Trap Shooting practice

Hi;

The Spring Wednesday Night Trap League begins on April 3rd.  It came up so fast.
My husband and I had to get out and practice asap!

It has been cold, as you can see I have my heavy camo coat on under my shooting vest.  Fortunately yesterday and the day before were beautiful sunny days, even if it did only get into the low 50's.

After two day's of practice I think I am getting back into the swing of things, literally and figuratively. Swinging the shotgun to shoot at the clay bird, and in my mind swinging the gun to catch up to the bird.  I need to make sure I know where the bead placement is when I sight down the barrel.  I also do not want the stock of the gun to high on my cheek, or I'll shoot over my target.  We did not keep track of hits and misses.

We were mainly concentrating on form.  We felt pretty good about our shooting, there were more hits than misses.  I think I'm ready for the league to begin.

We got the list of team members and which field my husband and I will be shooting on for opening day.
I peeked ahead on AccuWeather.  I hope I can believe them, the early evening is looking very nice. Low wind, mid 50's and sunny.
The trap league will run for 8 weeks.  By the time this one end at the end of May, I'll probably be wearing shorts, tee shirt and defiantly no heavy jacket!  Cannot wait for warmer weather.

(just a note:  no one was harmed in the taking of the above photographs:  Safety is number one with us.)

Take care.  Good shooting and good hunting.
M.

Bowling Pin Shooting begins again !

Hi;

First day of the season for the Bowling Pin shooting match.  Hopefully I can make it to all of them this year.  The matches run the second Sunday from March thru October.

It was very cold this morning, maybe 36 degrees.  Fortunately no wind.  Clear blue skies allowed the sun to do it's warm up job and by the time I left it was in the lower 50's.

Here's the scoop if you have not read my blog before.  There are 6 bowling pins (real regulation pins) set up on a wood table set up at 10 yards.  The shooter has 10 rounds to take down the six pins.  The pins must fall off the table to count, if not there is a 3 sec. penalty added to your time for each pin left on the table.  The object is to shoot the least amount of shots in the shortest amount of time.
I had a fantastic run with my Ruger 22 Auto. I shot 6 rounds knocking all the pins off the table in 4.1 seconds.  I was very happy!!
The second round is to shoot 6 plates at 15 yards.  The plates are shaped like bowling pins, and are regulation size.  But, at 15 yards they look a lot smaller :(  Same object, shoot up to 10 rounds at the six plates, knocking them all backwards.  Any plate standing adds a 3 second penalty to your time.
I did well on the plates.  On one plate I missed the first time I shot at it. So, I ended up shooting 7 times to take down 6 plates in a total of 8.2 seconds.
The two run times are added together to get your total score.  I was very happy with my score.  It surpassed last years best run. I believe I will come in first for the ladies.  I am not sure where I will come in if I were in the men's group.  Some time this week the scores will be posted.

Now for my bad run.  I bought a Springfield 9mm 1911 a few week back.  I bought it for bowling pin shooting because the recoil is so much less than my 9mm Glock.  I have been happy with the gun in practice.  I have had some issues with it not liking all ammo.  I thought I figured out which brand it likes, but I had a jam during my run :(  Although I did well during the first round at the real bowling pins, 6.56 seconds, my second round at the plates was dismal.  My time was 8.3 seconds, but I left 3 plates standing after my gun jammed.  It was better for me to take the 9 second penalty than to take the time to clear the jam and shoot the rest of the plates.  I think if I had done that my time to do that would have been more than the penalty time. Oh well!!  There is always next month.

I will be practicing with a few more brands of ammo, if I can find any ammo at the gun stores.  As you know ammo is becoming a scare commodity these days.

On the bright side of things.  I had a great time, and I will be at the next bowling pin shoot in April
Take care, good shooting and good hunting
M.