APRIL 2004 NEWS

Perfect Weather for the April G.C.R. Shoot

Saturday April 17 th dawned at a nice 48 degrees by 8:30am it had warmed up to 60 degrees. We had a special 97 shotgun side match set up at the top of the hill. This challenging side match had you starting with a Winchester or Norinco 97 stoked with 5 rounds in the magazine. At the beepyou shot a knockdown shotgun popper directly in front of you then you pivoted to your left squatted and shot a round 8 inch plate through a 12 inch plastic pipe 4 feet long. If you hit the plate you activated a rail car that held 3 steel rebar holders with clay pigeons rolling down the track. You had to run 14 feet past a wall to engage the clay pigeons on the moving rail car. We had eight people shoot this side match. Finishing first was Ottway Smith with a time of 7.09 seconds, second was Mort Dooley with 7.56 seconds, third was Hi-Wall Johnson with 7.90 seconds, and Forth was Tennessee Deadeye with 8.20 seconds. Hi-Wall had rounded up prizes for the top three finishers and we raised $48.00 for our Texas Star Target Fund.

By 10:30 it had warmed up to 72 degrees and 24 shooters started shooting 5 stages written by Ringer. The weather was perfect even when it reached 81 degrees in the afternoon we still had a nice breeze.

When the dust cleared Lickcreek Kid was first, Mort Dooley who had a fire lit under him was second, Tennessee Deadeye was third, Hogleg Horn was forth, Ottway Smith was fifth and our top duelist, and Hi-Wall Johnson was sixth and second as duelist. Sheez Packin was our top lady shooter, and Honeysuckle Sue was second in ladies.

Please read the proposed G.C.R. by-laws posted on our webpage or on the sheet passed out at the April shoot. We will be voting on these by-laws at our May shoot. Mule Camp is fast approaching and the Greene County Regulators have nine shooters registered to represent our club. If you can make it down to watch and root us on either Friday May 28th or 29th as well as seeing some amazing shooting exhibitions or fantastic shopping from over 48 vendors set up there. Mule Camp will be at Covington Ga. approximately 18 miles east south east of Atlanta.

Until next month Mi Amigos, Via Con Dios, Your Ramrod

Tennessee Deadeye

P.S. May 15th Diamondback Dennis, Carolina Gem and friends will be joining us at our shoot. Yee Haw!!!!!