25,50,75, 100 Straight Patches

Falconflyer said:
I think that the older you get the harder it gets. Most of these kids our club sends to the Provincials and Canadians have all shot 75 straight and many have shot 100 straight and most have only been shooting for 2 or 3 years. Those young eyes and reflexes combined with the fact that many of them don't have a care or worry in the world is a great recipe for achieving.
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That is the truth! A very experienced shooter 20 years my senior when I started out once told me the older you get the harder it is to maintain focus from target to target. I thought he was just making excuses for his occasional somewhat lower scores but as I age I find he is 100% right. I can be in the middle of a trap going along fine then suddenly my mind switches to something else completely and bingo bango missed target(s) and holy struggle to get back on track sometimes! If the focus isn't there the hand to eye co-ordination follows suit. Looking at my lifetime totals and yearly averages on the ATA website Shooter Information Centre the other day sure proves that as you get older it gets tougher....
 
the spank said:
That is the truth! A very experienced shooter 20 years my senior when I started out once told me the older you get the harder it is to maintain focus from target to target. I thought he was just making excuses for his occasional somewhat lower scores but as I age I find he is 100% right. I can be in the middle of a trap going along fine then suddenly my mind switches to something else completely and bingo bango missed target(s) and holy struggle to get back on track sometimes! If the focus isn't there the hand to eye co-ordination follows suit. Looking at my lifetime totals and yearly averages on the ATA website Shooter Information Centre the other day sure proves that as you get older it gets tougher....
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My worst issue is my vision, after many eye surgeries, and now some macular degeneration, I have developed a flinch. It seems that if my eyes don't see what my brain thinka they should, I have issues with a flinch. I can run two rounds of skeet, or clean the first half of sporting clays, and then the flinch appears, and I start dropping targets. It can be as simple as the sun disappearing behind clouds to trigger the flinch. And to a lesser extent, heat causes me issues, sweat in my eyes ,or on my glasses, and the flinch starts. And it doesn't seem to matter whether I am shooting the 12 gauge or 410, so it isn't recoil related. The end result, is that I still have some good days, but I now have more not so great days, and some really crappy days.
 
the spank said:
That is the truth! A very experienced shooter 20 years my senior when I started out once told me the older you get the harder it is to maintain focus from target to target. I thought he was just making excuses for his occasional somewhat lower scores but as I age I find he is 100% right. I can be in the middle of a trap going along fine then suddenly my mind switches to something else completely and bingo bango missed target(s) and holy struggle to get back on track sometimes! If the focus isn't there the hand to eye co-ordination follows suit. Looking at my lifetime totals and yearly averages on the ATA website Shooter Information Centre the other day sure proves that as you get older it gets tougher....
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A prime example of that was last Sunday at a sporting clays shoot, I hit a couple of relatively easy targets then I started thinking about something else and the next pair were lost/lost! You'd think by now I'd be aware of that and not let it happen but evidently I'm not.... :)
 
stubblejumper said:
My worst issue is my vision, after many eye surgeries, and now some macular degeneration, I have developed a flinch. It seems that if my eyes don't see what my brain thinka they should, I have issues with a flinch. I can run two rounds of skeet, or clean the first half of sporting clays, and then the flinch appears, and I start dropping targets. It can be as simple as the sun disappearing behind clouds to trigger the flinch. And to a lesser extent, heat causes me issues, sweat in my eyes ,or on my glasses, and the flinch starts. And it doesn't seem to matter whether I am shooting the 12 gauge or 410, so it isn't recoil related. The end result, is that I still have some good days, but I now have more not so great days, and some really crappy days.
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An eye doctor told me recently that if your eyes are dry then you can't focus properly. I have dry eyes and take a salmon oil gel pill every morning to help control it and I think they do help it but it makes me wonder if I shouldn't try some eye drops before shooting.
 
Lol I'm the opposite ,with allergies I look like a new bride on her wedding day,Ran out of allergy pills broke the worst scores ever,thats my excuse and i'm sticking to it..
 
Falconflyer said:
A prime example of that was last Sunday at a sporting clays shoot, I hit a couple of relatively easy targets then I started thinking about something else and the next pair were lost/lost! You'd think by now I'd be aware of that and not let it happen but evidently I'm not.... :)
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We are so inconsistently inconsistent I had some hats made up for our Nova Shoot Series squad....." The Magnificent 7/8 Rides Again ". LMAO....The last shoot on sat past I hit 81 /100...with 6 more stations 7/8 !!!
 
If any one is interested in straights go look at the grand American results the 100 straights are piling up in doubles handicap and of coarse there will be 100's of 100 straights in singles
I only went to the grand once back in the 90's it was over whelming
 
struff55 said:
If any one is interested in straights go look at the grand American results the 100 straights are piling up in doubles handicap and of coarse there will be 100's of 100 straights in singles
I only went to the grand once back in the 90's it was over whelming
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Lynn Smith, a lady we shoot with from High Prairie, AB started her first event of the Grand today with a 100x100. That's some great shooting. She has been on fire since having a Pro-Stock stock fitted and built for her for her CG combo. I hope she runs several more over the next two weeks! The Grand is an awesome event to attend. I've been twice, 1987 and 1999 for the 100th. You get so into it you wish it would never end and that the ammo was endless! Lol
 
55 or so 100 straights in first singles events by special category.

Why are there all these redundant categories again?

Jr Gold lol…

Only 27 non special shooters shot 100
 
JIMMY 808 said:
55 or so 100 straights in first singles events by special category.

Why are there all these redundant categories again?

Jr Gold lol…

Only 27 non special shooters shot 100
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Categories have been discussed to death. The good part about them is they offer a wider variety of prize options and if you declare yourself a category shooter you do not qualify for any class titles. So say you are a A class shooter but you declared yourself a senior veteran category shooter and you shot for example 99 and the next closest score in A class was a 92 the 92 takes the class win and your 99 gets you the senior vet category. You cannot win both. I don't usually declare category. I'd rather try to get one of the top trophies then defer to class instead of category.
 
Seems to be no problem for old men really old men, children and of course the ladies.

Cream rises to the top at the grand.
 
I had the pleasure of handing out a 25 straight patch to a young hunter a couple of weeks ago, and yesterday, I had him out pheasant hunting. He made some tougher shots in heavier cover, so his shooting skills have carried over to wingshooting.
 
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