I am waiting for Bob to send me some pictures from the field, so I will go ahead and skip ahead to Saturday and the egg shoot.

After sitting around Redfrog's room visiting all night, I slept latter than I intended, and didn't get up until 8 am. I was supposed to be meeting RanUtah and Redfrog for breakfast in the casino restruant, and arrived red eyed and few minutes late.

After breakfast, went back and changed clothes and got my gun and rode to the Globe-Miami Gun club for the shoot. The gun club was gracious enought to let us use their facility this year, and it was much better than the dump site on the rez.

I arrived to find many of the guys already there, and few of them had already been out hunting that morning.

Rustydog (John Brody) and Richard Cruise had connected on a coyote that morning not far from the golf course next to the rez. The weather Saturday morning was probably the best we had since we had been there, and the dogs were moving after the bad weather we had on Friday.



Venatic (David Stroud) and Leal (Billy Leal) had been huting off the rez that morning, and Venatic missed a fox by "this much". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />



Dogbboy and RanUtah



After everyone arrived, checked in and had thier guns weighed, Mr. Willis with the gun club gave us our instructions.



Mr. Willis, Tip Golston, Blumpkin (Scott Lytle), Yotenighthunter (Stephen Skaggs) and Jim Farris.



Redfrog, RanUtah, Knock'emdown (Freddy Ruehman), Rustydog, and Leal listen in.



Rustydog, s_wSniper and Arizona Moose are interested bystanders.

Here is what we were all shooting for:

The egg-shoot gun. 20" broach-cut SUM barrel, 1:8 twist, Olympic Arms free-float tube, bi-pod stud, the barrel is fluted and has the integral compensator. It has the Magpul CTR telescoping stock, Magpul MIAD full grip set and also comes with the tuned Rock River two-stage national match trigger.
The parts for this gun were donated by Olympic Arms, Magpul Inc. and Rock River Arms.

After we had gotten our instructions from Mr. Willis and Ragn Cajn we drew numbers to determine the order of the shoots.

I was in the first stage, and #2. We started the egg shoot at 200 yards, and we all got 2 practice shots (at the same time in 1 minutes). The guns going off while I was trying to focus in on the targer were a little unnerving to me.





Yotenighthunter, Yellowhammer, knock'emdown, genisis and Venatic on the firing line. Dogboy was spotting for me.



Onefoot was watching the events unfold.



And lilDtech (Marshall Milli) was watching the hits up close, as RagnCajn oversees the firing line.



The second heat of shooters were from left to right, (Blumpkin was actually in the first heat, he was just slow getting up <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />), derbyacresbob, and James Farris.

Blumkin was also in the first heat, and Billy Leal and jimanaz were spotting.



The second heat also included Tip Goldston, Michael McCasland and Billy Leal.


Shooting sticks were the big equalizer in this event. All shooters had to use the same identical sets of Predator Sniper Sticks (Donated by Brent Rueb). Let me tell you an egg looks pretty small at 200 yards, so whenever my cross hairs waved past the egg, I would pull the trigger. Needless to say, I didn't advance.
After the first stage (11 shooters at 200 yards), only 4 shooters broke their egg. Genisis, Tip Goldston, James Farris, and Michael McCasland.

We then proceded to the 300 yards where Jim Farris was the only one to hit the egg making him the winner.

We then moved back to 200 yards where the remainin 3 had a one shot shoot off. Each shooter had one chance to break his egg, and after each had fired, not one hit. After the second round of the shoot off, only genisis hit making him the second place winner, and leaving a tie for third between Tip and MJM.

After first and second were determined, the all the losers got their name in the hat for the 6 pairs of Predator Sniper Styx.

I guess I really am unlucky, because even with a 6 out of 9 chance of winning, I still lost. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />



Winners of the shooting sticks: MJM, Venatic, Blumpkin, yotenighthunter, Tip and knock'emdown.



genesis and Dtech discussion what had just taken place, and jimanaz looks on.

After the competition was over, we let the younger guys shoot at some eggs at 100 yards.





Deano's (Dean Milligan) two grandsons.

Believe it or not, I could hit the egg at 100, and I could even use my ballistic plex recticle to hit the hog sillioute at 325 yards, and ring the 300 yard gong.

It was a heck of a lot of fun, and after the shoot, many of the guys went back out hunting. For the mods and a few others it was back to the casino to get ready for the banquet that eveing.

So, the results were:

James Farris won the Dtech AR donated by Mike Milli in collaberation with Magpul, DPMS, Olympic Arms, and Rock River. Genisis won the FOXPRO Scorpion donated by Mike Dillion and FOXPRO and the guys listed in the above picture won the Predator Sniper Styx donated by Brent Rueb and Predator Sniper Styx.

Thanks for the play by play!
Hopefully the sponsors stop by and see this,I would like to thank Foxpro for the Scorpion that I won.
Thanks to Dtech and Sniper sticks also.

Thanks for bringing us all up todat Yellowhammer. I wish I had the oppertunity to attend and compete. It sounds like a great time.

What was the part about weighing the guns? Was there a max weight that was allowed? The reason I ask is I am going to try and make next years hunt and shoot and my rifle weighs right around 14lbs. and is my calling rifle.


Never mind I found it.

Yo, Texan,,
I mean Genesis forgetaboutit buddyboy ,
Do to matters dat I had no control over I was unable to partizipant in this years event
My AR was ready to neuter flyz out to 300 yards before US Air sabotaged me witch kept me out of the games this year.
know next year I will be there with the new upper all ready for ya kid, she will be coming together in the next couple weeks with help from a "little friend of mine" from the mid west and next year it will be ShowTime

I may even have stand beside ya to give you shad since you had to remove the sun shad off your scope

Your friend 9 OF SPADES

Who is that guy on the left... He looks real familiar! Does he live in arizona? Well sir can you just pm me!! Thanks

Far left in the blue shirt is Michael McCasland. Yes he lives in Southern AZ.

Go for it, I believe that if your rifle fits into the rules laid out for the competition you should be able to use it in the match. If a configuration is un accceptable it should be excluded.

Here's a for instance:

What type of scope should be legal to use. We all agree that a 3x9 is legal, a 4.5x14 is legal, even a 4x18, but what about the big boys like the 6x24 or the 8x32 and then the true bad boy of the bunch a fixed 36x. Since a high magnification scope doesn't make a rifle any more accurate, it doesn't make the shooter better, should there be a limitation on what a legal scope should be .... especially if the rifle scope combination is perfectly legal in all other aspects.

A little birdie told me that the rules may be tweaked for next year to require that a scope has at least a 6x setting.

6x ..... I like that, it's a great compromise. It doesn't limit most people but allows a bit of magnification for those of us who are losing a bit in the eye sight department.

Setting the rules up can be difficult. Lets look at a tricked out Ar for instance. Even though an Ar is fully customized weighing the better part of 14 lbs with a forearm that measures close to the rules limit, it will always be counted as a proper predator hunting rifle. But take a bolt gun that is semi customized weghing the same or less with the same or smaller forearm demension and people will refuse to shoot against it. It doesn't make much sence, it's all a matter of perception. For instance I shot a little old single shot this year, everybody thought it was cool, but the rifle is far far from stock and will break eggs out to 300 + yards. My problem was that I couldn't see the egg well in the 3x9 scope. Not the scopes fault, my eyes weren't cooperating, I've got a very nice 6x24, the scope and the sunshades will likely stick out past the barrel of that little rifle, I cant wait for next years shoot, this year I think I'll bring enough ammunition to get the job done.