Well it finally arrived - the Petitcodiac Sportsman's Club Annual Christmas Shoot and dinner. We had all looked forward to this event and 29 shooters attended to make this event a great one. 
The weather started out quite nice with about 2 degrees C as we left for the range. Unfortunately it gradually got colder during the day and we finished the shoot with -8C, a few snow flurries and pretty stiff winds which blew gustily downrange. The stove in the shooting building worked over-time today with Dan G. and Ron M. enthusiastically filling it at every opportunity.
Today's course of fire was a mixed bag - a lucky target which amounted to a blank sheet of paper. You could place your 5 shots anywhere on the paper - a tight little group or scattered around. It turned out that the winning statedgy used by John McC. (21 points) was a tight little group that he put on the paper in just the right spot which earned him a first place turkey.
The second target was a smaller version (about 1/2 size) of the Centerfire Hunter Class target. The trick here was to read the wind and many shooters did that very well indeed with 8 perfect targets of 100 points. The winner of this event was Brian P. with a very good bit of shooting and a score of 100/9X. There was a turkey for this performance as well.
The third target was the notorious "Fly target". Here a shooter had to place 10 shots on target - the target being the fly's head for 5 points, the thorax for 4 points and the abdomen for 3 points. A touching shot was 1 point while legs and wings did not earn any points. With the wind, a lot of legs and wings were hit but the winner of this event - Mike H. was able to rack up 36 points and will also eat turkey this Christmas..jpg)
Finally we shot the "Black Death" target. Here a shooter shot 5 shots at black squares with a white dot in the middle. A shot in the white dot of the large square was worth 1 point; in the next smaller square it was worth 2 points, the third size - 3 points, the fourth smaller target was worth 4 point and a shot in the final one - a small square with a small white dot was worth 5 points. A shooter could place his shots in any order in any square but to count it must be in the white. As soon as a shot touched the black, all shots in that square did not count. A few of us shot a grand total of 0 while the winner of this event - Terry McN., managed 14 points and went home with the plucked and frozen bird.Halfway during the shoot, we all went to the clubhouse for a wonderful meal of ham and scalloped potatoes prepared by Mrs. T. and Mrs. K. Terry McN. had brought some great baked beans. The sweets for dessert were brought by Shelly C.and Mrs. McC. Needless to say we all went back to the shoot with full bellies and feeling like we had already won.
12th Annual Christmas Shoot 2014
Scores Shot Results List
Shooter Good Luck 6 Bull Squares Flies
1 Martin T. 5 99x5 8 13
2 Tom N. 9 100x5 6 15
3 Darryl K. 8 100x3 8 21
4 Shelly C. 10 92x3 10 16
5 Cecil H. 12 99x3 4 22
6 Brian P. 0 100x9 5 20
7 Barb J. 5 99x3 5 18
8 George M. 7 99x5 11 8
9 John C. 8 98x4 9 11
10 Tony L. 13 92x0 1 12
11 John Mc. 21 98x8 11 14
12 Tom W. 4 100x8 0 16
13 Carl J. 9 100x7 0 3
14 Bert deV. 16 98x5 0 23
15 Dan G. 15 97x5 0 16
16 Mathew McA. 4 97x3 2 14
18 Terry McN. 4 100x5 14 19
19 Don M. 9 100x5 1 15
20 Ron M. 4 95x4 1 12
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21 Volker T. 15 98x8 0 15
22 Bruce B. 8 97x3 4 14
23 Norbert S. 6 98x2 1 4
24 John M. 7 94x3 4 29
25 Mike H. 5 100x8 10 36
26 Gerald D. 10 76x3 8 11
29 Guy H. 7 98x4 3 4
After the shoot, we all went to clubhouse for the awarding of the prizes. Those who did not win a turkey - about 25 of us - were eligible for a prize draw. We all went home with a Christmas gift provided for the shoot by John C. We were all winners today!
A lot of thanks go to the PSC and to Volker T. who did the scoring while Martin T. verified the scores. Dan G. and Barb J.. provided the treats during the shoot. Dan G., Darryl K., and Bert deV. were the range officers. Shelley C. and a crew of helpers changed the targets.
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