I could have had the weekend to remember but Started the Sunday well enough with a 96 which I later found out via Ross Straker was good for joint HG , then set off at 6.30 am for Sarfdown on the Monday for the 200 birder.Nice steady start on the first course with 85 which was clearly 10 shy of being ON it (GD had shot 99 I`m told , brilliant) but felt good anyway as none of it was easy.Sandwich gulped and onto the second course which everyone warned was tougher (GD had posted 95) , personally I just couldn`t see it that way as I was only 6 birds down after 8 stands .Then the strangest thing happened. It was as though whatever drugs I was on had worn off and I hit a cliff. Believe me I had straighted or 9`d some clever stands by then so would have backed myself to shoot another 85 with ease. But I dropped 14 on the next 4 stands. No way they were that hard .One strange thing worth a mention is stand 11 where a longish midi R/L was followed by a much closer airborne rabbit L/R. Here most of my squad pulverized the first bird but nobody could break more than one or at best two of the other, a few blanking it, I broke a 5. One of the guys shot and missed the report airborne rabbit and as I tracked it`s fall down to earth, it suddenly fell apart some 10 ft off the ground. I mentioned this after the shooter had finished and the consensus of opinion was that it was technically a break. I`m convinced many of these (slightly angled) rabbits were infact hit but wouldn`t break with such small shot. In the main it was another fantastic Southdown set up, loads of entertainment, angles, lots of distance and speed. One point is that there were next to no quartering birds and none coming from behind, no criticism but I like these as I tend to hit them so just being selfish I guess .