NAGS April Shoot

Hello fellow NAGS

The first thing I thought of when I woke up yesterday put me in panic mode. I had forgotten to take my air tank to the dive shop on Friday. No air means no shooting for team Wilson. So it was get all of our gear together and load up the truck, off to the dive shop and still make it to the shoot on time. Hurry hurry hurry is not my style. Although Clint and I did make it to the shoot on time.

Gale and Jeremy were already at "City NAGS" working hard setting up the 25 and 50 yd benchrest lanes. A lot of time and effort goes into getting our indoor shooting building ready for a shoot. I want to thank Gale and Jeremy for the all that they do for the club.. Without their efforts the shoot would not go on.

Mike had told me earlier in the week that he had been working on a project for the club and that Glenn would be bringing this project to the shoot. All I knew was that this project had something to do with our 25 yd Springer class competition. Glenn soon walked in carrying a large white package and the rest of his gear and we were waiting with anticipation to see just what was in the package. What a surprise we had when the package was unwrapped. Mike had built a new traveling trophy out of a few odds and ends that looks really great. I have attached a photo of the new trophy for you to take a look at..

As we were getting ready to start shooting I realized I had left the hose assembly for my air tank at home and that meant no shooting for team Wilson.. No air, no shoot !! Clint and I were more than disappointed to say the least. Now we only had three shooters for the day's competition and we were wondering if we should go ahead with the competition or not. Gale soon spoke up and stated that we should just turn the shoot into our own little fun shoot and just work on getting our guns sighted in and do a little of shooting the breeze. Everyone agreed and that is just what we did.

The day was not at a loss though. We had been at City NAGS for about an hour when a fellow walked in asking if we shoot airguns. This nice gentleman introduced himself as Allen Krabbenhoft. I then realized that Allen was the newest member to join NAGS a couple of weeks ago. We exchanged some pleasantries, passed on some good information about the club and what is going on this summer season. Allen soon had his Diana 100 out of the case and was shooting the 50 yd lane and you could see that he was enjoying himself.. Allen is going to fit in just fine and I am sure he will be an asset to the club. Welcome aboard Allen.

Glenn broke out his Rapid MFR and started showing off this fine looking rifle. The MFR has a new custom barrel shroud and air stripper. This has to be the quietest airgun I have ever shot. We all took our turn at testing out the gun and I think that Glenn may just have a gun that he will keep for more than a couple of months.. Does Glenn finally have the gun to beat all guns..? Only time will tell.

There is not very much to report on from Yesterdays shoot so I will just let everyone know that our next shoot will be May 9th. We will be moving back out to the Goat Ranch. We will be offering up our Hunter class Field Target competition, the 25 and 50 yd benchrest competition. The shoot will have a start time of 10:00 AM..

Our initial date for the clubs first fun shoot is up in the air for the moment. Our original date of May 23rd falls on Memorial Day weekend and there are too many people that have plans for that weekend. I will be getting with Mike to determine what will work for him and when we come up with a date I will send out an email advising everyone of the new date. I could also use some input from the club members as to just what they would like for me to offer at the fun shoot. If there is anything you would like to mention please get in contact with me and I will see if I can make it happen.

I will be sending out more information on the May 9th shoot in the near future.. Please come out and support the NAGS for our summer kick off shoot.

Here are few photos of the shoot