SHOOTING SPORTS
A small trap club compared by most but the camaraderie , sportsmanship , and the beautiful backdrop coupled with some heavy ribbing of each other made this days events another one for the memory books . From single shots to expensive over and under shotguns , shooters competed for meat prizes . Whether is was a Buddy Shoot , Anne Oakley or just a standard round of trap the hard bird to the right caught some of the best shooters by surprise . However , the longer they shot the better they got . Empty hulls for a future reloading was stuffed back into shooting bags / vests and the smell of burnt gun powder drifted across the trap field .
As you stepped from the club house to the range across the little bridge you can only wonder how many shooters had walked those planks before you . Shooters huddled under a big brown tarp to keep the hot high noon sun at bay . A gentle breeze moved under the tarp as shooters sat on logs and watched the shooting action . Each waited patiently for their name to be called for the next round of shooting action .
Roxanne Stunison of Troy ( pictured bottom right ) eagerly took the shooters money and set them up for another round . Mark Roesler-Begalke ( pictured bottom left ) of Troy , MT manned the clip board and kept track of hits and misses . Mark had his hands full as every shooting station was filled at the beginning of each round to only watch it slowly reduce in size as one shooter after another was eliminated .
Michael Wells ( pictured left ) also of Troy had to have worn out his finger launching bird after bird upon the call of the shooter to “ pull ” or some variation thereof .
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