Arrived this afternoon and had a couple of practice rounds (19 and 22). A bit windy today which is making it a little chilly and the wind is affecting the targets as they fly over the balconies.
Lots of Brits here, including a few Team GB members (and coach!) and quite a few Welsh, Scots and Irish team members as well. Must be some kind of warm weather training camp thing going on? Lots of us also ran Brits here as well. Oh and my bezzie mate David Kostelecky is here as well
Jarapalo is a fabulous, tradition facility with a wonderful clubhouse reflecting its live pigeon shooting origins. Must have cost quite a bit when it was first built? Nothing like it in the UK (that I have been to anyway).
The five trap layouts are beautifully maintained and are arranged as a series of 'balconies' whereby the the layouts are perfectly flat for for 30 yards or so the just disappear off the edge into the massive, wide valley below (think infinity pool and you'll get the idea). Lord only knows how they measure target distances?
Will take some more pictures tomorrow but here is one to be going on with
Nice a sunny for most of today but bloody chilly this morning before the sun came over the mountains :brr:
Straights are pretty rare (based on the amount of clapping I have heard) but there have been some. Nice to see some Brits up at the sharp end just wish it was me and the boy
Challenging light conditions as demonstrated in the image of the boy below. Immediate for ground in shade but distance brightly lit!
few more images to follow as individual posts due to file sizes.
Good shoot for Harry Sinclair his first round sort of tripped him up a bit but still nice to see him do well. Now am I just missing something or plain don't understand how the guy with the highest score is third ?
Ah I see but I was under the impression it was a 125 target competition. So it was a 125 target comp with a final... just they did not publish the final round results.