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I read in one of Whisker's books about a Beef shoot rifle. What does that mean? Is it for hunting steers or for contests where a beef was a prize. He said they had a shorter barrel. Shooting beef doesn't sound very sporting. :rotf:
 
Our club has beef shoots the first Sunday of the month and we give away the following.

For
1st place a 4 pound roast
2nd place a 1 pound T-bone steak
3rd place 2 lb of hamburger
4rd place 1 lb of hamburger
5th place 1 lb of hamburger
6th place 1 can of Bush's Baked Beans
 
Have you ever watched the movie Sgt. York ? Alvin York wins a beef in a shoot and then starts to put it up for another shoot in order to buy his Bottomground.
 
:hmm: Can I come to one of your Beef Critter shoots. Beef is too expensive here in Alaska to offer for prizes?! Although if someone gets lucky we could offer cuts of Moose or Carbou maybe even bear.
 
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I've spoken to a few of the local farmers and they are not pleased with this beef shoot idea. :nono:
 
Up near Chamois, Missouri there is a beef and hog shoot that's been going on since before WW II. I have been told it continued thru the war but powder was a mite hard to get.

It's rather obvious what the individual intended by calling his firearm a "beef rifle". Could just as easily been hog or turkey rifle as both meats are as commonly used for prizes as beef. The practice of meat for prizes is several hundred, if not thousands of years old. Some of my oldest memories associated with firearms have to do with "turkey shoots".

Mostly you see chunk guns at Chamois but I have witnessed some 1st and 2nd place prizes won by ordinary longrifles or plains rifles. The matches are much like those shot a couple generations ago, 60 yards, three shots closest to center. I haven't been up there in years.....I need to go!

Vic
 
Growing up in the U.P., I fondly remember accompanying my dad to the various "shoots" that local country taverns used to host. Known as Turkey Shoots, they were limited to .22 rimfire with iron sights (everymans' guns - not target models)and offered various prizes - including turkeys, chickens, ducks, etc. At one time these were live birds but later, with the advent of home freezers, processed fowl or gift certificates were substituted. I remember that the oldtimers at these shoots lamented over the fact that the prizes weren't as big as in the "old days" (depression and pre-depression era) when larger numbers of shooters had participated, and prizes often included beef halves. Sadly; as the the country taverns closed, liability issues arose, and an increasingly urban population turned to other forms of entertainment, the turkey shoots all but disappeared.
 
There is a meat shoot the Saturday of Easter weekend at Perryville behind the Dew Drop Inn. Six shots, 30 yards, closest to center. I took second last year with my little 36 Bobcat. You will see all kinds of guns from chunk guns with flat areas built into the stock to factory guns. Shaders and iris's are allowed. The 1st place shot last year would have been hard to beat by eye with a drill press.
 
My local archery club still holds a "Turkey Shoot" every year, about a week before thanksgiving. First place is a frozen 16+ lb turkey. Second is a smaller frozen turkey. Third is a cornish game hen. :haha:

They don't do it any more, but I remember one year they gave last place a can of spam. :rotf:

I wish they gave beef instead. That's a fantastic idea. I'd love to win a nice big steak or two. Where's the drooling smiley?
 
Sauk Trail Long Rifles in southern michigan holds a hog rendezvous in february each year. This year was a wooswalk and they gave away 350 pounds of pork.what a great weekend. :thumbsup:
 
DavidS said:
Have you ever watched the movie Sgt. York ? Alvin York wins a beef in a shoot and then starts to put it up for another shoot in order to buy his Bottomground.

I just watched an episode of Americal Rifleman on the Sgt. York annual chunk gun shoot. Pretty good show with lots of interesting guns.
The prize was steaks.

HD
 
There is no reason any club, bar, or group can't hold a " meat shoot ". We have one trap club that holds a true turkey shoot the last Sunday in October, and the winner of each ten bird relay( 5 shooters) wins a turkey, which is frozen, and usually goes over 25lbs. Another club gives out frozen turkeys, hams, chicken, and beef. Another club gives gift certificates from a local IGA so that you can redeem them for what you want. The gift certificates allow the club to give out prizes for each target in an aggregate, with the values varying from as little as $1 up, so that more people have a chance to win something.

If your muzzleloading club is getting bored because they don't know what to offer for prizes that will bring people out, then advertise a meat shoot, and arrange to have a couple of coolers full of frozen cuts. Steaks work. So do roasts. And, turkeys are usually cheap during the off season.
 
Last year at St. Elmo's Labor Day Festival, they had a turkey shoot out at the dam. We shot at paper targets and the best 3 shots won a turkey. They gave away 3 or 4 turkeys. I didn't shoot but one target. My sights came loose on my Hawken. :cursing:
 
bioprof said:
I read in one of Whisker's books about a Beef shoot rifle. What does that mean? Is it for hunting steers or for contests where a beef was a prize. He said they had a shorter barrel. Shooting beef doesn't sound very sporting. :rotf:

Same as a turkey shoot, only with cow...

BEEF, the other red meat... :grin:
(thought I was going to say "it's what's for dinner", didn't ya?)
 
I've shot in the York Shoot for about ten years,now,but will miss this year due to catarach sergury :(. I'll be there anyhow to help out with setting up etc,but not in competition unfortunately.

At the York shoot we'll have 200-210 shooters on line in two relays. The top twenty shooters take home several pounds of T-Bones,and everyone else gets a couple pounds of hamburger meat :winking:.

One of the great experiences that I've had at the York Shoot is to become friends with Andy York,one of Sgt.York's two sons, and his wife Helen who very recently passed away unfortunately. Cletis York, Sgt.York's nephew, and I had littermate Mountain Curs and always talked about going off on a 2-3 day squirrel hunt,but we haven't done so..... yet.

With 200+ shooters you'll see many different configurations of rifles and even more weird shapped target spotters (spotters are allowed,but sights must be open iron with shaders permitted).I've seen heavy chunkgun barrels strapped to a rough formed stock chopped out of a 2X6 piece of pine to custom chunkguns costing several thousand bucks. You'll see flintlocks,caplocks,mule ears,underhammers,you name it,but what you see mostly is a bunch of folks-male and female-having a great time! My piece is a typical 1775ish Pennsylvania Blue Mountain Chunkgun that Dave Dodds made for me.I've named it "Ole T-Bone" :haha:, and it'll be on line shooting this year under command of a friend of mine!

The Shoot is coming up in a couple of weeks,so if you want to have a great time and associate with a great group come on down-or up as in my case-to Pall Mall, Tennessee!
 
Most of the time when I visit Olie we end shooting the beef!






That can easily be interpreted as "shooting the bull"! :)
 
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