Claybuster Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Hi All, I'm shooting it with Nicky T on Friday, any other PW members doing it this weekend :hmm: If so good luck to all of you :good: Cheers K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100milesaway Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 I will be shooting it on Sunday with Shaun. Good luck you two, I will look out for your scores. from Auntie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulos Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 I would have been if it were nearer, but I'm not driving 700 miles round to shoot that **** hole again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmsy Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 saturday for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 saturday for me You mug, you'll get better targets at your YFC Strawbaler. Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COACH Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 (edited) Yeah, wonderful trap and skeet layouts but the sporting on the site is not good and they have no intentions to do it up. I`v heard that they don`t really want the open there. Everyone down here in the west country is talking about how the place is going down hill. The welcome is very cold, the food is getting bad, they have no cheaper guns at all, are just a few things that are pis***g shooters off amongst other things. Every one says they need a change of management there. I haven`t been down there for over a year now because I don`t like the way the place is run, but I get to here about it almost every day. Edited May 24, 2011 by COACH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azzurri Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 I would have been if it were nearer, but I'm not driving 700 miles round to shoot that **** hole again! Me neither and looking at the entries on cpsa site they could have nearly held it over one day Ah well,there might be a few more entries at Doveridge next year Azzurri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulos Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Me neither and looking at the entries on cpsa site they could have nearly held it over one day Ah well,there might be a few more entries at Doveridge next year Azzurri. You doing Orston on Sunday instead then? I'm just mulling over whether to join Nick and do Kegworth as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azzurri Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 You doing Orston on Sunday instead then? I'm just mulling over whether to join Nick and do Kegworth as well. Yes,that's the plan Should be there for 10.30 if you want to join us Azzurri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmsy Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 You mug, you'll get better targets at your YFC Strawbaler. Cat. cat if it wasnt the fact its a selection shoot i wouldnt be going! azzurri as for the comment about having it at doveridge - that place is even worse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azzurri Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 cat if it wasnt the fact its a selection shoot i wouldnt be going! azzurri as for the comment about having it at doveridge - that place is even worse! I know,Stu I was joking Good luck at the weekend Azzurri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmsy Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 good good, i was hoping you wernt serious most of these grounds could just do with a bit of decent fresh target setting, someone not connected to the ground to come in and set up for the bigger events. even the likes of hodnet feels stale, as the targets dont seem to vary by much year to year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azzurri Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 good good, i was hoping you wernt serious most of these grounds could just do with a bit of decent fresh target setting, someone not connected to the ground to come in and set up for the bigger events. even the likes of hodnet feels stale, as the targets dont seem to vary by much year to year. A lot of the 'Top Shots' have had a lot of exposure in 'Pull Magazine' over the years.They could do the cpsa a favour by perhaps putting their experience to good use by setting the targets for some of the Championship Shoots. It could be that whoever finishes first and second in the averages could be asked to set the targets for say the English or the British ? I thought Richard Faulds put a bit back when he did the targets at Sommerly the other year,I enjoyed the targets although from memory some didn't Just a thought. Azzurri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicky T Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Looking forward to shooting a "major" again as it's been a while! Hopefully the weather will be kind to us all this weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COACH Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Weather forcast is not good at all for the weekend. And its hell on that hill when its wet and windy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Looking forward to shooting a "major" again as it's been a while! Hopefully the weather will be kind to us all this weekend Well, don't get your hopes up, the last couple of shoots there have been pretty poor, total lack of imagination by the course setter, a long way to go for a shoot no better than Worsley. :blink: It'll probably be the lowest entry for any English Open over the last 25 years, so many experienced shooters have become totally hacked off with the place and are not bothering to shoot it. Don't say you weren't warned. Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulos Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 Aye, I've been bitten twice and shan't be bitten again. Looking forward to Orston instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicky T Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Having never shot at Southern Counties before i'm willing to give it a go, and hopefully see off my last week in B clas in style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100milesaway Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Enjoy your day Nicky. from Yer Auntie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicky T Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 (edited) What a day! Thought that i'd make the shrewd move of staying down near Southern Counties last night at a mates flat about an hour away. What a mistaka to makea! Only got a couple of hours kip due to lack of comfort, but such is life Anyway, i was very pleasantly surprised by the English Open at Southern Counties today. A decent course comprising of 15 stands in total with a good mixture of presentations including a lot of midi's and chondelles, or Chandel as they spell it darf sarf Here's a run down of what any fellow PW'ers can expect from the course: Stand 1: Pair of driven midi black clays that cross just before you think "i'll shoot now". More time than you think Stand 2: Overhead standard (going towards the right) with an o/r low loopy chondelley blaze standard (r-l) Stand 3: Crossing blaze midi (r-l) with an o/r standard Chondelle (r-l) Stand 4: Simmo pair of incommers Stand 5: Standard teal with an o/r l-r blaze crosser. START HERE as it's by far the best stand to ease yourself into the shoot! Stand 6: Quartering blaze midi (r-l) with an o/r crossing standard (l-r) Stand 7: Diving blaze (l-r) with an o/r quartering midi (i think) Stand 8: Standard crosser off tower (l-r) with an o/r chondelle (r-l) Stand 9: (Shot from on top of a hill) Low going away blaze Standard with an o/r Rabbit (r-l) Stand 10: Quartering blaze (l-r) with an o/r crossing midi (r-l) Stand 11: A fast UT style blaze standard followed by an o/r blaze chondelle (r-l) Stand 12: Simmo pair of teals, both standards. Stand 13: Quartering away blaze rabbit (l-r) with an o/r crossing standard rabbit (r-l) Stand 14: Quartering blaze midi (r-l) with an o/r quartering low blaze standard (l-r) Stand 15: Simmo pair of blaze battues - holy cow did they need a bus load of lead as i found out by going for the front bird and breaking the second! I'll add more as and when i remember them I finished up on a 71, which although not distasterous was 10 shy of what I know i'm capable of on that layout. Concentration was out of the question today, so lesson learnt; its the Hilton from now on if ever i'm staying over at a shoot!!!!! Good luck to all the other PW'ers shooting it, and Paulos if you decide to go Edited May 28, 2011 by Nicky T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 Looks like the kind of layout I'd have straighted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulos Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 Looks like the kind of layout I'd have straighted I douBt it! I'm willing to B-et they weren't all hung on a fencepost at the end of the garden! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100milesaway Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 Thanks for the report Nicky. 71 sounds OK as it sounds quite tricky, I will be shooting it on Sunday..... 23 mph winds forecast..... Oh well Im sure i will still enjoy it. from Yer Auntie. Full Day1 scores up on Southern counties website... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COACH Posted May 29, 2011 Report Share Posted May 29, 2011 I have heard that Richard King has hit a 92 on friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100milesaway Posted May 29, 2011 Report Share Posted May 29, 2011 propping up everyone with a 61 Very windy but the same for us all, 3 or 4 flinches. Back to the drawing board. from Auntie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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