Skeet shooting in Jonsvatnet

Social activities with colleagues is a big aspect of norwegian social life in my opinion. Dinners with your work group, salary beer and Friday waffles/cakes, are rather usual.
And my colleagues are simply the best! These people are super fun and I always have so good time! This time the challenge was skeet shooting!

It was definitely a challenge for me but a day before I had watched the movie 'Yes man' so it didn't take me more than three minutes to enroll! Had I tried it before? Nope! Was I a bit scared? Yeap! Excited? Sure! A nice brew of mixed feelings! Was it an excellent evening? 100%

When we arrived all my fears disappeared. The place was in the middle of the forest, and it was full of people. It looked like that skeet shooting is a family activity here! The previous group from us had a little girl around 10 years old that she managed to shoot a couple of targets to my full astonishment and a boy, probably her brother that was incredibly good at shooting!

It proved though that it was easier than I initially thought! My lack of knowledge was not a problem at all. The instructor illustrated everything we needed. How to handle the gun, how to place your body and she even corrected our posture while trying.  I gave her a bit of hard time to explain in english but with the help of my norwegian/ norwegian speaking friends I managed to get everything and she got a big big smile when I succeeded!
Well, it might be because I started cheering and jumping! But seriously, what a moment!!
An orange clay plate was into pieces in its flight up!
Pure unexpected pleasure!!

Definitely a suggestion!


PS: I think I'll stick to the clay pigeons for now and most probably for ever. I have no issues with shooting but killing for pleasure is a very different story. :)