Brook Bank was the venue of choice for today, primarily so that I could obtain some Fiocchi Superblacks and see what happened when I fed them to the Krieghoff. The Invictus really likes them, so the expectations were quite high!

Today was the first time out with the gun after a couple of weekends working with clients, and I decided to head down to North Cornwall and give the Krieghoff another workout. He’s been sat in the cabinet since the English and British Single Barrel weekend, waiting for a new pitch spacer and pad to arrive, and for me to fit them.

This is another report written the day after, as it took me twice as long to get home from Two Counties as usual due to a pedestrian fatality and multi-vehicle pile-up on the A38 earlier in the day. What’s usually an hour and a half trip turned into a three-hour navigation exercise! At least I’ve seen some parts of Devon that are new to me, and learned a new route home if needed.

Today was what I call the first shoot of the off-season for me. The South West Single Barrel Inter-counties is tomorrow, but I’m not involved in the team for that. I’ll still be there though to see what happens and report on it. I haven’t planned to go to any bigger events that might be happening as the season draws to a close either.

It’s been a while since I was at North Cornwall last. You never quite know what you’ll get for weather, but today it was kind to us. We had a smattering of rain from the fringes of a big cloud heading South, but nothing more, and the wind managed to restrain itself from affecting the targets too badly. When it looks like it does in the photos, it’s a really pleasant place to be!

I was in Somerset again today because Brook Bank was the only South West ground with a DTL competition, and I had a number of objectives.

Ah, Double Rise. One of those disciplines that I hardly get to shoot, perhaps once or twice a year (if that) at the County and Regional Championships.

Not many places set it up because it requires two extreme angle DTL targets thrown at the same time. You need either two traps firing simultaneously, or one trap that can throw two targets, like we had at Two Counties yesterday.

Evening everybody!

I can start this week with some good news – I have my temporary permit! Valid until February next year.

I don’t know if it was me sending through a receipt for my guns going into storage, or if one was sent before the 27th and the postal strike stopped it getting to me, but the speed with which one was issued and sent on the same day as I sent the email leads me to think that there was no first one.