who invited us back in 2 weeks time, well he said Hazel could go but as I beat him, turns out he was in our squad and it was his phone which rang, he would reserve judgement on me.
I have to admit that I really enjoyed DTL and next time I will probably enter the 100 bird reg comp.
ps Turns out the front driver side spring is broken on Hazel's car so she will be on her bike to work next week.
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