When I went to the VC at Ernie's in 2019 I thought attendance was about the same as the June shoot with a little different mix of people. I always thought the shoot was too close to the start of bird/small game season for many people, especially those who have take vacation days to hunt.

I wonder if the ammo shortage is having any effect?

Hopefully the forecast improves, if not think of all the primers and powder we will save :)

However many are there won’t stop our crew! I have seven events to shoot Thursday so if you want to chat it’ll be later in the day. Like the Lone Ranger, it’ll be a cloud of dust and a hardy “Hi -Ho Silver, away!!”

Please remember to bring Chuck your "Favorite Parker" for the display table. Emphasis on "PLEEEEEZE". Have a great time fellas !

RST posted the following on FB this morning. Three box limit per shooter.

RST is at Hausmann Hidden Hollows Sporting Clays.
35m · Friendsville, PA ·
Thank you to the Vintage Gunners for providing powder so we could load shells for the SxS Championship this week. There is a limited supply, so we will have a limit of 3 boxes of shells to make it fair.
Hope to see a lot of you there.

I was noodling over some classic upland literature this evening, and….

It may be of interest to competitors in the Fox Upland Gun Championship that the 6 lbs. 13 oz. max gun weight, whatever the official calculation for the rule was, accords exactly with the upper limit of these venerable specs. :

“…and many an enthusiastic grouse hunter, who finds a twelve too much of a load late on an October day, will get along very well with a gun weighing six and a half or six and three quarters." -- William Harnden Foster, NEW ENGLAND GROUSE SHOOTING, page 96.

Looks like I'm off the fence, will be leaving early tomorrow morning, getting there around 12:30. Traveling light, no Gator, no setters, not camping out, only bringing a few guns and staying in Vestal . Not going to shoot a whole lot, just need to be around friends and hopefully meet some new ones--Andy Sacco, when will you be there?
Leaving mid/late Fri. afternoon for home.

PM sent Harold