Nit Wit, tell us about the biathlon

[ratfacedmcdougal]

How was the biathlon Nit Wit? I couldn't make it to Jeff, feeling too poorly. The weather here on the coast was nice, how about in those Green Mountains? Cool enough to keep the sweat off I hope.
Cheers
RFMcD

 

[nit wit]

RFMD:
We waddled in the morning, bright sun and no wind. Green Mountain became co-sponsors with our group the Ancient Ones Of Maine. I spoke with their sales rep and they are still making ml barrels. Attendance seemed to be down, but I saw lot's of old friends and met some new ones.
Come up to the Dalton Gangs, they have a great club house to warm up in. Missed seeing you. On a sad note I heard the PLR have petered out, Wade couldn't get enough help to keep it going, I shot with them a lot in the 80's, a real shame!
NW

 

[ratfacedmcdougal]

Too bad about PLR. I know how it is with clubs, very hard to get people to take part in the running of things, the salmon club I belong to has 90 members and about a dozen who make it all stay afloat. What will happen to the club house and range? I probably won't be doing any shooting this winter unless we get some warm days. Getting spleeny, you know.

 

[nit wit]

I think they sold some of the land to a land trust. They still own the club house and range I believe. What a beautiful club house. :thumbsup:
Eye of the hawk could use some shooters, they are headed down the same road!
If people can still move they can still shoot.
NW

 

[ratfacedmcdougal]

Lack of shooters is the story. the range here in Blue Hill had a black powder shoot every month last summer. There were quite a few guys shooting old .45-70s and C&b pistols but for muzzleloaders, there were two of us. Easy way to win the Hancock County championships for the two of us. Dave in the old fart and me in the open.I think that Dave wants to shoot against the cartridge guys next year for some competition (he's not getting it from me)It will be nice if more shooters could be drummed up next summer. Maybe you'd like to take the ride, only 3 hours.
Cheers

 

[Ken Cormier]

Just got off the phone with Glen Dickey the Penobscot long rifles HAS NOT Gone UNDER. What has happened is their shoots have got down to 5 or 6 shooters at the shoots. It cost more to open the road than they make at the shoots. So the club has slowed down until spring then it will start with it's monthly shoots again. So come and shoot and have a good time :thumbsup:

 

[Canute Rex]

Just to chime in with Nit Wit, the Jeffersonville biathlon was a good time. Saturday was sunny and in the 30s - almost too warm. My friend Steve and I shouldered our matchlocks and left twin streamers of (industrial, not psychoactive) hemp smoke down the trail. Shot as well as (but not better than) any other smoothbores on the course and then went to the "playground" range, where we both shot some golf balls off of their pegs. Funny how you suddenly go from barn-misser to sharpshooter when it's not for score.

The Manchester VT biathlon is coming up February 7-8. That's always a good time. They have some non-biathlon shooting there as well. Check out http://www.svtpb.org/ for info.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

Funny how you suddenly go from barn-misser to sharpshooter when it's not for score.

Follow through ... I would opine that whilst out on the course, you're so excited at seeing if you hit the gong, that you don't follow through all the way THROUGH the shot. Most do this ... they tend to raise their head and "peek" at the shot to see if they hit the gong, and that peek causes the miss.

If you think about it, your shot on the course may not be as a 'relaxed' shot as it is on the range, and that excitement and/or nerves causes one to lose their form.

Respectfully and IMHO of course ...

 

[nit wit]

Ken:
Check out the web site, every thing is a year old!
Someone must care enough to give a transfusion?
Nit Wit

 

[Canute Rex]

Flint, I am fully willing to acknowledge that my follow through on the course may have been sub-par. Much of the problem on the course is that I was striding along on snowshoes, raising both my pulse rate and breathing rate. I was also on the clock, and that does nothing for accuracy.

We'll see how things go at Manchester next weekend. If I feel ambitious I might "run" it with my rifle on Saturday and stroll it with my matchlock on Sunday.