May results—in
June? Our scheduled May match was rained out—folks had just gotten
their guns dried out from the April match and didn’t want to get them
wet again. I called the usual suspects and scheduled an impromptu match
to replace the rained-out one. Ron brought a few more targets down, so
we now have 15 lanes with two targets per lane. We started early in
hopes of beating the rain, which worked out for the most part. There
was some sprinkling, but nothing compared to April (that came later
while I was out on my bicycle –sigh.) When you eliminate the shivering
and fogged and wet scopes, our scores have a tendency to take a
jump. The course that Ron had set a couple of weeks ago was quite
interesting, and the grass that hadn’t been mowed made it more so.
Instead of being the ‘gimme’ that he was last year, Barney the dinosaur
was one of the hardest shots on the course. He’s now ten feet up in a
tree and out about 45 yards with a whole lot of untrimmed branches
between he and the shooter’s box. It took me five tries to get my butt
placed so I had a tiny clear path to the kill zone. Garfield was acting
up again, so I gave everyone two points on that target. Ron really
lucked out, because when he took his shots at the target, he was a turn
off and would have dropped two points. I don’t know why Ron got the
luck - I was the one who found two four-leaf clovers. I did buy a
Powerball ticket on the way home though...
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