What a beautiful Fall weekend for our event! Mike Briscoe setup our range and woods with 21 shooting target stations with distances ranging from 15-50 yards. These are mostly steel targets but they are Rendezvous style targets that include clay birds, splitting a round ball on an axe blade, shooting from a saddle, shooting through a window, and many more. Mike has done a wonderful job putting together great targets and setting up a very fun event. You do not need to be a Gemmer club member to participate, but just an invitation from a Gemmer club member. Camping is optional. Primitive and modern campers allowed. Congratulations to Darren Heaton for winning the match with 24 points, only missing 2 targets. Great shooting!
Rules:
Rifles or smoothbores, with percussion or flintlocks, are allowed. You will need to shoot a maximum of 25 round balls to complete this match. Loading from a pouch is required because you will be walking from station to station with no loading benches.
Cost:
$25 blanket prize is the cost to participate.
Schedule:
Friday Morning: Camp Setup
Friday Afternoon 2pm to 5pm: Clay Bird Shooting
Saturday 9am – 3pm: Woods Walk Line is Open. Takes about 2 hours to shoot and can start anytime during this period.
Saturday 5pm: Blanket Prizes and Scores given out.
Sunday Morning: Camp Breakdown
Scores:
1st: Darren Heaton – 24
2nd: Mike Briscoe – 23
3rd: Ron Lawrence – 22
4th: Bob Coffelt – 20
5th: Grant Metzler – 18
6th: Bob Vogt – 18
7th: Glenn Baer – 17
8th: Fred Engelhard – 16
9th: Dean Hahn – 16
10th: Dean Venardos – 13
11th: David Brandenburger – 13
12th: Jim Feeney – 12
Bryan Johnson – Didn’t Shoot
This is so awesome .I am so glad I found this group. I really enjoy reading the really nice magazine .I really hope to make one of your shoots.at this tim I am building my first hawkins .I am a disabled veterans and live history .nice Jon NMLRA
Tim, you should plan on attending the Hawken Classic at the Lewis and Clark Boat House in St. Charles, MO May 16-18, 2025. Our club is hosting the event. The Hawken Shop will be there and tons of original Hawken Rifles on display inside the museum. It’s free to attend.