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See the target both eyes open, start to dim/close the eye off once mounted and moving the gun, the important thing is not to get drawn back the the end of the gun when you shut the eye, just keep looking at the clay. Easier said than done. Also it can be helpful to warm the old eye up a bit prior to shooting by opening and closing the eye a few times to get the muscles working. Have tried every other method of dealing with cross dominance, this is the only one that consistently works for me, Im no olympic champion but I am reasonably competent with this method. Everyones different.

I don't use forums much anymore but just stumbled across this thread and thought I would echo the previous comments. Sporting layout is big, something for everyone, and a great day out. A lot of money has been spent on the Olympic Skeet and Olympic Trap/ABT ranges in the last couple of years, It is the 'Centre of excellence' for olympic disciplines in Wales. Most would agree you would struggle to find better OT layouts in the UK. I consider myself very very fortunate to have this ground 25mins down the road, good coffee and great banter in the clubhouse too.

Not shooting related but was in Carmarthen area last year and saw the plate W4LES. Would give my left teste for that!

Crasswall Clay club? Four seasons I think its called in Madley... ill try and find a number for you... If you don't already its worth keeping an eye on this website: http://welshbordershooting.synthasite.com Im a regular at Griffin, can't go far wrong there! Park farm really good too. There is a little sporting club that meets here on a disused railway line of ours (Eardisley) 'Tram Inn Clay shooting club', don't know the dates but I have a phone number if you PM me.

I was one of the OT shooters in a wheelchair, said hello to tony when I came in.

Brilliant ground! We're you in the clubhouse with Tony? I was up yesterday.

No, we tarpies really are a funny bunch!!

In my experience Premier plus does not guarantee accessibility I'm afraid.

No, very normal chair, he was just chuffing good! And an extremely nice guy to boot. The rest of us need to work on raising our game a bit!

Yep its beyond belief , all the hype and build up to this competition, two and a half weeks after its finished we still have no official scores published. I have managed to get the scores of the two sets of finalists so I'm going to leak them : Standing Disabled: *** Name Country Score ex 125 Final Total 1. Yuri Bregoli Italy 110 19 129 2. Giorgio Marrozzini Italy 104 21 125 3. Vladimir Kopacik Slovakia 104 20 124 + 3 4. Sergio Puerto Ruis Spain 106 18 124 + 2 5. Santo Falanga Italy 105 16 121 6. Alan Paige Great Britain 104 16 120 Seated Disabled: 1. Anthony Brogden New Zealand 106 20 126 2. Mathew Goodwin Great Britain 101 18 119 3. Bruno Busti Italy 92 16 108 4. Jimeno Fernandez Spain 91 14 105 5. Giorgio Pietro Boem Italy 89 15 104 6. Oreste Lai Italy 91 13 104

Yep, that was Alan with his new 'Fowling piece'. Both really nice guys. Cracking shots too. as soon as the results are published (god knows why its taking so long) I will post them up.

Ah I see, we all flew out together, Steve had a couple of guys that went from his part of the world, Reg and Alan. Alan made the Flash final in the standing disabled category. Still shooting SW2000 when I can, that and Griffin Lloyd mainly.

Its not a paralympic discipline yet, but people have been working very hard in the last few years to get it included. Its only in the last 10 years or so disabled shooters have been able to come together, thanks to the Disabled shooters Group, and Sussex Disabled Shooters Group. Before this it was unclear as to how many disabled shooters were out there. This has been a similar story in other countries too. Hdav, Who were you chatting to? not a couple of guys at SW2000? Results will be published in a couple of days hopefully, will post a link here when they are.

Thanks, Phill, was trying to remain anonymous! lol cover blown Diceman, the main problems with shooting from a seated position are range of movement (rotation to hit the more extreme targets) fatigue and target visibility. As we are lower down we only really see a slimmer profile of the clay. Also the higher injuries like myself e.g paralysed from the chest down have very poor balance and core stability resulting in the need to strap ourselves to the wheelchair around the torso, further reducing the range of movement. Means we usually have to attack the target and try to take it earlier, which can result in more misses. Standing disabled include problems like lower limb amputation, which the main drawback is stability and balance. The one armed guys are the best to watch, will blow your mind! Obviously very tricky loading, unloading within the times constraints of olympic trap, and the holding and swinging of a heavy trap gun with just the one arm. Hope this helps, any more questions just keep them coming.

Just thought Id post this up incase its of interest to anyone. We are trying to raise the profile of disabled shotgun shooting around the world. ISSF have put the video below up on their youtube channel. It is of the Olympic trap Grand Prix for disabled shooters which took place at the end of ISSF World cup round in 'Trap Concaverde', Lonato, Italy a couple of weeks ago. GB was well represented, with two shooters making it into flash finals, and one bringing back a silver medal. The ultimate aim is to have Olympic clay disciplines included into the Paralympics. If you know of any disabled shooters that may be interested in giving OT a go in the future please PM me.