Day 205

We shot the first day of the main course today.  The weather was bad, but it could have been a lot worse.  It was cloudy, but hot and muggy.  At times in the morning it there was a misty rain.  That lasted until about 11:30 when we started shooting.

I thought the course was a little easier than the prelim.  There were some long shots and some difficult shots, but nothing over the top.  Ellen shot better than yesterday.  I managed to keep sucking.  I actually got a 0 on a station.  It's been years since I got a zero on a station.

After the shoot we sort of messed around and did a little shopping.  We ate a late lunch - the one Ellen made yesterday.  We also had the dog do retrieves.  The weather was still miserable.  No rain, but hotter and just as muggy.  About 5 they started the free bar again and started a dinner service line at the snack bar.  I had a beer and a rum and coke.  We both couldn't finish all the food we ate, so Lucy had a really good pre-dinner. 

Just before dinner we were interviewed by a camera crew making a film for the NSSF.  They wanted to know why we shot.  We had fun talking about it.  I wonder if they will use any of the footage.

We didn't watch the shoot offs because we were eating.  We went over to the stadium after dinner to watch this competition between 6 US shooters and 6 English shooters.  They had set up 9 pretty difficult targets.  Each shooter got to choose one pair that everyone had to shoot.  The US won by a pretty large margin.  It was neat to watch these guys hit really difficult shots.

Then it was home.  Last night we didn't use the AC and it was a little hot and muggy in the trailer.  Tonight I turned on the AC as soon as we got home.  It's much more comfortable.