Clay Pigeon Shooting night at Worsley.

Last night myself, Mike Garner and Kevin Lovett attended an Ormskirk Table night at the clay pigeon shooting centre just of Worsley rd. Lee Collier (Area 8 Chairman) invited us along as an inter table/area event and we jumped at the chance.

The setup was down a very dusty road - but at the end we were welcomed by a modern facility all kitted out for loads of shooters at any one time.

Lee had negioated a discount so we paid our £25 and we were off with Harry (the instructor) to our first 'trap'. We were firing 12 bore shotguns at the wee clays and scored out of 5 shots / 5 clays, after completing all 5 traps that would give us a score out of 25.

I've shot clays once before when i lived in Scotland but that was about 7 years ago! But it turned out I remembered more than i thought and scored a cracking 5/5 on the first two traps. Mike Garner was obvioulsy no stranger to firearms as he blasted away to stay only 1 point behind me heading into trap 3 - The Rabbits!!!. Now I recall the rabbit traps from the last time I shot - they are rock hard to hit as they bounced along the floor at speed. Needless to say i bombed at this point scoring a big fat 0 - Mike got 3 and sped into the lead.

Our Final scores were Mike 18, em 17 and Kevin 11 (he had a slow start but got his eye in on teh 4th and 5th traps) - As the winner overall had 19 - i think we did pretty well.