Hunting Season~Tune-up

[snow]

For anyone interested,we'll be shooting at the Metro Gun Club starting around 10am this sunday 8/23/09,weather permitting,folks can warm up on the trap range if its been awhile then jump in with us on 5 stand (sporting clays) and if ya really want a challenge we'll hit the duck tower,we usually shoot 100-200 rounds,but shoot whats good for you.

Tim

Cost~ check their website,I'm a member with a card,not sure what they charge for each event. "metro gun club.com"

[Cody Gruchow]

when? whats the cost?

[snow]

"shooters?" 

[thunderpout]

I may be in for Sunday... I have to get my last two 5-stand league rounds in...

[kenhuntin]

Snow I would love to come up but I am healing up my back right now. I will hear you shooting though as I am not that far away. May be a cold one after?

[snow]

Ken,yeah come-on out,we'll be tailgating...

Pout,we'll be lookin for ya,just don't stay out to late saturday night this time...

[thunderpout]

Snow... No guarentees on that!   Where do ya want to meet up/where are ya starting out?

[snow]

We'll be parked under or near the tower on field 5,Lt blue 2009 chevy silverado with my golden riding shotgun.

Tim

[Dan R.]

Hey snow why don't you swing by the house & I will give you
my punch card from last year. It has 6 rounds on it. I forgot I
had the thing. You have your membership i would think they
should honor it

[snow]

Sounds like a great idea spuds  I call ya on friday on my way home from work.

[sandmannd]

I don't think I can make it, but it sounds like a lot of fun for sure. You planning any more of these at all?

[thunderpout]

Cody... Did you plan on having another MNO sporting clays get together shindig?

[snow]

sand,

Its hard to say,but after sept 5th (early goose opener) its game time,no more practicing 

Sunday is suppose to be stellar,clear and 80 degree's and little wind,it would make for a good league day for good scores...

[Dan R.]

Hey snow, you might want to call out to metro there is a registered skeet shoot
this weekend you might not get a open field

[snow]

SKEET  Who in the hell shoots SKEET? Thanx for the headsup,might be a "Duck Tower" day.

[Dan R.]

SKEET  Who in the hell shoots SKEET? Thanx for the headsup,might be a "Duck Tower" day.

guy's that can't shoot trap or 5 stand 

[Cody Gruchow]

sorry pout i ran out of time for a 2nd sporting clays shoot. but help yourself to hosting one, i start the hunting club next tuesday so my times up and summers over. time for hunting season, still gotta get out with mitch for our last round of league.

[Go Big Red!]

sorry pout i ran out of time for a 2nd sporting clays shoot. but help yourself to hosting one, i start the hunting club next tuesday so my times up and summers over. time for hunting season, still gotta get out with mitch for our last round of league.

Cody, which hunting club do you work at? 

[Cody Gruchow]

marsh lake hunting club. its a private club outta victoria

[Go Big Red!]

marsh lake hunting club. its a private club outta victoria

Some let me guess, the members don't pick up their own shell casings do they... Not worth their time?   Thanks for the info. 

I did check out the website.  Looks like a neat place to go to.  And a 3 year waiting list?  Must be a  real great place to shoot.

[thunderpout]

Hey Snow... Did ya go to Metro?  I talked to Rick and he said with that skeet tourney, he could get us on #6 for sporting clays, but I needed field #10 for my last two league rounds (so I didnt go...)... Dang Skeet shooters!   Hey, skeet's OK.... OK for warming up for Sporting Clays!   But seriously, I do like to shoot it to get my crossers down, and to warm up for sporting clays.... especially those three stations in the middle.  Cody... Nah, I'm gearing up for bird hunting pretty much... In fact I'm probably not gonna shoot the State Sporting Clays Championship this year for the first time since I started clays shooting... Just gonna finish up the league stuff and work on getting Drummer (and myself ) ready for the "real thing" with grouse #'s at their peak, or close to it....  I got my last two rounds in at Wild Marsh on Saturday.. shot a 41 and a 38, so I'd like to re-shoot the 38... want to end up with a 80% avg. so let me know when you guys are going to go so I can shoot with ya.... we need to buy our banquet/shoot tickets also... its on the 13th of September...(Im winning a gun this year! )

[snow]

pout~ Yup,I was there,they had a pretty good crowd,they told me it was the state event,not much of a crowd compared to our state trap tourney,but yeah,what a great day to shoot,well except for the helicopter flying back and forth spraying bugs for about an hour right out in front of the fields  You should of herd the whining,everyone was peeking and dropping targets,I've herd and made my own excuses on misses but the heli deal was the 1st and quite funny for us not shooting skeet.

[Cody Gruchow]

no most of the members just dont have the time to commit to a hunting dog or they cant make long trips to south dakota and such because of there jobs. ya it really is a nice place, and i meet alot of nice people. pout mitch and i are hitting it tommorow morning because im gone for the weekend from wensday to sunday.

[thunderpout]

Come on Snow... the chopper was probably causing a huge down draft and pushing the clays down, not giving them skeet shooters enough time to hit em!  Kind of the opposite of the metrodome staff kicking up the HVAC to push the pop flys out when the Twins are up to bat!   I love it when people whine about stuff like that... the whiners always seem to forget that as long as everyone has to deal with the same issues (ie: wind, rain, sun in the eyes...helicopters.... etc....) its really a moot point eh?     Cody, are you gonna make it to the banquet this year, as you work Sundays?  I won your case of shells last year,  If you dont go, Im gonna claim your gun by sayin Im Cody... or Maybe I'll bring a ringer and we'll call him Cody....   I know if you buy a banquet ticket/shoot ticket by the end of this month, your name gets put in a raffle for some really cool stuff!

[Go Big Red!]

Just surprised to read that it has only 140 members at a time.  You would think they could do more if they opened it to more members or maybe hosted a member/employee invitee shot to get more interest in the club.  Regardless, I think it still a great idea and looks good.  I too cannot get away to the Dakotas to hunt, yet at the same time, I can drive say 1.5 hours to a preserve, shoot 5 birds, and spend a heck of a lot less than running west.  Make sense to me.

[Cody Gruchow]

red most the members are only driving half hour.  it only allows that many because theres only so many feilds and they want to have the feilds last as long as possible, there open till the end of march. Its all up to the board on how many members they allow. they want to make it as much fun as possible and simulate like your not even on a game farm. birds are spooky and jumpy just like seasoned roosters. not get as many people in as they possibly can. ive been to a few farms like that and it doesnt look like it works to well. as for the member/employee thing members do sponsor hunts for friends and etc, only catch is that the member has to be there when you sign in, he dont have to go out with the hunters though.


greg i bought a ticket last year, and couldnt make it because i got put on a afternoon hunt and by the time i was out of there it was 5pm. ill buy a ticket again this year and attempt to make it again. is it sept 13th?

[thunderpout]

Yep... Sunday the 13th... Hope ya can make it this year,  Its tough I know cause everybody and their mother gets out now to the game farms to psych up for the real bird hunting to come and to train their dogs... its gotta be the busiest time of year there, eh?

[Cody Gruchow]

no not really i just drew the short straw that day, plus the guy i took out hunting requested me so i had no choice in the matter. but ill request that day off from the church and can only pray that i dont get put on a hunt that day. early september isnt that busy, but towards the end it gets busy.

[Go Big Red!]

CG- Hopefully they don't work you too hard then... Safe hunting....