New Years Day Shoot - Major Waldrons - Barrington NH

[charlie cleveland]

you boy s all deserves medal s..charlie

[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

[Dean Romig]

The stability of those muzzles on that solid ice was a lot better than going arse over tea-kettle and possibly breaking a nice piece of Circassian walnut... just don't tell Gary.

Pete, thanks for everything you did to make it a very enjoyable day.

[Mills]

That is a great tradition you all have up there. Hopefully, we can get several such informal shoots going all over Parker world.

[Dean Romig]

There are a lot of shoots involving Parkers and other fine American doubles all over the country. We don't hear about a lot of them and California has a pretty big group of SXS shooters who hold several big shoots that we practically never hear about until they are ancient history. I wonder where they advertise their events?

[Snap Cap]

Dean: a couple of sites include casxs.com under the events tab and LCSCA Forum / thread 2014 events. HTH

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Fred.

In the ANNOUNCEMENTS column in each and every issue of Parker Pages I clearly state: "Please Note that Parker Pages is now reciprocating with the L. C. Smith Collectors Association, the German Gun Collectors Association and the A. H. Fox Collectors Association to announce events of common interest." Incidentally, I rarely, if ever, get anything from these organizations to include in the Announcements column.

The Announcements column doesn't begin and end with the organizations I have listed - anyone who organizes or knows the details of any event that PGCA members would be interested in knowing about should be sending me the particulars so I can get them into the very next issue of Parker Pages. I would if I could but I simply don't have the time or energy to go soliciting for events to announce and sincerely hope that others do and will forward information to me.

Again, Thanks for your interest Fred - I'm glad you brought it up.

Best, Dean

[Bindlestiff]

Yes, and there is also an events calendar on the top of this page too. It is a good place to enter events because it doesn't get lost over time like a thread entry tends to do. The only problem is that I suspect not may notice it exists and even less use it?

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Robin. I just added an event for January 18, 2014

[J.B. Books]

Speaking of small doublegun shoots. The NYD shoot at MWSA has always been pretty much run what you brung. All old doubleguns are interesting. The doublegun shoots do get some interest and attention from non double gun shooters. Tim Day and Glenn Watts come to mind, Tim stopped by, shot a round and visited and then headed over to the rifle range. Glenn shot his new SBT and pulled targets for us on the protection. Four or Five years ago Glenn didn't own a Parker, now he has several and is talking about getting a 10ga. Both of them became curious about doubleguns from "our" activitities, so these shoots can grow new double gun aficionados.

I also found out why we had a group of the regular die hard trap shooters join us in the morning and then leave. The trap shooting club in North Hampton NH has held a NYD fun shoot for as long as I can remember, 30 years or more. That club unfortunately was recently told to cease and desist their shooting by the NH Dept. of Environmental Services because lead shot was being deposited in wetlands. This is the second club in the nearby area to suffer this fate, Exeter NH being the other. It's the the third if the skeet field in Farmington remains compromised with unusable stations because of the same problem. The loss of farms and shooting clubs has been the sportsmans fate for the last 30 years in this area, sad.