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Simulated Game Shooting - Season is Open!!

.. And what a crappy start I have had. I am back to my old and faithful Browning GTS (manufactured in 1998); with a full choke on the over and a ½ on the under barrel.
And I´m back to my bad habit of waiting, waiting... So I´m too late most of the time. What is good, however is that I am having fun! Last weekend I had my first competitition and the best test result was 9+10/10+10. Today I got a full score of 20 from the last test. Also I seem to be doing okay with clay pigeons, 50% so far! 

I have not used my Browning GTS since.. I don´t know. During the hunting season I tend to prefer my side-by-side. It´s lighter in weight and it´s pretty, so that is what I usually have w/ me. But with simulated game shooting you need to have full chokes, and the side-by-side has fixed chokes and two triggers, so I am too clumsy with it in the competitions. The Browning is a tool. As a colleague of mine pointed out, it has some rust, too - so my maintenance has been poor. 

But it is more about my poor technique than it is about my gun. So what am I to do? Practise, practise - my philosophy for life - there are not so many things you can do well without practising. Shooting does not come to me naturally --> practise is the key. I´ll be at it - as soon as my master´s thesis is done :) :) You gotta prioritise!!

Competitors queuing for the first test of a total of 8.