Jim held his Peep shoot on Easter Sunday. What's a Peep? Those little marshmallow chick candies. See them on top of the plank above the red paper bunny targets? Here Neill watches as Jim tries to shoot a Peep. A second target was the bunny, a nose hit counted more. Keith and Skunk and Whiskey Mamma watching.
Changing targets. There were 21 targets and 14 shooters.
Waiting to shoot. Margie in her new green and yellow dress she just made.
Kyne hunting for a target in the brush. Some were devilish hard to see.
Carole, Lynn and Terry getting ready for the Canyon Shoot. There were five women shooters, four left-handed shooters. George and Carney trying to find the targets.
Lynn shooting her little .40 flinter. All shot flintlocks but Dave and me, I shot my Green River .45 Leman Trade Rifle I built in their shop in 1978. My present flintlocks are too long and heavy for me to shoot well off-hand. I came in fourth of 14 and would have done better except the big boys kept kicking sand in my face for shooting a caplock. Skunk was first, Neill second, and I think Kyne third.
Carl and Carole and Lynn watching Terry shoot. Carole is shooting the .50 Anniversary Flintlock I built her.
Jean taking a canyon shot. The first target is a steel "tombstone" on the edge of the cliff straight above the right rim of George's brown hat. See it? The second is a tall tan "bugler" about 30 feet right. The third is a red hostile Indian (targets were designed by Flint from Germany, who has a cabin here), above the left edge of Carney's white hat. The fourth is an enemy soldier about 50 feet right, under the white ledge, above the right third of Carney's crown. There was gusty wind at times, but I hit all four, increasing my 40 grain charge of Goex 3F to 70 grains. It was great to hear the gallery cheer when those targets rang!
Harry Harpoon played for awhile, so did Jim and I. George on the left, Neill in the foreground. A very fine time was had by all.
