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Double A

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  • Birthday 21/01/1946

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    Clay pigeon shooting and instructing<br />Rifle shooting and vermin control<br />Motorbikes (60's scooters a speciality!)<br />Playing the blues harmonica<br />Licensed radio ham
  1. Hi Guys You may find that the more expensive cartridge is a bit faster and is making up for insufficient lead and now your hitting the target .I would leave the no7s in the clay shooting bag .6 or 5 32g are much more humane good shooting and dont blink Alan
  2. Hi Rob And every one it sounds like you have done it before mate .I used a remmi 1100 with modified [1/2] choke 28" barrel for many years and I always used 32g [1 1/8oz] no 5 shot over deeks and this cut down the number of runners drastically. My best being 76 in 1 1/2 hrs .You should have no trouble with a 26" skeet barrel.Just remember to face the deeks into or at a slight angle to the breeze [wind] when setting up. Good shooting and dont blink!! Alan
  3. Hi Guys I am surprised no one has suggested the Browning .22 T bolt .I have owned a moderated one of these for about 20 years and its given hundreds of bunnys and at least 4 foxs the last rites over that time and not one misfire or jam in all that time its great for getting off that second shot realy fast. Mine has a 4x40 centre post wide angle Niko scope zeroed at 100yds and still gives 1" groups. in fact it shoots better than I can .The only gripe is it could do with a 10 shot mag instead of the 5. Best shot todate is a head shot on a bunny at 130yds. Which is nothing to my CZ .17 HMR . I believe its just come back into production its not cheap but then qualitiy never is regard Alan
  4. Hi Blimey Its starting to look like the old pals club !! Hi Mike
  5. Hi Jerry Well where do I start?! Both Mike and myself run a corporate clay pigeon shooting company which we started when the club that we ran for twenty years plus folded due to the foot and mouth epidemic. We moved to a smaller ground to run the company. We both quickly realised that although we had been giving free tuition in all that time that we really needed to be qualified to do so for all the reasons that have been previously stated. At first we approached the BASC and eventually were given a mentor. However, it quickly went downhill from there - emails not answered, phone messages not replied to etc. etc. It seemed we were going nowhere very fast. At this point we got into discussion with Jerry and quickly got booked on to the course with the CPSA. On the first day of the course I seem to recall we had 24 candidates and on the last day of the course we were down to 11. This seemed to be mainly because some people decided the course was too difficult for them. I have been led to believe that this is about average for this type of course. The information given on the course was excellent and helped to fill in the holes in our knowledge and teaching abilities. Although we thought we knew it all before, we quickly realised that we didn't! I think that I can safely say this on Mike's behalf as well. As far as I am concerned the course was worth every penny and I also understand this for the BASC course as well but I can not really comment on that because we never got to go on it. I have got no axe to grind over this as I am also a BASC member as well as CPSA. I can only speak as I find. Alan
  6. Hi Dave Well I could not agree with you more it seems to me if a car has a loose wheel you fix the wheel you dont strip and rebuild the whole car. In your case if I was your instructor I would have asked you what your averages were and the mid 80s are pretty good so then I would ask you what were the targets that seemed to be giving you trouble and then concentrate on them only. Its been my experience that a problem with a specific target is usualy down to the lack of the technique needed to break it consistantly. Then this becomes a physolocigal wall where the shooter convinces him/her self that they are going to miss even before they shout pull. How many times have I heard someone say 'oh no I'm no good on bolting rabbits I always miss them'. Well now you have convinced your self that you will miss you will. So I agree if aint broke dont fix it. If you have a complete novice shooter then you go through everything with them but a shooter with many years experience but who has a specific problem then you help to fix that problem. Alan PS Hi Jerry!(Clayman)
  7. Hi Again I am still reading with great interest and think that any person who takes on the responsibilty of teaching someone to shoot should just pray to God that they never end up in the witness box with a top barrister asking them just exactly what recognised qualifications they have that gave them the right to teach someone to shoot. Unfortunately, I dont think in this day and age saying 30, 40, 80 or a 100 years experience would count. I agree that they would probably have the experience to teach somebody to shoot but without that bit of paper they are leaving themselves wide open to litigation without any defence. It would be interesting to see what stance their insurance company would take, because as we all know they are as slippery as an eel in a tub of grease looking for any excuse to get out of an agreement. It could be goodbye house, goodbye car and hello tent. Our insurance cost us in excess of £700 a year. We live in an age of litigation where a family sued an instructor for £5,000 for letting their daughter bruise her cheek and missing a modelling assignment. Any instructor who has not had a CRB check which enables them to work with youngsters had also better make sure that they have a chaperone with them at all times that they are with the youngster. This again is to safeguard themselves as much as the youngster. It must always be remembered that as an instructor - whether qualified or not - you have a duty of care to your pupil. All of the above apply whether you are instructing a paying customer or just a friend.
  8. Hi I am a newcomer to the site and have been reading this topic with great interest. I have personally known both JPY and Mike for many years [HI Jerry] both of whom are excellent instructors and shots. Unfortunately, I must agree that there are some instructors out there who are not so good and I am afraid to some extent you do take pot luck, so if at all possible go by recommendation and look for testimonials. It has happened in the past where we have had pupils for a lesson who have previously had a lesson with another instructor only to find that they had not even been given the basic dominant eye test and as any good instructor knows eye, gun fit, gun mount and stance, are the basic foundations upon which all the rest is built. If you dont get this right right from the start then you will not get consistancy and the average beginner will develop faults which can become engrained and as such very difficult to correct. It is much easier to teach a novice than someone who has shot for some time because they do not have any preconceived ideas and faults and dont resist any suggestons made. On a personal note I started shooting shot gun at 17 and I am now 62 and AA class. I was also pistol captain at Carshalton rifle & pistol club prior to the pistol ban. I have come to the conclusion that the best instructors are the ones who teach a lot of people in a year [hundreds+] both of which Mike and Jerry do [i include myself in this] as this gives them the necessary experience to be able to spot any errors the shooter is making and to quickly come up with the correct solution to help them. As for the Academy I think its a great idea because its structured course brings consistancy and most important of all SAFETY!!!! I would also like to add a final note that there are some police forces who are going in the direction of insisting that would be licence holders show proof of having taken some sort of safety course before the licence is granted. Whilst this is not legally enforcable at present who knows what the future will hold.
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