No need for anyone to apologise to me i took no offence at any comments. I merely want more people to shoot skeet - especially NSSA - as i unashamedly like the discipline.
If you will let me indulge for a while longer i will post a bit more.
Those of you above are dead right - ask nearly any shooter to break high 1 they could probably do it 5 times in a row, in fact ask them to break a pair on Stn 1 and they could do the same i suspect. I will accept that if you treat each target as an individual then very few of them are what i would call difficult.
That said even without any pressure - now try run a 4 round 25 bird sequence and come away with a hundred straight. Add into this tournament pressure and do the same because if you want to win you NEED to as someone else will. Skeet is a game of dedication and repeatability - so yes muscle memory and making sure every little item is ticked off leaving no stone unturned in the quest for perfection.
Doing this with 12g is challenging enough - now try to do it with all 4 gauges (12, 20, 28 and 410). To put this into perspective that last time a .410 100 straight was shot in the UK was 2012 i think although i would need to check my figures.
I have been lucky enough to break 16 x 100 straights so far and for a UK shooter this is not bad..... but this pales into comparison to other shooters. Put this into perspective at the 2015 World Skeet i broke a 97/100 in the 28 gauge event and came 215th!! with 48 people breaking a hundred straight.
Then be able to hold your nerve in a shoot off with doubles - i really like the NSSA shoot off system - doubles at 3, 4 and 5 - so 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4 (4 after 3 is high bird first, 4 after 5 is low bird first) - this is not an easy system to shoot as the constant ramp up / ramp down in aggression needed is hard to control. That said i have seen this system run for multiple "boxes" in the USA as they try to find a winner.
Here is the video for that 2015 world skeet 28 gauge event. Remember to get to the point of the beginning of this video you will have shot 100 x 28 gauge straight, then a box of doubles on 3, 4 and 5 straight.
In the whole history of NSSA skeet only 2 british shooters have won any NSSA World title - Pete Usher (28g) and Craig Lakey (Dbls & 12g).
Just to show you what they go up against here are a couple of the top US shooters 2016 scores and neither of these won a world title last year!
