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Everyone #####es about the targets, but few people will actually do something about it.
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A few pics from the 100th SK Provincial Trapshooting Championships this past weekend. Though the shot was held over a 5 day period consisting of 1100 targets yours truly only took part in the 400 targets Championship Events held saturday and sunday, The first three days were preliminary events and all 5 days were well attended and the weather co-operated beautifully. THe shoot was held at The Swift Current Trap Club in Swift Current, SK and what a nice facility and an absolutely well run shoot with top notch folks. I can't wait to get back in a few weeks to shoot The Canadian Championships there. I had my best day in a long while posting a 199x200 in the 200 Singles Championship. I tied another Alberta shooter for the title of non-resident champion but lost to him in the shoot-offs with a score of 25 to 24. As he said afterward "we'll have to do this again next week Frank at Western Zone" to which I smiled and answered "yes we will"! Here is a few pics from the weekend. Some of you hockey fans may recognize the fellow seated next to me at the table to my right in the 5th photo......
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Thanks and yes maybe we need a Tiger emoji! Lol
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Cow Town Bill;[URL="tel:18170648" said:
I'll be buying an AHEIA t-shirt weekend after next when we head to the AB Provincials shoot. It will be our first time shooting there and we are really looking forward to shooting there. I'm wearing a 2019 Canadian Championships t-shirt in the pictures I posted. Thanks for the kind words.
AHEIA have a wonderful facility. The skyline behind the trap fields is as good as it gets. Back ground behind the skeet fields is far more challenging.
Shoot up a storm.
Bill
I am not a member but I have shot ONT Provincials at the Hamilton Gun Club.
Probably the best trap fields in ONT IMO. Nice backdrop, 16 traps IIRC, nice club house.
It was and I think still is a shotgun only club.
The Club I belong to has a membership of 50, we have 2 traps (voice activated), a 200m Rifle Range, a Handgun range, and best of all it is 7 min from my house and I can go whenever I want, and I am usually there with the 2 guys that go with me.
I am also a member of an indoor pistol club (20m) and its maybe 20 min from ny house and again I can go whenever I want 24/7 as a keyholder.
What's not to like? I'd probably call them the 2 best clubs in Ont......
Probably the best trap fields in ONT IMO. Nice backdrop, 16 traps IIRC, nice club house.
It was and I think still is a shotgun only club.
The Club I belong to has a membership of 50, we have 2 traps (voice activated), a 200m Rifle Range, a Handgun range, and best of all it is 7 min from my house and I can go whenever I want, and I am usually there with the 2 guys that go with me.
I am also a member of an indoor pistol club (20m) and its maybe 20 min from ny house and again I can go whenever I want 24/7 as a keyholder.
What's not to like? I'd probably call them the 2 best clubs in Ont......
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I won a combination of cash, gift cards and ammo prizes for high in class wins but no trophies. There was a custom hand made cribbage board trophy with the winners name and score engraved in the back for non-resident champion at the SK Provincials shoot. I tied for non-resident champion but lost in the shoot-off 25-24 to Art Peyton. At the Western Zone shoot in Edmonton last week I only shot in saturdays 200 singles event and was 2nd high score with a 196 to Robert Gruszecki's 197...
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I had a ##### of a last two years with a combination of weight loss, vision issues and gun fit and slid down to my lowest average ever since starting shooting trap in 1986. I slid down to D class last year ending my season with an 83 avg. I got my vision issues dealt with and about 1 month ago finally got my gun fit issues worked out and my gun is now shooting where I am looking without pounding my cheek into submission any more. I started the season in D class shooting penalty B due to not having enough targets for classification and moved up to A class by the end of the SK Provincials shoot. At Western Zone I was in A class and after finishing the 200 singles I am 0.4% average away from being bumped to AA. Hopefully I can keep that momentum going this weekend in Kindersley, SK and get back into AA once again. I'm also trying my best to get off the 25 yard line in handicap and get my card punched back to the 27 line. I lost two yards to reductions in the 2000 targets previous to this season but my handicap average is up from an all time low of 72% to 89....trying like hell to get back to the 27 and 90+ avg again. In the last 500 singles targets I have posted 1-100, 3-99's and a 97 which is a 98.8 average kicking my season start average from 83.0 to 95.6 so no I am not sandbagging "B" Class!! I despise sandbaggers and do not ever want to be thought of as one!!
Lord knows I shot against enough of them at the Hamilton Gun Club , worst bunch of cheating SOB's in the trap game.
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I had a ##### of a last two years with a combination of weight loss, vision issues and gun fit and slid down to my lowest average ever since starting shooting trap in 1986. I slid down to D class last year ending my season with an 83 avg. I got my vision issues dealt with and about 1 month ago finally got my gun fit issues worked out and my gun is now shooting where I am looking without pounding my cheek into submission any more. I started the season in D class shooting penalty B due to not having enough targets for classification and moved up to A class by the end of the SK Provincials shoot. At Western Zone I was in A class and after finishing the 200 singles I am 0.4% average away from being bumped to AA. Hopefully I can keep that momentum going this weekend in Kindersley, SK and get back into AA once again. I'm also trying my best to get off the 25 yard line in handicap and get my card punched back to the 27 line. I lost two yards to reductions in the 2000 targets previous to this season but my handicap average is up from an all time low of 72% to 89....trying like hell to get back to the 27 and 90+ avg again. In the last 500 singles targets I have posted 1-100, 3-99's and a 97 which is a 98.8 average kicking my season start average from 83.0 to 95.6 so no I am not sandbagging "B" Class!! I despise sandbaggers and do not ever want to be thought of as one!!
Lord knows I shot against enough of them at the Hamilton Gun Club , worst bunch of cheating SOB's in the trap game.
Looks like the new gun is fitting you well! That it quite a jump in scores.
Neither Frank
I live in Owen Sound
One is Owen Sound Revolver Club - indoor range on Hwy 6
Other is North Grey Bruce Rod & Gun - outdoor range down a dead end road
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Bigbubba;[URL="tel:18190833" said:
Pretty sure a fellow I met a few times through CGN member Deerdr and was also a CGN member before his passing was a member at North Grey Bruce Rod & Gun as well. His first name was Bill but for the life of me I cannot recall his last name as I am typing this? Gotta love getting older! Lol
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My wife and I headed to Kindersley, SK this past weekend to take part in their first ever registered trap shoot. The Kindersley club has been in existence for some time operating as the Kindersley Wildlife Federation, a local hunting and conservation club with a rifle range and a single trap field. The club decided to put in a trap section and updated the layout with a second trap field and Pat Trap machines. It has generated quite a bit of interest according to the volunteers who worked the shoot all weekend to assist their registered shooting members.
The driving force behind the change has been one family in particular, a father, mother, son and daughter team who shoots registered together though mom while not a shooter travels with them to all the shoots around SK and donates her time to run events and of course she did the same for Kindersley's first shoot handling the entries, classifying shooters and running the kitchen.
The clubhouse is brand new and what a great idea for an affordable option for a small club. A 20'x24' garage kit was assembled on a pad with a nice large rear deck overlooking the trap fields. A full width double wide garage door opens to the deck allowing a full view of the fields and they have a portable draw back two piece screen that attaches to the garage door opening to keep out the flying critters. The interior is nicely finished in 4'x8' paneling that looks like aged barn board and the local Conservation Officers office recently closed and in doing so donated a handful of nice wildlife mounts to the club for their clubhouse. There is a beautiful bald eagle mount amongst the other mounts which include a Ross' goose, a Blue goose, pheasant, a deer head & shoulder mount, some large antlers from mulies and whitetails and a few other upland and birds of prey mounts.
There is room to park campers though there isn't yet any power or water hook-ups though they are planned for the future. Toilet facilities were portable units as there is no water or washrooms yet but again they are in the future plans.
There was 3-4 squads each day over the three days and I am sure there would have been more had the scheduling for the inaugural shoot not fell on the same weekend as the Alberta Provincial Championships shoot. Both the SK and AB shooters travel back and forth to support each others shoots. My wife and I decided to forgo the AB Provincial shoot in favor of going to Kindersley to support the new small clubs effort and we were both happy we did as we had a fantastic time.
When the smoke had settled I had dropped my average on singles 0.6%.... yes I shot that well...
I brought my doubles and handicap averages up, though that wasn't hard to do when they have been my worst ever...
Again I did not shoot that well but at least I moved up not down! My wife had a good run saturday and posted her best scores to date and over the course of the weekend kicked her average up almost 10%. She was quite pleased and I have to say I was pretty impressed to see her push herself through a 3 day event shooting 600 targets. That was a first for her and she finally shot her 1000th single target on the friday enabling her to be placed in her assigned class for once instead of shooting penalty class.
