Week Eight Trap League, last of the season

Hi,

I did average on my last shoot of the league.  I shot a 14 and a 16, which is in between my good scores and my worst score.  On both rounds I did very badly on station 4 and 5. Not good at all !  At each station you shoot five rounds, then you move to the next station.  From left to right there are five stations.  On station 4 and 5 I only hit 2 targets at each station. I was behind on all of the shots. I talked with other shooters about the difficulty in acquiring the target at night, even under the lights.  We seem to agree that it is difficult to pick up the target when it flies from the house, across the grassy hill, and then flies across the dark tree line.  This is something you cannot practice during the day.  I will have to make plans to do some night shooting, where I can work on shots from station 4 & 5.

Next April will begin the spring Trap league.  Both my husband and I are planning on doing this again.

Our awards get together after last nights shoot was fun.  The highest men's, women's and junior's award were 5 boxes of shotgun shells.  My husband missed high man by 4 targets.  I was second high women.  Because the lady that won high score is on a college shooting team, she could not accept the prize (scholarship issues), the prize was given to me.  So, she got the title and I got the shot shells.  Not really the way I wanted to win anything, but she knew before hand that she could not accept any prizes.  Our team came in 7th for the year.  Best news for my husband; he wanted to shoot a perfect 25 on at least one round sometime this season.  He accomplished that on he last round, yeah :) I was really happy for him.

As I do practice during the winter, I'll post my scores and adventures here.  Then next April I'll again let you in on how I and my husband do in the spring league.

Take care, good shooting and good hunting.
M.