Well I went to the skeet range today and shot a couple rounds. I was shooting some of my old reloads with 1 oz. of #8s. The first round I showed my rustiness. I only managed a 16 but felt pretty comfortable doing it. I thought about that first round and realized that I was probably not married to the stock enough and concentrated on keeping my head down for my second round. I frickin' amazed myself by going straight. Some of the guys I was shooting with called me a sandbagger (with a smile) but I knew the leads and concentrated on keeping my gun speed up and my head down. The nice thing about having done a lot of high level .22 benchrest competition and maybe my overall experience and age but I was not nervous in the slightest as I stepped on station 8 with 3 shells left in my vest's pocket. I'll be doing more.
I never missed the low 7 but I did miss one high 7 by peeking at it in my first round.
