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Thursday 19th Jun 2008 10:06:38
Destroy the clay pigeons
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During the evening, I attended my very first clay pigeon shooting session, organised by the Lancaster Round Table. It was held on land owned by a former Tabler (i.e. privately organised). When we (I got a lift there (Gressingham) with a few others) turned up, the obligatory health/safety talk was almost finished but I already knew the obvious stuff (never point a gun at anyone) and the not-so-obvious stuff (the spent cartridges will jettison out of the barrel (when opened) with quite some velocity) was quickly picked up. We were given a box of about 20 12-gauge cartridges and given the choice of two clay pigeon dispensers - the easy one, that kind of shot the clay almost straight up in the air; and the tricky one, that sent the clay sideways. I tried the easy one first and, after a bit of guidance (aim slightly in front of the path of the clay), actually managed to hit a few. Later on, with the light fading, I used four cartridges on the difficult clay pigeon shooter: two missed, hit one and grazed another. So yeah . . . it was all good. Got back in one piece, albeit with a bruised right shoulder.
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