April 2022

NOTE: It's now July 2024. I've had these files on disk for a very long time, but had not written the post to use them. I do so now simply to get what I have up. April is the last of the cards I had saved.

3rd of April

I shot everything unsupported with AR10 at 10m.

Stance	Card ID	Card Type	Score	Notes	Scanned Image
AR Unsupported	Practice 1	10m AR	37	I wrote a lot on this card. In runes, "you fucking cunt". Bad shooting, two fucked shots, did 2 replacement shots. In rescoring I wrote: 51, subtract two best shots because of misses, two 7s, 51-14 = 37, 2 misses.	SCAN
"	" 2	"	45	Terrible. Feel bad. Awful card.	SCAN
"	" 3	"	64		SCAN
"	" 4	"	55	What are those!?	SCAN
"	" 5	"	64	2 misses. "2 fuck ups due to body pos"	SCAN
"	" 6	"	59	In runes "shoot better you wanker"	SCAN
"	" 7	"	N/a	For this card I shot 3 per, trying to gauge my consistency. If I disregarded my worst 5, it'd be a score of 67, which is to show that at my best I'm shooting in the 60s. And if I disregard my best 5, it'd be a score of 47. This shows how very inconsistent my shooting is, while also showing that my current average must be in the mid 50s.	SCAN
"	newcardtype	"	49	"last card of the day (tired)"	SCAN

10th of April

I began transitioning over to the wider card type that's used for events. You have to retrieve the card every shot to slide it over, but it means that all your shots are at a target that's in the centre, rather than being in different places. I can't remember why I transferred to these but maybe I was intending to do an event? The first two cards are on the older square targets.

Stance	Card ID	Card Type	Score	Notes	Scanned Image
Unsupported AR	Prac 1 Square	10m	34	2 misses - "shockingly bad"	SCAN
"	" 2 "	"	55		SCAN
"	Practice 3	"	N/a - (22)	"Comp condition, 5 pellets, 1 per target"	SCAN
"	Practice 4	"	N/a - (29)	"Comp condition". If I take Practice 3 + Practice 4, it's 51	SCAN
"	Practice 5	"	N/a - (35)	"Comp condition"	SCAN
"	Practice 6	"	N/a - (19)	"Comp condition". If I take Practice 5 + Practice 6, it's 54 with 1 miss	SCAN
"	Practice 7	"	N/a - (31)	"Comp condition" - nothing to add this one to	SCAN

The new competition conditions with cards makes it difficult to score things. So I'll take two cards and add their scores in the order I shot them. Any remaining cards just don't count towards score averages.

17th of April

I seem to have only shot two cards on that day. I don't know why. They were competition conditions, but scanned them in together.

Stance	Card ID	Card Type	Score	Notes	Scanned Image
Unsupported AR	Practice	10m	64	"Comp conditions"	SCAN

24th of April

This is a weird one. I did four competition condition cards, but scanned all 4 in together. And on Practice B I wrote for two of the targets, "not used for scoring, discarded because testing bench versus unsup".

So Practice B and C are scored together, with two extra shots done on C to account for the 2 discarded on B. And A and D are scored together. What on earth was I on?

Stance	Card ID	Card Type	Score	Notes	Scanned Image
Unsupported AR	Practice AD	10m	58	"Comp conditions"	SCAN
"	" BC	"	58	"Comp conditions"	"

March 2022 roundup

I noticed that I'd messed up some of the data last month by selecting the wrong things in the spreadsheet. The data has now been fixed. It doesn't make a huge amount of difference.

I only shot the air rifle this month, at 10m. I shot unsupported.

Here's a chart logging my average scores and number of misses, with lines of best fit. The scatter chart uses data from October 2021 through to the end of April 2022.

This is the end of the cards I have saved. I think I went shooting a couple more times, but I never scanned them in, so that's the end of the records.

I'm unlikely to go shooting again, not for a while at least. I don't know. I enjoyed it, but it's a pain to go out and do it. We'll see.