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Originally Posted by Mills Morrison
Now you need to shoot that well with a Parker and come shoot for Team Parker
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Thank you for the compliment !
But that actually isn't to good !
When I quit competing at skeet my 410 average was 96.5% and my 28 gauge average stayed a hair above 98% which kept me AAA in the little guns . Now that unto itself sounds pretty good until you realize at a big shoot like the now defunct Great Eastern or the old North South where 50+ of the big boys showed up these guys were like 99.5% or better with the 28 and 98%+ with the 410 so if I was having a good day I might outshoot some of them but very rarely if ever all of them .
To put the NSSA average thing in perspective to get your minnimums for a year you need to shoot 1200 with the 12 and 1000 with each of the smaller gauges and 500 doubles . I saw alot of years where the high average leaders for the 12 , 20 and 28 might have gone clean for the entire year . And a few times I remmember more then one guy in a gauge going clean for the whole year . I dare say Todd Bender went clean for the year in the 20 and 28 several times and I think he did it in the 12 a time or two as well . Seems to me the best I remmember for the 410 was like 995 out of 1000 .
The first BIG shoot I ever attended was in Winston Salem at the now defunct Bingham and Parks gun club , at the time Bruce Evans and his wife owned the place . Anyway it was like a
55-60 shooter shoot but of the shooters probably 40 of them AA/AAA . I tied for LAST in the AA (there was no AAA at this shoot as there were not enough participants to offer the class) with a 390 overall . I tied George Lehr a past Open Team All American with that score , but the kicker to the whole thing was out of the 50+ shooters on hand there were THREE 400x400's recorded . So you could say as far as shooting with the big boys I got my cherry popped in big fashion that weekend LOL's !
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