Posted by Stuart Pethy on
URL: http://oldforum.flyshooter.com.au/Shooting-in-rough-conditions-tp5708078p5708129.html

would like to say thanks guys for your input
it helped me out big time the other week
we had our club championship the other week and the wind and mirage was in from the start and only got worse as the day went on
 7.30am the 1st round I could still my holes but conditions were changing and only shot a 42 (highest for the round was a 52)
well my 2nd round I total stuffed it, wind was moving about but the mirage killed me and only scored a 23 (highest was a 47)
after that I remembered what Les said about 1 shot on splash plate then 2 shots on paper then back to splash etc, backed my scope off to 30 power and from there I picked myself back up and shot a 37 which was the highest as everyone else struggled in the conditions
4th round using the same and trying to shoot on the same wind conditions I scored a 45 (highest was a 47)
and 5th round I scored a 46 (highest was a 47)
at the end of the day I had made a comeback and finished 4th overall with a score of 193.1 (which was my 1st below my target score of 200 in 7 shoots)
in the end I was only 11.9 points behind the winner Jason with 205.

this again helped me on the weekend at my other club , they only do 3 rounds at 400m for fly as they don't a 500m range, but mirage and wind was in, so I used the technique again from 2nd round onwards and won the day with a score of 139.1 for my 3 rounds just beating Jason with 138.2

thanks for your help again guys and keep up the work

but I must ask
sometimes you hit the bull on your splash plate then you go straight up to the fly and your rounds hit higher or lower , you go back to splash plate and you can put your other 2 rounds down and they hit the bull but everytime you shoot at fly your rounds hit higher or lower by a few inches???
is it just the wind or something else ?? it might do it all day and other times it doesn't to do it