25-Straight Patches

oops said:
....All tongue and cheek here...BUT..... why does the score keeper have to SCREAM....losssssssssss............
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oops:

Glad to hear it. I've seen more than one shotgun pitched into the bush (to be shortly retrieved) on a brutal Sporting Clays station by a couple of
different characters.... and several offered for sale "on the spot" for ridiculously low $ ! The referee screaming "lossst" can hardly compare with the air-horn designating a lost target at FITASC ! LOL ;)
 
FITASC loss target are called in ALL languages: ZERO. Hit targets are called either one or bon, depending where one shoot in Europe. Old time refs will still use "kill" or "dead" and lost. One has to make sure that the ref calls the targets otherwise one cannot contest a target even before leaving the peg. It has to be on the call.
 
When I shoot ata trap, and i guess non registered also, if you shoot a 25 in any given round you would get a 25 straight patch.
I'v got a couple dozen or so 25 patches of winchester, a couple remingtons, a couple federals and a hand full of ATA 25 straight patches.
If anyone needs a few let me know, I could probably tide you over till you got some made.
 
hogiron said:
When I shoot ata trap, and i guess non registered also, if you shoot a 25 in any given round you would get a 25 straight patch.
I'v got a couple dozen or so 25 patches of winchester, a couple remingtons, a couple federals and a hand full of ATA 25 straight patches.
If anyone needs a few let me know, I could probably tide you over till you got some made.
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That's crazy to hand out patches for every straight round. Some shooters would have more than the distributors!!
 
hogiron said:
When I shoot ata trap, and i guess non registered also, if you shoot a 25 in any given round you would get a 25 straight patch.
I'v got a couple dozen or so 25 patches of winchester, a couple remingtons, a couple federals and a hand full of ATA 25 straight patches.
If anyone needs a few let me know, I could probably tide you over till you got some made.
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Never heard of this. The club hands out the patches, not the organization. We hand out a 25, 50, 75 or 100 patch to anybody that shoots it the first time and that's all they get. After that they have to win something to get a prize.
 
If I got a patch every time I shot 25 straight, I'd have, one ...................................
 
the spank said:
That's crazy to hand out patches for every straight round. Some shooters would have more than the distributors!!
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Ya, your probably right now that i think of it. it wouldn't have been for every round. I only shot competitively for a couple years, I remember the spring grand handing them out, The Canadian, and the Del Web shoot in Vegas. That does seem like a lot of patches.
 
Seems those "straight" patches were all the rage in the 60's. I too wanted to accumulate them !
As time wore on, it was perhaps not best to have a slew of them on your vest or jacket ... braggadocio you know .... and what if you were having an "off-day"
Buddy's Mom was quite a seamstress, and did custom work in a promotional sportswear shop ... team jackets, custom embroidery, etc. For a lark, he carefully picked
out the "25" straight on a Winchester patch, gave her his "50" straight patch to follow the style, and had her embroider the space with something ridiculous like "2,327"
straight. It was the only patch on his vest, dead centre in the middle of the back, and appeared quite genuine. Raised a lot of eyebrows !!! ;)
 
Maritime Storm said:
Nice collection. I don't Remington or Browning offer straight patches anymore, do they?
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Not that I am aware of. Most of those were earned in the 80's. There is one missing. Where it ever got to I have no idea but it was an IVI 25 skeet patch from Searles. It was the first 25 skeet patch I ever received.
 
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Well I'll be darned. I found it in an envelope of it's own buried under some other stuff in my "other" goodie box....:)

For some reason I thought it also had Searles embroidered on it? I know the club used to get them from Searles. They must have had them a while as this was the first 25 skeet patch they gave me for my first straight round of skeet and that didn't occur until about 1989? I was shooting a brand new 28" barrelled Remington 11-87.

 
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