Another Great Northern update

[Mark Beasland]

The details have been worked out for the new events.

1. Maker's Challenge
The challenge will be part of the main event. When you sign in we will ask what gun you will use in the Super Sporting event. All scores posted of each maker will be compared and the top 3 scores will make up a "Team" for that maker. Then those top scores will be compared by make to determine which maker's team scored the best. Tie breaker stations will determine the winner in the event of a tie.

2. Hammergun Event
The 5 stand will be used to determine a winner of each gauge shot with a hammergun for those who wish to participate. It can be shot as many times as someone wants with as many guns as desired. Your highest score for each gauge will be compared to others shooting that same gauge. There will be one winner in each gauge.
Shooting can be done Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

3. Grouse Walk
If you ever had the pleasure of walking down a fire lane or old logging road you know when a grouse finds the air he is going to do so at the most inopportune time, when your gun is in the wrong hand, you are stepping over a log or walking on the wrong side of a tree. They flush too early creating a long shot or so close that you just throw some lead to see how good your dog is. Well, we hope you get that feeling when you visit our grouse walk. this is our first kick at this event so please understand that it is a work in progress.
You will find rules posted on the first of three stations. There are four shooting positions at each station. Your trapper and the rest of the squad will remain by the scoring podium as you move to the first shooting position identified by the silhouette of a grouse standing on the edge of the road. Your trapper will decide when to release the first bird based on your proximity to the grouse. It could come a yard before or after the grouse and it be will a report pair. After you attempt the first pair eject the empties, reload the gun, put it back on safety and walk to the next and subsequent shooting positions. You will soon find that the presentation changes with each pair.
Upon shooting the last pair, be sure the chambers are empty and send the next shooter out after your gun is back in the rack. Remember, this is not a "stand and get your shot" event. It is the perfect event for a trapper to have fun with the guy walking up on a covey of grouse. No "do over", no saying ," I did not see that bird", no saying "Give me another pair". In this event you get what the your trapper serves you. Some of you will feel good that you could actually feed your family using your shotgun and others will be happy to know the grocer is still open.
Have fun and be safe first.


Still a few spots left!

http://mrcsportsmansclub.com/GreatNorthern/GNindex.htm

[Opening Day]

The Grouse walk sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. Or at least the trapper will have a lot of fun

[charlie cleveland]

i really like this grouse thing sounds like it will be close to the real thing...charlie

[Mark Beasland]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

i really like this grouse thing sounds like it will be close to the real thing...charlie

And like the real thing the presentations are subject to change over the season!

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Mark Beasland

And like the real thing the presentations are subject to change over the season!

I'm going to drive COB nuts on this course...

[C.O.B.]

Who said you can trap for me??? This would be fun with a hammer gun. I'll have to take the 28ga skeet gun now.

[Mark Beasland]

Many thanks to all the shooters, vendors and workers that made this years shoot the best yet!!!!!!

[C.O.B.]

This was the best shoot all year. The venue was great the folks at MRC who ran the shoot went out of their way to please the shooters, the dinner was the best. Everything was perfect. Every target was breakable even though every target didn't get broken This is a SHOOTERS shoot in the best way possible. If you weren't shooting it's because you didn't want to. Everything ran like clockwork. I bet I went through 4 cases of shells easily. This will be a permanent fixture on my schedule of events . To everyone who contributed

[Wild Skies]

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':

[C.O.B.]

Greg just send me that money clip and were square Actually I'm thinking of having Bob make me one with my three favorite dogs on it. Ilsa (Gunner's mother) Gunner (of course) and Daisy.