New Years Day Shoot - Major Waldrons - Barrington NH

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Thanks Pete for hosting yet another great time on New Years Day in the Great White North!!

We had a really good time shooting and visiting. I brought five hammer guns for shoot-n-show-n-tell and actually shot four of them. The fifth was Tom Latham's twenty-gauge lifter which is well worn but closes like a vault and displays some wonderful Stub Twist barrel pattern.

As you can see, skeet stations six, seven and eight were literally a skating rink... on a slope no less... What FUN that was!

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Thanks Dean,

The fields really should have been sanded. I used every bit of ice melt the club had and I took the carpet runner out of the shotgun shack and put it between stations 5 and 6. It was all I could do, and it was kind of painful to watch you use one of those lovely hammer guns for a cane, (yup he really did that).

I have noticed more hammer guns in attendance each New Years Day despite the smaller crowds. Seems they are growing in popularity with double gun shooters.

Now it's time to get ready for snowstorm/blizzard Hercules. For those of you not living in the Northeast, we have a storm bearing down us for tomorrow and Friday that will bring a foot of snow, 35 mph winds and wind chills in the -20 below range. I am thinking we should consider moving the New Years Day shoot to the trap and skeet club in Vero Beach Florida