This weekend the Sage Brush Free Trappers held their annual Rondy in Benton City out at the Rattlesnake Shooting area. Since my daughter lives just a few short miles away - thought it would be a goo one to go to.

Again I decided that I was going to shoot just the rifle competition and I chose to use the Renegade 50 cal Percussion. It was a different format than I have shot in previous Rondy's. There was a not a paper target station, which I really like as I can normally ring up a pretty decent score their. There was 18 targets on their walking trail. At station one we shot out tie breaker card and at the same station we shot the ax head to split the ball and break a pigeon on each side of the blade.

When we completed station #1 I was really feeling pretty good... the targets were @ 15 yard... I shot a perfect dead center bull on the Tie breaker card and I also split the ball and got both clay birds. Could not have started any better. Then the wheels fell off the wagon... never touched another target till station #7, but in my defense two of the stations I did not stand a chance. One station you were required to shoot a 30 yard gong "LEFT Handed" - I can not close my right eye and I could not find the sights with the left eye - it was terrible. Then station #5 was a gong @ about 20 yards uphill - but you had to shoot it from your HIP. The only thing I can say I was on line! but probably 6/7 yards short...

Station 7 and 8 went well - started to gain some confidence but it was short lived... Didn't hit anything again until #17 and 18.

While I did a terrible job shooting, everything was high but close, in fact if it were horseshoes I would have scored a few more points. Oh well, it was good practice for the big one next weekend on Troy, Oregon.

I did pick up another gun while I was in Kennewick, actually Chuck caused the problem. I had never even considered a 'rock sparker,' but a Chuck encouraged me to try one -'you might like it.' So I picked one up from my son-in-laws dad. I has had it for 12 years and has never fired it, it just sits in the gun cabinet. When I asked him about it he said "sure take I never use it."

So now I have a 'Flinter' and only a vague idea of how to make it work... Another learnig curve to climb. Do not have time to start the education process right now - turkey season and rondy season - but come June should get more time so Dave and the rest of you 'rock sparker' shooters be reay to help "please"







Why do i do these things - Semi probably has a rule for this - I should have looked...