Half the time I feel like I need to go to a shrink after shooting. I'll fret all night about a miss and never celebrate all the hits.Quick update to this thread. I STILL have not managed to put together 25 straight in one round. I've shot a handful of 24s, but no 25. I think part of the problem is that I want it too badly.
I shot 5 rounds last night. Should have stopped after 3. Scores were as follows:
22
23
21
22
21
I know I shouldn't complain - there are folks who struggle to get past mid-teens and at this point I haven't shot under a 20 in quite a while, but I'm a competitive person, and I always strive to do my absolute best, so at this point I'm disappointed if I miss more than 3.
The killer is, most of the ones I miss are straightaways - seems like they should be easy hits. I've even done a good job of consistently hitting my nemesis targets - hard rights on position 5 and to a lesser degree hard lefts from position 1. It's mind boggling to me that I'll shoot 5 straight on positions 1 and 5, but miss on 2, 3 or 4.
SAME! I think part of it was that there were folks hitting straight 25's all around me last night - one guy got two, but couldn't string two together for a 50, the other guy was well on his way to a 50 but missed on his 44th clay, and then another guy shot a 25 on our last round of the night.Half the time I feel like I need to go to a shrink after shooting. I'll fret all night about a miss and never celebrate all the hits.
Half the time I feel like I need to go to a shrink after shooting. I'll fret all night about a miss and never celebrate all the hits.
Don't get me wrong - I DO enjoy it a lot. There's something really cool about getting a really really hard break, or even seeing someone else on the line just obliterate a clay.lol.
If that was me I would find another hobby. I’m don’t have a competitive attitude nor am I that good, I can shoot a 50 at Schraders and then next month shoot a 89 at Hopewell. I don’t even care to keep score anymore really, I just like the time of walking a sporting clay course and the company/entertainment.