New Years Day Shoot - Major Waldrons - Barrington NH

[J.B. Books]

Shoot is on, skies are clear, temp is 9 deg, snow storm Hercules will not start until early tomorrow morning.

[Dean Romig]

It's a balmy 19 degrees at my house but I know that 10 degree loss will be well worth it. See you guys about 8:30.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

It's a balmy 19 degrees at my house but I know that 10 degree loss will be well worth it. See you guys about 8:30.

It's warmed up to 12, should be about 19 when you get here

[J.B. Books]

The January 1st 2014 shoot is in the history books. Attendees endured a very cold and sunny day with a fairly stiff breeze at times keeping wind chills in the single digits all day. We shot trap, skeet and protection. In the protection Frank Cronin and his ringer team mate Troy who was shooting a funny looking Perazzi trap gun beat the rest of field breaking 18 from the 27 yard line. They bested Robin Lewis and myself by a bird but we were following the rules and shooting Parker guns . Frank wowed the club regulars when he joined them on the first round of trap and touched off is infamous 1 1/4 ounce Black Powder loads in his 5 frame hammer 10. I was hoping it would have shattered some of the ice on the field but it just wasn't quite enough. Fortunately everyone stayed on their feet today as there was a lot of slippery blue ice from the rain we had early last week.

Breakfast goodies were provided by Frank Cronin and lunch was Billy Chili (Venison) Janelle and Bob Weeman who created some type of chicken gumbo dish. Both were delicious.

We saw the AAA truck go by and I understand they had to go retrieve a Porsche something or other that got stuck on the way to the shoot.

Several of the club regulars joined us in the morning to hear their guns go bang on New Years. Among them were Glenn Watts who was trying out a very nice new to him Parker SC SBT and his friend Mark Callahan who had a B grade he shot for the first time. I didn't get a good look at the gun or chance to take a picture of it. I finally got to look at Dean's D grade 10ga hammer gun, what a beauty.

Thanks to everyone who came and Happy New Year to all.


Here's a few pictures I took.

L-R Glenn Watts, Bill Janelle, Bob Weeman, Frank Cronin



Herb Hewlett



Bob Weeman



Robin Lewis



Bill Janelle



Dean Romig



Frank Cronin

[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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[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!

.

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

[charlie cleveland]

you boy s all deserves medal s..charlie

[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?