I want to wish all my shooting buddies down in Winnsboro good luck as the start of the 1/5th game begins. There are likely 200 SB Silhouette shooters now in Winnsboro getting ready for the start of the match on Saturday. To get ready and have some fun they have what is called the Coon-Ass-Challenge fun match on Friday night before the beer truck is turned on.
You are envited to form a team of 4 shooters and come up with the best stupid, fun, silly name you can. Truth be told just about everybody creates a team but obviously there is some degree of getting the top master shooters to make a team against another team of top master shooters. But, to counter that they spot AA, A, B shooters some extra points. Once you are triple A your swimming with the big fish.
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| Winnsboro, LA 2005 Coon Ass Challenge 4th place |
Back in 2005 we made a team with Ernie, Sandy, John and myself. John had turkeys which is the hardest. Ernie had rams. Sandy had chickens and I had pigs. The teams (12 at a time) are called to the line and what is usually an individual sport becomes a team sport. Talk about nerves. Even worse, to have pigs you are expected to clean them! To make a very long story short we tied for 3rd. I recall I managed 9 pigs and everyone else did very well so the scrappy little team from Texas and Alaska had spoiled some Master class teams. The lowest classed shooter of each team had to shoot off on turkeys to settle 3rd vs. 4th. Ernie was none to optimistic as he stepped up to the line with a nationally ranked Master shooter from California but we manged to take 4th and get some cool t-shirts along with a brick of RWS Target ammo. It sure is a fun sport plus you make some life long friends!
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