Grand Prix of Liberation - Czech Republic

It wasn't me!

Congratulations to FLOYDSTER, who posted 589 in this event, only three points behind several times Olympic medallist and two-time Olympic tragedy Matt Emmons.

Sparks

Excellent result!

It wasn't me!

As far as I know it's his first match of that level in many years, so it's very good going, and he started with 199/200 for the first two cards, so excellent result.

All results are available here for those interested.

FLOYDSTER

Cheers guys!, I was going to start a thread about my trip but this is perfect!

I attended Plzen after being asked by some of the Isle of Man squad and used it purely as a training match!;)
I arrived on Tuesday late afternoon after meeting up with the guys at Stansted and travelling on with them, the range complex is superb!!, everything in one place from air weapons hall, 50m rifle/pistol, 300m, 25m pistol!!
I think this is well worth peeps getting off their a$$es and travelling to in the near future.

Anyway Tuesday evening my new Sauer Jacket arrived as promised and thats what I used for the match on the thursday! as I said this for me was a training match only and I was pleasantly suprised with the 589 considering how badly I felt the match went for me!
The jacket although needing a tweak or two on the straps and sling holder fits well and wont have to go back to Sauer!, (my measuring was close enough!!) lol

It was great to bump into many of the shooters from 6/7 years ago and to get chatting with many of the new faces (at least to me) currently on the scene lol
A few of the manufacturers were there too in one or other capacity and I have some emails to send re: a spare barrel and action and some batch testing!
All in all a great trip, really well run and highly recommended!;)

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FLOYDSTER wrote: »

Cheers guys!, I was going to start a thread about my trip but this is perfect!

I attended Plzen after being asked by some of the Isle of Man squad and used it purely as a training match!;)
I arrived on Tuesday late afternoon after meeting up with the guys at Stansted and travelling on with them, the range complex is superb!!, everything in one place from air weapons hall, 50m rifle/pistol, 300m, 25m pistol!!
I think this is well worth peeps getting off their a$$es and travelling to in the near future.

Anyway Tuesday evening my new Sauer Jacket arrived as promised and thats what I used for the match on the thursday! as I said this for me was a training match only and I was pleasantly suprised with the 589 considering how badly I felt the match went for me!
The jacket although needing a tweak or two on the straps and sling holder fits well and wont have to go back to Sauer!, (my measuring was close enough!!) lol

It was great to bump into many of the shooters from 6/7 years ago and to get chatting with many of the new faces (at least to me) currently on the scene lol
A few of the manufacturers were there too in one or other capacity and I have some emails to send re: a spare barrel and action and some batch testing!
All in all a great trip, really well run and highly recommended!;)

Good to hear. Very nice result. The serious training starts this summer after the exams as far as I'm concerned, with a new jacket and a new plan in hand. Great that you enjoyed the trip in any case. Might we be seeing you down for the Nationals this year?

Sparks

It sounds like it was a good match Floydster, there were some wonderful scores being put in over there (Michelle set a new GB record for women's prone with 599) - I take it the conditions were good?
And this is definitely the kind of match we should be going to more often - costs are relatively low, facilities are world-class, and conditions can go from perfect to underwater

FLOYDSTER

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Good to hear. Very nice result. The serious training starts this summer after the exams as far as I'm concerned, with a new jacket and a new plan in hand. Great that you enjoyed the trip in any case. Might we be seeing you down for the Nationals this year?

Yip, deffo would like to do the nationals!!, new extension tube and sling on the way, a day or two training with the new jacket should sort it out and then some prep for ISSF shoot @ Bisley in June and Denwood shoot@ Aberdeen in July!;)

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Good stuff. Won't be long before you're back setting records.

FLOYDSTER

Sparks wrote: »

It sounds like it was a good match Floydster, there were some wonderful scores being put in over there (Michelle set a new GB record for women's prone with 599) - I take it the conditions were good?
And this is definitely the kind of match we should be going to more often - costs are relatively low, facilities are world-class, and conditions can go from perfect to underwater

I have to say I felt that I shot really badly and was really pleasantly suprised by the 589!, means my last five 50m shoots average out at just over 590!

