Side Events day

 First off was a four stage warm up at 7:30.  I was pretty happy with that. A couple cap jams but no train wrecks.  It was fun.  

A short lunch break while I switched guns for the afternoon.  

I usually volunteer to run the Plainsman side event. It’s one of my favorite events.  It uses my typical cap n ball pistols with a big bore single shot rifle and a shotgun.  We had 46 people signed up; that would take a Long Time to get so many through.  Plainsman is not a fast paced event.  But it was a forecast of rain, a lot of rain.  And it did start raining as the start time approached.  About half of those actually came.  In the 5 years I’ve done this we never ended before 5; today it was 4:30.  By the 3rd of 4 stages it was raining fairly hard, with a good west wind.  We got a bit wet. My left pistol got wet too. So wet that on my last stage the left pistol would not fire!  I had a pretty good match going up until then.  I’ll find out Friday night how much that cost me in placement.  

The evening was the opening ceremony for the main match and a shooter appreciation dinner.  Pulled pork & cole slaw.  But hey, it’s a free meal.  Or one I already paid for in my entry fee!  Walking back to the camper it was raining and blowing even more. But now at 10 it has stopped all that. Supposed to be a nice day for the rest of the match.  I can take that.  

Warm up:

Plainsman, Carlene took some video of me and I cut these stills from that:

Carlene’s day: