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!