So last week I went to the air rifle range and although it was a different rifle and a completely different way to shoot it, I still scored incredibly well and impressed all the coaches, who expected highly of me due to my army experience.

I went to the range today for my time slot. I had to wait a 1/4 of an hour to get a go at my gun, which wasn't the gun I used before. My first eleven shots missed the target completely, only to realise that the gas in the gun was empty.

Then once the gas cylinder was topped up my shots were still falling to the left. I thought it was me shooting badly, but a coach takes it and a few of them take shots and agree that the sight is off. The sight is adjusted and I score a 9.3 out of 11 in a single shot.

But I'm so flustered and hot from missing so many shots, that really wasn't my fault that my shots are quite bad for the remainder of pellets I have.

My favourite coach is standing beside me shooting himself, scoring less that I usually would. And he tells me that I go very hard on myself when I get a 0 score.

Anyway when I'm leaving he pats me on the shoulder and says It happens to us all mate.

But I was having a conversation with him and another coach about teams and competitions and we were talking and it just seemed to almost go without saying that I'd be competing.

Anyway, yeah I had a bad day and have mixed feelings about it.