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Annual Guide Dogs Sporting Clay shoot

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:02 am
by Hatchdog
This coming Saturday is my labor union’s annual Guide Dog Sporting Clay shoot. This is the 11th year of our local organizing this event and I have made all but one shoot when I foolishly planned a camping trip the same weekend. We started shooting trap and did that for several years until the local trap range was bought out by a school district in order to expand to two high schools. Just when I was starting to get better at trap :lol: . I started out in the upper 70’s to lower 80’s and the last year I shot a 94.

So with the closing of the trap range we now shoot at a sporting clays range. While I’m not as good at SC’s as I was getting at trap it’s sure a fun time. The course is set up on the edge of some farmland so we shoot both in the trees and open fields. Even across a pond. I’ll try to remember to take some pictures this year.

Guide Dogs is an organization that trains and provides seeing eye dogs at no charge to folks in need. A few years ago they expanded to providing companion dogs too. A great organization that our District supports with ten of thousands of dollars via fund raisers like this every year.

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Re: Annual Guide Dogs Sporting Clay shoot

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 12:15 pm
by PBSnooker
I've shot several fund raising tournaments. Good times.

Re: Annual Guide Dogs Sporting Clay shoot

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2024 3:00 pm
by cooperhawk
Hatchdog wrote:
Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:02 am
Guide Dogs is an organization that trains and provides seeing eye dogs at no charge to folks in need. A few years ago they expanded to providing companion dogs too. A great organization that our District supports with ten of thousands of dollars via fund raisers like this every year. IMG_5337.jpeg
Our local VFW has purchased guide dogs for vets as well. Spendy but worth it I think.
I used to shoot skeet tournaments and won a few, (in my younger days). I have shot numerous
25 scores and a few 50s as well.
It's all fun.