Unfortunately, very few pictures were taken this year. This might have been a fortunate happenstance for some of the participants = - might even have been by design. I do know I had my camera in the truck, but there it stayed. We had 18 participants, the furthest, a past resident of Prince George, Nick, came up from Chilliwack, about 500miles South of here. Since fuel here is currently $1.479 per litre, ie: $6.715 per gallon, we appreciate Nick's pilgrimage to our "overly high tempurature shoot". Another most welcome pair, Quinn and April from Fort St. John pulling their big trailer. 3rd furthest were a most pleasant surprise, Wilda and "Little Bear" from Mackenzie. We surely hope they come more often now, that Wilda's Little Little Bear of the 'route' back to our city. Long time ago, they never missed a match- time carries one and this year, they've we their feet. You'd never know they'd 'slacked' off shooting though - great scores by both of them. We had a 50 shot bush Trail with steel string, briquette and soda-staw match over 2 days, with Hawk & Knife, a Trap Shoot as as out first annual Plank Shoot.
The Results:
Of course, Taylor won the rifle trail, hawk and knife, with Neil of this site (sometimes) taking the trap as well as overall winner of the plank shoot. Yeah, I shot poorly, making 4th overall on the trail and 1st loser I think, in Trap. The plank shoot was interesting and I know I should have used my .69! HA! - I'd be blue to my waist, probably. Anyway, the shoot, with Neil coming out as overall winner, went into a 3 shot shoot-off. Of course, that old man shot like a machine (used his wife's rifle, though
), and we ended the match with this shoot. both of us oldtimers having difficulty with running sweat in our eyes. We were both shooting .40 calibre flinters. Man - you can HAVE the heat. It was high 80's- or felt like it. Many of us were melting- or appeared so.
Anyway- just look at Neil's overtime target!!!
Yeah - he had me from the first shot.
