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I probably should have got around to this before but better late than never. In 2015, a friend and fellow vintage enthusiast proposed we get together with some like minded individuals and make a day of it. After a little discussion, what we had in mind was not a competitive shoot nor was it a gun show, where the emphasis is on money changing hands. We modeled it after the "show and shine" casual car meets that happen all summer across the US and Canada. Just a place to show off your guns, see other guns, meet some interesting people. It's held on the grounds of a gun club and we always have a skeet field reserved for our use so we can try out different guns. The club also has trap, 5 stand and a SC course and some of the guys did the SC at the end of the day this year. It's all pretty casual and that the way we want it.

We kinda felt too much of our vintage double life was on line. So that's what we've been doing every year since. Although we were forced to take a couple years off for Covid reasons. In Canada, the gun clubs were shut down.

Anyway, we had our 7th annual meet last Saturday, June 10th and it was clearly our best yet. Not large, by any means, but a real interesting cross section of guns on display and of course, some great people. Each year we have a vote for the "Gun of the Year". The criteria is simply....what gun did you find most interesting? This year it was won by an incredible WW Greener 4 bore double, originally shipped to India. We also had our first American attendee....flew up from Houston.



Here's a few pics from this year's event:



Someone snuck a pump in there!


Some of you might recognize the fellow on the right....

And this is one of our members who resides in Newfoundland.

This is the Gun of the Year trophy....

And the winning gun and owner.....

That fellow with the beard is our Pinfire.....

A wonderful time was had by all, a very worthy event. As usual, I brought along a random selection of pin-fires.

Looks like a great time, with some real beauties out in the sun! My dumb luck worked out that I was in Toronto a few days before for work, had to fly home, then had to drive back down with wife and bird dogs in tow to attend a wedding. At least we got some fishing done on the big lake, and caught some salmon. Next year I'll make it down!

Oh and Upper is in reference to upstream, as mentioned! Ontario is too damn big, its about a 16 hr drive from where I am, without even leaving the province. At least I'm that much closer to the prairies, so its hard to complain...