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Title: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: les snyder on October 05, 2012, 11:19:17 PM: this is a digital copy of a photo from the 80s.. yours truly with the 1100...can anyone explain the coon skin hat the range officer is wearing?

(http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz180/LesSnyder/DSC00257.jpg)
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: tombogan03884 on October 05, 2012, 11:53:35 PM: Well, up here we have "Daniel Boone Sportsman's club" if they were having some sort of a promotional shoot I could see a coon skin or 2 turning up.
Judging by the leather jacket it isn't a "theme" range like CAS or North/ South Skirmish Assn so maybe he just wanted to keep his head warm.
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: les snyder on October 06, 2012, 05:41:47 AM: Tom, thanks for playing... it is a picture of MB when he actually worked for a living... ;D
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: tombogan03884 on October 06, 2012, 09:07:56 AM: ROFL ! ;D
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: sledgemeister on October 06, 2012, 10:22:36 AM: whats wrong with coon skin hats?
Hell I have one and I'm not even an american! :P
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: Tyler Durden on October 06, 2012, 12:42:01 PM: Quote from: les snyder on October 06, 2012, 05:41:47 AM
Tom, thanks for playing... it is a picture of MB when he actually worked for a living... ;D

Dang! No kidding?

You guys must have been shooting some sort of tactical shotgun match. That looks like a pepper popper in the background.

MB with brown hair? WOW!
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: Solus on October 06, 2012, 01:01:37 PM: I'm not buying that MB is working without some type of authentication, Les...sorry...I've been fooled too many times. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: les snyder on October 06, 2012, 02:23:04 PM: Tyler... yes... it's hard to see the "lollipoppers" already down... back in the dark ages before computer scoring programs, we shot rifle and shotgun side matches while the pistol match was being scored on hand calculators, and it took a good hour or so...
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: Tyler Durden on October 06, 2012, 02:54:57 PM: Did they have extended mag tubes back then , for the 1100's?
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: fightingquaker13 on October 06, 2012, 02:56:52 PM: Quote from: Tyler Durden on October 06, 2012, 02:54:57 PM
Did they have extended mag tubes back then , for the 1100's?
I thought that was IN the 1100s. ;D
FQ13
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: Tyler Durden on October 06, 2012, 03:52:53 PM: Ya, know, back in the day with regular film photography that was a neat trick to catch a shell or two being ejected in midair in a pic.
Title: Re: appropriate head gear for the range
Post by: les snyder on October 06, 2012, 08:56:49 PM: Tyler... most everyone shot a Choate extended tube (they were about the only manufacturer) that gave you 10+1, and if you handloaded, and shortened the shells a tad you could get 11 in the tube....that particular 1100 was a 26" Skeet gun I also used for the Chevy Truck Sportsman's Team Challenge....