Call Frank Lautenberg, because tonight, Bitter beat me. Twice. Last week she attended our Thursday silhouette league, and did pretty well. This week she shot a AAA score of 24 air pistol, open sights. I did not even manage to shoot a AAA score with Mata Gallina. If you start shooting competitively, you’ll start getting very good at making excuses for shooting badly. For tonight, here are the excuses I thought up.
- I let her win, because I like to encourage new shooters, you know.
- I gave her the gun that I did a trigger job on, whereas mine is still shooting right from the factory, and Crosman triggers right from the factory are pretty appalling.
- I wasn’t wearing my favorite shoes. The shoes I was wearing have a springy air cushion in the heel, which pushes me forward onto my toes, and I don’t get a good stable balance.  Bitter was wearing platform shoes, so this excuse is particularly lame, which is why I’m proud to have thought of it.
- Red dot sights on Mata Gallina I got yesterday still aren’t quite where I would like them to be, whereas the sight settings on my open sight gun are about as good as I can get them.
- It was very hot and humid out, and Bitter being from Oklahoma has an unfair advantage.
I could probably think of a few more if I had enough time. But the fact is she beat me, fair and square. Naturally this means I need to transfer my pellet trap to the car so she can’t practice while I’m at work.
That’ll teach ya to not fold the laundry correctly.
As long as she keeps beating you and not US…LOL. It was a great match last night and more shooters than we have ever had, we will add 2 extra banks next week and every week until we get the resetables, we were pushed for time shooting 3 relays. Oh we don’t have a BS award at our club yet, but if we do you are in the running….
I object to the last one! We have dry heat in Oklahoma. Before you start in with the “heat is heat” BS, no, it’s not. I was freakin’ miserable during that last match because of the humidity. At one point, I was just pointing the gun in the general direction of down range and firing because I wanted to get it over with in that humidity. I am amazed I hit anything in that last round.
Well at least I am in charge at home…. In charge of the laundry, in charge of the dishes, in charge of vacuuming.
There will be a meeting of the mens council to discuss yanking Sebastions mans card.
I’m thinking you need to apply the coming principles of government health-care to your matches. Tell her that new government mandate require that you mess up her trigger, screw with her sights, put her in spongy-shoes. Then everybody will be mostly equal.
If she still beats you, just break her trigger finger and everything will be fine.
Being a proud Okie myself…never forget that planet alignment plays a very big role in the direction the projectile travels downrange as gravitation forces wreak havoc on a lot of my shots.
Having shot the red dot sight gun, I will give him excuses for both the sight being off and the trigger being screwy. I shot it today for a few animals and it was not fun. Of course, neither was the driving rain.