**UPDATE***Pa. State Levergun Silhouette Champs
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**UPDATE***Pa. State Levergun Silhouette Champs
Well guys, it was an uneventful weekend. Weather was very humid even for way upstate Pa.
I am proud to announce that my rise to stardom was a very fast upward spiral and lightning speed downward. I shot par for the coarse but did not win nothing, in fact, I did not even come close. I has a disaster on Saturday afternoon during the .22 event. "The Gunny" did win the .22 event in his class.
I shot a 40 X 60 in the pistol caliber event using the 25-20.
I shot a 37 X 60 in big bore with the Mod. 71
I shot a 15 X 60 in the .22 event but..................I have an excuse to which you all may learn from. While practicing the night before, I shot up a couple of hundred rounds of range pick-ups from Targetmaster in the Mod. 39 Marlin with ballard rifling from 1947. The ammo looked OK but many were old and tarnished. Towards the end of practicing, I noticed I was not hitting anything but I put it off to being tired and worn out, so.....................
Who cleans a .22 bore before a match?? That's a bad thing to do as we need fouling, so.............After the pistol caliber match and after lunch we were starting the .22 event so I got out my freshly purchased CCI mini-mags, which by the way, are proven in my Marlin. That's the same combination I used to take first place last month in the Pa. Regionals.
So..............I start out on 100 meter rams and get 6 out of 15. I could not believe it, but I put it off to having an "off day". Then.............I got 2 out of 15 chickens. By then my butt was burning up especially with Gunny laughing at me. I began to think it was the rifle but nooooooooo..........it must have been me.
So.............I get to the 50 meter pigs which are the easiest and I got 4 out of 15. My hold was perfect and the dang bullets were going high, low, right and left so by then I knew it was the rifle so in between relays, I took it apart, looked down the bore and presto.............a near smoothbore for half the length of the barrel. The junk ammo coated it's copper plating in the grooves and something I did not know is that OLD copper plated .22 ammo will coat your bore and destroy accuracy. I scrubbed it out with brushes and showed my friends the proof of chunks of copper and lead or I would never would have lived this one down. Whew! My huge ego was at stake here.................saved by the patches, but................................
I had more than one person come up to me and said, "YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER TO SHOOT THAT JUNK IN YOUR GUN". Yea, I guess so.
But we still had lots of laughs and loads of camaraderie. It was nice to hook up with far away friends, like Mark and Vicki , Jack XXX and his better half, Rick G and his crew, and many more good people who I don't even know their names. I always feel at home with the "gun crowd". ,Heard LOTS of neat and legal "on the beat" stories from a retired Philly cop. --------------------------------------------------------------Sixgun
This is a picture of Gunny unloading my gear into my tent while I am relaxing...see the boots?
This is another boring picture of what we shoot at.
Ha! I made my very own trophy, very similar to the ones that were given out.
Did not do so well on taking pictures over the weekend so I'll introduce you to "Twinkles", the cat from hell.
I am proud to announce that my rise to stardom was a very fast upward spiral and lightning speed downward. I shot par for the coarse but did not win nothing, in fact, I did not even come close. I has a disaster on Saturday afternoon during the .22 event. "The Gunny" did win the .22 event in his class.
I shot a 40 X 60 in the pistol caliber event using the 25-20.
I shot a 37 X 60 in big bore with the Mod. 71
I shot a 15 X 60 in the .22 event but..................I have an excuse to which you all may learn from. While practicing the night before, I shot up a couple of hundred rounds of range pick-ups from Targetmaster in the Mod. 39 Marlin with ballard rifling from 1947. The ammo looked OK but many were old and tarnished. Towards the end of practicing, I noticed I was not hitting anything but I put it off to being tired and worn out, so.....................
Who cleans a .22 bore before a match?? That's a bad thing to do as we need fouling, so.............After the pistol caliber match and after lunch we were starting the .22 event so I got out my freshly purchased CCI mini-mags, which by the way, are proven in my Marlin. That's the same combination I used to take first place last month in the Pa. Regionals.
So..............I start out on 100 meter rams and get 6 out of 15. I could not believe it, but I put it off to having an "off day". Then.............I got 2 out of 15 chickens. By then my butt was burning up especially with Gunny laughing at me. I began to think it was the rifle but nooooooooo..........it must have been me.
So.............I get to the 50 meter pigs which are the easiest and I got 4 out of 15. My hold was perfect and the dang bullets were going high, low, right and left so by then I knew it was the rifle so in between relays, I took it apart, looked down the bore and presto.............a near smoothbore for half the length of the barrel. The junk ammo coated it's copper plating in the grooves and something I did not know is that OLD copper plated .22 ammo will coat your bore and destroy accuracy. I scrubbed it out with brushes and showed my friends the proof of chunks of copper and lead or I would never would have lived this one down. Whew! My huge ego was at stake here.................saved by the patches, but................................
I had more than one person come up to me and said, "YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER TO SHOOT THAT JUNK IN YOUR GUN". Yea, I guess so.
But we still had lots of laughs and loads of camaraderie. It was nice to hook up with far away friends, like Mark and Vicki , Jack XXX and his better half, Rick G and his crew, and many more good people who I don't even know their names. I always feel at home with the "gun crowd". ,Heard LOTS of neat and legal "on the beat" stories from a retired Philly cop. --------------------------------------------------------------Sixgun
This is a picture of Gunny unloading my gear into my tent while I am relaxing...see the boots?
