Terry and Dave Haney held their St.Patrick's Day shoot March 26, finally free of snow. About 25 attended with 12 shooters. There were 12 shots at about 30 yards, the targets being a running leprechaun (sliding down a wire), 3 gongs, a ricochet shot off an inside curved steel tank into a pot of gold, a shot through a 1" square hole in a steel plate at about 10 yards, a 4" water filled balloon on a plastic glass filled with water, then the glass, the 3 lobes of a shamrock and last ducklings about 1" in size on a log. There was a tie for first place and four of us for second. We shot for closest to center of a shamrock in the tie breaker, and I won that. We had a good dinner of corned beef and cabbage, Irish whiskey, etc. I gave for a blanket prize a copy of "The Peacemakers" by R.L. Wilson and won two packages of elk steaks and a package of elk burger, some leather and homemade horseradish sauce.
Carney Pace at left and Tyler in the red bandanna tied for first place and Carney won. These were Tyler's first shots ever with a ML rifle!
Harry Harpoon, center and his sister Terry.
There were 13 flintlocks present, 3 left handed, and two percussion rifles. The 3 on the left are mine, a .50, a .58 fullstock Hawken, another .50 still a-building, and Carole's .40 (which I built). Then Lynn's .40, Harry's .62 Transitional Leman (whatever that is),and Brent's .62 smoothbore.
