when the marshalls say socks off, you are within your rights to shoot your marker, so do that if you have FSDO problemscheers for all the response guys, nearly!!!
i will try at bit of heat and some more elbow grease tonight!
with regards to the 1st shot thing, i suspect it is somthing to do with me as i had just serviced it (cleaned and re oiled...) my old macro line is a little dodgy as it had a leak from the fitting on the ASA which i manged to fix, so i think there could be a slow leak from there but i cant hear it? i could try sticking the fitting under some water?
about not shooting for 30 seconds, i mean before game start, its not good having your 1st shot bounce of a bunker...lol
check your ego software also and set FSDO to 2ms if it isnt already.