17 days until Christmas and it is a joyous time of year for some. One shoot over the weekend at the Buckhorn Gun Club and I hope to have the scores up sometime today. Soggy Saturday and super windy Sunday made for some dicey conditions if you got outside to play.
Found out late that Wes Whitworth passed away December 1st and he worked with JC at the News and Record for many years like 37. Wes was a bunch of fun and I can remember the day he decided to step to the door at Rockingham and test fire a round under the shed. Needless to say some of us about soiled our drawers with the sound that 12 gauge shell made under that roof. I posted his info in the finished careers section of the site.
Hunter Galloway and Terry Roush are in Sparta Illinois meeting in the ATA office. Monday looks ok but Tuesday and Wednesday the high is in the mid 30's. I wish them well and a safe trip back to the TarHeel State. Terry has posted his newsletter with all the info about State Teams and other important info. I posted the link in the NC Club News section and also you can view it at http://www.nctrap.com.
Keep Tom Cox in your prayers while he is battling some respiratory issues. He is currently in the ICU at Annie Penn hospital in Reidsville NC. He had taken a trip up to West Virginia and was out and about in some cold damp weather that didn't help his situation. I took a trip over to see him Sunday and he was sleeping in his room. The phone number is 336-951-4000 and that is the main number at the hospital.
The 2015 NC Shoot schedule is slowly but surely filling up with some clubs still working on their dates. Terry published the Southern Zone shoot dates beginning with the Dixie at the Silver Dollar January 19-25 and the Southern Grand March 16-22. If you have never been to the Silver Dollar it is quite an experience. They have some scorers that keep up with everything. When JC and I shoot and he is on 5 I never look over to see if he is set because he liked it that way. At the Dollar JC would hit post 1 and I would put my gun up and would call for the bird. No bird would exit the house and I asked the scorer what the deal was. He said your guy on post one wasn't ready. I didn't argue and explained the deal after the round was over. The scorer was looking out for the senior citizens and that is a good thing.
I ran into and 88 year old fellow from Wisconsin on Facebook the other day. Claimed he shot at Buckhorn many years ago and actually named a few names that I recognized. He shoots trap in Wisconsin and also is into ballroom dancing. Quite a character and if you look at his FB pix he swings some rather tall Russian blondes around on the dance floor. Ray Moser is quite a fellow and he invited me to the Wisconsin State Shoot next year.
Have a great week everybody and it looks like they are predicting some interesting weather right before Christmas. Hello to Lou, Scott and Hap and until next week Smokem.........