February 5th Smoke Report

Greetings and another weekend is in the history books. At the time of this writing the Super Bowl is 17 -15 Patriots. Halftime show was ok and the commercials entertaining but very costly. We are living in an entertainment driven economy and the “bailed out” car companies had to spend a pretty penny to run their ads.

NO SHOOTS TO REPORT – but we have shoots coming up towards the end of the month. We have Gastonia 18th – Buckhorn 19th and Old Hickory @ Bostic the 25th. I have posted shoot dates for Virginia in case you just have to get out and shoot real bad. It won’t be long until I will have a lot of shoots to report. Also – Coharie published their calendar and I will get that scanned and posted Monday.

I caught Terry Jordan on Facebook chat this week and he was back home. He shot rather well at the Dixie and he was shipping some new wall charts this weekend. He commented that he had sold 621 Vandalia charts and 1150 Sparta charts since he started creating these tools. I have an 8’ Vandalia chart and took a picture of the same field at the Grand in 2005. Hopefully we will get to meet him face to face one day.

Jeff Galloway has created a Facebook page for North Carolina AIM and we have created a spot on this website also. I am not sure of all AIM will provide but Jeff should be posting info very soon. When I started shooting in the mid 60’s nothing was organized for kids my age. We were pretty much on our own with little participation. I am going to sift through all of my pictures and post all of the youngster’s that have shot in North Carolina.

It looks like we have a NC shooter traveling and he called me from Edisto Beach South Carolina Thursday. He said that it was so warm the other day he almost got a sunburn sitting outside looking at the ocean. He had a word for J-Bird that he wanted to me pass along. He wanted me to tell J-Bird that he better get some practice in because when he got back to the Rock he was going to lay a whooping on him.

Jimmy Wilson has been keeping entertained by attending Carolina Hurricane hockey games. He jumped on Facebook to tell me that the Canes won 2-1 and that a group from BGC had attended and got to see the game in a Skybox. Now that sounds like a lot of fun and I wasn’t invited for some unknown reason? Jimmy asked about JC and I told him that he had been practicing quite a bit. Jimmy told me to tell him that he would be gunning for him this year and we both agreed that we could hear JC laughing.

It is 9:55 and the New York Giants have defeated the New England Patriots. It was a close game and could have been won on the last play. It was quite a game and we have one officer that is going to catch more grief than he could imagine in the morning. All I can say is that I hope the Redskins do better next year.

I hope everybody has a great week and since we missed getting to the club this weekend I better get to the club next weekend for sure. You better take advantage of the warmer weather while we can because the warm weather has got to end sometime. I would like to send a shout out to the man in the sunshine state – Lou we hope you are doing well. Until next week………………you might as well Smokem

North Carolina Trapshoots - February - March 2012

February

18 - Gastonia

19 – Buckhorn

25 - Old Hickory - Bostic

March

1 - Old Hickory - Bostic BIG50

3 – Coharie

10 – Old Hickory (RM)

18 – Buckhorn

24 – Rockingham

24 - Old Hickory - Bostic

31 – Ft. Bragg

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2012 Trapshooting Events

March

12-18 - Southern Grand - Silver $

20-25 - Florida State Shoot - Silver $

May

3-6 - Georgia State

17-20 - South Carolina State

25-27 - Mississippi State

?-? - Alabama State Shoot

June

6-10 - North Carolina State

14-17 - Tennessee State

July

4-8 - Kentucky State

?-? - Virginia State

12-15 - West Virginia State

19-22 - Southern Zone - Berea KY - Savannah GA - Odessa Fl

August

8-18 - Grand American

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Florida Chain Shoots

Feb 8-12 @ Flagler

Feb 16-19 @ Gator

Feb 21-26 @ Robinson Ranch

March 1-4 @ Silver Dollar

March 8-11 @ CCC Miami