Good Old Boys Match Report
March 17 2008
Brad Troyer
The Good Old Boys airgun club held what was to be a 60 shot FT match on
Saturday. The forecast was for morning showers and then clearing. With a scheduled
10:00 am start that would work. Well, as usuall the Weathermen didn't get it
right.
There was a group of shooters already at the range when I arrived. It was raining
but not hard. I got there just in time as the heavens opened up and the heavy
stuff started. Being in the hills of Tennessee we were at a pretty high elevation
and the lightening was spectacular. We had hail and heavy, blowing rain for
a long while. That was ok, we had a group of shooters come down from Illinois
to shoot with us so it gave us all a chance to chat.
The weather blew through and we broke out our airguns and started shooting.
The wind was surprisingly slow considering that a storm just went though. After
about an hour we headed out onto the course. The course was wet and muddy but
we were all in good spirits and ready to shoot. It looked like we were going
to get the match in even with all the bad weather. We even had the sun poke
out of the clouds for while.
I was shooting with Big Ed from the CIA (Central Illinois Airgunners). We had
a nice time shooting and chatting. Cliff Smith was visiting from TBA and he
was shooting an ultra carbine R10 with a 9 in barrel in hunter class. Roz set
out a challenging but fun course. We were having a great time until we started
hearing some rumbles of thunder off in the distance. A sense of urgency started
to take hold and we tried to hurry the shooting a bit. We got about 2/3rds of
the way through the course when the rain came again. This time, it wasn't leaving.
We all headed back to the practice range and spent the remainder of the day
shooting and discussing our new match format. We decided to shoot twice a month
on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays. We are going to shoot a regular FT match each
time and then either a Hunter match or a Silhouette match after that. Even though
the match was cut short by rain it was still a great time at Roz's hollow. We
would like to thank all the Illinois shooters that took the long drive down
to Pulaski to shoot with us. We enjoyed their company and we hope they will
come back again sometime when the weather is a bit nicer.
Brad Troyer
www.airguns.net