Just Sayin’. For a Friend.

[Keavin Nelson]

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.

Some times a lot of help! So we start a new thread category OEMGC, my guess more than a few of us here!!!

[6pt-Sika]

When I started my clay target shall we say journey forty years ago it didn’t take to long before I understood nothing less than 100 straight wasn’t acceptable in skeet for all but the 410 and the same for 16 yard trap . And so it was as I climbed the class ladders . When you’re coming up thru the ranks you don’t realize there will be peaks and valleys you expect a steady progression and that just isn’t the case . You also need to realize once you’ve climbed the mountain you don’t win each time and unless you wanna look like an ass how to be a decent looser . I was quick on picking up the being decent part , if we were in a shoot off together win loose or draw I made sure I shook your hand and offered congratulations etc . It takes some clay target shooters a long time before they realize , other shooters don’t beat them - they BEAT themselves . But I can tell you after forty years of doing this in one form or another I can laugh about misses a hell of a lot easier than I could early in the journey . Think I’ve said once or twice before , now it isn’t as much about the winning as it is about shooting with folks I like and enjoying their company as well as whatever the feast is that day . Don’t get me wrong I still like the bling as the Crazy Polish guy would say , but if I get none that doesn’t make it a bad day .