Good Boxing day shoot 2010

[sg1]

We started about 10:30 on our frosty private shoot at Lagness West Sussex, the fire was burning nicely and the sausages,bacon and coffee was on the go!!

 

There were about 12 of us total and we've all pretty much shot together over the last year or so.

 

After the initial warm ups with some going away rising clays we moved around the hill to do some left-right crossers. We had 2 traps today but we were using just one at this time until the trappers thought it would be funny to switch from sending 1 clay at a time to 3 birds bearing in mind we nearly all only had our usual SxS's and O/U's!!

 

So.......

 

I had the idea of getting our own back by 8 of us (the other side of the hill from traps) lining up alongside our poor mate who was getting picked on and we waited for the 3 clays to be pulled all at same time (you can guess what happened )

BBBBANG,BBOOOOOOOM!!! 7 double barrels and 2 semis ALL in unison :lol: , I guess we nailed them 3 clays then lol.

 

After changing to some right-lefts for a while, we stopped for Sausages,bacon rolls and then out come the 9mm Garden gun to see if it was possible to hit short range, hand thrown clays with a degree of success .

 

We ended up the day with the 2 trappers unleashing a flush of every clay we had left whilst we all stood in a line as before and basically kept on going until either the clays ran out or we ran out of cartridges, it lasted about 1.5/2 mins and was quite a sound to be heard .

 

After we got back to the cars and the spent cartridges collected(there was a 'few' more than normal!!) we all donated into the pot and raised £106.00 for Chestnut Tree House Childrens Charity :good: .

 

It was then time to go home and for me, time to start cooking the Boxing day roast .

 

I DO like Boxing day shoots....don't you?

 

atvb

 

sg1

Edited December 27, 2010 by sg1