Nash Buckingham wrote that practice on game was the only way to become a really competent game shot and that with the reduced opportunity today we could never expect to develop the competency of shooters from another time. Maybe so, but he had no idea about Argentina!

I went to SA every year for many years beginning back in the '80s. Whenever I'd return and dove season arrived in GA I practically could not miss a bird. Now I've returned to my "normal" degree of expertise and am streaky, subject to slumps, and occasionally brilliant on the dove field.

Tragically my brilliant days are not as much noticed as my poor days...Geo