Will Poon

I don't have opinions on people until I meet them, George was in the squad infront of ours in Dubai. He and his wife Kate were very nice and pleasant to get on with whilst I was there.

Time to seek help from a good coach.

Your close Shaun :lol:

looks like a few more have signed up, still early days. I'll be on the hunt this Tuesday for some nice raffle prizes

You can actually put a link to gunwatch on your signature to advertise your gun(s) for sale, but only gunwatch though.

Got your passport ready Shaun not long to go

Pump action...

I'll change my tyres then...

Hope this helps https://www.cpsa.co.uk/userfiles/file/CPSAClassBandings.pdf

Any raffle prizes anyone?

So what was it like people are asking, I'll start from the start. Arriving at Manchester airport my gun was swiftly processed by security and taken away so it would travel with me with the rest of the cargo took about 15 mins. After a long and turbulent flight that was delayed because of sand storms in dubai it took an age for us to land, once we were in the airport and collected the luggage my thoughts were where the hell do i get my gun? There were Nad Al Sheba dessert shooting signs so I follwed them until I reached an area full of other shooters and there families all looking rather fed up. Official Nad al Sheba staff and dubai police were conducting all the necessary paper work to know who's gun belonged to who and to cross check the serial numbers that were originally given. It took me nearly 2 hours!!! I won't go into depth but it's was extremely chaotic and not professionaly organised. However other people that came earlier in the week had no problems at all in sorting the paper work out. I took a taxi to and from the shooting ground as our hotel wasn't on the list that had free transportation which cost about £35 per day £180 in total (ish) On the first day which was the training day I went to the large marquee to get my ID badge then to another part of the complex for my badge number and token which was unique to getting my gun from the armoury area, most of this I had to ask other peoples help as I wasn't informed beforehand in what to do when I got there. Once the gun was retrieved and put together in the armoury area I headed off to layout 4 (4 layouts in total) to meet up with my other squad members. 5 stands in each layout , 3 traps in each stand, so each stand had 5 simo pairs of various distance, heights and angles. I'd say 65% or so were at some distant and the rest were close(ish) but all the traps were fully wound to its max or close to it so it would make the clay come out extremely fast! Once the practise was over the following next 4 days of the competition was the same procedure, but of course all the targets were set differently again Back onto layout 4 and some of the targets that were presented were mind boggling far and fast to the point I wonder if a shot would get that far, it was extremely satisfying to prove it possible to kill at distance whilst giving it bonkers amount of lead, and the pause between the bang of the gun to when it smashes the clay!!! It didn't take long to do one layout about an hour or so, each stand had a cool box with ice cold bottled water and energy drinks at your disposal. The weather played a part into everyone's scores, but that's sporting for you it applies to wherever you shoot in the world, unless your indoors of course. What made the birds difficult for me was the sheer speed of them comming out, by the time I've seen the bird and shot it the other is either at some distance away or already lying on the sand. That's the fun and challenging part as well to be even extra quick with hand eye co-ordination. To sum it up the shooting itself is very good, great facilities, great ground staff with very comfortable surroundings. However the lack of communication with parts of the event was frustrating, even the gala meal most of us didn't have a clue where or when it was held, had to rely on social media for that. Yes I will go back next year

Paid this morning, looking forward to another year of the Charity shoot

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Full up to date final scores.

GD scored 140x200 I think, all the scores you can see are not upto date as yet unless you go on the Nad Al Sheba website itself. Our squad was the last to shoot so ours weren't updated that quickly as well.

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Some pictures from today Practise day, slightly windy some distance targets at some speed as well.

https://nadalshebawsc.ae All squads and times

Very good of you Rick, I'm sitting tight at the hotel for now, still no squad lists, pick up times e.t.c. The journey over here was extremely long and tyring to say the least! Practise day on Monday whatever time that may be A healthy bunch of UK shooters at the Dubai airport this morning checking in our guns.

Thanks for the kind words of support, i do have my own goal whilst I'm out there shooting so if I achive that I'll be well chuffed. I do however have an idea who may win the competition and I did share that with a certain someone off this forum

Hahaha..

At least there's internet connection in the middle of the desert so I can keep in touch

This Friday evening, one more day of work

It's all gone quiet on here ....