[J.B. Books]

A few of things that I encountered when dealing with staff and volunteers of the Warrington club at the VGC beyond those things already mentioned. When you signed up for the main event they had staggered start times. 9AM. 11AM and 1PM. We wanted to shoot at 9AM so we could finish up and go see the museum at the Army War College in the afternoon. I thought I would be getting a score card for the 9AM round if it was available. Instead I was told there was no guarantee that we could start at 9AM, instead we were told to go stand under a canopy and wait for a trapper to take us out on the course if there was room for the 9AM start. I explained we won't be able to shoot at the later times as we had plans and asked if I could turn our cards back in if we could not shoot at 9AM. We were told NO. So I had to gamble and possibly waste $180.

We got to start at 9AM and had to walk out to the furthest station where targets were in the woods. By the second station I realized with so many broken targets that I would probably need more shells than the extra box I had taken with me because of all the do overs. My truck was a long ways away. At the end of the second station a person from the club came out to reset the targets and apologized saying he had to set up the targets the night before in the dark. This caused long delays at our first three stations as squads backed up on the shotgun start.

We had some amazing squad mates, two teenage boys both shooting Model 21's, 14 and 16 year old and their mentor. Both were shooting fantastic but the 14 year old was shooting lights out. About mid course we were in an elevated shooting stand and there was a low dropping incomer. It was a difficult second shot. The 14 year old was doing the best of all of us and getting solid breaks on that target and the trapper/scorer kept calling them lost with the rest of the squad telling the scorer it was a dead bird. The scorer had taken a seat behind some brush and couldn't see the target being hit below his line of sight. This went on for the entire squad as the scorer didn't change his position when that was suggested. Unfortunately I think it rattle the young man and hurt his composure costing him some targets.

I shrugged it off, sharing what happened with a few friends and went about my way.
All in all I had a great time but mainly because I was enjoying all the tourist activities available in Gettysburg, Carlyle and later Harpers Ferry and Antietam. Bottom line I would love to go back to Gettysburg but not another VGC at Warrington.