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Hello to all and can you believe that August is almost here? The Southern Zone is in the record books and a lot of interesting stuff to talk about. One shoot coming up this Saturday&Sunday and then the Grand is upon us.
One shoot this Saturday the 27th and 28th at the Watauga Gun Club in Boone NC. The Annual Glenn Miller shoot will offer the "Ironman" on Saturday with 300 handicap targets and 100 pair of doubles and Sunday will offer 200 singles and 50 pair of doubles. Tom Pitts will have the program posted sometime today. Looking at the forecast 77 degrees, winds at 7 and 20% chance of rain looks real good for great shooting in the valley.
The Southern Zone is over and if you have been keeping up with the scores it looks like the honey hole for winning was the Berea Kentucky site for the weekend events. Singles winner Keith Parrot had to break 125 straight after a 200 in the Championship Singles Saturday. Don Isham broke 124x125 to take the runner-up title at the Berea site. Not to be outdone his older brother Kevin Parrot broke a 99 then 20/20 in a shootoff after a tie with Jr's Garrett Sweeney and Bobby Fowler and SrVet Don Kerce. They were all at the Berea site also and from what I could tell it was a sunny day in Kentucky on Sunday. In handicap Jordan Foley broke a 99 then 24/25/25 to win over Gerard Hoots and David Riddle in Berea. Looks like there were 5 98's broken including one broken by NC Jr shooter Noah Gouge. HAA found Gerard Hoots and Danny Ryan tied with 394x400 with Hoots winning the flip with Clay Floyd taking 3rd place with a 391x400. HOA was won by KY shooter Danny Ryan with 980x1000, Clay Floyd took RU with 978x1000 in Bostic and 3rd found Keith Ditto with 977x1000. For more detailed info mash on the link provided......http://shootatazone.com/southern/menu.cfm
I got a few reports from Bostic and it looks like Thursday was sunny, Friday was a little moist with Saturday overcast and drizzly all day. Not sure how it was Sunday other than overcast with a little moisture early in the day. Hats off to Marty Hill for his first big shoot under the belt and also I hear there is a new aluminum shelter down near trap 1. Of course I am sure he had a lot of help and a big thanks to everybody that helped run the shoot.
Digging a little deeper I found HOA winners Noah Gouge "B" Class - Ben Campbell "C" Class - Dan Johnson "SubVet" 968x1000. Looks like Dan had a pretty good run at 1000 targets with his new "Seizure Greeny" as he calls it. Looks like GA SrVet Jim Mitchell had a great HAA score to take "B" class......I know there are a ton of other winners so go take a look for yourself if you get a chance. If I left anybody out..........please forgive.....It is a lot of info to digest for sure.
Not much more to share since I did not make it to the Zone. With the Grand right around the corner folks will be preparing to make the trip to Sparta. Weather is looking god for the month of August with daytime highs in the high 80's. That is much better that 100 plus temps a few years ago. I was happy to see that Lou shot the Zone in Odessa and not too shabby there Lou. Hello to Lou down South and Scott up North and until next week.........................................Smokem
For the NC shoot calendar mash on the link from NCTRAP:
http://nctrap.com/shoots2014.pdf
For Southern Zone Shoot Info mash on the link below:
http://nctrap.com/sz_dates.htm