I almost bought a cep c grade a few years ago but it was too much project even for my tastes

You are a long barrel magnet my friend.

Keavin, I’ll be heading down with a buddy. He’s from the Lancaster area, I’m from NEPA. Other guys from my area and from the Berks Co area will be there too. We arrive Tuesday afternoon. Shooting the Challenge events plus 12 or 13 events on the course.

Rick, my buddies and I shoot all the Challenge events and a ton of events on the course. Very seldom do we have to wait in line. Only time we really have to wait is for our squad to be called on the line for Challenge qualifiers. For $1/target we have trappers and can take home a lot of “BLING”! Drake Landing is very nice, but every time I shot there on Wednesday we’d shoot 200 targets, have lunch and have a cart rental and I’d pay over $130. I don’t mind paying extra to win stuff. That’s how our crew rolls.

Agree 100% with Mike on Drakes. Good targets and good people there at Drakes but come on now, how many times are you going to shoot basically the same targets? Yeah I've been told they make some minor changes from day to day. Also, lunch is very good but not for the ~ $23.00 I was charged the last several times I was there.

Frank, what do you mean the same targets at Drakes? I have shot the same course over the years (after we got tried of Bills same targets year after year) and target presentation has been different everytime, how about a target that skips across a pond and the second that rabbit that rolls across the water and then drops ...:shock: You are going to compare Bill's targets to Drakes presentations, really. :rolleyes:

I go to the southern to shoot and over the course of four days I can shoot 500 targets with a cart at Drakes for much less than what 300 targets at Deep River would cost. No one forces you to buy lunch and the food is much better than the food trucks at D.R. I shoot to have fun as I'm not good enough to try to win an event therefore Drakes holds much more appeal for me. I spend enough time and money in the tents as it is:eek:

a Pa gang shoot
 

Mike,
maybe we do a Pa, gang shoot!:cool: I am going down Thurs and only plan shooting at the event.

Eric (and Rich), so you arrive at Drakes on that Wednesday and shoot the targets on two courses, go back on Thursday and targets are pretty much the same, go back on Friday and targets are pretty much the same, etc. Some minor changes from day to day. To each his own …..

I don't know how anyone who hasn't shot Bill Kempfer's (sp?) Southern targets over recent years knows they're the same year after year, but even so that can give you volume shooters familiarity with the presentations and an edge so to speak. Practice makes perfect. And one or both of you should be able to shoot 50 ex 50 or 100 ex 100 while in competition at the Southern. :) There's one club I shoot at quite often and some of the regular shooters complain if the targets aren't changed every few weeks. Proprietor's reply is usually something like, "have you come in with a score of 100 yet"?

I think most members of classic side-by-side collector groups know that our future success and the continuation of the passion we all have for these guns lies in our bringing young folks into the fold and let them shoot and enjoy them no matter which factory they came from.

And I was pretty surprised that Bill’s new ad for the Spring Southern at Deep River has a picture of the kids who participated in last year’s American Classic Youth Shoot but not a word about it appears anywhere in the ad.

Don’t you all find that a bit strange too?





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