The Barbarians Match

I keep getting selected for the main team, and now I'm generally in the top four or five shooters. Sometimes top 3.

The Barbarians match was quite difficult, shot at 900 and 1000 in very difficult conditions.

I'm doing my best to practice good discipline in team events, getting off the mound quickly and quietly, not looking at my plots or scores. This match is shot at 900 and 1000 yards against a collection for very very good shooters, who just happen to get along well together (those two things are requirements for a club invitation).

I had a 44.0 and a 46.1 at 900 and 1000 as it turns out and was a bit distraught. I haven't even seen the plots (three days later). But come the awards ceremony, I was 5th of out 10 in our squad (and only one point of Jim Paton) and moderately happy with that. It just goes to show that the scores are all relative. I was third highest at 1000 in the team.

We lost by only three points. So it was best of eight shooters out of ten. So an 800-point aggregate and only losing by 3 wasn't a bad result at all. A difficult wind day with 10 minute spread.