Dover Furnace

[Dave Suponski]

Long time member Craig Reynolds,My son Danny and I celebrated Presidents Day by burning some powder at Dover Furnace Sporting Grounds in Dover Plains ,NY I have been wanting to shoot this facility for a good long while and today was the day. This facility is first class all the way and on par with Addieville,Sandanonna or Pintail Point. Very challenging targets with a coded key operation. A great day!
1)Entrance

2) PGCA member Craig Reynolds

3)Shooting Station..The targets run up the hill about 2 feet of the ground..Good fun!

4)1890's D Grade 12 gauge,Parker transition gun 16 gauge 28" GHE,16 gauge 30"GHE

5) Original iron ore furnace on the property.

[Dave Suponski]

A few More

1) Autumn Daze gettin one

2) Craig gettin another

3) Very cool water tower

[charlie cleveland]

nice lookin place what did they use to make in the big furnance.. charlie

[william faulk]

Dave,I shot Sporting clays and a few of their FITASC stands last Friday after the hunt over at the Ten Mile Preserve.Both are owned by same people.It was great.Please see my posting on the Dover Plains hunt and Tower Shoot.

[Bill Murphy]

I often wondered how Dave Suponski learned so much about Parkers. Now I know. He hangs out with Craig Reynolds.

[Daryl Corona]

Way to go OP. Glad you had a good time and good weather. By the way, you don't work for the Feds so how did you get off today? Where are the pics of my boy Danny?

[Dean Romig]

Dave is self-employed... you wouldn't believe how many holidays he proclaims... oh, and the afternoons off to go shooting (makes me nauseous) :vconfused:


Hey!! Danny's MY boy!!

[Daryl Corona]

Yeah, but look at it this way Dean. If he's not working, Obama and the rest of the political bandits get no tax receipts for the day. If you are on a company payroll you are probably being paid for the day and so you'll pay taxes for the day. Dave is a financial wizard.

[Dave Suponski]

Daryl, I like the way you think....So you are saying I should shoot more and work less? I like that school of thought...:rolleyes: See Dean now thats what I call a solid train of thought....:)

[Fred Verry]

Charlie, I would guess the furnace smelted iron ore. Fred.

[Bill Murphy]

As Dean says, Dave is self employed. I understand he makes and installs Formica countertops, and getting rich doing it. He claims that he is learning granite, but slowly. Say hi to Danny for Linda and me.

[Chuck Bishop]

:shock::rotf::corn::p

To eightbore: :bowdown:

[Dave Suponski]

I hope you guys are having fun with all this....:rolleyes: I'm takin my Formica and goin home.....:rotf:

[charlie cleveland]

thanks fred.... charlie

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Charlie, there are several of those old furnaces scattered around Virgina, In the late stages of the Civil war they, the confederates needed iron for cannon barrels, some had good sources of ore and others did not, resulting in more than one cannon barrel bursting while in use. Tredegar iron works was the largest producer of cannons for the south. They were right outside Richmond, hope I spelled the name right. well so much for the history lesson.

[Richard Flanders]

Charlie: Iron ore consists primarily of iron oxide minerals such as magnetite, made of approx. 60% iron (Fe) plus oxygen. The goal is to separate the oxygen from the iron, which takes a lot of energy input in the form of heat, thus the furnace. You heat iron ore in the presence of carbon and flux, the carbon 'steals' the oxygen from the iron, leaving the iron behind. The carbon and oxygen combine to form carbon monoxide gas which goes away. Aluminum smelting is a similar process. This is the simplified and basic explanation.

[charlie cleveland]

thanks for the history lesson fellas....reckon any body needs any cannon barrels... charlie

[Eric Eis]

I hope you guys are having fun with all this....:rolleyes: I'm takin my Formica and goin home.....:rotf:

This is too easy......:rotf: don't you have formica or something similar in your kitchen....:shock::rotf:

[Chuck Bishop]

Dave,

You should have never posted pictures of your formica countertops. I think if I were you, I'd quickly replace those formica countertops in the kitchen with granite. We'll never let you live in peace:rotf: