August Vintagers Shoot and Dinner

[Clark McCombe]

Dear fellow Vintagers and other side by side Enthusiasts,

The Shooting Party is scheduled for August 22 this year at Northeast Kingdom Clays in Burke VT. This is a great venue with a first class fully automated sporting clays course, five stand, skeet, and trap fields. For those who don’t know, this event is a simulated driven bird shoot akin to the grand English and Scottish shoots in the UK. Clays are thrown in high random flurries toward the guns simulating driven grouse and pheasants. It is fun and most exciting. We have warm up sporting clays and five stand on Friday before the main shoot on Saturday. This year the venue will be shifted to more closely replicate driven shooting, especially high birds. It should be challenging but fun. There will be single guns with loaders, paired guns with loaders and team events. We will also try to separate hammer guns from others so that the shooting is fair to all. On Saturday night we usually gather for a formal dinner at one of the area restaurants.

I would like to invite you all to join us in Burke for this fun and exciting shoot. We encourage all to dress in appropriate clothing, if you can (but not necessary) , to provide an atmosphere of the grand estate shoots of yesteryear. However we will require at the minimum collared shirts and no jeans or cutoffs, and it is definitely side by side guns only in any gauge.

The area has lots of lodging in the form of B and B’s, motels and the Burke Mtn. hotel. Some of us are planning on renting Airbnb’s at Burke Mtn. for the social aspect of the weekend and we try to do a potluck dinner on Friday night. Should be fun.

I am trying to get a sense of who can come. It would be great if we could have a good showing of Vintagers because the significance of this shoot is not really understood by other shooters. We do invite anyone to participate so there will be opportunity to mix with some of our club members and others.
Please let me know so we can plan.
Thanks and hammers back!

Jack Dudley;
woodcockone@yahoo.com
Clark Mccombe
Limcfarmer@aol.com
516 971 2011

[Double Lab]

That sounds really nice Clark. Thanks for the info.

[Clark McCombe]

Hello Vintagers and Friends,
Our next event will be held at Petersham Gun Club, 158 Nelson Road, Petersham, MA, on Sunday, July 12.

The schedule will be as follows:
9:00 a.m. - 10 - Check-in and socialization
10:00 a.m. - Shoot 50 sporting clay targets in squads
Break to change guns
An additional 50 targets in squads
Payment to the Club

Late lunch/early dinner at
110 Grill
307 Market Drive
Athol. MA

[Clark McCombe]

I'm waiting for the swatches of the Manx Tartan to arrive. Then "Someone" gets to work!

[Mike of the Mountain]

Manx tartan??

[edgarspencer]

Here ya go Clark.

https://clan.com/design/2070-Isle-of-Man-Manx-Hunting/

[edgarspencer]

This got me to thinking, Clark. I can't say I ever saw a Manxman wearing a kilt. Something about straddling a motorcycle with your 'equipment' hanging out is disturbing.

[Clark McCombe]

I think they wore kilts before there were motorcycles... But I guess they did ride horses.
In any case, I'm looking forward to putting on my hand sewn kilt to go shooting with a guy wearing a grass skirt.
Both of us carrying Parkers.
That picture might recruit some younger members to the organization!

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Clark McCombe

I think they wore kilts before there were motorcycles... But I guess they did ride horses.
In any case, I'm looking forward to putting on my hand sewn kilt to go shooting with a guy wearing a grass skirt.
Both of us carrying Parkers.
That picture might recruit some younger members to the organization!

You'll need 8-9 yards of nice Harris Tweed. He'll need one, maybe two, bales of straw.