2020 bar is set pretty low

entropy said:

I've been shooting the 50 bird jackpot shoots at Mpls. Gun Club over the winter. They had to shut down for late Mar. to mid Apr., but are back up and shooting them every Sat. until leagues can open back up. I'm still getting used to my Ljutic, and to shooting yardage again. I never did get back to 25 yards when I was younger, and haven't shot yardage in 30+ years. The Ljutic is doing it's job, I need to start doing mine.

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You get 500 birds to get used to a new gun, then it's on you, lol.

PapaG said:

Updates to all the above. Have the shot and about twenty five boxes of 38 and 45 cal cast bullets. Shot a derby today in the wind. Shooting east/southeast, wind out of the east gusts to twenty-five. 16 yards, 22/25. 25 yards, 16/25. Really not as bad as it sounds. Son #1 was high with a 23 and 18. See if there is a payoff tomorrow. Our club probably won't open til June, Peoria Skeet and Trap summer league is supposed to start with a new date of June 2. Got lots of time to load the summer's shells. I think I'll just change guns each week and have fun. Rotate among a couple of Tb/TC Rems, a BT, an 1100 trap and a Superposed Lightning.

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I shot a round of trap with a BT100. I really liked it. My dad shot a bt99 for a few years because he didnt want to put a release in his 4e.
Best wishes for the delayed season.
We're pretty disappointed that the HS team was cancelled for the season. My son is a senior this year. He should have been a contender. It kinda stinks to have your senior year cancelled.
I drove past my home club yesterday in my planting tractor.thats about as close as I have been to shooting trap since last summer.

We had our first night, practice only, last night. Perfect evening, just a little muggy. By the end of the evening I was shooting the Ljutic well, best was a 24, and the one I 'lost' was due to a reload that went 'ploop'. First one I've had since I tried since trying to reload Eclipse hulls using WAA-12 wads back in '81. It was only a practice, so I didn't insist on an alabi. I won an Annie, and got down to a shot-off on two more. That Handicap Limited Edition lives up to it's name, still crushes them well past the 27.

Starting to become one with the Ljutic; a couple 24's a couple 22's, and won an Annie. Found a guy who will shoot up my last year's Annie load of 26.7 gr. of WSF, out of his 870, yet. He was demolishing the clays as third and fourth shooter with them. I shot him out as second when he missed.

Yeah, it happens to us all. I actually had a good day Sunday. We had a Turkey Shoot at our club. I won two of them, The Ljutic was hitting 'em pretty good, even from 42 yards! (Furthest we can go back)

I shot a 25 tonight, naturally it was in a practice round. I only have two more rounds I need to score, and 2 and a half months to do it in. (Several scorers recorded some of my practice rounds as scored rounds) I only found this out when I had a 13 recorded; our league manager asked me about it and I said it was supposed to be a practice round, as were about 5 others that were recorded. I didn't mind the others as much, they all but one started with '2'. He took the 13 off, but left the others on so I am about 7 weeks ahead of schedule.
As far as my team, we always end up in the middle of the pack; They mostly are in it for fun,(well me too, but good scores are fun to me) and I really can't be the one to complain-when I wanted to join leagues, it was 3 weeks into the season that year, and this team actually took me, not knowing my average. I lead my team with 89.5% currently, and that's only because it includes an 18 and some 21's that were among those recorded practice rounds. Should be about 92% otherwise. The Ljutic is shooting quite well, really holds its' own in the Annie Oaklies, when I don't shoot myself out.

Only when you mentally make end. If you start thinking about it too much, your score will probably drop off. Once I built up 'muscle memory' (I don't like the term, but it's one most understand) with my Ljutic, I stopped thinking and started just shooting. My scores went upstarted running them or 24's. I am a firm believer in a consistent pre-shot routine, including a key word or phrase. (Less is better here. I try to keep to 2 words. "See bird, shoot bird" is my longest one) I try to achieve a state of mushin no shin before I call pull. (mind/no mind) It means allowing the subconscious to take over the task at hand. Some call it "The Zone".
Good shooting, PapaG! Hard to go wrong with a BT-99!

Good shooting! I started out good, shot a 25 for for a practice round (naturally, on a practice), so I shot the next one for score and dropped a bird in the middle for a 24. I only have one more scored round to shoot, and a 'mulligan'. On the 'Fun night/Family night', if you shoot a better score than your worst scored round, they replace it, but you have to declare it a mulligan before you shoot. Last year I jumped an 18 up to a heady 19....
Then another 24 (practice) and I should have quit there. When I went up to the upper Trap, I shot two 20's. (Glad those were practice!) The first was with the kids, so I was a bit distracted. (When the kid on my right didn't open his gun moving between posts and had it pointed at his buddy's butt, the coach in me took over....) I did win an Annie, beat the guy who likes to go over the the left side for a little Skeet at his own game.

The thing about starting with a low bar is that there is room for improvement. I hit 24 about a month ago and decided to replace the modified choke with an improved modified. I only shot one round today but hit 19. I feel pretty good about that 19.