This is another boring picture of what we shoot at.
Ha! I made my very own trophy, very similar to the ones that were given out.
Did not do so well on taking pictures over the weekend so I'll introduce you to "Twinkles", the cat from hell.
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Just not enough time for me to rearrange my current travel itinerary!
Griff,
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Ah, come on Griff! I'll even loan you "The Gunny" and you guys can snuggle up in your sleeper. (man, if "The Gunny" sees this, I'm dead) ----6
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I won't tell him, or take care of you myself for a certain deringer...!Sixgun wrote:Ah, come on Griff! I'll even loan you "The Gunny" and you guys can snuggle up in your sleeper. (man, if "The Gunny" sees this, I'm dead) ----6
Griff,
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There is a fine line between hobby & obsession!
AND... I'm over it!!
No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
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There is a fine line between hobby & obsession!
AND... I'm over it!!
No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
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I would love to do something like this with my Ruger MKII G'ment Target.....
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Good times and Good Luck!
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Ok, I'm gonna bring this new Apple I-pad. Maybe someone up there will have wifi thingy so I can post live. See you boys in a few days
Jack Kort-----you coming?-------6
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Jack,
I would love to be there with you fellows but my wife is still very weak from a medical procedure that was done a couple of weeks ago.
So I will have to be content with whatever updates you can give us.
Hope you hit them all....and a few for me please!
w30wcf
I would love to be there with you fellows but my wife is still very weak from a medical procedure that was done a couple of weeks ago.
So I will have to be content with whatever updates you can give us.
Hope you hit them all....and a few for me please!
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w30wcf wrote:Jack,
I would love to be there with you fellows but my wife is still very weak from a medical procedure that was done a couple of weeks ago.
So I will have to be content with whatever updates you can give us.
Hope you hit them all....and a few for me please!
w30wcf
John,
Best wishes for your wife's recovery!!
I wish I'd known about the shoot a week ago. Blondie had me rented out for this Sat and I couldn't reschedule.
jb
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+12ndovc wrote:John,w30wcf wrote:Jack,
I would love to be there with you fellows but my wife is still very weak from a medical procedure that was done a couple of weeks ago.
So I will have to be content with whatever updates you can give us.
Hope you hit them all....and a few for me please!
w30wcf
Best wishes for your wife's recovery!!
jb
Griff,
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There is a fine line between hobby & obsession!
AND... I'm over it!!
No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
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There is a fine line between hobby & obsession!
AND... I'm over it!!
No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
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i'm sure glad "Mr. Ingot" is back...not sure how we survived without him...almost super-hero status... :)
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Where's the promised update?
Griff,
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Griff wrote:Where's the promised update?
The update will be coming later on in the day. I got in at 9 last night after a 6 hour drive and I only had time to clean my dirty butt, eat, and check in with the boys. I'm off today but beings that I'm just a peon, I got a million things to get caught up on, but..........
The fun, some so-so pics, and the lies are just hours away!-------6
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Hence our anticipation of blow-by-blow reports. Alas, since you were probably in the thick of things, you were probably too busy.......? And, since you didn't immediately post... I'm left to ponder just how well you might have done???Sixgun wrote:Ok, I'm gonna bring this new Apple I-pad. Maybe someone up there will have wifi thingy so I can post live. See you boys in a few days
--6
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No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
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Thank you very much, except you should have omitted the words "almost" and "status". ............Mr. Perfection30wcf wrote:i'm sure glad "Mr. Ingot" is back...not sure how we survived without him...almost super-hero status...
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Sorry I missed the shoot, Jack, but my wife is having some health problems. So a long car trip was not possible. Glad you guys had a great time!
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Thanks Reds, It ain't been the same since you moved. I had to spend the weekend by myself in the tent because Gunny and his brother got a room at the No Tell Motel in Bradford. My rooming was free and his cost 2 C Notes------6Cimarron Red wrote:Sorry I missed the shoot, Jack, but my wife is having some health problems. So a long car trip was not possible. Glad you guys had a great time!
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2ndovc, Griff,
Thank you for the well wishes.
Red,
Hope your wife is doing better.
Sixgun,
Thank you for the report. Sorry to hear of your "misfortune". Shame on Gunny for not being supportive!
Hope you "kick his butt" for good measure at the next match.
I'll bet some of those black powder .22's would have cleaned your barrel out in short order since the bullets have a nice scrapper groove up front. Sorry I could not be there to give you some......
w30wcf
Thank you for the well wishes.
Red,
Hope your wife is doing better.
Sixgun,
Thank you for the report. Sorry to hear of your "misfortune". Shame on Gunny for not being supportive!
Hope you "kick his butt" for good measure at the next match.
I'll bet some of those black powder .22's would have cleaned your barrel out in short order since the bullets have a nice scrapper groove up front. Sorry I could not be there to give you some......
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Reads like your Gunny friend doesn't give you much slack. I'm very sure you wouldn't treat him in the same disrespectful manner if the rolls were reversed. Oh well, there's always next time, ...and at least you did save some bucks on your accommodations.
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