Had a relaxing (!) day off roading. Have a look at the picures http://tinyurl.com/4x4-offroad .
Maybe we could offer corporate offf-roading if their was a demand for it.
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Sunday 8 November 2009
Clay shooting
Just returned from a clay shoot. It's such a pity that more people don't have proper professional instruction. Why? Well these are things we spotted...
Getting a gun out of a slip dangeroussly (lots of examples of this)
Holding a gun in a dangerous way while waiting at the stand.
Loading a gun while turned towards the spectators.
Lousy gun mounting (Lots and lots).
Faulty foot position.
Poor muzzle awareness.
and so on...
A lesson costs from £89 + vat http://www.chadhurstcorporate.co.uk/ in Surrey.
Getting a gun out of a slip dangeroussly (lots of examples of this)
Holding a gun in a dangerous way while waiting at the stand.
Loading a gun while turned towards the spectators.
Lousy gun mounting (Lots and lots).
Faulty foot position.
Poor muzzle awareness.
and so on...
A lesson costs from £89 + vat http://www.chadhurstcorporate.co.uk/ in Surrey.
Thursday 29 October 2009
PC's are a vital part of our business, which Hewlett Packard don't seem to recognise. 10 days to replace a graphic card fan that is noisy on a PC that is only10 months old is ridiculus. I wouldn't mind so much, but the level of customer care (good at entry level) is hopeless when you have a problem and want to escalate the issue. They just never phone back as promised. Watch this space....
Saturday 3 October 2009
Eye Dominance
We recently had a client book in for pre season shooting coaching. Bill was in his 70's and had been shooting all his life, but he had started to have trouble hitting driven birds and couldn't understand why.
The first thing we do is to check gun fit (OK in this case) and then check for master eye. Bill was adamant that he was right handed and right eyed, but we checked him anyway. You guessed it – his eye dominance had changed to his left eye, with the consequence that he was shooting to the left of the target every time. Problem solved and we get another happy client.
The moral of this story is to check for your master eye if your shooting suddenly goes to pot.
How to check for your Master Eye
Get hold of an old CD and with both eyes open focus on a distant point – the top of a tree, a flag pole, anything that you can see easily. Now with the CD in your hand, keeping focussed on the target, raise the CD so that you are looking through the central hole at the distant object. Then bring the disk back to your eye keeping your focus on the target, (still with both eyes open), and you will find that the disc goes back to your master eye.
• If you are right handed and right eyed – shoot with both eyes open.
• If you are right handed and left eyed, close the left eye when you shoot.
• If you are left handed and left eyed – shoot with both eyes open.
• If you are left handed and right eyed, shoot with the right eye closed.
Just to complicate matters, if you are right handed and right eyed, and are swinging on a bird going from left to right, it is possible that your left eye sees the side of the barrels and will take over. The same is true if you are left handed and left eyed on a right to left crosser, your right eye can take over. The answer in this case is to shoot with one eye closed, so if you are left handed close the right eye, if you are right handed close the left eye.
You may ask why you should shoot with both eyes open. I liken it to driving your car in traffic with one eye closed. It becomes difficult to judge distances and speed. The same with a clay pigeon. You need to focus on the target and have both eyes open so that you can track it and get its trajectory and speed right.
Good shooting...
The first thing we do is to check gun fit (OK in this case) and then check for master eye. Bill was adamant that he was right handed and right eyed, but we checked him anyway. You guessed it – his eye dominance had changed to his left eye, with the consequence that he was shooting to the left of the target every time. Problem solved and we get another happy client.
The moral of this story is to check for your master eye if your shooting suddenly goes to pot.
How to check for your Master Eye
Get hold of an old CD and with both eyes open focus on a distant point – the top of a tree, a flag pole, anything that you can see easily. Now with the CD in your hand, keeping focussed on the target, raise the CD so that you are looking through the central hole at the distant object. Then bring the disk back to your eye keeping your focus on the target, (still with both eyes open), and you will find that the disc goes back to your master eye.
• If you are right handed and right eyed – shoot with both eyes open.
• If you are right handed and left eyed, close the left eye when you shoot.
• If you are left handed and left eyed – shoot with both eyes open.
• If you are left handed and right eyed, shoot with the right eye closed.
Just to complicate matters, if you are right handed and right eyed, and are swinging on a bird going from left to right, it is possible that your left eye sees the side of the barrels and will take over. The same is true if you are left handed and left eyed on a right to left crosser, your right eye can take over. The answer in this case is to shoot with one eye closed, so if you are left handed close the right eye, if you are right handed close the left eye.
You may ask why you should shoot with both eyes open. I liken it to driving your car in traffic with one eye closed. It becomes difficult to judge distances and speed. The same with a clay pigeon. You need to focus on the target and have both eyes open so that you can track it and get its trajectory and speed right.
Good shooting...
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Be careful buying a shotgun.
If only people listened. We had a client who wanted to take up clay shooting and he came to us for instruction. We told him not to rush out and buy a gun, but to take our advice first. So, what did he do? You guessed. He telephoned me and said he'd bought a gun and could he bring it down for another lesson.
When he arrived he produced a lovely leather slip, out of which he pulled a lovely piece of walnut .... attached to a circa 1953 English side by side. I asked him what sort of shooting he was planning to do. He replied "clays", and stressed he would not be game shooting.
Why have you bought a side by side I asked? He said that the gunsmith advised him this was the right gun for him.
We then did a gun fit. The stock was so short that his trigger hand was pushed up onto his nose, and he couldn't see over the rib. We extended the stock, which of course made the comb even lower, and added 5 comb raisers. He still couldn't see over the rib. The gun had obviously been made for a junior, or a lady. It wouldn't have hurt quite as much if the price he paid was reasonable - £4,500!
The only thing he could do was to return the gun and get his money back.
I haven't heard from him since.
When he arrived he produced a lovely leather slip, out of which he pulled a lovely piece of walnut .... attached to a circa 1953 English side by side. I asked him what sort of shooting he was planning to do. He replied "clays", and stressed he would not be game shooting.
Why have you bought a side by side I asked? He said that the gunsmith advised him this was the right gun for him.
We then did a gun fit. The stock was so short that his trigger hand was pushed up onto his nose, and he couldn't see over the rib. We extended the stock, which of course made the comb even lower, and added 5 comb raisers. He still couldn't see over the rib. The gun had obviously been made for a junior, or a lady. It wouldn't have hurt quite as much if the price he paid was reasonable - £4,500!
The only thing he could do was to return the gun and get his money back.
I haven't heard from him since.
Monday 28 September 2009
Clay Pigeon Shooting
Keep watching this space. We will be running a series of tutorials about shooting that I hope will be helpful.
If there are areas you want covered let us know.
If there are areas you want covered let us know.
Sunday 27 September 2009
Pest Control
The Chadhurst Group provide shooting tuition, photographic restoration services and pest control (Rabbits and foxes).
Call 0845 056 8896
Call 0845 056 8896
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