Author Topic: On any New Year's Day! (Read 9137 times)

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **on:** January 02, 2017, 06:55:04 AM »

Well, it's been a while since I posted one of these. A few of us assembled today to shoot our trail, cook some dogs in the club house and have a beer. The temperature is -9 C or 18 in Foreignheat, and we have about six inches of the white stuff in the woods, a foot in the meadow. What a beauty of a day!

Tim Crosby · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2017, 04:36:55 PM »

Good looking group, I'll bet a fine time was had by all. Looks like you have a death grip on that rifle or did your hands freeze to it

Tim C.

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2017, 08:31:46 PM »

It kind of looks like I'm trying to protect it from these guys, but the fact is, of the six rifles in the image, I built five of them. Starting on the right, Isaac Haines .54 cal x 42" bbl, Andrew Verner .50 cal x 48" bbl, Sam Hawken .54 cal 34" bbl, Jacob Kuntz .40 cal x 44" bbl, Baker .62 cal x 32" bbl. The fellow on the far left owns one of my last rifles - a nice flint Jake Hawken .50 cal, but he's babying it, and was using his GPR .54 today. My somewhat awkward pose resulted from just having run fifteen yards through the snow while the camera counted down it's ten seconds.
Today it's -20 C so it was good to get the shoot in yesterday.

Joe S. · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2017, 09:06:16 PM »

Looks like a good time with fine friends, wonderful way to bring in the new year!

hanshi · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2017, 09:36:31 PM »

Taylor, I stared at that picture for several moments and then it hit me! Your group looks like a line-up of some gents I arrested when I was a cop back in the 1970s.

Molly · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2017, 01:13:06 AM »

Odd, alcohol and firearms are not allowed in my "club".

Joe S. · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2017, 01:25:20 AM »

what are you drinking and shooting then?

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2017, 02:04:14 AM »

Molly, I know that there are clubs where alcohol is not permitted on the grounds, but that is not the case at our club. Once shooting is over, and the firearms are safely stored, we can pop a can of beer. Shooting is thus suspended for the rest of the day for those who have consumed liquor...them's the rules.

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2017, 02:07:34 AM »

Hanshi: Daryl ( second from the right) and I were both RCMP members in the seventies, and I cannot say that I ever had the pleasure of arresting such a distinguished looking group, and never one that was so well armed.

Joe S. · « **Reply #9 on:** January 03, 2017, 02:19:54 AM »

And I was making a little light of the subject.The club around here you can go from the range to the bar but never from the bar to the range,thems the rules too.

Molly · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2017, 04:44:35 PM »

I'm pokin' a little fun here as well. But never under any circumstances is any alcohol allowed on our range property and never have I been aware of any violations. We do however seem to tolerate some degree of "medication" use and we do have far to many borderline nut cases in my opinion. Naturally some members may consider me one such nut case. I am also aware of many, dare I say most, "hunting clubs" (men who grow beards and refuse to take a bath during hunting season and go out to live in a dilapidated structure or tent for the purpose of shooting some fuzzy critter) that are really cloaked mass drinking events. One such member recently told me his contribution to the hunt club pantry was a dozen eggs, a pound of sausage and 4 cases of beer.

Enjoy yer selves boys, and don't eat the yellow snow.

Bob Roller · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2017, 05:16:59 PM »

Quote from: D. Taylor Sapergia on January 03, 2017, 02:04:14 AM

Molly, I know that there are clubs where alcohol is not permitted on the grounds, but that is not the case at our club. Once shooting is over, and the firearms are safely stored, we can pop a can of beer. Shooting is thus suspended for the rest of the day for those who have consumed liquor...them's the rules.

A can of beer on a hot day after a match is a therapy. Before a match,not so good.
I remember a BPCR match in Kentucky about 20 years ago when a fellow showed up
with a 40-65 and 45-70 ammo. That worked itself out rather well.

Bob Roller

bob in the woods · « **Reply #12 on:** January 03, 2017, 06:40:01 PM »

If the reverse had happened [ 45-70 with 40-65 ammo ], I wonder how many rounds it would have taken for him to notice

The folks I shoot with are all responsible adults, and have figured out that shooting and drinking don't mix. Unfortunately, some will never get that , and I just don't shoot or hunt with them anymore. Taylor, your group looks a lot like the bunch I shoot with, only we have some females as well. Sometimes you can tell us apart....but not always .

D. Taylor Sapergia · « **Reply #13 on:** January 03, 2017, 08:28:29 PM »

Over the years we have been lucky enough to have several women shoot with us, one of which is Kim, pictured here. You will not meet a more enthusiastic black powder shooter. Unfortunately for us, she married a fellow and moved away from our town. She has purchased a Kibler kit and we are trying to make a date to put it together one of these days. I'll keep you posted on the progress of that project when it comes to fruition.

Kim and I on her wedding day...

snapper · « **Reply #14 on:** January 04, 2017, 03:34:44 AM »

Does Taylor always take the same pose for every picture?

Fleener

snapper · « **Reply #15 on:** January 04, 2017, 03:41:47 AM »

My mistake I meant Daryl, not Taylor.

Fleener

Daryl · « **Reply #16 on:** January 04, 2017, 09:26:31 PM »

Pretty much, but not always.

deepcreekdale · « **Reply #17 on:** January 04, 2017, 10:44:40 PM »

I am envious. Here in northern Florida, it was 80 and muggy on New Years. But I bet my toes aren't unhappy they were not walking around in snow though. Nice pictures. thanks for posting.

bones92 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 05, 2017, 12:22:00 AM »

Great photos. Half the reason I like muzzleloading is the good people you meet in this hobby.

Matthew1969 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 05, 2017, 07:19:15 AM »

Great post! Nice pics! A "gang" of armed men I would be happy to associate with. Matt.

Daryl · « **Reply #20 on:** January 06, 2017, 12:23:52 AM »

And us with you, Matt.

Had a trap shoot a couple summers ago.

then normal stuff

My late buddy brad, shooting the flying goose! this was New Years day, 7 or 8 years ago. -14C & snowing, but nice to be out with friends.

Vomitus · « **Reply #21 on:** January 06, 2017, 02:12:42 AM »

Great buncha pictures, some I've never seen. Thx, guys! Who's the guy with the perfect form? lol

Maven · « **Reply #22 on:** January 07, 2017, 04:59:14 PM »

Taylor, Not only wonderful pics, but also so fortunate to have so dedicated a group! Although my club has BP shooters and ample room for a woods walk, it rarely sponsors even an informal shoot. These days they're preoccupied with "black rifle" shooting or using modern, unmentionable ML's with all that entails.

Bob Roller · « **Reply #23 on:** January 07, 2017, 05:09:33 PM »

Quote from: Daryl on January 04, 2017, 09:26:31 PM

Pretty much, but not always.

Looks like the Assembly of Honorable and Trustworthy Men to me.
As I write this it is a tropical 8 degrees here in the part of the Ohio
Valley I live in. That would be 24 below 0 in the Provinces I think.

Bob Roller

Daryl · « **Reply #24 on:** January 07, 2017, 10:29:06 PM »

Since -18C is 0F, 8F would be about -15 "in the Provinces"- just a guess & that is what it is today. Have to go to the R&G club to put up some new target stands on the General handgun range. I'll be gone from the 10th to 25th - West & a mite South of here.

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Author Topic: On any New Year's Day! (Read 9137 times)

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