Scores October 8th

A comfortable day for our shoot but the scores were generally low with only 2 scores beating their shooters averages.

Martin, whose double barreled name I missed last week, joined us and proceeded to show us how it should be done. His scratch 74 may not have been particularly eye-catching but it beat the rest of us fair and square. Len was runner up just a single target behind leaving Simon Honeybourne’s 71 to take third place on the scratch leaderboard.

Most improved shot of the day on the handicap front was John Griffiths whose mighty and reliable little 28g once again proved it’s ability to destroy any target on the ground end and exceeded his average by over 6 and a half targets. He was closely followed by Simon, just a point behind. Martin took third place. Two .410 guns competed last week with widely different results. Ian Edwards, as usual, chose to shoot as many stands as possible as simultaneous pairs. He missed his average by 6 points, pretty well in line with the general results. Jonathon has been shooting consistantly well over recent months despite demonstrating a radically modified gun cabinet. Last week he joined us with a truly immaculate and attractive new, old pump action .410 which he assured us was full choked had fired less than a thousand shots during it’s 45 year existence. He impressed by missing only 2 of his first ten targets but despaired over missing half of his remaining 90. His scorecard suggested that there was a good reason that the gun had not been heavly used. I suspect its next appearance will bring an improvement.