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What do you think of when Fall approaches?
Labor Day Weekend, Back to School, Football, Hunting. For me it's time for The Trap & Turkey Shoots available to the Public at the Crump Fox Club. Located at 781 W. Prevo Road in Linwood, Michigan.
The next shoot will be held on Sunday, September 7, 2008.
My annual visit (plus an earlier visit on Sunday, August 24, 2008) kicked off the season for me at the Crump Fox Club. I've been attending this annual event for the last several years.
Trap shooting is shotgun shooting at clay targets - (One of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting) - Trap shooting is different from skeet shooting in that there is only one house that releases targets and the shooters only move through 5 different positions. (The Crump Fox Club has 2 trap houses)
The sport is in some ways a replacement for an old-fashioned shooting game where the targets were live pigeons. Indeed, one of the names for the clay targets used in shooting games is clay pigeons.
The layout of modern Trap shooting has been a sport since at least 1793 when it used real birds, usually the then-extremely abundant Passenger Pigeon. Fake birds were introduced around the time of the American Civil War as the Passenger Pigeon was nearing extinction and sufficient numbers were not reliably available. Clay targets were introduced in the 1880's.
Shooters Rotate through 5 different positions, 5 shots at each station for a total of 25 shots. (Above L/R) Chuck Williams, Gary Munger, Dean Munger, Joe Munger, Julie Munger
(File Photo 2007)
Its all about the competition and beating my personal best when it comes to the Trap Shooting. My 5-man line up usually consists of my brothers, Joe and Dean, my Father, Gary Munger and Chuck Williams, a friend of my Fathers, a club member and excellent shooter, who is responsible for getting me involved in the trap shooting. And then me of course. It's not rare to be the only women shooter, which was my reasoning to be hesitant before William's taunting (in a joking way) got the best of me -- from then on, I was hooked.
My gun of choice? A Browning Sweet Sixteen which was the late Phyllis Munger's who was the greatest pat (partridge) hunter in Cadillac/Lake City, Michigan.
This year, I have invited the famous Tim Roller, Host and Producer of Wild Addiction Hunting & Fishing TV. I've always wondered how the pro outdoors-man would do on a target ten times smaller and actually moving.
Roller is also the owner of Ultimate Outfitters who resides in Lake City, Michigan with his wife and two children.
Coinciding with the trap shoot on September 7, is the turkey shoot which runs all day. Many turkeys are given away. I remember winning a turkey one year, competing against 11 other shooters. Whoever shoots closest to the center of your target, wins a turkey (not live... that is).
Come hungry, because also available is the Famous Chicken bar-b-que dinner, which is one of the best around along with bar-b-que beef or ham and refreshments.
Can't miss Lions football? - Don't worry, they will have the game on in the Club House.
Come out to the Fox Club on September 7, 2008, I will take your picture with a winning turkey perhaps and put it up on the next publication of mybaycity.com on my photo gallery of the trap and turkey shoot.
(Right) Chris Meyers, 13, student - Handy Middle School. This was Meyers' second year at the shoot. Meyers just completed the hunter's safety course at Duncan's Outdoors Shop on Salzburg Rd. in Bay City.
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