pax can laugh at shotgunners ...
Skeet shooters often have "standard reasons". Like first squad shooting into the morning sun, last squad of the day shooting into evening sun, not used to shooting at night in a shoot off, and the mosquitos biting.
pax, imagine Southern Gentlemen me, riding in the bed of a moving pickup truck , shooting stationary and moving targets, and I miss the first bird on a pair (doubles on station 4)
"Darn thing was flying too slow".
folks bought it
Kids :
"My gun does not like the green shells, it likes the blue ones".
"I have to pee really bad"
"Steve is into the cookies again and I can't concentrate with him doing that"
"I hic...hic...hicupped"
young man has a serious case of them too
Moms:
"Now I have to pee really bad."
" I wore my new tennis shoes to shoot in"
" I wore my worn out tennis shoes to shoot in"
"Steve ,you every tried shooting in a new bra design?"
" If Steve would let me have MY 28 ga back I could hit these low 5's"
" I just remembered what I forgot to get at the store"
" I was not trying to hit the clay, I was trying to get close close enough to make it rise . Didn't you see it "bump up" a bit?"
" I just got a invite to my 20 year HS class reunion, has it been "that long"?"
"Oh help us all, Steve is up to something, the kids are snickering over near the trap house".
"I did not know a Moon Pie would fly from a trap machine. You mean I was supposed to shoot a Banana Moon Pie?"
I am not bad - just consistent.
Steve