Monday, September 1, 2014

Labor Day Shooting Extravaganza!

Well I supposed it'd be more accurate to say Labor Day Weekend Shooting Extravaganza. First some numbers:  3 .22 Rifles, 3 handguns, and 4 Shotguns. We fired off a couple hundred .22LR rounds, about a hundred 9mm, a handful of .45ACP, I'd guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 12ga shells, and a lot of dead clays.

Not all games were scored, in fact most weren't. After a bit of warm up, and just shooting around really, we were ready for Round 1. A simple trap shooting round, each took turns shooting 5 times each, till we had shot 25 times. Here are the results:

Round 1
MikeDrewJeffScottAnthony
Total168251823
Perfect10514


As you can see Jeff and Anthony cleaned shop. I should mention that what we call a perfect is 5/5 in a turn. The next round we introduced an idea my brother came up with last time we were shooting. A second shooter. If the first person misses then the second gets a chance at the clay and it is worth 2 points if hit. The second shooter would rotate so that everyone got a chance to "clean up" after everyone else. 

Round 2
MikeDrewJeffScottAnthony
Hit2211251519
Bonus 1021246
Perfect30501
Total3213371925
This round I did a lot better, very happy with that, even before the bonus points. Once again Jeff dominated. This was a lot of fun and definitely added a neat twist to the scoring. After this Anthony and his dad left and we decided to have a "chair game" quite simply we lined up the chairs, each took a seat, and one person worked the thrower. This was an absolute blast, if you'll pardon the pun. Much laughter was had by all.

Next event was a little "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!" I've got videos of that. The semiauto shotgun didn't seem to fare to well at this event. But brother Scott was a fast as ever on his Mossburg. That brief event out of the way we moved on to some target shooting with the .22 bolt action. Here are the results:


Once again Jeff wins. I was a decent second though. I'll be working on uploading some videos later, so at the very least you'll know what get off my lawn is.

Blockhead

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