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I refer to it as the "book of excuses"--We all have one ready at hand the moment it's needed.
The companion to it is the "book of justifications" for why we need to buy another gun. This one is best left at home when your gun money is tight, and you go to a gun show anyway.  
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11-12-2023, 09:55 AM
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Hey, wait a minute now.
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11-12-2023, 10:34 AM
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It’s hard to be a Pro without a pocket full of excuses
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11-12-2023, 12:31 PM
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I sure am glad that signs like that aren't posted in the grouse woods, duck marshes, or quail fields!
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11-12-2023, 01:24 PM
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When I'm having a less than stellar day, and my buddy is shooting well, when he goes 3 pair in a row, I tell him, loudly, "Wow, no one has ever done 4 pair". Works every time.
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11-12-2023, 02:18 PM
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My favorite was at a skeet shoot when the shooter missed his bird. The complaint was "Frank Vancini's dog barked" just as the shooter was calling for his bird. Frank's dog was a good hundred yards away in the parking lot!!
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11-12-2023, 05:55 PM
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There is a similar list people use for fly fishing the Henry’s Fork
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11-13-2023, 10:47 AM
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Excuses
I went through most of the typical excuses pretty early in my clay shooting career. So now I have a new approach that seems to work better. I show up with a gun that has the barrels oriented in the wrong way and made around the turn of the last century. It's important to never have the same gun. People are shocked that you're shooting such a relic and they are somewhat stand offish when you get into the stand. They have NO idea what the gun is because it wasn't made in the last 6 months in some foreign country. And then pretty soon it starts; someone sees a piece come off the target that I was not within a city block of. And then the scorer starts seeing breaks as the target descends into the weeds that I was not even close to. It's a wonderful thing to be an old eccentric misguided gun collector just trying to break at least some of the targets you're shooting at; with a little help from your freinds and squad mates.
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