OPW Pro Team Member Lloyd Marshall takes to Ashcombe Shooting Ground with great success!
On December 31st 2022, OPW Pro Team Member Lloyd Marshall took to Ashcombe Shooting ground for the last 100 target registered sporting shoot. Read his blog below and see how he got on…
“Driving on the way to Ashcombe from home I was doubting why I was on my way there, the weather was awful, heavy rain and fairly windy. However, I thought to myself that not every competition day is going to be perfect and if the weather is bad for me then it was going to bad for everyone else competing too.
There were 12 stands in total, 10 stands of 4 pairs and 2 stands of 5 pairs, equalling 100 targets.
I missed 7 targets out of 100 finishing on 93 out of 100. Which took "high gun".
Second place was 91 and then the scores followed as below.
90
90
90
89
88
88
and so on, down to around 100 entries.
I would have said that I missed two or three simple targets and that if the weather had been better the high gun score should then have been around a 95 or 96 but hindsight is a wonderful thing!
Despite the bad weather, the organisation from the team at Ashcombe was awesome, it all went smoothly with hardly any delays around the whole course.
This years going to be an interesting one, now I have my Shotgun licence and I can now go shooting whenever I want, I will be going as often as I can!”
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