12th Annual Addieville Fun Shoot
 

Time to post this up so that anyone planning on attending can make the time.

12th Annual New England Fun Shoot
Addieville East Farm
Mapleville ,Rhode Island
Saturday April 22nd 2017
Rain Date Sunday April 23rd 2017
Shooting starts at 9 AM
Grills will be available and all the rest as in years past
Also golf carts are available for rental
This will be a great tune -up for the Southern event that takes place the following weekend.
Venue will be 100 targets Sporting Clays,Lunch, Five Stand if you please.

Also I will do t-shirts with a new design? if anyone wants one but I need a minimum order of 12 for my silk screen guy.



So mark your calenders.This is a great day spent with fellow PGCA members..
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I need to see a picture of the new design before I commit.... it better be a good one :corn:






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Ya Dean me too.....:rolleyes: If there is enough interest I'll come up with something tasteful.....

I'll buy one no matter what the design - after all, it will be a unique collector's item some day.





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like the oval parker brothers gun patch you have on your avatar pic ?? :corn:

Now THAT'S something I would pay a premium for!





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Dave, i,ll buy one as well extra large.

I'll take one too Dave, XL please. Thanks!

Dave, please put me down for a medium! --allan

Dave, i'm in for one too, XXX please.

Me too, I think I am a small:shock: But I will take a large.
scott

BRAVO on this year's Tee-shirt design, OP!!!

You are truly the embodiment of "OLD" & "RELIABLE!" :whistle:

TOOL will take a dozen in European Cut, sil vous plait.

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I'll take one also, XL please.

One week to go fellas..... sorry there won't be shirts. My silk screen guy went out of business :cuss:

How will we ever know who's on our team?





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I'm sure we will still have a good time Dave, thanks for putting this together.

Gents, Just a quick reminder many of us are bringing sandwiches to eat for lunch but if you desire there will be grills available to cook on. So plan accordingly.

We should be there around 8:30, or just before, to sign waivers and visit before Jack goes over the safety aspects of shooting at his facility. Then we squad up and head for the SC field. Shooting begins at 9 a.m.





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Dean, Is Kathy coming? I hope...I hope.....:)

FYI. Addieville is requiring non-tox shot for field hunts. They asked my son and I to shoot steel when we were there in December for a put-hunt. Talked to the GM about it and as I was shooting a Win M21 he let me shoot lead (not his preference) my son shot steel (purchased there) in his Beretta O/U. GM stated that for a large major sporting clay tournament, shooters expend 7-8 tons of lead over 3-4 days. For field hunts they prefer non-tox shot and invision same for clays in the future. Going non-tox at vintage gun events will certainly put a financial hurt on the shooters. In any gun, 100-200 rounds of bismuth, steel or other non-tox will certainly make for an expensive weekend. Glad though, that they are looking at how to clean up their lead issues.

Yes Dave, Kathy and Cam are coming with me. She's really looking forward to it and to going to Hausmann's too.

Regarding lead shot at Addieville - the new no tox rule must be in regard to the stocked birds ingesting shot along with grit for their crops. I guess that could result in high lead levels in these birds' flesh.

However, scientific studies have concluded that lead from lead shot does not adversely affect the environment or ground water as has always been thought. Lead, washed from shot, even from acid rain, is extremely minimal and stays very close to the surface of the ground.
We had all of these tests done on our trap and Skeet fields which have been in use for three decades and more.





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Thats awesome Dean! Cant wait to meet Cam!

I should have posted a message earlier, but I am looking forward to this on Saturday. It will be good to see and meet PGCA members and of course do some shooting with a Parker or two.

See you Saturday morning!

Jay

Now that my core body temperature has reached 52 degrees Fahrenheit, I just want to say that today's gathering at Addieville was by far thee most enjoyable time this Fox guy ever spent with Team Parker!! (Oddly enough I tend to think the feeling was mutual??) The show and tell session was in a word, EPIC and that fresh caught, Block Island Ahi and NH crow tenderloin was simply over the top! Can't wait to see you guys next year!! OP really knows how to pick 'em!! :banghead::crying:

Warmest Regards,

Ansley H.

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Pretty cold and damp but a great day none the less. We had about 25 shooters show up to enjoy the company and fellowship of like minded Parker lovers. Thank you all for coming!

Dave,
Thanks again for putting it together. It was really great to shoot with Dean's grandson Cam and I predict by next year he will be showing up some of us old guys.

What's the point of Tool posting his High School picture, I don't get it?:)

Thanks Dave for doing this. It was great to shoot with Edgar and Allan McLane. Very impressed to see the Tool and Mr. Plunkett. I heard that Stub Twist was there but I had to leave at noon to get the last stuff out of my Cape house before they tear it down.
Next year it will be 80 degrees.

George, it's always fun to shoot with you, and you were in predictably good spirits, in spite of probably freezing you a$$ off, dressed in shorts. It was 43and a cold rain, but we all had fun. With any luck, I'll be walking again by next years shoot.
Dean, I hesitate to rat on the grandson, But he was eyeing a DHE pretty hard in the candy store.

I had a great time as well and thanks Dave for organizing this shoot. I got to put some mores faces with names from the PGCA forum which was nice. I gained some more Parker knowledge talking to everyone, which was good for this relatively new collector. Such a great group of people and a lot of fun despite the cold and rain! Already looking forward to next year...

As long as it was a sub-gauge I'm okay with it... but he better get a paper route or hit his parents up for a raise in his allowance if he's going to satisfy those 'champagne' tastes.





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Grandpa's make great sponsors! That why he brought you along.

Black & White for that 'nostalgic' effect. I remember this station especially because Cam broke both the incoming crosser and the outgoing crosser as a report pair.

It was fun shooting with Cam on his first time shooting every target on a 100 bird course. He broke about 20 - 25%

Skeet will be next.

(As a safety note: - Cam had ear protection but I admit guilt in that I never even thought of eye protection. It was an oversight because both Kathy and I wear glasses and simply don't give it a second thought.)



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Same station, different report pair.


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Dave, as of the Monday before the Addieville Fun Shoot I had very reason to believe that I would be there. Moreover, I would have been accompanied by a skeet-shooting buddy who is slowly developing a curiosity about vintage guns. And, he a facility for them in spite of his oft-expressed yearnings for a Kolar or Krieghoff. He has asked to try out my father's Parkers when we were shooting sporting clays or skeet and done really well with them.

But, at noon-time Monday I got a call from my employer about a scheduling change, and by Saturday I was on my way to Miami to go to sea for three weeks. That .phone call wiped out a number of events for me -- the Northeast Cutlery Collectors Association annual knife show "extravaganza", in Mystic, Connecticut; the Salt Water Lure Collectors Show on Cape Cod; the annual American Bluefin Tuna Association meeting in Massachusetts and any chance of making it to the PGCA Hall of Fame Banquet.

Thank you for organizing the event. It sounds like it was another rewarding get-together to break targets in Addieville, including such features as the "show and tell" and the ineffable Parker-Fox dialectic.

At least I do get a considerable measure of vicarious enjoyment out of the Addieville Fun Shoot if merely reading the accounts posted on the PGCA Forum and the report-to-follow in PARKER PAGES.
Thanks again.
REC