Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Coppa Del Mondo Milano


Greeting and salutations from Milan!!

We had a good and fairly quick journey here from munich, only 7 hours by road, compared to the spanish team that flew and took 13 hours. What a shame!! The hotel is quite nice, its clean and spacious, though not a patch on the holiday inn. Worst of all, NO KETTLE!!!!! Doh.

We have had 2 unofficial training sessions so far which all things being equal have gone very well for me. The first one was an absolute howling gale, very difficult to read and judge the strength, but generally we coped as well or better than others.
Today was better conditions and subsequently scores and 10 frequency was a lot higher.

The prone matches are on saturday (Elimination) and the qualificationa and final are on Sunday. Will be home sometime on Monday evening me thinks!!

This is the image outside the 50M range!!


Neil Training here in Milan, Looks easy don't it???


Untill you see the tables we have to shoot from!!!!


The shooters eye view here in Milan


The "DON" McIntosh, Coach and Manager


Mac chatting to Kurt Thune (not just a jacket, but a real person)


Talking of Shooting jackets, I have ordered a new one from Kurt Thune. As many of you know these can be made up of warious coloured panels etc, so I have a competition:
Out of these 2 designs, which did I pick??
Please answer in the comments with either "1" or "2".
Bonus marks can be awarded, or subtracted to entrants depending on comment.
Prize to be decided at later date, possibly a pint (of Water)



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Artistic liscence by me!!! Drawn in MS Paint!!!!!!!


Cheers all and speak again soon.

Dave

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

A COMPETITION WOW lets see the picture i choose is number 2
hope everything goes well for you,mike and the rest of the gb squad
mark

Anonymous said...

i like "1", but you probably chose "2"!!

ummmm, shooting on tables?? WTF?!!

s'pose it stops that annoying person on the next point from kicking you!! (kick him harder, and away he goes!! - ka-thump!)

Does the table come with a step ladder?!
Just how much room is there on those tables? - it's a habbit, that when i unhook, i lay the rifle next to me.... i'd be worried that when i unhook, that would be the last time i see my rifle in one piece as it i watch it (in slow motion) drop to the shiny, clean, floor!!!

stay focused mate - and keep those 10's a-comin!!!

Best of luck for the weekend mate!

Great photos!

:)

Anonymous said...

Got For number 1!!

there is less white on that one, less chance for that to get mucky!

Anonymous said...

go for number two the colours are the same way round as your rifle red on one side green on the other

the tables look horrid !!!are they big enough for your belly

whats the food like out there

see you when you get back

Anonymous said...

keep the karma "nice" annon.....
we're all friends here....

Good shootin dave.... keep your sights clean, and your powder dry!?!

:)

Anonymous said...

go for number 2