Breaks his first target

Not so nice weather but Cal wanted to give it a try. I locked the trap on straight aways, he missed his first one, broke the second (kept the hull, Rem. Light STS), missed a couple more and that was enough. He shot again a little later and broke another one. Success.

Ready to go

Shot the trap league last night, first competition targets in 8 months did not go well. On a brighter note, I got the kid size youth stock attached to my old 391.

Great night to shoot

60 degrees, no wind, nice sunset. Highlights, a 22, 23 and a 24 (in that order) from the 24 yard line. This Mr. Norm's Charger R/T was out front when I left. Mr Norm was a famous Dodge dealer in the city in the 60s and 70s, he was the largest high performance Dodge dealer in the country. The Grand Spaulding Dodge fleet department became so large that it supplied all of the Chicago Police Department cars, as well as the Illinois Secretary of State, Illinois Department of Transportation and many other municipalities. Also, special orders of police pursuit vehicles equipped with 440 Magnum V8 engines were dyno tuned for maximum power. Many of these vehicles were seen in the film the "Blues Brothers" starring Dan Akroyd and the late John Belushi.

Lots of Shooting

Got the Guerini back last week, put 425 shells thru it over the weekend with one hiccup in the second box, seems like it is fixed. Shot some ok singles Saturday, handicap needs a lot of work. There was a 50 straight in singles but also a bunch of 22s and 23s. Also bought a youth stock for my AL390, time to get Cal started even if its only a few shells at a time.

Grace in the tack room after Sunday's show.

Olympics Getting Close

The Royal Artillery Barracks in London are the site of the shooting events. They built this net to capture the lead and broken targets, test matches started this week. If you are on Facebook, follow Hakan Dahlby, he has some nice videos showing him breaking flash targets.

Pistol Shooting Last Night

Should have some trap guns back by the end of the week, finally get started.

34 Years Ago

The guy I bought the belt buckle from threw in this cool pin from the 1978 Chicago Grand Handicap. Hoping to have the Guerini back by the end of next week.

Fun Weekend

I went to a blacksmithing class that a local knife maker held on Saturday. Really interesting, we made some hooks out of 1/4 bar stock and then made letter openers. My letter opener looks like a giant, crude butter knife. The class is prerequisite for knife making classes which is what I am more interested in.

Cal and I went fishing yesterday, I caught a decent trout in the gun club pound and we filleted it, Theresa fried it. Tasted pretty good.

Lincoln Park Traps

This buckle from the Lincoln Park Traps just came up for sale on TS.com, I bought it. I remember seeing the club house when I lived summers out here in the late 1980s, it was gone in 1991. Here is a nice link with some info.

This is what used to be there:

What's there now:

Guerini sent back to Maryland today. I shot Tuesday night with it and had a nice run at singles, felt like I did in 2010 when I was shooting a lot. Starting smoking targets pretty hard.