Hi all, well today the 3rd Annual NoDak SxS Shoot (The Wade Burns Classic) was held at the C-W Plantation. It was a great event and successful as the previous ones. A good time was had by all. It was a tough course and the shooting was off and on for all. Weather was great as was the company.

Thanks Wade and Christian for putting on this great event, you folks are wonderful!!

So...without further ado, here is the event in pictures:

Wade, the Budda of clays, our shooting Zen Master



The Staging area





My Son Will



Jory, with one of those infernal machines!



Wade and his lovely wife Christina



Jim Borg at the ready



Wade thinks of everything! He has a very nice home and wants to keep it that way...so for us he installed this



Jory and Joel inspecting Jim's Darne

Joel at the ready



Joel's "Frankenswine" Pork Loin stuffed with brats



Chow time



Some of the guns





Jory gets it right! Looks what he's holding



Dedication!

The King of Clays on his Throne!



Jim shooting my Purdey......he could just Sh*t!



My son Will won the best shot award from the can...now he thinks he's King Sh*t!!!



Nothing ever goes right! Problems with the trap, so Larry Moe and Curly to the rescue!

The Grand Prize went to Todd, it was awarded for the guy who came into the light from the dark side and now belongs to us (the SxS guys!)

This gun was made by Burns-Westberg Gun makers. A fine example of a hand crafted side by side in the style of the fine English makers of the past and present

The Case



Note the fine stock work



Todd and his prize



The recoil pad



The stock oval



Perfect wood to metal fitting



Fine checkering



A perfect fit!

A special thank you to Wade and Christina for making this yearly event a fun and memorable one. Today for some reason I couldn't shoot worth a $hit.

Thank you Joel for your Frankenswine....it's simply the best! Your Sweet Brier sauce is also out of this world!!!!

Greg

You guys sure know how to have fun!

I'm glad you all liked the Frank-N-Swine. It's become so much of a tradition I think we should make it the official meal of the North Dakota Crap Shooter's Association. North Dakotans know how to "shoot the $hit".

That looks like a Great Time......

Greg,Is the Botio for sale? I been looking for one for a long time! Bobby

Bobby!!! Can you read or what????? This gun was "Hand Crafted" one of a kind. There is no way possible that this fine gun can be reproduced.

But wait! We could create one like it, but there is a down payment (about $3.00) and a finial payment of $3.00 more when the gun is ready. Wait times vary from 2 hours to 4 hours (depending on what's on TV).

Let me know if your interested.

Stay well my friend!

Greg

I understand your good intentions but frankly this isn't my cup of tea, not only to be at one like it but also to see pictures on the world wide web. This looks to be a very small shoot and is being billed as bigger than it was. Use of the old commode while surely intended in levity just tells viewers that shooters and shooting are crude. We as a shooting fratenity can't afford that in todays world. If I did a bell curve of vintage type shoots I would put the very formal and proper Vintagers shoot at one end of curve and this one at opposite end. I hope you consider my reply and make adjustments next year if you do it again and then post about it.

I sure hope this is deadpan humor with tongue deep deep deeply in cheek. Otherwise, there's no hope for the humorless.

Jay

Old Joe, you folks in the northern u.s. really know how to spin a yarn, what a hoot
Thanks for the humor, he he he

As for Greg, thanks for the pictures of this classy all encompassing shoot and the wonderful posting of the fine prize arm.

Mike

p.s. I agree with Old Joe, and a rattlesnake moulded into the potty lid would be an upgrade
and would eliminate the crude aspect!

Agree completely Jay, but you have to admit, the participants would look a bit more proper if they were wearing a Bowler or Top Hat as they sat on the crapper!

The only thing missing from the bespoke Botio is an "old Ed Lander" acetylene torch color job.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion and that's fine with us. By the same token us North Dakotans are entitled to ours and to be perfectly honest, you couldn't drag me to one of your "black tie and champagne" events with a team of Fort Rucker mules. I may be 58 years old but I'm certainly not an "Old Shmoe". Here, have a Kleenex, I notice a bead of sweat developing on your stiff upper lip

My bet would be that OldJoe is a trapshooter. They just don't understand crapshooters. Prolly hates The Robertson clan, too.

SRH

Must be, statistics aren't taught there in ND for if they did you'd know both ends of bell curve distribution are extremes. High end, low end. Most people align with things in the middle.

This hubris dolt has lost contact with reality and wishes to impose his shooting protocol on others. He thinks that an informal shoot among friends at someones private residence should conform to his formal & proper standards.

This shoot was not "billed", as you say, as anything more than it was....fun among friends and your opinion is a mute point...whatever "part of the North" you live in people must squeak when they walk if they're like you, and are they all as rude as you.....?

Sounds like fun to me, now throw in some Prarie Dog blasting and I'll pack my bags. I'll have to talk to the powers that be for one of out local shoots and lobby for the "toilet bowl" station vs the duck boat we currently use.