We just managed to get a glimpse at the scores before getting picked up for the trip back to Prague, and what a performance by Michelle!!, stunning!!:D

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What was the system it was shot on, Gehmann boxes? Have to say, I thought they were good when I shot on them in Sinclair, but a tiny bit fiddly, and time-consuming.

FLOYDSTER

It wasn't me! wrote: »

What was the system it was shot on, Gehmann boxes? Have to say, I thought they were good when I shot on them in Sinclair, but a tiny bit fiddly, and time-consuming.

Yip, some kind of box changer!,one shot per diagram which I soon found out I wasnt positioned correctly for! lol
The box's themselves drop comlpetely below the butt area for changing the targets!, they also used electronic target scoring machines which made the posting of results so much quicker!!

Cant say how much I enjoyed the whole trip!;)

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Interesting. Nice to hear how others do it. Nothing beats the electronics of course.

Sparks

It wasn't me! wrote: »

Nothing beats the electronics of course.

Weeeeeelllll....
99% of the time, yes. But at €1500 per firing point (more for .22) it takes a lot of initial capital and they don't completely eliminate running costs or consumables (you have to buy the tape after all) and it takes special training to run them (ever seen the procedure for checking a challanged shot on the electronic targets, or for checking for crossfires? :eek: ). And there are downsides to them for training (in air at least) which is why the NSRA keep the paper targets around even with the suis ascor stuff.

But for ease of running a match and speed of showing scores and for distributing to the spectators the sense of what's going on in the match, there's little that even comes close, and the more of them we have the better for the sport.

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Sparks wrote: »

Weeeeeelllll....
99% of the time, yes. But at €1500 per firing point (more for .22) it takes a lot of initial capital and they don't completely eliminate running costs or consumables (you have to buy the tape after all) and it takes special training to run them (ever seen the procedure for checking a challanged shot on the electronic targets, or for checking for crossfires? :eek: ). And there are downsides to them for training (in air at least) which is why the NSRA keep the paper targets around even with the suis ascor stuff.

But for ease of running a match and speed of showing scores and for distributing to the spectators the sense of what's going on in the match, there's little that even comes close, and the more of them we have the better for the sport.

Hey, I just meant as a humble shooter, for ease of actually shooting the damn match!

FLOYDSTER

Sorry guys I didnt explain as well as I should have!!

The comps were shot on paper, one shot per diagram and then scored using electronic scoring machines!;)

jwshooter

what sort of groups are you guys shooting any pics IWM

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jwshooter wrote: »

what sort of groups are you guys shooting any pics IWM

I wasn't there I'm afraid, don't know whether FLOYDSTER got any photos.

Decent groups for me are five shots under 15mm edge to edge at 50m. FLOYDSTER is well capable of holding that for the majority of his shots, but that's beyond most of us.

jwshooter

It wasn't me! wrote: »

I wasn't there I'm afraid, don't know whether FLOYDSTER got any photos.

Decent groups for me are five shots under 15mm edge to edge at 50m. FLOYDSTER is well capable of holding that for the majority of his shots, but that's beyond most of us.

is that prone or standing

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jwshooter wrote: »

is that prone or standing

Prone. I don't really shoot standing myself. Going to get my prone in order first and get in shape, then I intend to start shooting three-positions.

jwshooter

only fucxxxg with ya.

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jwshooter wrote: »

only fucxxxg with ya.

I'll come back when I can hold 10mm prone and 15mm standing and the joking won't be worth much then.

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Found some good photos of the GB team from the Grand Prix. Even found one of our own FLOYDSTER he may not have been aware of. New jacket looks well there FLOYDSTER.



The photos can be found here for those of you who are interested.

FLOYDSTER

I have had a couple of sessions at Comber with the jacket and have now tweaked it and am a little happier!;), I was deffo a little too tight when in Plzen so hope to do better this weekend at Hillsborough!:)

I shot a 593 on Sunday at Comber when myself and Leslie had a training match together!, so deffo getting there!

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Good stuff! Keep inching on up there. Let us know how you get on up there.