| Burbank Muzzleloaders Inc. September 2008 Members, Our prayers go out to the Harpold family. Gerri Harpold, who has been fighting cancer for several years, lost her fight this month. Gerri baked wonderful pumpkin bread for our X-Mas Matches for years, even after she and Frank moved to northing California. She is in our thoughts as will be Frank and Don. October 12th is a Silhouette month, a money match month, a fun match month. We have yet to have someone sweep the silhouettes. It is your time, shoot our silhouettes, earn the $100 for a sweep. Shoot cartridge or muzzle loaders, the longest animal is at 100 meters, and shortest animal is at 40 meters. How could you miss, and even when you do, it is still fun. Silhouettes October 12th starting around 9:00 am. See you there! Last month was a fifth Sunday month. Fifth Sunday fell on August 31st. It was a good day for a Trail-Walk, warm but not hot, which made for good shooting. Most shot low scores but the top two kicked butt. Space dictates that I only give the top six places. 1st with 22 hits LEE BOWMAN 2nd with 20 hits TOM ANDRESS 3rd with 15 hits JOHN CLEVENGER 4th with 14 hits CARLOS WILHELM 5th with 13 hits DAVE McCAUGHTRY 6th with 12 hits SKIP STOKES The next fifth Sunday Trail-Walk will happen on November 30th. That is the start of our rainy season and if we get any rain we’ll shoot the longer stations. November 30th. Sam and I climbed up the mountain last Wednesday and painted the 380, 400, and 500 yard gongs for the .45-70 Trap Door Match. You think “so what”. I’ll tell you what, just to get to the foot of the mountain there is a six foot deep wash that is a bitch to cross. After crossing the wash it is a short climb up to the 380 yard gongs, but from there to the 400 yard gong it is nearly strait up for 50 yards. To negotiate those 50 yards steps have to be cut and once at the gong a shelf has to be cut to stand on while painting. From there I had to return below the 380 yard gongs, cross another wash, then fight bushes for about 15 yards, then we start cutting steps up to the 500 yard gong. Except for the two washes and the bushes, it is easy to come down off the mountain, going up is the Nightmare. It took us an hour and a quarter to travel about 600 yards and back. To walk that on flat ground it would be less than a fifteen minuet job. That is why those targets only get painted on special matches. You’re welcome Tom. September 14th was the Tom Trevor Trap-Door Springfield Match. It’s one of the best matches of the year and it was again. Targets were 15 rounds paper for rifle at 200 yds., 15 rounds paper for carbine at 100 yds. And Tom always does 5 rounds at long range gong. I’ll give you the top six places in rifle and carbine and the top two at the 400 yard gong. RIFLE 1st – John Clevenger 64x 2nd – Sam Baseman 62xx 3rd – Skip Stokes 54 4th – Lee Bowman 54 5th – Tom Trevor 50 6th – Tom Andress 42 CARBINE 1st – Lee Bowman 67 2nd – Sam Baseman 66x 3rd – Tom Trevor 65x 4th – Tom Andress 65 5th – Skip Stokes 63x 6th – John Clevenger 58 400 yard GONG 1st - Sam Baseman 4 hits 2nd – Rick Welle 2 hits Tom also had a drawing for six items that were Trap Door related (like a Tom Andress bore mirror, books, silver dollar, and other good stuff). With six prizes each for Rifle and Carbine and the stuff for the drawing, Tom really laid out the bucks for this match. Not only good prizes, Tom ordered good weather. It was a warm day with a light breeze and just enough humidity that the guns shot well. What a day! What a match! It just doesn’t get better than that! Thanks Tom, you did it again. Let’s talk staple gun. We have four club staple guns and 36,000 staples. When you guys shoot your rifle you don’t put the empty back and pick up someone else’s rifle because it is loaded, do you? Then why do you do that with a staple gun?? We have plenty of staples and they are right in front of you, why not just load the empty?? We would never close the range before everyone got their targets out, it only takes 30 seconds to load the gun, why is it so hard for you to load an empty staple gun. There have been times when three of the four staple guns have been left empty. You reload your gun after shooting, do the same with the staple guns! If you are so dumb that you don’t know how, ask Tom or Skip, we will take the time to teach you. DO NOT use the last staple out of the staple gun without reloading. It is only about three months until the Christmas Shoot. I have asked for targets, if all the targets I received were dollars, I couldn’t buy a piece of penny candy. Again this year I’m getting nothing. It looks as if we will again shoot the same old tired targets that I made up fifteen years ago. We’ll go through the targets and pick the best ones, but any we pick has been shot twelve or more times in the last fifteen years. We need a bunch of Christmas theme easy to score, easy to break ties, fun targets. Who can draw? Do a Santa that we can shoot the buttons off his coat, reindeer with bulbs in his antlers, candles on a dinner table, or cherries in a fruit cake. Something fun with at least three targets located in the picture with small scoring ring that will break any ties. If you draw, do some targets for us. Go a little nuts if you wish. Get them to Tom T or Skip S as soon as possible for we may want to color the copies to make them stand out. Do it on an 8’ X 11’ sheet of paper and don’t forget to sign it for credit, years down the road it’ll show that you made your mark for BML. I think we should consider starting a Rock Rule. What is a Rock Rule? It may be requested that every member that posts a target between 25 and 100 yards pick up two small rocks when returning to the line. The stones are then to be put at the drain from the roof by the steps. It wouldn’t take long that the range would be free of the small stones that don’t seem to bother anyone but me. It would make us look better without all the small stones. Think on it, we could clean all those pesky small stones off the range in six months or less. Keep in mind that we will be doing a work party around the first Sunday in November. It will make us look good for Sue and Bernie’s Turkey Match and our Christmas Shoot. The date will be in the October News Letter and we will bring it up at the October Silhouette Match. Good news! O’Dean Jensen is alive!! O’Dean came up to the range to visit us on a recent Sunday. He is healthy, wealthy and in town for several days so came up to say Hi. I have been putting “let me know if you are alive” notes on and in his News Letter for the last two years. Just last month I stopped sending him his NL, it made him so mad that he came all the way from Utah to chew me out. It was good to see you again O’Dean, wish you were still shooting with us. www.burbankmuzzleloaders.net BML the place to be!!!!
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