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Thanks Lon
October 10 2004 at 12:26 PM George  (Login QCRANGER)
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Lon,

I want to thank you again for letting me shoot your Ranger at SS4. It's a real beauty and shoots as well as it looks.

I was totally suprised to receive a package from the Cumberland Valley Sports League Friday which had a gold medal in it for the Big Bore Hunting Camp. I was pleased with the 15/20 I shot with your Ranger, much better than the 10/20 I shot with my Bandit. I'm kind of wondering if they made a mistake. I thought someone would clean the course probably the guy that was doing so well at the moving targets.

My nonairgunning wife enjoyed Kentucky and is talking about going again next year, so perhaps we'll met again.

George
 
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Lon

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My pleasure George. October 10 2004, 3:05 PM 
You scored a 15/20! I thought for sure I was giving you all the poorly cast slugs.
I had a great time and I'm happy to give other people the opportunity to enjoy my rifle. Hope to see you @ SS V.

 

****photo did not transfer of George shooting his 50 caliber Q Bandit on the same range******

BTW, here's George committing blasphemy!

    
This message has been edited by bigbore from IP address 66.217.44.130 on Oct 10, 2004 3:47 PM


 

What was unexpected was this: When it came time to award the medals for the tournaments at Standing Stone 4, it was found that two people had tied for Gold on the Big Bore Camp. In the discussion, it was mentioned that George was the fella with the 50 caliber Quackenbush. He'd already left the Festival to go home. We could not have a shoot-off to break the tie. We could have simply issued the medal to the guy that was still there.

I said the only fair thing we can do is to issue TWO Gold Medals. Knowing full well that I'd never hear the end of the other maker's rifle winning Gold at SS4 (you may recall that that particular maker has devoted untold energy to his one sided feud for the last eight years). Can't worry about that - the only fair thing for the shooter was to issue two Golds. And so we were happy to do so - appreciative of his attendance and participation.

So, it came as a surprise to learn that George - obviously familiar with his own rifle, shot 10 out of 20 targets with it, and upon sliding in under Lon's borrowed Barnes Ranger Magnum, he shot 15 out of 20 from the same bench at the same targets. Turns out he'd won the second Gold with a borrowed rifle. Who knew?