Course setup

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

Anyone know if the same courses for the various gauges will setup this year as last...10 & 12 gauges on the upper course...16 & 20 on the lower course...and 28 & .410 on the small bore course to the left of the 5 stand?

[Cold Spring]

I’ve heard there are some changes to the parking lot and upper hill part of the 10/12 course due to a gas well pad and fracking going on thereabouts. Also the conifer trees are gone from the distant part of the Fox Collectors Bo Whoop shooting area = windstorms and the late heavy snow. I don’t have any other details. I’ll be at HH tomorrow to drop off my trailer and shooting cart and will get an update from Ernie then, if he’s not busy out and about.

[Cold Spring]

Just back from Hausmann’s. The access road has been built up with a heavy base and is now wide/two-way for heavy truck traffic. Parking lot has a gas well pad at the far end, and fracking is going on now. Lots of water truck activity in/out and at the pad. The pad road runs along the west side of the parking area. Ernie told me the 16/12/10/8 bore course is down below and along side the hill, and no shooting on top of the hill due to the gas pad activity. 8 stations for the Hunter events and 13 for the Main on Saturday. Also, no change to the 20 and smaller gauge course beyond the 5 stand. I didn’t ask for pricing. Camper parking is on the left in the field coming in from the paved road. Barnett and Cobb are already set up and other vendors were arriving as I left. This is all I have to report.