I'm the BEST loser - (OT)

Had our 2nd annual "Ultimate Sportsman" competition this past weekend
at my gun club. We set up 8 events:

Pistol - 10 shots @ 25 yards shooting at hanging clay pigeons
Rifle - 5 shots @ 100 yards benchrested
Shotgun - 25 rounds (standard trap round)
Flintlock - one shot at 30 yards at a melon (cantelopes this year)
Fly fishing - 10 casts into hoola hoop @ ~30 ft.
Open-reel fishing - 10 casts into hoola hoop @ ~50 ft.
Archery - 5 shots into 3-D range, double scores for shooting no-sight
recurve or long-bow
Golf - 5 shots chipped across a pond (~90 yards) at flag - closest
ball scores

A bunch of members compete against each other, and the prize for the
winner this year was a .22 target pistol.

I made a point to keep my self-proclaimed "coolest gun" award (w/ my
tricked-out faux M203), then proceeded to win the rifle stage (won
last year too) with it. I also won the archery stage with an
unsighted recurve, which is no small miracle since I typically can't
hit the broad side of a barn with a bow.

I ended up taking second place (dammit - I hate being the best
loser). Looking back over the scores, it was a dead heat (+/- 1
point) all the way through the entire event with the guy who took me.
The breaker? Golf, of all dumbass things. I personally don't play
golf, but I can hit a decent chip shot occasionally. I had several
scoring balls, but my best ended up 37ft from the pin. The other guy
didn't have a single ball in play, but then managed to accidentally
bounce his last ball off the water, which cleared the other side of
the pond and hit a tree stump, which bounced it toward the pin, where
it finally rolled over to a stop 10' from the flag. ***. Payback
for my miracle on the bow course, I suppose.

JayC

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