Michelle Smith

Today we’ve had a nice late start followed by training in the afternoon.

 As the range was quiet full I decided to go through equipment control.  Its always nice to see some friendly faces especially on the side of the Jury!

 As I had gone down the range in my boots and left my trainers in the room it made for a little complication.  As boots get tested at equipment control its easier to sling them around your neck and go with other footwear on but my boots (as its snowing here) wasn’t really the best and most comfortable thing to wear… or so I thought!

 I borrowed Pickles trainers and OMG what a mistake that was as they are so uncomfortable

 Thankfully I was only in the queue for 30 minutes (unlike Kennys 2 hours!) as Dave Goodfellow (a British ISSF A Licence Judge) came to say hello at first and then came back a couple of  minutes later to enquire if I had brought my blue British Shooting equipment control card.  As it stays in my diary, of course I had it with me   This saved me the other 1h30 minute wait in equipment control and the hassle of getting all my kit tested again only to have it comfortably pass.

 So back on the range and off with Pickles god damn awful trainers!

 Training was good, many positive shots again even if I did manage to double load one shot!  Like a numpty!

 Still I manage to perform to a level which I was happy with for my training and after a break went back onto the range to shoot 10 more shots,  with very positive results.

Happy Days!