Central Pa SxS shoot 2013

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Egger, George and I arrived home last evening after attending this great shoot. We drove down to Harrisburg Friday afternoon and spent the evening at Chucks home. Saturday morning dawned a bit chilly but without a cloud in the sky. Blue Ridge Sportsmans club is a first rate venue with great targets and all the members treated us like family. Many of the usual suspect's from the area were in attendance including many friends from the Virginia Vintagers.It was great to see and shoot with many old friends after a long winter. I estimate some where between 40-50 shooters shot the event. I think I can speak for us all that we had a great time and I would recommend this event to anyone that can attend. The trip home was uneventful even with Egger stuffing the Ford insignia into a few trunks...

I want to thank Chuck and Marge Bishop for their hospitality and putting us up. A tour of the PGCA Research office was great and Chuck explained exactly what doing a research letter entails from start to finish. Believe me when I tell you guy's it's a great value for the money.

A few pictures for you guy's....

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Couple more.....That handsome gent in the green vest is Frank(Silvers)Srebro of the Fox Collectors BOD. A great guy. Now if we can just get Steve(Toolman)Cambria to leave CT to attend some of these events that would be great. Well...Maybe next week at Addieville.....

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Probably what that Red car with all the dingleberries around the mirror saw.

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Oh ya I forgot about that one.......

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I'd like to add my thanks to Chuck and his wife for their hospitality, and for providing a great Saturday venue.
I know how hard Chuck works to prepare our research letters, and seeing the order books and stock books gave me the same sense of awe as I did when I saw the Declaration of Independence when I was a kid. Despite the fact we were looking at copies of the original documents, seeing the actual handwriting of the clerk who put the information to paper over a hundred years ago was a treat.
The Sporting Clays course at Chucks club was well thought out, and as usual, the targets we saw from the spectators angle, often proved a bit more tricky when in the box. The left to right bird on edge at station 15 is still stuck in my mind. Bugger.

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My thanks to all who attended the shoot. My official roster had 35 shooters sign in but everyone was in agreement that there were probably between 40 and 50 shooters there. The weather was great although pretty cold in the shade and the breeze made it even colder.

It was a blast having the 3 Stooges come down from Ct. I guess I'm now the silent 4th Stooge because the other 3 kicked my butt on the course although I was able to tie Moe on the wobble trap. Sorry, no pictures from me, somehow the camera was telling me that the "card is locked" when I tried to take the first picture. Turns out there is a little tab on the memory card much like the old floppy disks and it somehow got pushed. Oh well, please send me any pictures you have of the shoot.

I hope to see many of you at the Southern coming up in a few weeks.

Chuck

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I forgot to thank PGCA member Al Gingrich for bringing along his Parker S/N 66 for us to see and handle. It's a 12ga backaction lifter in great original condition. There are still traces of case colors and Laminated steel barrels. I hope somebody took some pictures of it. Bad time for my camera to malfunction

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A few more pictures courtesy of Robert Rambler.