Today, for the first time ever, I went clay pigeon shooting!
To get to the gun club my dad and I had to drive down a narrow muddy path (the satnav didn't recognise it as a road) and it was absolutely tipping it down. We naively thought we were going to be the only people there (considering how rainy it was) but we were wrong. Very wrong. When we arrived the car park was almost full and we only just got a parking space.
As we walked up to the gun club office we passed the stereotypical crowd that you would expect at a gun club. They were all middle aged farmer blokes with wellies, flat caps and long coats. We entered the office we were met with more middle aged farmers and were told to sign some consent forms.
The forms had the sort of stuff you would expect such as; don't point your loaded gun at anyone, don't run in front of anyone that is shooting and don't kill anybody! Once the forms were signed we meet our instructor and he took us to the first shooting range, he also sounded like Boycie from Only Fools and Horses.
For the first challenge we just had clay pigeons flying away from us. The instructor said we had to follow the bottom of the clay pigeon and then shoot. I went into this thinking I would be crap but i actually didn't do to badly, I successfully hit 5 out of the 10 clay pigeons!
The second task was slightly different because this time the clay pigeons were just going to go straight up into the air. We had to use the same technique but shoot when the clay pigeon was at its highest point. The rain started to get a bit heavier at this point but that didn't effect my shot! This time I hit 8 out of the 10 clay pigeons, which was a very pleasant surprise.
Finally we had to shoot some clay rabbits, which is a clay pigeon that is sliding across the ground instead of flying in the air. This proved to be a lot harder because the clay rabbits would bounce along the ground and proved to be very difficult to hit. I only hit 3 out of these 10 which is what I was expecting to do through out the day.
All in all I hit 16 out of 30 which I thought was quite good. Clay pigeon shooting was very fun and I would recommend it to anyone. It has the excitement of shooting and doesn't harm any animals so you will not feel bad for pulling the trigger.
Have you ever been clay pigeon shooting? Did you like it? Leave a comment if you want!
I have just finished watching 500 Days of Summer and I've got to admit it wasn't at all like I expected. It stars Joseph Gordon- Levitt (3rd Rock From the Sun) and Zooey Deschanel (Elf), who were both excellent in portraying their characters of Tom and Summer. It was like nothing I had seen before, it was a breath of fresh air to see some of the distinctive shots and techniques used in the film. I would talk about the storyline but I don't want to give any spoilers to people that haven't seen it. I will say, the narrative is unique and different from the norm but not overly complex or hard to follow. Some people may say it's a chick flick but I liked it anyway. Everyone should watch this film and it isn't what you think it will be, I was pleasantly surprised. I'd strongly recommend it!
As you might of heard, the band Fun. have got a new album called 'Some Nights' and it is getting a lot of criticism. I first heard of Fun. when they made a song with Panic! at the Disco a little while ago. I liked the song they collaborated on and started to listen to Fun. and their album 'Aim & Ignite'. At first I thought it was crap, but I found myself humming the tunes to some of their songs and gave them another go. Their style was quite different compared to most of the stuff I had heard but it grew on me and I bought the album (and have enjoyed it greatly).
It isn't the best album I have ever heard but it is still good. People shouldn't hate it because it is different to their old stuff.
That's right, YouTube isn't just filled with cat videos and people doing stupid stunts anymore!
Today, for the first time ever, I went clay pigeon shooting! 
The forms had the sort of stuff you would expect such as; don't point your loaded gun at anyone, don't run in front of anyone that is shooting and don't kill anybody! Once the forms were signed we meet our instructor and he took us to the first shooting range, he also sounded like Boycie from Only Fools and Horses.
As you probably know 2012 is a leap year. So, I decided to write a quick blog entry, mainly so I can see the date 29th February above the blog entry (because it won't be able to say that again for a while) but I also wanted to know if having this extra day threw you like it threw me. It got completely confused about what date it was today. It took me until lunch before I even realised it was the 29th of February, I didn't know it was a leap year. Isn't it on leap year days like today that women are supposed to propose to the men? I'm not sure if that's true or not but that's all I know about leap year days.