Back after quite an absence.

Zippy, my friend, EVERY target in sporting is easy..............and impossible........at the same time.......but to compare it to station 7....well, there was a station today where I shot - on an elevated stand - one easily going from just to left and a second going out from the right from right under us - all except a new shooter shot it as a true double (it was supposed to be a report pair) and cleaned the station.....then again, there are some that just befuddle the hell out of you..and that's OK

Zippy - I do not have the years shooting like you do - I started shooting skeet a little over 20 years ago and soon found it to be boring when sporting started (I didn't know better) but sporting and FITASC is just something, like OKIE mentioned, like crack cocaine.

There's nothing like walking to a new station, having run the last one, and then getting your butt handed to you by a pair of targets you never figured out......it's humbling, but exhilarating also..............
 
I don't have much choice in chokes, that old 311 is choked full and "almost but not quite as full". I have a spare that I keep meaning to either get opened up or have tubes put in but haven't found the right person to do it. May trade it toward a 20 I've found.
 
oneounceload said:
EVERY target in sporting is easy..............and impossible........at the same time…
Click to expand...
Along that line, my mentor had a favorite saying (I'm sure he borrowed it), "They ain't hard to hit; but, they're easy to miss."
 
Zippy ...I don't remember if you called my Benelli Super Sports "ugly" or just "funny looking" .....( not that it really matters ) ...

big guys don't look sensitive, but we have feelings too ya know ....( there were just a few little tears on my pillow ...) :D

------------------
seriously though .... I still like the Benelli Super Sports but I'm trying to shoot my O/U's more and lifting weights every day to get more strength in my rebuilt shoulder. The bicep repair leaves me with only basically half a bicep now ( its shorter ) so throwing around a 9lb gun all day takes its toll ...and I'm still fighting some scar tissue ... / but I have to admit I've been taking a fond look at that Beretta UGB lately ... just haven't made the plunge ....
 
Arm is completely numb now. Gonna try to wait until tuesday so I can go to my normal doc but I'm pretty sure it's a clot problem again. May have to take up that .410 shooting. They still make 22 shot shells don't they?:rolleyes:
 
OkieCruffler,
Sorry to hear that, my friend. Did you go shooting today, or is this left over from your previous outing? Why does stuff like this seem to wait for a holiday weekend...
Our thoughts and prayers are with you,
Pete
 
Nope, this is still going on from last Tuesday. I've had a pretty nasty problem with clots and no one can seem to figure out why. nothing a little lovenox won't fix but I'm always worried one of the little buggers is going to put on his traveling shoes and set up camp in the heart or the old melon. Starting to get kinda annoyed over the whole thing.
 
I appreciate it guys. I think it's a little better today, hurts instead of numb. Been self treating with aspirin, man does that turn my tinitius up a few notches. Not sure what I'm gonna do, I don't want to give up shooting clays. Maybe I can find a decent 28ga and start working a little harder with that mini bore. Or I could load some 1/2 oz 20's and try that. I do know that I'm done with the 1 1/8 oz 12ga loads.
 
John, in the months before I got this titanium hip, there was a fair amount of pain. My choices were A, John Wayne it out, B, Opiates or C, Acupuncture.

Having a history behind me of too many painkillers at times,and dreading the loss of cognition, I went with C.

It works,at least in my case.

As for light loads,Hodgdon has some 3/4 oz 12 gauge loads on its site.
 
I used to have a recipe around here somewhere for a 1/2oz 12ga load. May look it up again. Although I did see a really cute little 20ga auto....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top