Looks great Wheelz well done!

I am glad ya did ya nines on your sighters I did a double last night 1st three in sighters were 10.1s basically in the same hole however finished with 96.3/99.4 on the last part.

Hate wasting 10.1 nice to see you have used yours well on this card!

Thanks Danny, haha, as it happens my subsequent X20 was made up of 2x 99's. The 3 sighters were all 10.1's - in 1 hole.
Never had one of those before either, lol.

Well done.....Top left in or out

Thanks Paul, top left was a TO

Well done wheelz, the first one is the hardest. You'll be into it now.
When i shot my first one I think I went another 3 years before i got my 2nd.
In my early shooting days, from 1996 our club was only a few local farmers, who came in once a week for a cup of tea and a yarn, shot a target and that was it. 30 odd targets for the season! It's hard to improve shooting that little.
It seems to me there is alot more effort put into clubs now to help newbies.
Places like this help alot too. You can find out things here by looking or asking that it took me years to learn.

3 years! Must have thought your throat had been cut.

I had another good shoot last night (no 100's tho, lol).
98.2 & 98.5 Both cards had 3 x 10.1 sighters in one single shot sized hole.
I believe I'm able to attribute some of this to a change in approach.
I used to dwell on the target too long and more often than not it would become fuzzy.
A fellow shooter reckons the retina can store the imprint of an image (much like a camera) and even though there has been that slight change in the sighting, the image can remain momentarily and fool the shooter.

Normally by the 6min call I would be onto the 6th diagram. I now find myself onto the 8th or 9th!!

This has been a big psychological change for me but it's paying dividends.
Can't recall whose signature it was but, "Aquire, admire & shoot the bugger" has been good advice.
Biggest challenge now is having opened my trap this wide, keeping my foot from sliding in.

I am the same this is why at competitions I do not do so well I try to hard and look to long.

I was taking 11-12 mins to shoot a card at competitions however at home 6-7 mins were I am more relaxed.

It is a hard one for me as I get so worked up I can not shoot a card in 6-7 mins at a competition I spend most of my time trying to relax and control my pulse my heart is beating over 100 beats per min and this is the same as me walking when at home shooting it is about 70-80 beats per min, however It is getting better someone said if you have blood beating you have oxygen and oxygen gives you good eyes so I now look at it as a positive and has help heaps

If I am looking at the bull for more than 5-6 seconds I need to start over every time.

I was full of nerves the other night and started hoping it was on before I fired the shot 1st card 96.3 on a double no good continuing like that so I took the rifle of the shoulder every time the nerves return looking around talked to myself and started over every three shots I needed to do that again! I finish getting my routine back under control and on the last part of the double card I got 99.4!

It was great as if I dropped one of those shots on the last card I would have not won! Every shot Counts! specially when the guy next has already finished and watching each shot hoping I drop one!

Exactly! I've been like that. More than 5 secs and it's like a kaleidascope (sp?)

Wierd how it has that effect huh?
I find myself having an elevated blood pressure at the outset of the shoot after setting up scope, mat etc. but usually by the end of the sighters I'm fine.