Match of June 28, 2008

If there is one thing you can say about this year, it is that the weather does not want to play along. The wind was enough to make you think we were going to end up in another state! On the bright side, this year we have had more new shooters than ever before. So, let’s give a big shout out to Striped Buffalo (Ashley Bourgois, Doc Syn’s daughter, and if you saw her paint job on the buffalo targets, you’d understand where the name came from), Cleo C. (Tom C’s wife) and we even had some fellers from South Dakota that must have gotten lost. Thanks to Trail Driver, Sagundo and Grease Cup for making the long trip up to play with us, and believe it or not, we even had a tall stranger show up that we haven’t seen in a while, huh, Joe.

We also need to put out a big thanks to Not So Slim Jim and his wife Cindy for the grub, they did a wonderful job at keeping everyone feeling fat and sassy.

For those of you not at the match, we did shoot “Nitro Express”. For those not familiar with the stage, it is a two person stage with one person shooting and the other loading nitro into the wagon (water balloons). This worked well, it even made for some real interesting match ups. Doc Syn and Blake Stone took on Misty Target and Striped Buffalo (yup, dads against kids). The dads won, but not by much. In fact, only two teams shot the stage clean, Doc and Blake Stone and Misty Target and Striped Buffalo.

Folks, we have a couple of young girls shooting with us that in a few years are going to be giving everyone a run for the money. It’s great to see the young shooters at this year’s matches, we all know Austin LaVista, but Gall Dixie and Cousin Roy have their kids shooting, also.

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