We will be headed to Swift Current, SK for the upcoming Canadian Championships the weekend of August 6-8 and will meet up with our group of friends there. Saturday evening it was decided the group of us would have a pot luck party on the saturday evening after the 200 singles championship race. Each couple would bring something for the pot luck and of course one of our friends who happens to be the President of the Canadian Trapshooting Association pretty much sealed what I was going to bring when he asked aloud for my recipe for smoked trout and then went on to say "this guy makes the best smoked trout I've ever eaten". Hint received....
Here are a few pics from the weekend.....the last pic is my wife with her newest fan Tiger Williams. He was showing her his 1987 Chev big block 454 Suburban he was gifted years ago from some of his junior billets. Some of you hockey fans may remember David "Tiger" Williams who began his NHL career in 1974 with the Toronto Maple Leafs and was traded a few times over the span of his career before retiring in 1989 and trading his hockey stick for a K-80 unsingle combo. He still leads the NHL's all time record for most penalty minutes and to hear him grumble if he posts a score he is not satisfied with it's a good thing there is no fighting or penalty boxes in trap!
The driving force behind the change has been one family in particular, a father, mother, son and daughter team who shoots registered together though mom while not a shooter travels with them to all the shoots around SK and donates her time to run events and of course she did the same for Kindersley's first shoot handling the entries, classifying shooters and running the kitchen.
The clubhouse is brand new and what a great idea for an affordable option for a small club. A 20'x24' garage kit was assembled on a pad with a nice large rear deck overlooking the trap fields. A full width double wide garage door opens to the deck allowing a full view of the fields and they have a portable draw back two piece screen that attaches to the garage door opening to keep out the flying critters. The interior is nicely finished in 4'x8' paneling that looks like aged barn board and the local Conservation Officers office recently closed and in doing so donated a handful of nice wildlife mounts to the club for their clubhouse. There is a beautiful bald eagle mount amongst the other mounts which include a Ross' goose, a Blue goose, pheasant, a deer head & shoulder mount, some large antlers from mulies and whitetails and a few other upland and birds of prey mounts.
There is room to park campers though there isn't yet any power or water hook-ups though they are planned for the future. Toilet facilities were portable units as there is no water or washrooms yet but again they are in the future plans.
There was 3-4 squads each day over the three days and I am sure there would have been more had the scheduling for the inaugural shoot not fell on the same weekend as the Alberta Provincial Championships shoot. Both the SK and AB shooters travel back and forth to support each others shoots. My wife and I decided to forgo the AB Provincial shoot in favor of going to Kindersley to support the new small clubs effort and we were both happy we did as we had a fantastic time.
When the smoke had settled I had dropped my average on singles 0.6%.... yes I shot that well...
I brought my doubles and handicap averages up, though that wasn't hard to do when they have been my worst ever...
We will be headed to Swift Current, SK for the upcoming Canadian Championships the weekend of August 6-8 and will meet up with our group of friends there. Saturday evening it was decided the group of us would have a pot luck party on the saturday evening after the 200 singles championship race. Each couple would bring something for the pot luck and of course one of our friends who happens to be the President of the Canadian Trapshooting Association pretty much sealed what I was going to bring when he asked aloud for my recipe for smoked trout and then went on to say "this guy makes the best smoked trout I've ever eaten". Hint received....
Here are a few pics from the weekend.....the last pic is my wife with her newest fan Tiger Williams. He was showing her his 1987 Chev big block 454 Suburban he was gifted years ago from some of his junior billets. Some of you hockey fans may remember David "Tiger" Williams who began his NHL career in 1974 with the Toronto Maple Leafs and was traded a few times over the span of his career before retiring in 1989 and trading his hockey stick for a K-80 unsingle combo. He still leads the NHL's all time record for most penalty minutes and to hear him grumble if he posts a score he is not satisfied with it's a good thing there is no fighting or penalty boxes in trap!
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I am a member at the Montreal Skeet Club.
It has both American and International skeet, American trap, 5 stand and sporting clays. It used to have Olympic bunker trap. There is also a 75 yard pistol and rifle range.
It is open Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Membership is $400 for all disciplines, and $300 for shotgun sports only. Rounds are $9, and and ammo is sold on the premises. A very nice, friendly club, with good membership.
It has both American and International skeet, American trap, 5 stand and sporting clays. It used to have Olympic bunker trap. There is also a 75 yard pistol and rifle range.
It is open Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Membership is $400 for all disciplines, and $300 for shotgun sports only. Rounds are $9, and and ammo is sold on the premises. A very nice, friendly club, with good membership.
