OK - grass is cut - weed-whacking done - refreshing with Pacific Western Brewery's Best with clammato juice of course. Found the chunk results underneath my bags and horns - big box - now unpacked.
This year, we paid 3 places in smoothbore chunk 50 yards, same range as rifle - for those who routinely get 1" to 2 1/2" groups at 50 yards offhand with your smoothbores, you might have done well indeed - no smoothbore shooter hit the page with all 10 shots, so it would have been an easy victory - maybe - one must actually try it deliberately to actually know for sure. This year we allowed sitting position for those who cannot get up and down as easily as others - this was taken advantage of by a number of the more limber shooters, but none benefited from it. Prone being the next best solid position to shooting off a bench.
Smooth Bore 1st - was a Women/Lady from Oregon with a string of 37.624" - second was Hatchet Jack with a score of 38.415" and third was crowd favourite Dogspit (she's a fine lass who wears a clout) with a score of 45.253". Incidently, we scored misses at 4.5"- which is the closest side. Next year, it will be a full 5 3/4" making the target square (measure for .50 outside the paper). Second place actually had more hits on the page than first place score. Error in the method - will be corrected for next year. Hatchet jack wold have won by several inches - ow well - we'll perfect the scoring for next year. All smoothbore shooters used 20 bores - yeeouch!
1st Junior had a string of 26.198" using a .32 - again. Second Junior with 38.831".
1st Lady was Albertan Lola M. at 21.879" with a .45 flint rifle with second place to our own Kim Jones with 27.057" using a .50 Flinter. 3rd to a brand new flint shooter, 2-gun Giggles with a 36.495" string.
1st Mens was our (ALR) own Kerry Neilson with a string of 7.082" shooting a .45 Flinter(I think).
2nd was PG shooter and ALR forum member Neil Hunter 8.286" probably shooting his wife's rifle, a little flintlock .40.
3rd went to Ft. St. John resident Quinn with a measure of 11.993" using a .54 cal. cap-lock Hawken - bet that wore on him a bit.
If I had to guess, I'd say most of the men's scores ran in the 12" to 24" range. Longest string in Men's was 40.622" which was longer than Ladies or Junior's rifles and only 5" better than smoothbore's longest.
We had 17 men compete this year, up from last year.
I figure we can handle 50 competitors - total in 2 strings - so, if these strings seem really high to you, come and compete words alone have little meaning.
Last year, 2nd and third men's were separated by .001". Imagine!
