Yep it was always the same, with a recoiling rifle or pistol you had a ready made excuse .303 Enfield. FN L1A1, GPMG or 9mm self loading Browning automatic. HW97K BSA Airsporter or a BSA Goldstar 10 shot with a gas ram. There was always an excuse. Recoil, rogue pellet, dieseling? and then someone gives me a dead stick An RWS Excalibre and I ran out of excuses and had to "man up and admit that I was not consistent with all my shots. When I really concentrated back in the day I could produce 98/100 from a Martini Henry .22 target rifle with a proper peep sight and a sling that clipped to the sleeve of my shooting jacket. but that was thirty+ years ago.