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That's the plan. Bring the rain gear, I mean. Not the Friday fish fry.

Oh, bad priorities there. Better take the fish fry. Hell Wisconsin on a Friday night w/o a fish fry, might as well be Texas!

I don't do Fish Fry, I do a mean salmon on a cedar plank, however.

cod & potato pancakes

Denys,
Do you throw away the plank or the salmon?
Butch

I eat the salmon and use the plank as a tooth pick.

Cod and potato pancakes? How horrid.

cod good. Potato pancakes, even better.

Safe travels!

Jeff

Would be a tough choice, deep fried cod&fries v/s barbecue...

heck bbq is a daily thing here.. no brainer on the cod... grins... Of course I don't much care for any bbq but what I make if I take the time, or what my best buddy does... snobs after you eat enough of it...

Probably same with fish, would roll my nose at cod by then..

Here our fish fry is best with river catfish, preferably 8-12 pound river yellow cats.... and homemade hushpuppies and potato salad....

Beer battered walleye...

Woohoo... made it here alive. Right around 24 hrs on the road from central Washington... ugh.

This week should be... interesting. Gave up on my intended weapon of choice, and switched to the back-up rifle - on Tuesday. Got enough ammo loaded for everything, including the WI state team match this weekend... but some of this stuff is of pretty questionable providence. Definitely pitching the lot of it in the recycle bin when I get home and starting over w/ new brass!

Glad you made it. We are leaving in the morning. I'm bringing two FTR rifles, just in case. I had lots of prepped brass for the backup, so I just fired up the Chargemaster and loaded like mad.

Good to hear you made it safely Monte! Go easy on the natives till we get there to cover your 6...

I have arrived at the Countryside Inn, using a canoe for the last 50 or so miles; there was water falling from the sky. I had not seen anything like that in years.

Looks like the Wisconsin state match was called early today on account of that falling water. I am now preparing my equipment for an early start tomorrow morning.

Denys

what the hell is falling water? Oh, thats like the level of our tanks... falling falling falling till there is no water left. Gotcha.

Jeff

Pretty good hail storm hit and they finally called the match...

They had completed match#1, were half through match#2 when they decided to quit. Sounds like more of the same weather for tomorrow.

Never saw any hail.

We were shooting along in match #1, have to shoot two blocks of 63 minutes because of the people who didn't have pit service. Finished the first 'block', just as it started raining. Plan was to take a break for 30 minutes or so during the pit change. Considering we started shooting early, that wasn't so bad. Except we didn't actually start shooting again until about 11 or 1130 (kept getting pushed back). Then it finally broke a little and we started shooting again. Then it started raining again. We shot the second block of the first stage, and then the first block of the second stage, and then they called for a cease fire again. By this point its like 1430 and they called the whole thing off because by now the targets are absolutely soaked and they don't want them ruined (delaminating or peeling apart) for the rest of the week.

Coming from the Pacific Northwest (even on the dry side of the mountains)... I think if there'd been less sniveling about getting wet and we'd just kept shooting we would have been done before it got really bad and the targets wouldn't have been soaked. But thats just me...

Still trying to figure out the whole entry fee vs. awards thing for that match.

It's 5:19AM and it's raining outside. Yuck.

Well, we got rained out this morning and the forecast is for more rain for the rest of the week. They did tech my rifle and it easily made weight.

I met Toodogs. Nice gentleman, he's camping on site and he did bring a raft.

Trevor60 was also there as part of the Canadian Contingent; they are all fine gentlemen also, even with their funny accents.

Also caught up with Monte, another nice gentleman and we talked bullets and ballistics for a while.

Still have not met Ian (VA), AJ300MAG and Mike (TacticalIntervention).

The range is soggy, windy and dark. I fear my old T-36 is going to be fairly dark. We shall see, or not.

Please stop. Connect to said wetness and start heading south ASAP, and do not loose that connection... I'll pay for all your missed entry fees if you can bring rain back and I"ll start loading your ammo for you... grins...

Enjoy as best you can. Once we'd shot so much, that it didn't matter at Perry, we got to the point if it was going to rain, we didn't shoot.... wasn't worth a wet leather coat, gear, wet gun and all just to fire a few rounds, lifes too short....