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Kenny Graft 01-05-2014 06:54 AM

Wanted info Prospect Hall vintagers shoot
 
This sounds like a great time from last years post. I would like to join the fun in 2014. Its only 4 hours from my home in Ohio...(-: Need info: best place to stay for couple, and all the planed events. Would love to see a 410 shoot!Thanks all... SXS ohio

Daryl Corona 01-05-2014 09:39 AM

Stay tuned, Kenny. As the time gets closer we will fill you in on all the particulars. You will love this venue and I'm looking forward to putting a face with your name.

Dave Noreen 01-05-2014 10:35 AM

Interesting. I've heard there were only 18 shooters, that some of the big dealers that were supposed to be there weren't, and that another big dealer packed up and left after one day. What is the truth?

Mark Ouellette 01-05-2014 10:54 AM

I was there and there were many more than 18 shooters!

It was a nice shoot with some mid-sized dealers attending. I scored a couple of Lefevers at a great price and fell in love with a gun which I acquired later that summer. I also saw and handled guns from Reuters collection brought by their caretaker Jonathan E. Those included a B Grade Parker 8 gauge and many Becker-built AH Fox guns!

So, it was a nice shoot not as big or as fun as Hausmann's NE SxS Classic but good nevertheless. Work will preclude my attendance this year but I encourage those within a day's drive to participate.

With each shoot I meet new SxS enthusiasts. At Prospect Hall I had conversed at length for the first time with Bill Murphy, Chuck Bishop, Fred Verry, and other PGCA members. There is nothing like a face to face conversation to get to know people...

Thanks,
Mark

Bill Murphy 01-05-2014 11:47 AM

Dave, lighten up a bit. If you held a shoot in Homer, the first year would be a little light too. When you say "West Virginia", most people think the end of the earth at the end of an eight mile dirt road. Prospect Hall is about an hour and a half from DC. Chuck and John ran one ad in the Shooting Sportsman, that's it. And it was right on top of the shoot. I talked to John this morning and told him that the shoot was being talked up on the double gun forums now. I will talk to Chuck later today and get Traci to update the dates on the two websites. OH, the two websites. wvagunshow.com and doublegun.net. Go to various parts of the website for phone contact etc. Don't use Chuck's email address. I hear he is a busy guy lately. Yes, he has a "jay oh bee".

Rich Anderson 01-05-2014 12:05 PM

This was a great shoot esp for it's first time. One dealer did pack up but he got hammered the night befor and dropped 5 figures (as in cash) at a local casino. Another big dealer had a family emergency which prevented him from coming, thats just life.

Nice venue, great people and very well run. I look forward to this years shoot.

Kenny if you decide to come bring a 410 and we can have a shoot:)

Harold Lee Pickens 01-05-2014 05:39 PM

There was more people there than I have fingers and toes. That's all the higher I can count cause I live in WV
Really, it was quite nice, and I imagine this year will be even better. I met Big Friend Ten, COB, Double Lab, and others and I'm still going back.

David Hamilton 01-05-2014 07:35 PM

It was the first year and it should develop into a great event. David

Bill Murphy 01-05-2014 08:03 PM

There are .410 events on the program, Kenny. Check the program.

Kenny Graft 01-07-2014 07:01 AM

Great...my little Parker repro will be hard to beat! ...(-: Its scary how well it kills clay targets out to 25-30 yards. I will look forward to it. SXS ohio...(-:


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