Cheats

[The Reverend]

He wrote "How to influence friends and make people mad"

[fredyninefingers]

my self and my son are the people this inbread are talking about,fact 1, no problem with kneeling posission no body accept weevie had a problem with it once .fact 2 ,what me and my son talk about on a course are of no concern to any body especially weevie and the bbs,we do talk about distance but its all just guess work we arenot range finding anything .dont quite know why he has chosen to publicise this other than the fact hes a bit of an attention seeker with a single minded opinion .were talking about my son here which am not happy as to the fact that weevie put a thread on bbs under the title of cheats.

[HotSpuds]

One hears a lot of drugs and illegal doping in highly physical sports like athletics but how common is doping on the shooting circuit?

[The Reverend]

I don't know, but there is a lot of drinking the night before occasionally. I doubt that is performance enhancing though, I tend to find noisy bangy things a tad off putting the next day...

[Charlts]

One hears a lot of drugs and illegal doping in highly physical sports like athletics but how common is doping on the shooting circuit?

Depends if you use the same banned list as most other sports I'd be fine as would most others. If strong painkillers were banned I'd not even be able to make the event let alone shoot it!

I've heard rumours of people taking beta blockers but a lot of people take them on prescription anyway.

Thats the best thing about shooting sports, it doesn't matter how much of a physical wreck you are you can still compete. I'd be stretchered off a rugby pitch after 5 minutes these days, but I can shoot all day and have very few problems with my back now!

Ryan

[sparky]

If dihydrocodeine & co codimol counts then yes the are in the sport

Pete

[sparky]

For me, I always worry that I will get paired with some miserable serious git. It's only happened twice so far, the time with the top shooter who quite happily was prepared to see me shoot a kneeler whilst prone without telling me and the second time was with Gary Cooper.

Bet if i put you with Glynn Furniss, you would then ask to go with someone quiet

Pete

[Charlts]

If dihydrocodeine & co codimol counts then yes the are in the sport

Pete

Thank god I changed my prescription last summer then!

Ryan

[TURIN TURAMBAR]

One hears a lot of drugs and illegal doping in highly physical sports like athletics but how common is doping on the shooting circuit?

Hmm HotSpuds - this is a hot potato and I'm going to drop it having been the "dope" of the shooting circuit and this forum.

I put the grin in for Weevie so he could see it was a joke and may be a poor one at that. The following was meant as a pun and I cut and paste it here. Because Bisley was mentioned as the venue - not by me, my twisted mind turned to making puns (which I love - groan) on Bisley pellets and I think with the following I covered them all but if I haven't I'm sure someone will put me right as in the recent past You will note I poke fun at myself in the above as a dope and a pest in the following?

"Perhaps it was the PREMIER team putting in a bit of PRACTICE on a SUPERFIELD hoping for LONG RANGE GOLD from a MAGNUM performance?

I will perform my own PEST CONTROL now by logging off as work beckons even at this ungodly hour."

Now I'm going to move on having apologised to Pod and I include the rest of you in that who may had raised hackles at what I said. I don't want to give you any more "ammunition" for "pointed" remarks so I will remove my "roundhead" suitably "flattened" and chastened!

[fredyninefingers]

last time my lad was paired with some miserible git he wrote a statement on here.....

[bomber]

I take a scoot load of beta blockers after having heart surgery and its upped my hft score by about ONE,I thought this sport was about having fun,meeting people and taking the pee out of each other,if people are gonna get serious and start threatening people then i feel its time for them to move on to football or some other form of hooligan sport and leave the rest of us to enjoy hft as it was meant to,so come on people new season is a coming lets go have some fun.

[sparky]

I take a scoot load of beta blockers after having heart surgery and its upped my hft score by about ONE,I thought this sport was about having fun,meeting people and taking the pee out of each other,if people are gonna get serious and start threatening people then i feel its time for them to move on to football or some other form of hooligan sport and leave the rest of us to enjoy hft as it was meant to,so come on people new season is a coming lets go have some fun.

And don't you just like to take the p!55

Pete

[Snooper601]

Tramadol are OK as they are not on the banned list

There are nasty side effects with Beta blockers' I was told by my Doc that there are often problems in the 'trouser' department when taking them!

I doubt that many would be prepared to become impotent for shooting sucess

Cheers

John

[mattinlondon]

I would say:

teaching a youngster = good
coaching a competent shot = good

When done at practice sessions at the club

A competition is the place for learners/newcomers (of any age!) to try to put into practice what they have learned and for their "coach" to see what needs addressing in the next coaching session.

It is unfair on other shooters (who may be still learning themselves) for any coaching/help to be given during competition.

That would be my take on it as well

How can it be fair if 2 people are comparing ranges shot etc on each lane?

Shooter A misses when ranged at 40 yards so tells shooter B this and shooter B then hits when ranged to 35 yards?

If I was the 3 rd shooter in this group I'd be well pi44ed off!

[bomber]

Dont no what your on about pete,now go away and get some practice on them pesky reducers.