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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
So today I competed in The Meat Shoot today at the Tug Bar in Knik Goose Bay, Alaska. What is The Meat Shoot? Well, it's kind of a trap shooting elimination tournament shot in the parking lot of a bar at the end of the road in rural Alaska with a $60 buy in and meat prizes awarded to the winner of each round. Prizes included turkeys, hams, rack of ribs, 5lb. bags of chicken wings, etc. Did I mention it was all of 2 degrees with snow on the ground? I managed to bring home a turkey winning one of the team rounds. Competitors with names like Ivory Joe and Mean Matt. Shotguns ranged from high end Perazzi trap guns to 50 year old beat to shit 870's with everything in between. To date, this is the most extreme example of Alaskan Redneckery that I've experienced and I loved every minute of it. Shooting trap in the parking lot of a bar, does it get any more Alaskan? My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | ||
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| Back, and to the left  |
Probably more testosterone represented there than in all of Haight Ashbury. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11 ...But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. - Psalm 63:11 [excerpted] | |||
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Tupperware Dr. |
Sounds like a great time, congrats on the Turkey! | |||
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Raptorman |
We call those Turkey Shoots here. Churches have them all the time. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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Yup, good way to score some decent meat if you find the right outfit running em. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep  |
I went to meat shoots as a kid. Lived up in coal country in Pa. Won a ham… They did a square buy. You’d buy squares on a large poster board. Once all squares were sold, they shoot buck at it from a distance. Whoever had the most pellets in their box wins. _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
I always wanted to shoot trap w/ a Benelli M4....This is the event I'm looking for!  ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 47....Make America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Sounds about right, when I was a teenager and we moved out of Alaska and drove the Alcan down, I remember seeing nothing for hours and a random port a potty on the side of the road for you to take a dump every once in a while and you could pretty much see through them because they had been blasted so many times by a shot gun | |||
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I’ve tried it on sporting clays. Don’t recommend it. | |||
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Are they held in the church parking lot though? | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
Darn it! That's 10 minutes from my new house! Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing |
Every 2nd Sunday of the month during the winter. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
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blame canada |
I was over in that area last week, doing a farm appraisal down Point MacKenzie. That bar used to host a pig roast for our non-MC MC when I still lived up that direction. It's morphed over the years, Goose Bay is getting pretty populated. I stayed with friends there last week at the golf course. Too crowded for me. If you think that's Alaskaneck....check out the 4th of July car launch in Palmer every year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XZjbYwGjhM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The trouble with our Liberal friends...is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan, 1964 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn't matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon will just take a shit on the board, strut around knocking over all the pieces and act like it won.. and in some cases it will insult you at the same time." DevlDogs55, 2014  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.rikrlandvs.com | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
Moar tedneckery! "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Man, I haven't been to a Turkey Shoot in years! I guess I should go find one. I remember them being a lot of fun, and my cheap Mosseberg Maverick 500 is a beast. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
It's the way God intended it.  | |||
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Do some 12ga carp fishing. That’s a real redneck sport. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing |
Not Palmer, Glacier View up by the MatSu Glacier. I was there this year as part of this year's season of Redneckery. I have the grill off the PT Cruiser that was launched hanging in my garage. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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Was a Trebuchet involved? | |||
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