For the 19-year-old Old Victorian followed his 91 and 95 last Wednesday evening with two perfect cards and the much sought-after double possible on the Thursday in the Dick Ray Trophy shoot.
When Billot turned up he was feeling a little down about his form the previous evening, as he told his St Lawrence team-mate Mary Norman, who was also his shooting coach when he was at Victoria College.
‘I told him not to worry because you never have two bad shoots in a row,’ coach Norman said.
And how those prophetic words proved as Billot shot two perfect cards for a double possible 200.
The double possible is up there with the hole-in-one in golf, the 300 in tenpin bowling and a 147 break in snooker as the ultimate in its sport.
Its rarity can be gauged from the fact that there is, on average, only one a season in the Voisin Smallbore League.
‘I have had one, but it was in a club shoot, not in a situation where you have to perform.
And there are other very good shooters who have never done a double possible,’ Norman explained.
‘Jonathan is a promising young shooter with bags of ability.
He is also very relaxed and not prone to nerves.’ Billot said of his achievement: ‘I couldn’t believe it.
The day before I had shot quite badly.
I shot a 91 and a 95.
My average has been much higher than that and I wasn’t sure what happened.
‘On Thursday I concentrated harder on those two cards than ever before and that was the result.’ His prevous best was a 197, but he said he had not had many of those.
‘I knew I had 100 on the first card because I looked through the scope so the pressure was on for the second.
‘You just have to relax and concentrate incredibly hard.
If you think too much about the score you could blow it.’ Full report in today’s JEP.
