13.   With the snow gone and the sleds put away here on the East Coast, the crew and I decided to take advantage of a beautiful sunny Sunday morning and head to the St. John's Rod & Gun Club for a day of skeet shooting.

12.   Mark French, Justin, Janes and I left town and met Monty Petipas (from Whitbourne) at the Gun Club under beautiful sunny skies and cold temps.

11.   Since the trap machines are not yet reinstalled for the shooting season, we took French's Do-All quarter cock manual thrower to launch our clay targets.

10.   This is a high quality mechanical thrower that is infinitely adjustable, and was equipped with an optional wobble mount. This mount lets the user instantly adjust the height and direction of the target being thrown.

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7.   We had an awesome morning, Justin finally got to break in his new Shotgun, a Benelli Super Nova 12 gauge pump, which is identical to mine.

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2.   Janes was shooting his Mossberg pump, while French and Monty brought their over/under trap guns. Sooley came out later in the afternoon, arriving just in time for delicious soup that Monty brought for our lunch.

1.   Throughout the day, one person would be the primary shooter, while a second shooter went for missed targets. At the end of the day we threw up seven and three quarter cases of clay targets (approximately 135 targets per case), and fired roughly 1300 rounds of target load ammunition. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday!

Cheers, MIKE

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