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The Random Ramblings Of An Airgun Addict

This past weekend we had a local Field Target match. I wasn't at last months match so I had called Donnie Ross (club president) to see how it went. He told me about the match and how some of the targets had been damaged when a family friend tilled up a field in which we had some of our targets. He told me that some of them were pretty damaged but I thought certainly they could be repaired. There were five that had been damaged.

I had stopped out by the range last Wednesday on my way by to pick up the damaged targets so I could figure out what to replace them with before the match. I was very surprised, two targets were completely destroyed beyond repair while the other three look like they can be repaired. However, one smaller Juneau mouse target is completely missing. We couldn't find it, Donnie said he found parts of Stoutenberg Pheasant target in the woods about 55 yards away.

Then on Friday while I was out doing course prep work, I found another three targets that had been damaged, two looked like they had been stepped on by a deer. This has happened before and they are pretty simple to repair. The other Stoutenberg rabbit was completely destroyed to the point of bolts being sheered off. We are down nine targets, it was a rough couple of months! We should be able to repair most of the targets, the other will have to be replaced. I can pound ot the target faces on the destroyed targets and make new mechanism for them. This is the ups and downs of club life. This kind of stuff happens all the time and is just stuff we deal with to play a sport we love. It also gives us more fun stuff to do at home, well, it's fun for me anyways!