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Years ago in Warren County Pa. several of the local Gun Clubs would hold Turkey Shoots starting in the Fall. Representatives from these clubs (I feel I’m omitting 1 or 2 more) Brokenstraw, Sugar Grove, Pine Grove, Kalbfus, Cornplanter, Tidioute, would gather and set dates for these events so we didn...

NC Home Grounds Championship Singles I don’t remember for sure the exact year this little episode took place but I’m guessing 2003 maybe 2004 At the time, there were only about half the trap fields we have today in Bostic. The clubhouse was nonexistent. The administrative duties were taken care of, ...

Goshen County Gun Club Torrington, Wy I put the address into the GPS for the Gun Club and headed out to find the place and see how long it would take from the Air BnB. Pulled out of the driveway onto a very dry dirt road and headed out. There were 3 miles of dirt road before I got on pavement, 8 mil...

After spending the week with the kids I headed for Yoder, Wy where I had reserved an Air BnB for the remainder of my Wyoming adventure. This place was everything it should have been. It had been advertised as a bunkhouse and yes, it was. With every amenity needed and an outstanding host. When I pull...

Mary’s and my youngest son is in the USAF, stationed at Frances E Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wy. Anthony has been in for 7 years at this time. Though he has come home every year so that he and I can travel to Pa to play in a memorial golf tournament, I had never been to Wyoming. During his most recent ...

The heat wave that descended upon us the last few weeks has had me wishing for cooler temps and reminiscing about shoots that took place when it was down right cold On January 10, 2004 Rockingham County Gun Club hosted a typical 300 target program. It had snowed recently and the temperature was in t...

Boone has always been good for some big scores. The background is quite consistent with the traps all facing the mountain. Targets are always well set and they do aim to please. As regularly happens at trapshooting events, there are often ties in at least one of the disciplines. This little story co...

I don’t remember exactly how long ago this took place, but I definitely recall the event and some of the subsequent results. There is a 3 hole club in Kittrell, NC known as the Charlie Brown Gun Club. This is a nice, well maintained facility. CBGC throws a very good target and a lot of very high sco...

Cayson Clayton brought his AA game to the Big 50 at Buckhorn on 5/28/2025. Slightly overcast skies, no wind and low 70 degree temps made for perfect conditions at the Mebane Senior Center. Cayson hammered the 50 Singles and didn't stop there! He went right back out on field 2 for the Handicap event ...

The date was September 2, 2023. The place was the Mebane Senior Center (Buckhorn Gun Club) The event was 100 singles targets. The results, Karole Miller’s very first 100 straight in Singles! She accomplished this feat with me, Joe Nalley and Darvin Cornett squadded with her to be first hand witness ...

I don't exactly remember what year it was that I switched to shooting Kolar shotguns, though I believe it was the end of 2003 At the time I had been shooting a Perazzi MX3 and shooting it quite well. The first I had seen the Kolar that was to become mine was at Fort Bragg. Berkeley Stevens had purch...

This “stuff” was a few years ago and the initial occurrence was during the NC State shoot. In case I haven’t mentioned it before, if you’ve not yet done so, you need to come shoot at the NC Home Grounds in Bostic. There used to be a group of us that regularly shot together when we were at the Home G...

While attending the SC State Shoot/NC HOF combined shoot I got to sit under the trees, at a table in the building and my favorite, a rocking chair on the porch. These events present great opportunity to catch up with old friends, make new friends to talk with and get to know them. We saw new shooter...

I believe this little story will resonate with just about every trapshooter that ever registered a target. My very first registered targets were in March of 1982. Yeah, a long time ago, that to me, seems like just last week. At that time in ATA history, you had to have 2 Life Members in good standin...

Phew…. I don’t remember if it was the first year the state shoot was held in Bostic or the year after. I only know it was one of the initial shoots there. It was and remains a highly anticipated event and, for many is the highlight of the trapshooting season. Fred Redmon, Tom Brown and myself includ...