Mike and Susan Koneski of Rock Mountain picked the September 22-23-24-25 of 2016 dates for their 2016 SXS shoot back in September of 2015 and announced these 2016 dates back in September of 2015. The new Vintagers announced their new SXS shoot at Wing Pointe in Pennsylvania at a Grouse Hall SXS Shoot in March of 2016. Mike Koneski was in attendance at this Grouse Hall shoot. I was in attendance at this GH shoot too. Everybody remained polite but we were all wondering what in the world were these guys thinking. In April of 2016 at The Southern SXS in Sanford, NC these new Vintagers were in full defense mode trying to justify their foolish decision to hold the new Vintage SXS Shoot on the same dates already claimed by Mike and Susan of Rock Mountain. Gentlemen, There are 4 Saturdays, 4 weekends, in September of 2016, these new Vintagers had 3 other weekends to choose from. There is no excuse for what these new Vintagers have done....Respectfully, Jent P Mitchell III
Thank you Jent for laying out the facts as that is my understanding too. I was told by one of the New Vintager,s that the reason they picked this weekend was, get this, "That is our weekend" even though they hadn't had a shoot in two years it's still their weekend, come on.... Like what was pointed out in Jent's post, there were three other weekends in Sept. to choose from and the planners of the Vintage event knew of the shoot at Mike's long before they announced their shoot.
