The 5th South Asian Shooting Championships starts today and yours truly is competing - if that is the word - in the skeet event. My event is on the 7th and
8th.
All the best
Chagaman
All the best
Chagaman
Once More unto the Breach ...
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Once More unto the Breach ... |
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Posts: 711 07/03/09 11:44 PM World Skeet Champion (Failed) |
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Posts: 1924 07/04/09 1:54 AM So many snipe, so little time |
Good luck, Chagaman.
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Posts: 1554 07/04/09 7:25 AM |
Best of luck Chagaman! Bring home the silverware!!!!!!
 
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Posts: 259 07/04/09 7:27 AM |
Good Luck!
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Posts: 1115 07/04/09 7:34 AM Lone Star Snipist |
irish snipe wrote: +1 Go get 'em Chagaman! |
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Posts: 1076 07/04/09 10:04 AM Go Gators! |
Head on the stock, eye on the rock. Run 'em.
Scott Is it snipe season yet?!? |
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Posts: 2296 07/04/09 11:53 AM |
I hope this finds you in first old friend!!!!!!
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Posts: 1532 07/04/09 11:56 AM |
shoot em all, chagaman
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LoboYZorro |
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Posts: 91 07/08/09 12:13 AM |
Break 'em all, Chagaman! LoboYZorro
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Posts: 1527 07/08/09 6:25 AM |
Today is the day. Hopefully we'll hear some good news soon.
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Posts: 269 07/08/09 7:46 PM |
We are all behind you Chagaman. Dust some rock.
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Posts: 713 07/12/09 11:55 PM World Skeet Champion (Failed) |
Thanks to all of you who were kind enough to encourage me in competing, futile though it may be.
We shot as hard as we could but the results were negative. One of us got to stay in the lead until station two of the last round. But one miss at the high bird and the knees started shaking resulting in a further seven misses in that round! Taht put the man three birds behind the leader which placed him sixth! Anyway a medal was acquired in the team event because they had no one else to give it to! Bronze. Some pics. 
 Looking at the birds before beginning to shoot. Mairaj
Ahmed Khan of India is out in front.
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Posts: 287 07/13/09 1:19 AM |
Look mate, its all about the fun at the end of the day and something to do during the summer... right?
Regardless of the outcome, that must have been fun! I have never shot a clay pigeon in my life, one of these days I will. How do you decoy them? 
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les becassines |
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Posts: 1549 07/13/09 5:49 AM |
I hope you had a great time. The first thing I noticed was how young everyone looks. A definite sign that I am getting old. I have a feeling that bronze was
more deserved than you are leading us to believe.
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Posts: 228 07/13/09 7:12 AM |
Well done Chagaman!
hmm... young. hmm...thin I bet not one wondering " Did I take my pills this morning?" Not one of those fellows takes a book into the lou with him I wager, nor be in there long enough to finish, or have his legs go to sleep on him either, LOL....ah, the thoughts of the decrepit, eh? I imagine the photos here would be the same of any squad I was on, but I am generally leaning on something, like the trap house, wondering why my gun is so heavy and vest so tight, wishing we'd get a bit of a breeze and hoping the ice lasts in the cooler so I can have a tanqueray and tonic when this madness is finally over. I like the pics Chag, it captures the essence of the youthful hunter/shooter to a Tee....so young that they have hope, they still think things are going to turn out fine. Short pants and sports shoes with those little socks I always see and think of cheerleaders but missing the little fuzzy balls on the back ankle, it makes me smile and happy to see youthful zeal and zest. .... not one gloved hand to be seen, nor a SxS either, have I become so obsolete already? |
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Posts: 2339 07/13/09 8:58 AM |
Chag,
I would love to have several of the locals shoot on that field. I can hear them now complaining that it is not fair to have jungle in the back ground!!!! This is a mental game and those not use to the background are at a distinct disadvantage. The trap shooters would just give up! |
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Posts: 231 07/13/09 10:00 AM |
Dick, that makes sense, scuttlebutt was that a local skeet club mixed in orange, white and lime green targets throughout the clays and that the shooters walked
off the field in protest, I could see how changing backgrounds and colored targets would be difficult.
I once heard of a fellow who after breaking 200 straight at the trap field packed the gun and went to the gunsmith saying, " Do something about that choke, buff it or give the barrel a bend, I am taking the tops off too many of the clays" I'm thankful I don't have those worries. |
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Posts: 1934 07/14/09 9:43 AM So many snipe, so little time |
Chagaman, congratulations on the medal! As Joe Kelly said, its all about the fun. Any medal is cream on top.
I remember the old skeet range in Bangkok (Is it still the one they use now?). It had a pond just after the high and low house, then some hedges beyond and a two-story house just after that right in the middle. It looked really close and I remember hesitating everytime the gun barrel swings toward it. A friend who was teaching me the finer points of skeet kept asking why the barrel dips in the middle of my swing and I told him that the house just distracts me... The ranges here have rolling hills or jungle just like the one in the photos above and I never have a problem with that...my bigger problem is I keep missing those clays! SS |
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Posts: 1589 07/14/09 3:49 PM |
Well done Chagaman! If it was as easy as you let on we would all be sporting bronze medals, I'm sure it took a lot and effort and skill to do so well!
Your still our reigning skeet champion! Irish Snipe. |
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Posts: 240 07/15/09 2:42 PM |
Expert advice from you fellas...the neighbor is teaching his son to shoot skeet, 8 years old, by gently throwing a Frisbee Disc across the yard while Sonny
tries to hit it with a BB gun....I do not see the boy getting better, I see the practice sessions too long, and the combination of missing and length of
practice I think will make the boy quit it.
my father started me by throwing clays with a handtrap and me using a 20 gauge with light loads and a good pad, we always quit while I wanted to do more and I think it made me want to go more, my father was a well known horse and dog trainer and did what he could with the boys he had to work with, LOL, I think this is a good way to get a kid started in skeet over the Frisbee/ BB gun method. your opinions? |
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Posts: 716 07/16/09 1:21 PM World Skeet Champion (Failed) |
Northernborn
I had this impression that they put all those pellets in a shotgun load because they made hitting a moving target a possibility. You can try to obviate the shotgun pattern by having an ultra large target i.e. frisbee as compared to a BB pellet but it is unlikely to work. A BB gun with its sights filed off to shoot at a ping pong ball on the grass is a better idea a la Brister in his deservedly famous book. Thanks to all for the congratulations but they are undeserved although always welcome! Incidentally NB the picture with a clay streaking by has one hand with a glove in it. I also use gloves on both hands but that is not me as I was taking the picture. All the best Chagaman |
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Ahmed Usman of Pakistan putting in some intense concentration
before calling the bird. Station one.
Allan Daniel Peoples of India taking low house eight.
Aroze Pal Singh Sandhu Ratta Kherra of India on five.
Lining up for eight high. Pakistan's Satti up to shoot.
A flash of fluorescent orange is what the game is all
about.
