Went to the skeet and trap range today around noon for my weekly club League shoot. Couldn't have asked for better weather! 62 and sunny with just a slight breeze.
I started off on the trap ranges since there were several other League shooters gathering, and shot a respectable 23 for my first round in a squad of 4. I wish I could have kept that up though, with my second round dropping to a disappointing 18. I'm not sure what went wrong but birds that 'felt right' weren't breaking and I continued to miss my old nemeses, hard rights. Oh well.
After a short break I snagged one of the range officers to pull and score for me on the skeet fields and headed over. First round broke a 23, with my first miss being low 4 (I got the option though) and my other miss being low 7. Shot behind low 4 because I wasn't focused and shot under low 7 because "Gee, that looks close enough!" (IE, I got lazy). Took a quick break to rummage through the trash can for Gun Clubs to reload between the rounds and headed back out. Guess my head was still in the trash can, because I managed to shoot in front of every low bird on the field, missing lows 3 single, 4, 5, and 6. I finished out with a 19, the lowest I've shot this year for skeet.
I guess on the upside I know what I was doing wrong and will hopefully not do it again, but I know better. There's a reason I'm still chasing my 100 straight. My scores today coincidentally dropped me to third place in the trap League and I remain the only shooter in the skeet League. It feels weird to be in both first and last place in something.
In other news, I guess I shouldn't go so long between cleaning my shotguns. Even with the assistance of a cordless drill and an aggressive tornado brush it took me half an hour to get all the plastic out of my chokes. It kind of makes me wonder what my patterns were looking like, since I removed enough gunk I had to have been shooting effectively a full choke instead of my usual IC top/C bottom.
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