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June 8, 2019 Sooley Cabin/SJRGC Trap Shoot (56 Photos)
56. Our old buddy Brad Janes is joining quite a few of us in the Crew as he is about to try out this marriage business for the second time round. The wedding is next weekend so this past weekend we put together a couple days of adventures & activities for Janes and the Shed-Headz Crew.
55. The weekend will include partaking in an Introduction to Trapshooting event being put off at the St. John's Rod and Gun Club followed by an overnight at the Sooley family cabin near Whitbourne.
54. French and I decided to head out to the cabin Friday afternoon and enjoy the day trouting from his 2017 Argo Huntmaster in the gullies surrounding the camp.
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52. Argo's are not incredibly fast in the water but they will get you there faster than you may think.
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50. Shortly after supper Sooley and Maffer arrived so we headed back up the pond to continue trouting well into the this beautiful, long summer evening. Weather was ideal with clear sunny skies no wind and cool early summer temps.
49. French and I headed back up the pond in his Argo while Sooley & Maffer stuck the outboard on the aluminum boat and followed along behind.
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47. That evening French and I put together a kick ass tray of Moose Nachos with fresh homemade guacamole.
46. Saturday morning we headed to the St. John's Rod and Gun Club for the Introduction to Trapshooting course I put off. Most of our crew were on hand plus a few regular club members who also wished to partake.
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44. French and I went over Range & Firearm safety then gave instruction on trapshooting basics before heading out to the trap range.
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42. The club does not own firearms to put off an event like this but French, Sooley and I brought along a selection of shotguns to make the event a success and it worked out very well.
41. It was also a great opportunity for participants to learn about and try out different types of shotguns including pump action, semi-auto and break open.
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39. As this was a teaching event, we used a button operated by the scorekeeper to throw targets as opposed to the automatic voice release system which could waste a lot of targets with people chatting on the firing line.
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35. ...break the target!
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29. For lunch we had a fine meal of homemade Chili prepared by Sandra and I along with some fresh rolls.
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27. After lunch we got back to shooting and later in the afternoon ran a couple rounds of slider where you step back a couple yards after each shot for 5 shots on each of the 5 stations.
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24. We continued shooting until about 3pm before packing up, cleaning up, and moving some clay targets to the trap houses for the upcoming NF Sportsman Shoot being held at the club next weekend. Gotta take advantage of free extra labor whenever you can!
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22. After leaving the gun club and pushing Justin's Firebird up Holyrood Hill with my 7000lb Silverado 2500 we headed west to Whitbourne for an overnight at the Sooley family cabin. The boys wanted to go trouting so French and I hopped in his Argo while Sooley and Maffer towed Learning and Janes in the spare aluminum boat up the pond.
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19. French and I headed over to the back gully. Later in the evening we spotted a Beaver swimming straight towards us, when he finally seen us he slapped his tail and dove just as I snapped these couple of pics!
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16. Saturday evening we had a kickass barbeque steak dinner with mushrooms, onions and a Cesar salad.
15. For the rest of the evening we enjoyed a few sociable's, stories and all the good stuff that makes a great cabin trip!
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13. The following weekend was the main event which began with the groomsmen getting fresh haircuts at Tommy Gun's Barbershop in Mount Pearl. This is a fantastic and beautiful establishment that did a great job in fitting everyone in.
12. We got into our tuxedos at Janes's house in Southlands and took a few photos with the wedding photographer. Then we taxied to Honda One and crashed their annual Motorcycle & ATV show! (the one we would otherwise have missed because Janes wouldn't reschedule the wedding lol)
11. Newly refreshed Project Foreman spent the previous week on display on the showroom floor at Honda One. Modeling the makeover for Project Foreman's 20th birthday since leaving that very dealership two decades ago. The boys at Honda One were awesome and moved the bike outside for the show in my absence.
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9. J-Lac was onsite with the K-Rock shed and did an on-air interview with the wedding crew! He even hooked up the boys with some swag!
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7. We even made it to Admirals Green with time to spare before the main event.
6. We were all quite impressed with Janes choice of limo, a stretched AM General H1 hummer.
5. We did notice a rather strong odour of diesel fuel while leaving the Admirals Green for photos so the Shed-Headz Crew leaped into action and popped open the rear hatch. We found the driver's spare fuel canister had been left with the stopper off and fresh fuel sloshed everywhere. The driver was good and snagged some cleaning supplies from the Fluvarium and fixed the problem right there while the family photos were underway.
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1. All in all it was an excellent night and a rare occasion these days where the whole crew, spouses and all are in the same place at the same time! Congrats to Brad and Meghan!
Cheers, MIKE
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