Vintage Gunners Cup
 

Attendance looked great yesterday- weather looks OK for today. Banquet tonight - good times, good friends.

Just snapped one quick photo of the tent yesterday- most of the day I spent fending people away from duBray’s AA Parker. If I accepted all of the offers to shoot the gun at $2 each I’d be leaving wealthy! :rotf:

Raise the shooting fee to $10. And charge the $2 for handling and retire

More pics please.

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Weather has been perfect. Shooting great. People super friendly. And the company exquisite.

Fantastic time today, Saturday. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay for the banquet. Weather was great, everyone friendly and so many ways to spend money. Oh my. My father and I had a great time. Now, I just need to win the PFCA raffle:)

Great time

I'll post some pics after the drive home

Kathy G. took some photos.

Any help with completing captions or correcting inaccuracies is appreciated.

REC

#1--tent; Parker-Fox Challenge trophy displayed
#2-- with Dean Romig
#3--gathering behind the Parker gun display tables
#4--Kathy Romig and Margaret Bishop
#5--Kathy and Dean Romig
#6--post-prandial
#7--the silent auction set-up;name card issuing, etc., etc. team: Kathy Romig; Margaret Bishop and Deb Frey

Excellent pics. Does anyone know where the scores will be posted?

more photos taken by Kathy G.

again, any help with completions and corrections is appreciated.

#1--Dean Romig receives Distinguished Service award from PGCA President Tom Wooden
#2--Mike Franzen presents Jeff Kuss with Waterfowl Gun People's Choice Award 1st Prize for displaying his Cerritos Gun Club 16 gauge AAHE
#3--Dean Romig receives the Charlie Price Literary Award
#4--Mike Franzen, event organizer
#5--Dean R. in familiar pose -- doing the heavy-lifting
#6--Howard Lowensteiner receives People's Choice Award 2nd Prize for displayed Waterfowl Gun from Craig Larter and Mike Franzen (B-Grade; top-lever; Damascus; 7-frame; 8-gauge, 1893 Columbian Exposition gun

#7--Parker guns displayed
#8--self explanatory
#9-- vintage

Everyone looks so YOUNG! I had a great time but, after two full days, I was unable to stay for the dinner. So sorry. I am especially disappointed that I didn't get to visit with Dean, Larry, and wives. I did get to see some Parker guys that I haven't seen for a long time because of physical problems. I won't be back on Sunday because two days was about enough. In the Sandanona days, five days was not enough.

a couple more photos taken by Kathy G.

#1-- Mark Kircher receives from Mike Franzen Waterfowl Gun People’s Choice Award 3rd Prize for display of his Widgeon Duck Club 20 gauge DHE.
#2-- Frank Finch is acknowledged
#3-- Clay's station 1

Looks like you all had great weather and a good time. Just one question, in the photos it looks like a garage door............ in the background, where was the annual meeting held?

I was not able to attend but want to thank all that did and made our 25th PGCA Anniversary banquet a huge success! Wishing the next twenty-five years to be even better!! 🤗😊

The banquet/meeting was held on site at Hopkins. The large multipurpose room was just fine.

It was a lot of fun for me and Mills. Great camaraderie, great weather, great shooting and great guns.

We missed you Bill.

160 shooters results on winscore.

http://www.winscoreonline.com/view_r...nament_id=3739

Main event Sunday attendance low due to cold soaking rain all day. Hopkins does a great job rain out of the courses control .

William

The Charlie Price Literary Award was actually conceived by Bill Mullins to be given to two people each year, this being the inaugural year.

Mike Franzen received the other CPLA for his work producing the Parker Chronicles column in almost every issue since its inception a few years ago.

Very Nice Work Mike! Thank You!





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Dean, I was very very happy to see you receive the CPLA. There is no question you deserve it for all the work you do. To be honest I was very surprised when Tom Wooden announced I was selected to also receive it. I just never thought about anything like that. I felt very humbled by the honor. I don’t know who was on the selection committee but thank you all for the acknowledgment. It was wonderful.

Xxx

Eric, the room was set up very elegantly. To hold the banquet off site would have been a nightmare. This part of the Upper Shore is like Kansas, nothing is close to where you are standing. Sorry I couldn't attend, but I did spend a little time in the room, visiting.

Did everyone or anyone notice that we had a Donald Trump flyover on Saturday afternoon? I think he was returning from his New Jersey resort, flew right over the Hopkins Farm.

Hey Bill, thanks for the kind words about the banquet. I think John Davis asked the President to fly over in tribute to the pgca’s 25th anniversary. John has a lot of clout in high places ;-)

Here is an album with photos. I will post on a few threads

http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=869

Funny, all I saw fly over was a crop duster and a lot of edge on, looping, curling targets. Now I know why I don't shoot there more often. Boring.

Now the 5 stand targets for the challenge were a much better mix of crossers, loopers and quartering targets which really kept my interest up, as was the 5 stand Craig had set up for the waterfowl gun guys.

If Trump really did fly over it would have been nice to let all of us know so we could give him a big thumbs up!