Good shooting.
That's a beautiful club.
I bet the background is terrible there in the fall when the leaves turn
I must agree. When I worked at Roberts Shooting Park in Elkhorn NE (69-70) as a teenager, the trap range walks were not as pretty, and everyone shot in front of an 80 acre alfalfa field with lots of sky visible. We even did booze/turkey shoots with white clays at night under brilliant lights from 27+ yards, and some had a florescent powder sealed in the clay with a scotch-taped manila cardboard circle. It was up to the trap boy to determine when each special target flew. I pulled a few of the shoots and had to lay on my back up against the clubhouse as that is how far the cord stretched while the shooter stood next to me. Hearing protection? Back then, forget about it.
The range manager was so cost conscious that he had us go out into the alfalfa field before shooting hours and reclaim used clays (among the manure) that were not cracked (one could tell buy the sound of one clay clanked upon another). Both the skeet ranges and the trap ranges used Western Flyer machines but we always threw Blue Rocks. Go figure. Five combination ranges in all. I remember all of the well-to-do folks with their trap Krieghoffs, Win 101's, et al. Even the well off skeet guys had 4-gun Rem 1100's/870's in all skeet gauges. Drool.
We even hosted the 1970 NSSA Nebraska shoot, all four gauges. Talk about busy!
I was never very good at trap but I loved skeet. I did not get to shoot as I worked all 3 (12 hour) days of the shoot. Two of the skeet ranges had self-loading machines, but 6 of us had to man the manual cocking machines in both high and low houses on the other 3 ranges. I did not pull very much at the shoot, but I sure got a workout cocking and setting clays. All for a wonderful $1.50/hr, and I am not complaining! I can remember carrying my Rem 870 12 gauge IC choke and a case of reloads in the trunk of my '65 GTO and parking it in the high school parking lot all day on the afternoons/nights I had to work at the range. Many people knew of it and it was not any big deal. Fast forward to present time and I would be labeled a domestic terrorist just for possessing that.
I wish for the old days nearly 50 years ago.
Therefore, kudos to anyone who can run 25 straight in trap. I don't remember doing better than 20. Shame on me.
You guys have got to quit enticing me to reminisce.
