British Open Skeet

[Catamong]

With one extra round, and then sudden death from station 4. Never takes too long

 

I thought they shoot doubles..??

 

Cat.

[paulos]

Pardon me, I should have added that One round and then two doubles each sudden death. First pair shooting high first, second pair shooting low first.

[Mungler]

I am dying to the know the result

[paulos]

To say that I am disappointed with myself would be an understatement. I am well and truly fed up. 93ex100. ****. There were a few factors involved, but I won't go into them for fear of them being labelled as excuses.

[Peter De La Mare]

That's a shame Paulos, but it's still not a shabby result all things considered.

 

I'd be interested to hear what the 'factors' were.

[Mungler]

Come on spill the beans.

 

How many 100's were there?

 

Was the winner old with grey / no hair?

 

Obviously you don't need us to tell you that 93/100 in skeet terms is smack bang in the middle of nowhere city B)

[MC]

That's a shame Paulos, but it's still not a shabby result all things considered.

 

I'd be interested to hear what the 'factors' were. B)

 

 

Perhaps he isn't over 60, carries a bus pass and has grey hair.

 

Or maybe he just couldn't face the endless rounds of the shoot offs and he doesn't have a name that he shares with a well known alcoholic drink.

[paulos]

Correct, I was in "nowhere city". However, you have to be in it to win it. There were eight 100 straights in and two of those were veterans, so it would seem that grey hair is not a pre-requisite.

 

By "endless rounds of shoot offs" I assume you mean "two rounds of shootoffs", to accomodate the 8 people taking part.

[MC]

Only 8 100 straights?

 

Someone must have had a sense of humour bypass and altered the traps to throw different birds. Then the 8 100 starights would have been sporting shooters who can cope with variation. This is obviously the case if they didn't have grey hair.

[paulos]

Obviously B)

[Mungler]

my prediction:

 

1, there will be several 100 straights [check, 8 apparently]

2, there will be a shoot off [check]

3, it will be won by someone with no hair or grey hair [check, won by the veteran Johnie Walker]

 

not that skeet is at all repetitive or predictable, just like the targets <bdum tisch> B)

 

 

Paulos, I wouldn't expect you to concede the point or even acknowledge that I may have just a teensy weensy bit of a point here.

 

So, I thought I would re-post my prediction which transpires to be 100% accurate on all counts, and then laugh my *** off

[paulos]

Well done B) I concede that you were correct.

 

I would argue however that two of your three "predictions" were fairly obvious. On the same token I would predict that next month's British Open Sporting will be won by a AAA class shooter, with a score of 90+ and with an expensive gun. Same logic.

 

The third point is well guessed by yourself, after all last years winner is only in his early 30's and the year before's is not much older.

[Mungler]

I would argue however that two of your three "predictions" were fairly obvious. On the same token I would predict that next month's British Open Sporting will be won by a AAA class shooter, with a score of 90+ and with an expensive gun. Same logic.

 

 

No, no, no.

 

Leaving aside that there will be no tie for 1st place (my prediction) and no shoot off (another one of my predictions) what will the winning score be?

 

Skeet, it's the same old same old.

 

Pick another skeet event and the prediction still stands.

 

Now tell me skeet is not predictable, or even a predictable sport for old men?

[paulos]

I'm still not entirely sure what you mean by "predictable"?

 

If you are talking about the targets, then predictability doesn't come into it, they are set in a specific way so that you know what they are going to be like. There are even pretty charts and diagrams which can show you.

 

If you are talking about the scores then you are talking about the very nature of the discipline, which is a high scoring one. The point is not about guessing how many are going to shoot 100 straight and then have to shoot off. It's about being one of the ones who shoot 100 straight and then being one of the ones shooting off.

[Catamong]

Most Sporting shooters look upon skeet as a "means to an end", in other words, if you want to be a top Sporting shot, then shoot a bit of skeet, as it helps you clean up on the close ones.

 

The guy who was runner up at the British Open Skeet is a case in point, he's a top class Sporting shot, with an average of 91.4 over nearly 5000 targets, and that's over umpteen different grounds, like Digweed, he realises the benefit in being a good skeet shot..!! B)

 

Cat.

[GStrider]

The guy who was runner up at the British Open Skeet is a case in point, he's a top class Sporting shot, with an average of 91.4 over nearly 5000 targets, and that's over umpteen different grounds, like Digweed, he realises the benefit in being a good skeet shot..!! B)

 

Cat.

 

Richard King is known to be a good shot across all disciplins and he is the British all round champion and runner up at the world skeet championships so he was expected to be in the shoot off.

[Catamong]

Richard King is known to be a good shot across all disciplins and he is the British all round champion and runner up at the world skeet championships so he was expected to be in the shoot off.

 

Well, not quite sure what the message is here, but yes, Richard is also a good mate of mine, like beretta we've shot together for many years at a pretty high level, a more dedicated Sporting shot you'd be hard pressed to find.

 

As for him "expected to be in the shoot off", I could name a dozen good skeet shooters who also fit that category but didn't make the shoot off, so full credit to Richard, a really nice guy and a top shot.

 

Cat.