I'll tell you one thing that is taught up here and that is manners............. Here, have another Kleenex.

Since this gathering at my farm has turned into a yearly thing, I feel I should speak up. It has always been, and always will be a light hearted gathering. If I want to keep score I will shoot at the sporting clays or trap club in town. A few of the attendees are series sporting clay folks while the remainder like to shoot a few clays during the summer to keep sharp for hunting. This gathering is about bringing together many of us who live in the area that love double guns. It is pretty amazing to find a dozen people in our state who even appreciate a good sxs. When we take our guns to the local trap or sporting clay range we encounter the same attitude you are showing Old Joe. That of, you don't fit in because...... For us at these clubs it is that we are not shooting the latest semi auto or O/U. A day like this means relaxing, shooting a few clays from some fairly hard presentations (toilet shot included), and admiring and shooting guns from each others collection. If that means we are awful people, so be it. I would rather be like that than stuffy and inconsiderate. From what I learned in all my psyc classes in college, often those on the edge of curve are the same folks who think they are the normal ones. I for one could care less if I am in the middle of your curve or not. I just want to enjoy a nice day with my friends shooting, eating, visiting, and admiring everyone's guns.

Okay,okay....I have to explain about the crapper. Very simple, we used this "station" after we ate. Some of the "dishes" we consumed were, shall we say a bit old and sat out in the sun too long. And being the dedicated shooters that we are, we just could not waste the time to do our natural body functions in the proper room inside..

BTW, my son Will works for Wade full time. I can assure you that the crapper was cleaned and sanitized by him. Before and after the shoot. Go Green!!!!

Best!

Greg

Well said!!! On the serious side, Wade is right. This was one of those things we cooked up while we were hunting. It is fun, no one keeps score, lots of good hearted ribbing at the misses and excuses. The people at the event don't give "pointers" or try to show others how to shoot or tell them what they're doing wrong. The bottom line is the fun and the company, to be honest for me, the shooting part is secondary. My kids and I keep the more serious shooting to ourselves at times other then the event we have every year.

Thanks again Wade for a great time at your place. Next year we should have a bath tub shoot, you know, naked and afraid style.

Best!

Greg

Greg, Wade and Joel, the last thing any of you need to do is explain yourselves. The point and value of your get together should be patently obvious to anyone. For someone to post here, complaining about the standards of your event, only reflects badly upon him.

I think it's probably fair to say that most everyone who is a member here enjoyed this thread. Every year Greg, you start one of the most popular threads on this board, celebrating what has brought many of us together here, hunting with our old doubles. Let's not waste anymore time on one complainer and get back to celebrating a great time.

Thanks very much for your kind words, they are very much appreciated!

Godspeed!

Greg

Thank you canvasback. We have good friends, good food, and good safe fun at these events. The same goes when we all get together at my place for pheasant hunting. I hope Wade and Greg will "cook" up some more fun at next year's event.......I'll "cook" up some more food.

This looks like the kind of shoot I would enjoy.
I hope you have it for many years, and never run out of those magnificent guns for prizes.

Sam Ogle, Lincoln, NE

That shoot looked like a lot if fun. For those who do not understand that type of fun I suggest just staying at work more. I use to put a fun shoot on at a Skeet club. Every station used a different gun. Shells provided. Every gun was different. Station one had a 870 with a bent barrel that hit three feet high at the center stake. Station two was a side by side 24" barrels choked extra full and even tighter. Three was a bolt action goose gun with about a 40" barrel. The other stations were just as hard and just as silly. High score might have been eight to ten but everyone had fun. Men bragged about their hits like they were going for a hundred straight. Fun shoots are social events not competitions. Rules are more made up than formal and scores if kept at all are brags about more misses than hits. Wish I had been there. Perhaps I can find enough silly guns to hold another silly skeet shoot of my own.

It is sooo good to be reassured.

Greg, I did notice, judging by the size of the tank, that the crapper appears to be an environmentally responsible 1.6 gal. per flush model. Any thing else would have been politically incorrect!

Old Joe let us know when you are having your Jack Waggon Shoot and we can send you some Referrals.

Just had to add one from the Rocky Mountain Vintagers shoot at Whittington a few years ago.....I think we pioneered the method of shooting from a crapper.

Good one!! I like it!

Best!

Greg

I've been looking for report on this years big 4th annual NoDak Outhouse shoot but didnt' see any thing yet. What happened, did the trap break ?

Small shoot, someone say? Wait a minute! I'm guessing 90% of the North Dakota residents who own sxs were there!

Looks like good fun, Greg. Thanks for the report.

Hey all, thanks for the interest. The shoot will be held. This is a very busy time for Wade and thus, finding time will be a bit of a problem. Thanks for all the interest, BTW, every one is invited to come out and just have fun. No scores, no coaching, no advise....just fun!

Will keep you all posted soon.

Best,

Greg