Fauxdegla DTL Grand Prix 2022 - Day 2 - 4/6/22

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Well, that’s day 2 done of the Fauxdegla DTL Grand Prix.

This morning was a lot drier than yesterday, but the wind was blowing and pushing some of the left hand targets into the floor.

I shot a 97/285, so in terms of consistency, I’m up there, but a 194/571 over 2 days isn’t going to light any fires!

The first round was on F layout, and those targets were all over the place. The referee commented that that layout has had more points dropped on it than any of the others so far this weekend.

Naturally, I set out to prove him wrong, and duly did. My last target was a horrible left hander that looked like it was heading for Australia, but I disassembled it rather well to post a nice 25/75.

The second round was on A, the top covered layout, and these were higher and behaving differently. The first one out needed the second barrel to break it, along with 2 more later on, but I still got them all, giving me 50/147 at halfway.

But then, the wheels fell off. I wasn’t comfortable in round 3 at all, far too on edge, and that combined with the wind cost me 2 misses and another 2nd barrel.

By the 4th round, I’d cleared my head a bit and calmed down (perhaps because of the misses and the pressure was off), but another one got away, along with another 2 barrels.

After lunch, the pool shoot was over and the layout it was on was free for practice, so I jumped on it to test if my top and bottom barrel were behaving the same.

Krieghoffs have separate barrels and you can change how high each shoots in relation to the other by changing the front hanger. At the factory, each one is tested to make sure that both barrels shoot to the same place, and though the hanger on it should be the right one for that, I’m not entirely convinced.

The test didn’t give me a definite answer, but as I shot my last target and released the trigger, I heard a click from the action that I hadn’t heard before. At first glance, the top firing pin didn’t look right and I thought it had broken. Fortunately, Paul Turner, who works for Krieghoff Service UK, was able to take a quick look at it and tell me that everything is fine inside, except that it really needs updating.

The internals haven’t been changed since Krieghoff updated their firing pin design (which is a few years ago now), the trigger return spring is bent, and the inertia block return spring is seriously lacking in springiness. If the block gets stuck to the rear, the gun won’t fire.

Armed with that info, the right thing to do is to book it in for a service and get it sorted out, so tomorrow, the Miroku gets to come out and play! Stay tuned to find out how that pans out!

In other news, we were treated to a shoot-off for High Gun over 2 days. Steve Janes and Paul Chaplow both tied on 593/600, so some more shooting was required to sort it out.

In the end, Steve prevailed with a 25/74 to Pauls 24/71. Both men did a great job of ripping the flash targets apart and turning the sky pink.

Curtis Woolley claimed High Gun today with a 100/297.

Congratulations and well shot to all class and category winners, and once again, best of luck for the Sponsors Day tomorrow.

We’ll see what happens!