2021 Northern SxS Challenge!!

[Mike of the Mountain]

Craig, no charge. I am happy to accept any swag though.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Here is the vendor ad for the event.....

[Mike of the Mountain]

No charge Craig.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Here is the updated registration form for the event. Pre registering always help the host club plan for support staffing. Thank you!

[Mike of the Mountain]

Great news!! For a lucky youth shooter at this event, an LC Smith has been donated again as a prize!! For every event a youth shooter enters, they will get a ticket into a random draw to win a 12g 30” O-grade choked F-F, made in 1908. Photos to come.

[Mike of the Mountain]

For those who like to play around with the targets, we will be running a "for fun" "Snooker"-"Make a Break"-"Make it Break" on the 5-Stand during the shoot. Looks like the high score will have bragging rights for a year. Also toying with the idea of Super Sporting for giggles too. Maybe add it as a trophy event in 2022?

[DarylC]

Thanks for adding this Mike. For those who have never done this it's like 5 stand on steroids and a total blast.

[Silvers]

I'll add my kudos to Daryl's on Mike's addition of Make-It-Break (or variation names you may be familiar with). WAY MORE fun than 5-stand and a quick learning curve if you watch a few shooters. The game is common at NSCA events and there's usually a long queue line. And with more and more shooters into 10 and 8 bores it's ideal for two shooters using the same gauge to have a go against each other and with personal decision space on target strategy. frank

Here's the usual setup:

Two shooters are positioned on the elevated platform with the left shooter calling for his pair of targets first then followed by the shooter on the right. Each pair of targets always begins with the release of either of the #1 traps. (The target puller/scorer randomly choses one of the #1 traps.) If the shooter misses the #1 target with the first shot, he must use the second shot to break the #1 target. If the shooter breaks the #1 target with the first shot, then the #2 target is released, on the report of his firearm, for him to attempt. If the shooter breaks both targets, he is scored for the sum of the targets, which would be three points (the total of #1 & #2 traps.) Then the shooter on the right attempts the same pair. The shooters continue for the next pair, #1 & #3 and so forth up to #1 & #7 pair. After the #1 & #7 pair, with firearms unloaded, the shooters switch sides on the shooting platform and the shooter with the higher score calls for the first of the four pairs in the bonus rounds. He may choose any trap for his second target. The #1 target is always the first target attempted in the pair. Then the second shooter, calls for his pair of targets. He may choose any trap for his second target also. After each pair in the bonus rounds, the shooter with the higher score calls first. In the case of a tie after each pair, the order remains the same until there is a lead change.

In the four bonus rounds, the #4 & #5 targets can be attempted only once by each shooter. All other targets are unlimited in the bonus rounds. The maximum score for a round of is 65 total points. This requires the shooter to call for the #7 target in all four bonus pairs.

For the sake of safety, all firearms are to remain unloaded until into shooting position on platform and ready to call for the targets. Only two shells are loaded into the firearm at one time. Unload firearms before changing positions for the bonus rounds. Always unload firearm before entering and exiting the shooting platform.

[Stan Hillis]

Sounds like fun. While I've shot Make-A-Break for many years I've never heard it called snooker. But, it's an accurate name for it. Having shot snooker for a couple years in college, at the local pool hall, the shotgun game is very similar. In snooker one has to make a red ball that has a point value of 1 before making a numbered ball, which must be shot in rotation. I don't know why I never heard it called that before, or thought of the strong similarity between the two games.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Sounds like fun. While I've shot Make-A-Break for many years I've never heard it called snooker. But, it's an accurate name for it. Having shot snooker for a couple years in college, at the local pool hall, the shotgun game is very similar. In snooker one has to make a red ball that has a point value of 1 before making a numbered ball, which must be shot in rotation. I don't know why I never heard it called that before, or thought of the strong similarity between the two games.

Stan, the Brits call the shotgun game "Snooker". As you said, named after the game played on a pool table.

[Stan Hillis]

The English are masters at the game of snooker. I spent many enjoyable afternoons and evenings on the snooker tables at Kendrick's Recreation Center in Tifton, GA in '69-'71. Learned the game from a master, Dana O'Malley, who put himself through college, room and board, food, books, and wired money to his widowed mom in Gloucester, MA, hustling snooker. Good memories.

Wish I could shoot a shotgun like Dana could shoot a cue stick.

[Mike of the Mountain]

We’re adding another non-trophy event for this year, Super Sporting. It’ll be a 54 bird event. Three pair (report or simo) on nine stations. Three traps per station. So you will shoot an A-B, B-C and A-C on each station. If enough guys like it we’ll bring it back in 2022 with a trophy too. More fun than a barrel full of stoats!!

[DarylC]

I'm in, any other Fox shooters want to team up?