I did - but I thought it was just a loose screw - which either way - is probably the case..???

:corn:

:rotf:

John

Looks like a hoot! Thanks for the pictures would like to stroll along thoes parkers and look.

After missing my 16th straight at trap using Dave's VHE Trap gun I told him "I think I'll just go drown myself in the pond..." to which Dave replied "Do you think you can keep your head down that long?" :knowbetter:

Thanks Larry and the rest of you guy's I think....:rolleyes: I ended the day with a 69 out of 100. Two bird's short of third so I was kinda happy. But the high light of my day was shooting John's .410 skeet gun. That is one hard hitting gun! I am gonna post an album here in a minute for all to enjoy.

John's 410? Dave you know he has borrowed it from somebody :)




All the practice yesterday paid off. Scott can verify, I shot a drake mallard high overhead pass at 60 yards with my mighty 10, it was coming down near verticle and still showing some signs of life and I hit it again with my second shot :cheers:. (Of course he also watched me miss an incomer at 25 yard up after the first barrel was a dud):crying:.

Scott got a decoying black duck. Getting out hunting today so late in the season with such warm temps was a bonus.

Yea - you and Dean shot up all my .410 reloads as well... Dean called my .410 a "pea-shooter" and you called it "hard hitting"..?? :)

Damn - all I know is I had to clean my little .410 when I got home from all your shooting - and now I'm down about 100 rounds of my .410 reloads...??!!!

:shock:

:rotf:

:bigbye:

Now that the Parker is cleaned up - down to the reloading bench I go....

;)

John

John, Dean called it a pea shooter because he couldn't hit anything with it....:rolleyes:Maybe it's time to send Dean to the Rich Anderson Shooting Academy.....:shock:

Wait a minute.....Bob Fabian helped use up some of them .410 shells too ya know.....:whistle:

Trick Shots
 

Thanks Pete for a great day and thanks to Greg Miller, who I met Saturday, for the good words about my shooting.
Those trick shots I do with doubles on skeet station 8 are the result of a different kind of gun fit. As I pick the gun up, and rest it on my hip before the call, both index fingers are parallel to the barrel axes. When I see the bird I point to it with both hands and the right finger goes to the trigger; I finish the mount and take the second bird.

Best, Austin

WOW! You're pretty hard on your friends... I'd hate to be on the 'other side'. :eek:

I'll have you know I finished 5th overall and both my skeet rounds were with my .410 Skeet-er and John's .410 VHE and, may I add, both are dedicated skeet guns. I shot miserably at skeet with my 28ga. Repro because of gun function failure. :bigbye:

Just kiddin there buddy....:whistle:

:eek:First there was Bob Dole hawking a little blue pill for "ED", now the world is introduced to Gun Dysfunction "GD" by Dean Romig. This probably explains why over the years I have heard "GD" after a miss :)

You used your 410 Skeet-er :eek: You mean a bicycle company gun?????????? This was a Parker shoot, your admission is a forfeiture, 5th place to DNQ!

No, no, no.....

He meant the "Skeet" gun - not a gun made by a scooter company or something...?? In fact - he shot for SCORE ONLY with the Parker .410....

John

(PS - Dean - you now - officially - owe me BIG TIME ;) )

OK I did see a scooter gun or too in the rack but they disappeared quickly, probably the owners were riddled with shame and quickly hid them. However shooting a 410 in an open competition pretty much defines the term bringing a knife to a gunfight :rotf:

Dean owes you big time, wow I thought you had enough borrowed stuff from him but now you demand more, you are a cruel man John D.

I do believe that Dean referred to my .410 as a "PEA-SHOOTER"... I'd much rather have a knife in a gun fight then a "pea-shooter"..???

;)

JD

Not only that, but wasn't Dean the one you chastised for taking your guns apart in front of you as you took them out of your car?

Come to think of it.......

Yes....??

I have no idea WHY he does that, but whenever I hand him one of my Parkers - off comes the fore-end..??? Nothing more - just the fore-end..??

I usually just shake my head in disbelief - but this time - just had to speak out... I actually have a picture of him doing it to my 20GA D-Grade DAM - when he thought no one was watching.....

Oh well....

;)

JD

You mean Scott K's 20ga D-Grade Dam?

