Parker Wins Challenge

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Mike Franzen

Craig you should create an event, decide the rules, schedule a time and place and put out the invites. It would be easy to do at either Mike’s place or Ernie’s. Who knows, you might come up with something really popular. That’s what William Harden Foster did.

I’ve shot Foster’s game for well over FORTY years . I’ve no desire to get involved in creating etc . I’m more about arriving , pay , shoot and if I do well enough shoot off etc . The concept of competition is plain and simple as is the concept of for fun or pleasure . While both are fine etc I don’t exactly agree with them trying to be intertwined in a shall we say a main event . We have two separate Vintagers groups in the state of Virginia sort of putting on shoots , I was going to them semi regularly. However one group doesn’t care to keep score and of course when I shot with them I kept track of my own score , but I never did care for that it’s kinda nice to know where you stacked up among the competition on that day . Guess I shot to much skeet and trap in my quite younger days , so the competitive instinct in me hasn’t been lost over time .

[Bill Murphy]

How about a "claiming" shoot? We all shoot 50 birds, with guns that can be "claimed" by any other shooter for maybe $250 in order for the score shot with that gun to be considered as part of the winning scores. After all the high scoring shooters have their guns claimed for $250, and they refuse to give them up, their scores are disallowed and other lower scores take the win. Maybe some of the high scores will agree to give up their guns for $250, but probably very few. When the remaining ten scores from each team are tabulated, they can keep their guns and their scores. It works in horse racing and car racing, why not shotgun competition? The most interesting part of such an event is the auction for all forfeited shotguns at the end of the shoot. Imagine paying $650 for a gun that you sold for $250 just a few hours earlier.