I'd like to echo everything Mark and Rich said. This is one of best shoots, if not
the best shoot, in the country for S X S shooters. This year was particularly good (and lucky!
) for yours truly . . . It was raining Saturday morning when our squad started out on Station 8 of the Super Sporting Clays course. We shot the 10 stations, when finished I went back to my Explorer only to discover that I was missing the left lens of my Decot Hy-Wyd shooting glasses. I asked the other squad members if they had noticed it was missing, one squad member said he thought he had noticed it gone about mid-way through the round, but figured I had removed it because of some eye dominance issue. I then mentioned it to several others, one of which was Rich Anderson. Rich said he'd look for it when he was out on the course. I told him it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Fast forward to the afternoon, a shooting partner and I thought we'd take a ride around the course to see if anyone may have found it and put it on one of the scorer's stands. When entering the course a Smilin' Rich was coming out of the course and asked what a left lens of a pair of Decot's was worth as he pulled the lens out of his breast pocket. I couldn't believe it! I asked where he found it and he said it was laying on the ground at Station 8. It turns out I shot the entire round without one of the lenses and never realized it! I owe you Rich!
My luck continued . . . I shot poorly enough to win the B-Class Lewie. Class winners get their choice of several prize guns. I chose a 12-ga. Parker GH with 30" damascus barrels choked F/F that Mark Beasland refinished.
My luck continued some more . . . When shooting side events one buys tickets. You put your shooter's number on the these tickets and they get thrown in a drum and then drawn during the awards ceremony for raffle prizes. These raffle prizes are generously donated by exhibitors and others. It's these donations that make this shoot so special. My number was drawn twice. I won a hand-engraved money clip donated by Bob Strosin and rust bluing of a set of barrels donated by Mark Robson.
Like what has been said before, this is a great shoot and one all S x S shooters should put on their schedule by making a trip to the northwoods of Wisconsin in June.
Pics of my winnins':