Morphy wrote on Feb 19
th, 2017 at 6:12pm:
Looking good guys. Could this be the year the English take the title?
No.
lol
While I now have a sling the right length for the range, and I know what i need to do to hit the target.
I'm going to need a helluva lot more practice till it's ingrained in my muscle memory.
My sole aim this year is to try and get at least one hit in each competition. David's is to hit something, anything
We did put a couple of nice dents in the metal disc, and the clay ammo works really well and is safe for other users of the field and won't bollix the grass cutting machine up.
You get the same satisfying thump and clang as with stone and the balls do break up in a very visual burst of clay dust and bits. David says he's got some good video of this happening (slow motion of course, not sure his phone takes normal speed video any more
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Started with 60-70 balls, and were down to about 9 by start on sunday.
Might be a couple left as we shifted to a combination of sock wars and tennis ball target throwing for the last couple of hours.
I will be taking the makings for a large number of sock balls to mallorca.
Dying to see Jaegoor and Luis in a sock war, fast draw standoff !
Was a Good weekend. My dad came down both days and the friend of ours who owns the field.
They were both extremely good !
They do tend to sling most days with tennis balls for the dogs.
The 10 metre, tennis ball, all england, amateur pairs slinging competition was easily won by team Johnson. With team Morris-Colter being let down by the colter part of the partnership
David was totally done-in by the point of the weekend. He's got absolutely no stamina at all.
So next, and after this years meeting, will be to find somewhere to set up a permament or at least semi-permament range.
It's much easier to build a free standing target that doesn't have to fold away for ease of transport. Just need some land with a secure building to store it when not in use.
Plus I need to buy a lot more clay.
If we did it at sarah's field, the general consensu is that it would either go walk-about or just get trashed by the locals.
Think the level of criminality you get in the average inner city slum area, but in an innocuous looking tiny english village.
I'm damn sure I found a meth lab hidden in the woods
And it's not totally out of the question
We actually left the target there overnight. Fortunately that was still there sunday, but some theiving sod had stolen the string marking out the 20 metre throw line.
Good job they didn't look under the target or I'm sure the aluminium disc would have gone the way of the string !
Pop some pics up later, got to work now
@judop: we're definitely going to have some sort of event in the summer. And if we can get a permanent range setup, you're always welcome to come down for a play.