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SHOOTING SPORTS CONTINUED
As with any club, financial support is always needed and yours would be greatly appreciated. To join the club is $15.00 a year. To join
the Scattergunners it is $20.00 a year. With a membership 24 clay targets will cost you $3.50 and for non-members 24 clay targets will
cost you $5.00. The club enjoys building goodwill through their events.
While I was there I heard some rifle shots coming from the rifle range. There I found Wade Lee of Libby, MT shooting his Remington
721, 30-06. A sight rarely seen...pardon the pun, he was shooting plain iron sights and making adjustments. On the opposite end of the
covered shooting shed
was Steve Pardini
(pictured Right) of
Libby, shooting his
Mosin 7.62 X 54. He
was also shooting iron
sights. To his left was
Andy Schlund also of
Libby shooting his
Rossi 17 HMR.
Just as a side note the
Libby Rod and Gun
club does not mind
you shooting 50
caliber rifles just don’t
shoot their targets.
Next, I was off to take
a few pictures of the trap shooters busting clay targets. There I ran
into a gentlemen with a side by side. As I watched him bust one
clay bird after another I had to know more about this gun.
Ken Mancuso of Libby, MT was trying out his recent purchase of a
LC Smith Field Grade 12ga. side by side. One barrel was a full and
the other an Improved Modified. He had tried for ten years to buy
the gun off a friend and had finally wore him down and was able to
purchase it. This was his first time shooting the gun and from the
way he was busting those clays, I say it fits him perfectly. There is
just something about a side by side, especially a L.C. Smith.
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