We have had winds again the last couple day's and it's blowing hard already this morning, Monday night shooting was cancelled as it was also raining, last night the wind was 45 gusting to 60 km and I never even went to open the trap and skeet up thinking nobody would show up to shoot in that wind, well about 4:45 I got a call from a guy that there was 3 of them at the club wanting to shoot so I headed out and opened up for them, they shot a couple rounds of skeet in that wind, it was interesting to watch, the high house target dropped like a rock with the wind from behind and the low house took off like a 747 up fast and banking hard to the right. Don't know what their scores were like but they made some noise anyway.
Skeet In The Wind
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We had trap league on Tuesday night, a cross wind that you had to be about a foot to the right of a straight away target in order to hit it. There were many low scores... heck it was tough enough just standing still in that wind!
We were out last week for a bit, and the wind was so cray that the high house was sometimes only 5 feet off the ground by the time it hit the low house fence, then with a wind change the low house would almost float by the time it was at station 8!
Really fantastic practice for keeping hard focus on the bird!
Cat
Really fantastic practice for keeping hard focus on the bird!
Cat
This year, we have had several days, where the high house targets hit the ground before the low house. The real issue is the targets that suddenly climb or drop as you pull the trigger. Last night skeet was entertaining , and today sporting clays should be interesting. At least we had no active tornadoes, earlier in the week, a large one passed 25km to the South of us.
Given that the new shooting year for ATA category starts on Sept 1 each year and I don't turn 70 until Sept 7 I get another year in Vet category for registered ATA events, but as I get older I find I have become more and more of a fair weather shooter, shooting in crazy wind, rain and on cold day's has lost it's appeal to me, if we get a crappy summer and I only shoot 8,000 instead of 10,000 round OH well I'll survive 
Given that the new shooting year for ATA category starts on Sept 1 each year and I don't turn 70 until Sept 7 I get another year in Vet category for registered ATA events, but as I get older I find I have become more and more of a fair weather shooter, shooting in crazy wind, rain and on cold day's has lost it's appeal to me, if we get a crappy summer and I only shoot 8,000 instead of 10,000 round OH well I'll survive
We are expecting to get notice that we have to shut down, as early as next week, so we are are shooting whenever we can, before the outage. I am just hoping that we are up and running again before hunting season opens, so I can get some rounds in with my hunting shotguns..
