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Blue, I guess we could have a Wheelchair, offhand shoot for you, Gene, and eyeball.

Ed

Ed, I will be 78 yrs old in about 10 days,and if I remember right your ass was draggin your tracks out after a week huntin with me, damn insolent PUP!!! rio7

OK, I'm down off of the roof now (fixing and cleaning gutters on two houses) and can reply on something other than a "smartphone".

Yup, no argument that my butt was dragging. That was some of the hardest hunting I've ever done, and I've been in some rugged places. Whoda thunk that flatland like you have down there could wear a man out? Guess I'm getting soft in your old age.
You're worse than any Drill Instructor I've ever met. No rest for the weary, I guess.

I was just suggesting a fair competition that would allow you and the others to get in on the fun. Besides, you don't even HAVE a .22lr, so why are you upset?

Ed

Upset!upset! do I sound Upset! I bet I can barrow a .22 from Kaywoodie, you need to get back on the roof. rio7

I'm finished with the roof, now I get to cut up and haul off three large trees in the yard that came down during the ice, snow, and rain a few weeks ago.

I have two very accurate Contender Carbines in .22lr Match. Both wear fixed 6x Weaver scopes. They have been used for more than one "shoot-off " here and are fully up to the task. I figure, if a person can consistently hit a golf ball at 50 yards, and keep a golf ball dancing at 100 yards, they will do.

You can even borrow one, if you would like. I'll even let you use the ammo they prefer.

Ed

Same here, hope you can make it.... but if you dont....

We're gonna talk about you, tell all kinds of lies about you, give you a baaaad name, ruin you reputation, etc.

(of course, money and liquor can persuade a fellow to change his mind)

Blue, I got your back!

Just let me know and I'll bring you a .22 so you wont have to shoot one of Ed's.

He will give you the one we saw in the barn, stock broke, forearm cracked, had a bent nail holding the lever in place, and looked like he had modified the rear sight with a hack saw, but the front sight did look good (it just wasnt upright).

Thanks Randy, Us oldmen need to stick together, I know that .22 Ed, has in the barn the one he shoots beach balls with at 10 yrds, Ed, wears glasses ya know.Blue

We'll give him things to work on, too, when he does show up...

I figure if he leaves his welder at the Rusty Iron he'll be OK.

Hmmm..I wouldn't put it past him to smelt some of this iron ore lying around here and make something out of it. Better keep the lighters away from him.

Ed

Blue and Cur, I'll bring my shooting mat if I remember for you guys. We can get you back up.

RIO, we can do a shoot between you and curdog off the bench... no rests, the idea is to have fun, with you or at you guys

I really hope I can make and partake in the shenanigans.
Thanks for ordering those, Ed, and Greg thanks for getting them fixed with crazy welding skills.
Pisco sour is on me, if we can make it.
I'll set up the assembly line with kids again (gotta teach them early)

Now that I am through picking on Ed, How about I sit in a folding chair and shoot of of sticks? that should be a pretty good handicap.rio7

Uh, huh....that's what I figured you'd do.

With you, that's the same as prone for the rest of us mortals.

I'm good with that if Gene is.

Ed

When I think prone I think no bags, tripods, bipods, backpacks, nothing but elbows, fat belly, etc.
Somehow I think RIO7 is finding the ways to make a "handicap" to his advantage...
My grandma used to say (crude translation here)

The devil knows more from being old than from being the devil... I think it applies here

Good quote! Fits both Blue and Gene to a "T".

For Blue, shooting from a chair with sticks is no handicap. If folks were paying attention at last years Gathering they could have seen him in action at that 8" long piece of 3" diameter pipe I had hanging at 200 yards. I think he missed once with his "truck gun" AR-15.

Watching Gene shoot Prairie Dogs a few years ago at unknown distances showed me that he is quite comfortable shooting from a chair as well.

Ed

Ed, I guess they need to be nominated umpires of the rimfire contest... or just have them shoot exhibition style against each other on a different age category

It wouldn't be fair to make them just umpires, they have to shoot, too.

I'd really like to watch both of them shoot from chairs with sticks and see how they stack up against folks shooting Prone.

I like watching good shooters do their thing. It's the issue of coming up with a challenge good enough for them to strut their skills.

Ed

curdog, think we better come up with plan to whip these young whipper snappers butts, may be we can get oldman Randy, to give us a hand. rio7

I have no doubt they will beat me my sorry butt, but I can bring some decent smack talk:)
I always enjoy watching someone skilled doing their art