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It was a wonderful day at the Compass Rose Farm.

Great meeting everyone and the hospitality, well it is the 'fire , was exceptional.

What a great day.

A big thank you to Scottf and his family for hosting us all. Waders and Jamie for setting up the pin shoot and many others for contributing to a really fun afternoon.

Congrats to Safariman, aka, The Honorable Gunga Din.

Mark also allowed us all to feel like a bwana, if for only a moment, while touching off some rounds from his 416 Rigby.

I thorouly enjoyed meeting everyone and look forward to seeing you all again soon.

Great food (Scott and his lovely bride can COOK; and northcountry is a chili savant! W7ACT ain't bad with clams and crab, either).

Great beer (MadMooner can brew ambrosia).

Great times (shooting a ton, and hippie-chicks with killer bods shooting elephant rifles and CCWs; top THAT).

And, better people than all of the above.

What an absolutely incredible get together.

The pictures I took are posted here.

http://s721.photobucket.com/albums/ww211/compassrosefarms/24%20Hour%20Campfire/?start=all

Here is the Complete set of my Photos from the Western Washington get togeather.


http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a336/W7ACT/Washington%2024%20HR%202011/

I'll get a few pics uploaded later, and I hope the camera/video of "her" shooting the .416 comes out. THAT, was awesome!

The look on MadMooner's face, was priceless.

Was he the one backing her up so she wouldn't fall. Yep the look on his face would be priceless. You know I think we made those two kids gun loonies and they will remember the shoot and participation the rest of their lives.

Hah! I should of realized there was going to be pictures. My eyes are forward, right?

Thank you everyone for leaving some crab still packed on ice in the cooler. It made for an exceptional breakfast sitting out on the deck in the sunshine.

Brant

I noticed the top 3 places in the pin shoot were guys shooting Kimbers.

just checking out all the cool pics posted, sure looked like lost of fun there guy's.

Well now, some of us could have just as easily lost with a Kimber also.

That Wilson however...

Let's see if this video uplink works:

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/VAnimrod/?action=view&current=P8060345.mp4

Thanks for the vid uplink Sean! That is awsome, and pretty funny, yet at the same time shows more of how good of a time we all had. I am already looking forward to next year, going to try to get my beautiful wifey to come along, and maybe even compete. MAybe we could have a ladies event, not that they are not potentially better than any of us, just mostly they might feel more comfortable with a ladies only deal as they do things a little differently than us guys. Sherry could shoot her Colt Cobra 38 and her Old Model Bearcat (that she LOVES) in the rimfire event. Perhaps in the ladies event the bowling pin could be deemed down if it is just hit and knocked down rather than having to clear the table.

Want to add a big YEAH MAN to the other comments. Great fellowship and freindship, lots of fun at the shoot, bringing a couple of new shooters into the fold, camping out at the farm, a real campfire yak&chat, Mad Mooners Growlers, Clams, Crabs, Lamb shoulder BBQ'ed, WOW! A wonderful weekend a time, for sure.

THANKS SCOTT F!!!!!

Sean, great post. Tell you what that little gal gave all of us a run for the money in the pin shoot. She did rather well considering she had never handled a gun before she went up there on the hill with us. I think she won over Mark as well as thev rest of us as she was a real gamer.

Both she and Pat did VERY well in the pin shoot.

Or, perhaps, the rest of us were just that bad...

Thanks for posting the video. Shawna just watched it and she was thrilled. You guys gave both of them a new love and respect for shooting.

Jamie, I think the reasons Kimbers did so well is two part. One, they are quality firearms. Two They out numbered the other brands three or four to one.

There were some real fine shooters behind those Kimbers too. I cannot remember having more fun that I did this weekend. I know I am hooked on pins!

Wish I could have made it. Looking forward to next year.

There will be a next year Get Together and I hope it just keeps getting better. My friends Archie, Wader, Jamie, and Jeff helped make the whole thing happen. Without them it would have been a LOT more work for Bev and I. Only 52 more weeks to go.

Scott we need to make sure that Video makes it to the CD you and I were talking about yesterday.

I'll try and down load it with Shaun's permission and put it on the CD I promised you. Then we can combine all of the photos into one file and burn copies for anyone who attended wants a copy of the photos.