sent the 45 smackers yesterday
Jeff

Don't use the word smackers. Calvin flashes back to wasp day's.

I have attached the Canadian and Rosebud records below for everyones viewing pleasure.

Yes Dwayne please! I think it would be a low cost entry into the world of accuracy.

Speaking of the Leffingwells brings up another club from the past that has stopped holding BR matches. Lethbridge. I understand they hold a weekly club score match and have up to 40 people show up, but no registered shoots. Every Bench shooter I have talked to would love to shoot in Lethbridge and they would likely see some Montana shooters show up as well. Once Frank passed away it all ended. Still see Evelyn at the Frank Leffingwell Memorial, but it is restricted to factory guns now, and I don't own one!
I guess in our modern society people are too busy to take on the job of running a few matches a year. We are lucky in Rosebud to have a dedicated group who are willing to pitch in and help or I doubt there would be matches there either. If I didn't have a boss who let me work flexible hours it would be pretty hard to do, and I know Paul uses up holiday time and overtime to be able to get there Friday morning to get backers and targets done. I am not saying it is that big a chore, there is always the opportunity to play as well!
More and more clubs are also being pressured to end the competitions so the non competitor can go to the covered range with an indoor loading facility to site in a rifle if the weather is nice. What most of the new members in a club don't realize is that if it weren't for competitions the club would likely look like the APRA public range. We are lucky at Rosebud to have had a range built by competitors for competition. And still have the cooperation of the executive to do so. Namaka existed, and Rosebud exists today because a hand full of competitors used there own money to make the facility. That is the kind of dedication you will get from a competitor. A non competition shooter doesn't care that it costs thousands of dollars to build a facility. If asked to dip into his pocket most would use a gravel pit instead.

 " I may not smell the best after a day or two"
Now we know why you have all that trouble with wasps!!!!!!

Mustafa   Tacoma Washington

Rosebud

Regina 2006

Kathy Herb Lang Sharon Regina

Standing Ted Gaillard Grant Schick Sitting Harold Wasnie Regina

Dennis that would be Otto Nagy. He was the last president. If you ever get a hold of him the last time the BRSC Alberta scale was seen was at Namaka. If it is still there BRSC would like it back.

Thanks Rick I'll do that over the next few day's. I have to shove some bread crumbs up a turkey's butt today so don't want to get the key board all sticky.

It is a shame that Namaka died out, but once Al was gone it died a slow death. Eric rented the land to a neighbor who never liked the fact that it was there and haven't seen a match since.
I shot my first match at Namaka. It was a winter league score match and Clive Moehn talked me into shooting a sleeved Remington 600 that he had for sale. I placed third in the match and beat Clive. On the way home I asked him how much he wanted for that crappy gun and we made a deal. He gave me a very fair price for it and a Leupold 24x boosted to 33. And shooters like Larry Ivany, Loyd Gilmour, and Vic Nill managed to dig up spare accessories at a reasonable price to get me going. Needless to say I have been hooked ever since.

Just a light breeze this day!
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