Ended a dry spell

[PapaG]

Last year trap shooting was rough. My 1972 870TB broke down. It has a couple hundred k rounds through it. Went all season without a fifty straight. Week before last, 49. Last week, 49. Today, fifty. Looks like the 72 year old still has a few left. Two years back there were six fifties plus a bunch of 25s. We shoot a Thursday league, 25 @ 16, 25 @ handicap determined by running team average. Sunday league is 16 and 20 yard halves.
An ounce of 8s has done fine til we get back to 23.

 

[Armored farmer]

Way to go papaG!
Good shooting.

 

[kudu]

Sounds like a lifetime of practice, well done.

 

[PapaG]

Started for real in 1968, shot for fun several years before. No way a pro. Added up what patches I saved and I have "run" about 5200 birds straight, ignoring the times when i shot a twenty, or twenty one or that damnable eighteen.
Been a great ride. Tried a Superposed, three 99s, a Daly, some 1100s, a Cynergy, three Citoris, and a few others but I guess forty some odd years with the TB have adapted my body to one gun configuration. Hope for fifteen or twenty more years of this fun game.

 

[Armored farmer]

You had better go to Brittany this week for the Illinois state shoot.

 

[sappyg]

That's some good shooting PapaG. There's plenty of daylight left to beat 6 50's this year.

 

[PapaG]

Biggest goal is to get 200 straight, even if it is over a week or more. Came close two years ago with a fifty on Thursday, fifty on Sunday, fifty again Thursday and dropped one the next thurs. I know, it ain't legit that way, but my lone 100 about twenty years ago is nagging at me.