January 7th 2020 Smoke Report

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January 7th 2020 Smoke Report

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This is the first smoke report for 2020 and I hope you had a great new year and a restful day off. This is the time of year folks do other stuff and practice when the weather cooperates. Before you know it folks will be out competing every weekend.

The NCTA calendar is slowly filling up and hopefully there will be more shoots on the calendar in the near future. Rockingham will submit their dates and the SCTP Singles Championship will be in early May. Here are the links to the info - Here are the links to the NCTA shoot calendar and the BIG50 calendar. NCTA shoot link - http://www.nctrap.com/shoots2017.pdf - BIG50 link - http://www.nctrap.com/nc_big50.pdf

If you are retired and have a motorhome and like to shoot, where would you be right now? I would say Florida like Terry Roush is right now. Also, Indiana Gun Salesman Mike Gooch is at the Silver Dollar and selling competition trap guns left and right. Heck I would like to just be down there to work as a ref, that would be a lot of fun.

Years ago, we were at the Dollar and JC Nunn was shooting post 5. He told me as soon as I walk behind you going to post one go ahead and call for your target. He felt like that would speed things up and I did what he said. It worked great on one field and then we moved to the next field. I shot five and moved to post 2 and here came JC walking behind me. I put the gun up and called for the bird and no bird. I called again and here came the bird and I broke it. The next 25 I did the same thing and when I didn’t get a bird and broke the gun open and turned around to see what was going on. The ref looked at me and said the fellow on post one wasn’t set………well I figured I wouldn’t take the time to explain and called for my bird. Those refs are seasoned vets and he was just looking out for my running buddy.

That is about it for this week and maybe we will get some actual winter weather this month. Morg Shaw has been posting pictures of snow on Rich Mountain and if you want to see snow visit http://www.resortcams.com for webcams from the mountains to the sea.

Have a great week everybody and hello to Lou, Scott, Lewis, Ronnie, Cowboy and Anne and until next week………………smokem
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