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Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop
Pete,
That's a great High Overall score, congratulations and shooting a 95 with a GH configured as a field gun, I assume, is something to be proud of too.
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Thank you Chuck. That was quite a shoot back in '95 and the field of people I bested that day included Bill Anzaldi, Phil Wright, Mike Blaisdell and Cal Stinson (All-Americans) and many other quite capable shooters. Essentially I managed to shoot my lifetime best on three consecutive days. I have always said to win anything at a state shoot you have to have your best day(s) of the year and shoot well above one's average.
The GH is not that much of a handicap on the trap field. It was built for pigeons or trap, straight grip, full comb, 2" drop, 30" F/F, splinter forend double triggers. It was ordered in 1915 and requested to shoot full with both barrels with 1 1/4 ounce 7.5's (I am guessing pigeons were the intended target). The first time Scott let me shoot it I broke a 25 on the trap field and I told him if he ever sold it I wanted to be asked first. I very glad he remembered that 4 years ago. It's a great gun that Scott shot trap very well with too but now he is terrorizing the trap fields with his 10's :-)