Christmas Shoot 2009

Well the final shoot (or should I say blaze fest) of the year was a lot of fun.

This is the 1 shoot in the year where literally 'anything' goes (as long as it is safe)

The weather decided that it would play ball, albeit cloudy & a bit breezy.
A good showing by the club members for the day, and a lot of fun (& some politically incorrect) targets were presented for the shoot.
We had people shooting at targets of chickens, pool balls, political leaders, balloons, clay targets etc.

Aaron & I threw our 2 course ideas together to make 1x team event course, and everybody seemed to enjoy it... so much so that we had to run it 2 more times so that everybody got to try the different positions of the team.

It involved teams of 3.  1x runner, 1x gun holder & 1x trigger puller.
All team members started at the line with 5 rounds in their hand.  Member #1 then had to run 10mtrs to a table to retrieve the magazine, load it & present it back to the gun holder at the line.
The gun holder then had to load the mag, rack the gun & take aim on target.
The 3rd member then had to insert their finger in the trigger well & pull the trigger while trying to score the best possible points on the IPSC target.
In short... it was absolute mayhem & a bloody funny thing to watch as the table got knocked over... magazines were strewn across the grass... people frantically trying to load rounds... 1 person trying to hold the gun steady & aim while another person is pulling the trigger...
Even just thinking about it still brings a smile to the face :)

The breeze even made the balloon shoot a funny thing to watch also as people tryed to pop balloons waving around on the sticks.

Video of the balloon shoot on YouTube:  Balloon Shoot

The 'Pool ball' challenge was interesting also.  Teams of 2 had to shoot out their string of balls (1-7 or 9-15) then aim for the 8 ball.  OK... so it was just another reason to shoot heaps of ammo   LOL
Video of the Pool Challenge shoot on YouTube:  Pool Challenge

People had various prizes to present for their COFs which was great.

Once shooting had finished, the BBQ got under way.  Enough food to sink a battleship (or feed their crew at least !)
The kids had fun running around the range & climbing up the grass banks.

Things could not have worked out better actually.
I was the last to lock everything up and leave the range, and literally as I walked in my front door at home, the heavens opened & it poured.

All in all.... another great shoot & heaps of fun (and a hell of a lot of rounds)
Cheers
Reuben - PPC President