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 I am writing this to post over at the CFDA page, so my normal readers should just buckle up, or scroll past.

Many of us have noticed over the past year that participation in our sanctioned matches is getting smaller.  Large matches that used to draw 80 shooters are drawing barely 50 and match promoters are wondering how we can get more shooters to come to our matches.

I know, for myself, I budget $1000 for a three-day sanctioned match. Between entry fees, fuel, hotel, restaurant and incidentals, it costs money to go to a shoot. Like everyone, I'm getting older.  Travel is a bit more stressful than it was10 years ago, and my old body takes longer to recover from the stress of traveling.

Putting on a match is a major commitment.  It takes planning and coordination across several levels.  By the time we rent a venue, buy trophies, pay caterers, arrange for prize money,  and gather all the incidentals, a club might be several thousand dollars in the hole.  We know we will never get rich doing this, but we certainly don't want to lose money. My club has successfully held nine (9) state championships.  The numbers I am seeing from some state matches makes me wonder if those clubs are losing money, which does not bode well for the future of our sport.  We need to get more people to our state matches, but I am not convinced that we are asking the right questions.

We need more clubs.  We need to penetrate markets where the cowboy culture is strong. The fact that New Mexico does not have a strong CFDA club astounds me. New Mexico has a strong cowboy culture and should be fertile ground for our sport.  Likewise, Missouri.  Missouri should have at least one vibrant CFDA club.  Those of us who remember the old TV series Rawhide recall that Rowdy Yates was pushing the herd to the rail line in Sedalia, MO.  It seems like a natural for Cowboy Fast Draw.

Someone once told me that if your club isn't growing, it is dying. Likewise, the organization.  We need more clubs.

At approximately 8:04 p.m., SPD officers responded to the area in reference to shots fired. Upon arrival, they encountered an adult male victim, who stated he had been shot at on his property and returned fire.

Officers received reports of an injured individual, Michael Ingram, suffering from a gunshot wound at Memorial Health University Medical Center. Ingram was found to be connected to the incident in W. 51st St. and was charged with aggravated assault.

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According to the LPSO, after 4 a.m., deputies responded to a home in the 400 block of Mitchell Road. Deputies said two men allegedly entered a home, which was occupied by their two friends, with handguns.

When the situation escalated, deputies said there was a reported shooting among the parties, which resulted in one of the residents getting a facial injury and one of the suspects suffering from an abdominal injury.

Deputies said the two injured individuals were taken to out-of-parish hospitals for treatment, where they are in serious but stable condition.

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Police received video footage showing Broussard’s vehicle being followed to Hawthorne Street, where Broussard’s grandmother resided.

Occupants of a Silver Malibu exited the vehicle to shoot at Broussard. 

Brousssard returned fire, shooting the driver and rear seat passenger.

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Both men were asked by a gas station employee to take their argument outside, according to the incident report. The argument continued outside in the parking lot where Moody changed shoes at the back of his vehicle and confronted Nixon, according to both witness testimony and review of surveillance video.

During the confrontation, Nixon allegedly pulled a gun and shot Moody in the leg. Moody then, according to the incident report, also pulled a gun and fired in Nixon’s direction while fleeing.

A 31-year-old man who was in the vehicle with Nixon and nearby the argument when the shooting took place was also struck by gunfire in the exchange.

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Police said an apartment tenant told officers he saw a man in all black wearing a ski mask trying to take his TV. 

 The tenant said the suspect turned around, looked at him, and reached into his bag, trying to pull something out. 

 He then took his gun out and shot the suspect twice, the tenant told police. The suspect took off running from the rear side of the residence.

The tenant shot two more times towards the suspect, and the suspect dropped his back and kept running towards the apartment complex, police said.

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I hate flying in a cattle car.  Charter only. Probably at the $5 million invested level.

 I've never followed soccer, but I am told that the World Cup has come to America and lots of tourists are over here getting their minds blown.  In a good way.  Little things that we take for granted. Like restaurant portion size, like American barbeque, like yellow school busses.  They seem to be baffled by gallons of sweet tea.

Many of these games are held in smaller towns, and mid-America friendliness and hospitality seems to have made a favorable impression.

Perhaps this is a good thing.

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A few years ago I bought this 20 gauge flintlock Caywood Northwest Trade Gun smoothbore. Because I want this primarily for shooting ball and don't care about NMLRA trade gun match rules, I dovetailed a rear sight into the barrel. (A lot of originals had them added, so it's historically correct anyway.)

Today I took it to my club with the intention of finding an accurate load that is powerful enough for deer hunting. It didn't take long, shooting at 50 yards from the bench.

My first target was using a .600" ball, .010" patch lubed with October Country Bumbing Bear Grease, 80 grains of Scheutzen FFg black powder. It's certainly minute-of-whitetail.

I then shot a group with .015" patches and couldn't believe my eyes. It put three shots into about 2", from a smoothbore. When I viewed it through my spotting scope I was wondering where 2 of the shots went because I was not expecting such a small group from what's basically a shotgun. I had to walk downrange to confirm it. (Luckily, I had the place to myself today.)

After this I used a Wyoming Sight Drifter* to move the rear sight over, and also took a finer bead with the front sight buried in the rear notch to drop the POI. After moving the rear sight I repeated the small group 2 or 3 more times.

My point of aim on both of the targets was at 6:00 to ensure I got as precise a sight picture as possible.

I made this gun holder several years ago for when I'm doing small home gunsmithing jobs. I brought it along today because it makes sight drifting or filing at the range a lot easier.

I'm very close to having this dialed in for deer out to 50 yards. I need to get some more offhand practice in but I'm looking forward to carrying it in the Fall.

 PJMedia:

The region is suffering a record-breaking, early-summer heat wave with temperatures soaring as high as 40–44°C, the way the French reckon it, or 104–111°F in actual degrees. This is when Americans would set the thermostat to 68° (actual degrees) or maybe go see a movie at a theater where they keep it that temp all the time.

But at the École Primaire La Planette school in Nîmes, they have no air conditioning — naturellement — and according to Miss Jo on X and other sources, a child there "recently fainted because of the heat," even while "classes were being taught in corridors to get out of the heat."

Parents of the students there did what parents in America would almost certainly do in a similar situation, and they raised money to buy five portable air conditioning units for the school. The community got so involved that the parents needed just three days to raise the required €2,000.

So far, so good.

But Mayor Vincent Bouget is an actual member of the Parti communiste français (PCF), and if there's one thing Communists can't stand, it's the community doing stuff. Bouget ordered the school to remove the A/C because "it sets a precedent," and "in some neighborhoods, parents don’t have the means to act."

 Over on X, snippy French response was thst Americans can't complain about this because we have a mass murder problem in our schools. But mass murder in schools in a problem in several European nations at higher rates per 1000,000 people as is mass murder