Geez and all this time I thought it was my 20gauge Dam D grade.....:banghead:

Did anyone find the owner of the green coat or the BHE 20 that were left behind in the club house? I haven't seen any mention of them and am just curious, I thought someone was going top post a "Lost & Found" note on the forum. Or, did I somehow miss it?

Paybacks to John are . . . e a s y :bigbye:

Robin, I found the green coat but no sign of the BHE 20.

I have yet to see a "Lost & Found" post either.

Who's coat is this anyway?.... Oh, there's a fully checkered ejector forend in the pocket... hmmmm :corn:

Bill Janelle returned from taking his daughter to the airport when I was closing up. Seeing that he was only low man by one bird even when he missed shooting an entire field of skeet I let him take the first 4 birds from station 1 and he is no longer in last place. It was his green LL Bean jacket.

The BHE was actually a 16ga on a 0 frame with 26" barrels and an SST but I don't know anything about it really :bigbye:

Oops... No, I really don't have the jacket... just joking before actually.

Dean

Hey, I thought it was a 20 and I was shooting all 16's, I need to check the safe. I think it may be my gun!


Back from checking..... nope. It's not mine.

Lost and Found list from 1/1/2011 shoot:


Found - A new excuse for a low skeet score Dean Romig (the old I was shooting a 410 excuse)

Found - A flinch, Scott K.

Found - Green LL Bean Jacket (claimed by Bill Janelle)

Found - The ability to keep one's head down on the stock while shooting, Dave Suponski

Found - An extra couple of pounds by anyone who had lunch.

Lost - Some hearing by anyone standing within 10 yards of Frank Cronin while he was shooting trap with black powder 10 ga loads.

Lost - 16 straight birds in trap with a borrowed gun, Dean Romig (I shot a 410 at skeet, I borrowed a gun for trap, anyone else see a trend here?)

Lost - Everyone's excuses for missing high house 8 at skeet after Austin demonstrated it can be done by shooting from the hip.

Lost - .........................John Dunkle

Oh and one more.......Found-Pete's ability to be high gun three years in a row....:whistle:

errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Dave it would be "Found - Pete's ability(luck) to be Hi-Gun"......Scott was Hi-Gun in 2009 and 2010 :corn:

Oops.......Sorry Scott....:bowdown:

Ahem.... the "borrowed" trap gun was forced upon me by a "friend" then when I hollered to him to "Please bring me my own gun!" he brought me another "borrowed" gun which was not mine..... Anyone see a trend here? Was I set up to fail? Hey, I'm not making up alibis.... (is conspiricy an alibi?)

:rotf:
:rotf::rotf:
:rotf::rotf::rotf:

Well if he is really a friend I would expect him to bring you something better than you already had.

Conspiracy?.......:duck:

Dave,Dave,Dave, boy did that hurt:nono: scott

Scott, I apologize again...:banghead: I think it's a lack of paying attention......:rolleyes:

New Year Shoot
 

Pete; That round of protection, with the 10ga guns backing up the 12's was the most fun in years. We should make it a feature of any PGCA shooting event.

Best, Austin

Thank you Austin, yes it was fun. I have always enjoyed shooting a protection. Years ago when we had a lot of regular trapshooters a protection was how we closed the evening. The idea of the having a 10ga backup a 12ga on five two man teams was a completely impromptu idea on my part, made possible when I realized we had five 10ga guns/shooters in attendance. I did not want a situation to develop where two 10ga shooters were paired up. Pulling 12ga names out of the hat and then 10g names out of a hat made the team selection a random event. Will try to do it again next year and please spread the word of what we did so others can enjoy at other events.

The only downside is the 12ga shooter gets to shoot at every target while the 10ga shooter gets the crumbs. However I know Scott and I enjoy shooting a little clean up on the trap field with the 10 bores when we get the chance and I am sure others do too.

For those that didn't know I was paired up with Robin Lewis who was shooting a 16ga and did very well. Robin somehow was out of shells when it came for us to shoot our last bird. I told Robin to fake it, mount his gun and call pull. I loaded my gun with two shells but managed to break the bird on my first shot :rotf: John happened to be taking pictures and I think he was the only one wise to our improvised last shot when we did it :)

Yes, that was a hoot! Some of the 10 ga. shooters shot so quickly after the 12 ga. shot was taken there really wasn't time for the 12 ga. shot to get to the bird. Those 10 ga. shooters needed nerves of steel in order not to disqualify.