2020 Southern SXS April 23-26

[Craig Larter]

Got my room at the Hampton, traveling with Mark Kircher, Rick Simmonds and Louis Parker, the upstate NY contingent. I'm sure Brian Dudley a fellow Apple Knocker and maybe others from snow country will attend. How about the people's choice be CEP and show guns as published in the Parker Story. Louis just added a CEP gun to his collection and I added a couple of Show Gun. Just say'n.

[Reggie B]

I sure am hating that I am missing this event in 2020! I will hate it more if I miss any long barreled small bores.

[Randy Roberts]

Originally Posted by Reggie Bishop

I sure am hating that I am missing this event in 2020! I will hate it more if I miss any long barreled small bores.

No worries Reggie, I won't let any get away

[Reggie B]

Originally Posted by Randy G Roberts

No worries Reggie, I won't let any get away

You are a long barrel magnet my friend.

[Mills]

I almost bought a cep c grade a few years ago but it was too much project even for my tastes

[Mike of the Mountain]

Rick, my buddies and I shoot all the Challenge events and a ton of events on the course. Very seldom do we have to wait in line. Only time we really have to wait is for our squad to be called on the line for Challenge qualifiers. For $1/target we have trappers and can take home a lot of “BLING”! Drake Landing is very nice, but every time I shot there on Wednesday we’d shoot 200 targets, have lunch and have a cart rental and I’d pay over $130. I don’t mind paying extra to win stuff. That’s how our crew rolls.

[Cold Spring]

Agree 100% with Mike on Drakes. Good targets and good people there at Drakes but come on now, how many times are you going to shoot basically the same targets? Yeah I've been told they make some minor changes from day to day. Also, lunch is very good but not for the ~ $23.00 I was charged the last several times I was there.

[Opening Day]

Originally Posted by Frank Srebro

Agree 100% with Mike on Drakes. Good targets and good people there at Drakes but come on now, how many times are you going to shoot basically the same targets? Yeah I've been told they make some minor changes from day to day. Also, lunch is very good but not for the ~ $23.00 I was charged the last several times I was there.

Frank, what do you mean the same targets at Drakes? I have shot the same course over the years (after we got tried of Bills same targets year after year) and target presentation has been different everytime, how about a target that skips across a pond and the second that rabbit that rolls across the water and then drops ... You are going to compare Bill's targets to Drakes presentations, really.

[C.O.B.]

I go to the southern to shoot and over the course of four days I can shoot 500 targets with a cart at Drakes for much less than what 300 targets at Deep River would cost. No one forces you to buy lunch and the food is much better than the food trucks at D.R. I shoot to have fun as I'm not good enough to try to win an event therefore Drakes holds much more appeal for me. I spend enough time and money in the tents as it is

[Cold Spring]

Originally Posted by Eric Eis

Frank, what do you mean the same targets at Drakes? I have shot the same course over the years (after we got tried of Bills same targets year after year) and target presentation has been different everytime, how about a target that skips across a pond and the second that rabbit that rolls across the water and then drops ... You are going to compare Bill's targets to Drakes presentations, really.

Eric (and Rich), so you arrive at Drakes on that Wednesday and shoot the targets on two courses, go back on Thursday and targets are pretty much the same, go back on Friday and targets are pretty much the same, etc. Some minor changes from day to day. To each his own …..

I don't know how anyone who hasn't shot Bill Kempfer's (sp?) Southern targets over recent years knows they're the same year after year, but even so that can give you volume shooters familiarity with the presentations and an edge so to speak. Practice makes perfect. And one or both of you should be able to shoot 50 ex 50 or 100 ex 100 while in competition at the Southern. There's one club I shoot at quite often and some of the regular shooters complain if the targets aren't changed every few weeks. Proprietor's reply is usually something like, "have you come in with a score of 100 yet"?