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CA State Sporting Clays Championship Review & Pictures:
I recently shot in the CA State Sporting Clays Championship held at Triple B Clays in El Monte CA (Los Angeles). This event was held over 4 days from June 24th thru June 27th. They had a small gauge, FITASC, 5-stand, 100-bird pre-lim and a 200-bird main event.
I only shot in the main event. But some “real men†shot them all
. I normally compete in monthly fun shoots, and in a few charity events. I had never shot in a state event before and I didn’t know what to expect. This one didn’t let me down.
Bruce at Triple B had set a very challenging 14-station course. At some stations we shot 3 pair and at others we shot 4. Some were true pairs, most were report and 1 was following. I found all the targets to be hittable, unfortunately just not by me. If you know Bruce, you know he throws some “tricky†targets. They always look “easyâ€, but they’re all doing something right when I want to shoot them. Curling, dropping, fading away, you get the idea.
The main event was shot on Saturday & Sunday with 100 birds each day. I was scheduled to shoot in the middle flight on Saturday and on the late flight on Sunday. When I arrived, I was pleased to see everything was running smoothly. 5-man squads, no waiting at the stations and Northview High School Cheerleaders pulling / scoring. What more could you ask for?
Saturday’s course was set harder than Sundays. I shot a 73 on Saturday and was pretty happy with that. However on Sunday (the easier course), I managed to shoot a 70. Don’t ask me why. Actually, I thought the only easier stations on Sunday were 15 & 16. But I had shot them pretty well on Saturday, so I didn’t gain anything.
We were finished shooting by 3:45 on Sunday and thanks to Lois, they had the scores up by 4:30. Billie (Bruce’s wife) started giving out the awards, I think there were over 100 of them. Jim Porter gave out the Junior awards and we were out of there by 6:00.
We had about 210 people shoot in the main. All in all it was a great event. Well run, fun targets and a good time was had by all.
Here’s a link to more photos.
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=3032059&uid=883856
Here’s a link to Triple B: http://www.triplebclays.com/
Here’s a link to the Cal. Sporting Clays Assoc: http://www.calclays.com/
Here’s link to the scores: http://www.wyshotgun.com/california.html
And here's one of the boys
I recently shot in the CA State Sporting Clays Championship held at Triple B Clays in El Monte CA (Los Angeles). This event was held over 4 days from June 24th thru June 27th. They had a small gauge, FITASC, 5-stand, 100-bird pre-lim and a 200-bird main event.
I only shot in the main event. But some “real men†shot them all
. I normally compete in monthly fun shoots, and in a few charity events. I had never shot in a state event before and I didn’t know what to expect. This one didn’t let me down. Bruce at Triple B had set a very challenging 14-station course. At some stations we shot 3 pair and at others we shot 4. Some were true pairs, most were report and 1 was following. I found all the targets to be hittable, unfortunately just not by me
. If you know Bruce, you know he throws some “tricky†targets. They always look “easyâ€, but they’re all doing something right when I want to shoot them. Curling, dropping, fading away, you get the idea.The main event was shot on Saturday & Sunday with 100 birds each day. I was scheduled to shoot in the middle flight on Saturday and on the late flight on Sunday. When I arrived, I was pleased to see everything was running smoothly. 5-man squads, no waiting at the stations and Northview High School Cheerleaders pulling / scoring. What more could you ask for?
Saturday’s course was set harder than Sundays. I shot a 73 on Saturday and was pretty happy with that. However on Sunday (the easier course), I managed to shoot a 70. Don’t ask me why. Actually, I thought the only easier stations on Sunday were 15 & 16. But I had shot them pretty well on Saturday, so I didn’t gain anything.
We were finished shooting by 3:45 on Sunday and thanks to Lois, they had the scores up by 4:30. Billie (Bruce’s wife) started giving out the awards, I think there were over 100 of them. Jim Porter gave out the Junior awards and we were out of there by 6:00.
We had about 210 people shoot in the main. All in all it was a great event. Well run, fun targets and a good time was had by all.
Here’s a link to more photos.
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=3032059&uid=883856
Here’s a link to Triple B: http://www.triplebclays.com/
Here’s a link to the Cal. Sporting Clays Assoc: http://www.calclays.com/
Here’s link to the scores: http://www.wyshotgun.com/california.html
And here's one of the boys
