Rough weekend for shooting

St. Charles held their Illini Indian shell shoot on Sunday. I missed a single on post 3 and knew right away I was going to have a problem. I spent the next 97 shells stabbing, chasing, flinching and waving my gun around like Zorro trying to break targets. I'm pretty sure I was cross firing at them, most of the 8 misses out of 100 came on post 1 and 2 left handers. The ones I hit were often just chipped, it was very frustrating. I had gotten a poor night's sleep and that has been percursor in the past for poor shooting. Visually, I could see them clearly, but something was going wrong between my head and my hands.

I shot a 91 in handicap, which isn't good but relative to the singles performance, not a disaster. A 93 won my yardage, a 97 was overall handicap high. That's some good shooting. More on the positive side: the club had a good turnout, a friend of mine shot his best singles score ever and I saw at least one league shooter join the ATA and come out. There also seemed to be a good number of junior and sub-junior shooters.

Wobble League, Week 2

Second week of Wobble League. I shot a 47, two targets down on last week. It was overcast, in contrast to last week, and I thought it was harder to see the targets, especially the low ones. A lot of chipped birds. Shot some handicap rounds, poorly, swatting at mosquitos, probably wrecking everyone else's focus as well.

Looking forward to lots of shooting over the next few weeks including the Grand with Dad and Cal.

ATA HOF - In 1938 Bernice Billett, 23, a college student from Wisconsin became the first women to compete wearing shorts at the Grand American. Attracted a lot of attention as you can see.

One at a time

"I don't expect anything before the match. I expect to play my best every point and try to fight every point like the last. I don't think about if I'm going to have a very difficult match, I'm going to lose or win. I don't think about this. I just think about try to go on court and try to fight every point and play point by point. Not thinking any more of the next point."

~Rafael Nadal, after winning 2010 Wimbledon

Darien

Shot at Darien today. Never been there before, its about 1-1/2 hours north by Lake Geneva. Real friendly and efficient club. Where else can you sit and watch the action on a bunch of old couches set on cinder blocks? I shot 25, 25, 25, 24 for a 99 at singles. That won A class, no 100s today. It was really, really windy. I've got a 96.2% average on my singles this year, closing in on AA. I shot four 23s for a 92 at handicap. That was a struggle but at least the rounds were consistent. The high score was a 95 then a couple of 92s. I spent the prize money on fireworks in Walworth on the way home.

Butterfingers

Shot this morning at St. Charles. Ran a round of wobble trap, shot a 24 at 23 yards and a 23 at 27 yards. I've shot 825 handicap targets in the last 2-1/2 weeks so getting comfortable beyond my current handicap yardage of 21 yards. For my big finale today, I dropped the forearm of my gun in the gravel parking lot while disassembling and dinged it end to end. Jackass.

Wobble League Started...

... last night. It was a great night to be out, crystal clear, 80 degrees, no wind. The late sun just lit up the targets. I shot a 24 and a 25. I checked my shooting diary, last year I was shooting 43s and 44s out of 50.

Wobble trap is fun. It seems like good practice for ATA shooting cause it forces you to focus on the target and you get to see different elevations. Interesting web site on bunker/wobble shooting here.