Skeet

Went out to St. Charles Sportsman's Club last night and shot some trap, ran a round of singles which felt good. I've been having some troubles there. A friend of mine just joined and he came out with a friend and we shot some skeet. We had the skeet field to ourselves, it was a cold night. I put the O/U barrels on my MX2005, 1-1/8 ounces of 9s and a modified choke will smoke a skeet target hard. But most of the skeet targets escaped unscathed. It was fun, we had a good time, skeet shooting is a lot more social than trap shooting. Shot some doubles from post 8.

Slow day at work

My cousin got married 1-1/2 years ago and my uncle had a fishing tournament in one of his ponds. Cal won two trophies with an assist from my Dad. What a great day. He wore that Indiana Jones hat everywhere for awhile.

Nice weather for shooting

We had a great weekend in Illinois, sunny, temps close to 60. I shot Saturday and Sunday, some good rounds, some poor rounds. I asked a friend of mine to stand behind me and watch me shoot yesterday from my handicap yardage. He noticed two things. I had an inconsistent set-up in that sometimes I would mount, call and shoot quickly and other times I would mount, take an extra second to get my eyes out where they should be and then call for the target. You can guess which process was more likely to result in a broken target. I have been really inconsistent shooting lately so this is something to work on. The other thing he noticed was my gun moving before I called for the target and then going in the opposite direction of the target, i.e I'm moving the gun before I have a good look at the target. So two basic things to work on.