Super Shoot Windflag Tails
Ok I'm facing East, 2700 miles from Kelbly's range. My flags have been set around my So Cal pool since 2 days ago. I have a 30 flag set of Geraci style flags, tails forward. Yesterday was a blustery day in So Cal maybe a famous 1day storm coming up in So Cal. So Cal is for Southern California you know the perenial Champion football school, USC, Fight on Trojans. This is for another Post but several of us in So Cal have done our best to promote BR for many years here. I, hate the I word, registered the San Gabriel BR range between 1995-2006 NBRSA/IBS, 2 BR Schools 2004 & 2006. When San Gabriel closed the new emphasis has been on the Angeles Range, we are very close to getting our building permits to construct the next SW Region BR Range, very close. I designed the Range from what I know of BR Ranges I've shot across the Country. Our bench design is 2/3 size Phoenix benches agreed on by 8 of us at a Phoenix Shoot almost 4 years ago, Louie is one of the 8. I'm the pilot of this venture hope we don't crash. Lou Murdica is the construction brain along with Tom Libby. I'm the engineer who designs things and helps build them. I'm a finisher not a follower so the Range will be built or don't come back. More on this later.
I have some kind of telegraphic mind keeps that keeps me awake, drives my wife nuts. I wake up sometimes 2 in the morning get on the computer research my vast shooting library next to my vast Civil War library and enjoy myself, while my family sleeps, kinda like I'm doing right now.
I don't have to make a phone call to Gammon, my mind knows that 80% plus of the tails hanging off the Super Shoot flags next week will be sporting streamer tails, like surveyor/construction flagging. I am a field/construction/surveyor engineer I see flagging almost every day at work. I work for San Bernardino County, the largest County in the USA. I do allot of traveling but I love it, I was born to be a field engineer.
Back to tails what colors they flying in practice (Bill) Gammon. I can see from my house yellows, black, oranges, light pink, some white all streamer flagging. The different guys fly blue and red. Streamers at Kelbly's are generally long to catch the 10-15 mph winds. Better to have long flagging so to be able to catch the afternoon wind drifts. I have set Phoenix flags since 1995, wild stuff sometimes, learned from Berger and Stecker how to get the maximum of my investment at a wind prone Range, long flagging, hang it on the ground it won't be there for long, love to shoot the Phoenix 200, done my best 200 shooting at Phoenix.
Ok now we know the flagging and colors what % propellors and what % Smiley flags. I have never set propellor flags but I watch others. I prefer the single vane blade, like the Smiley. Next year I start selling off my 83 windflag collection and start buying my Smiley traveling set, start off with 10. Nothing against the other flag makers but in 83 flags I have most of their designs already. Smileys to me are different, different in a good way.
Poles and Stands
What you see Bill, mostly poles some tall ones on one side some short ones on the other. How bout the middle what are the average heights of middle poles and stands at Kelbly's?
Benches
Seen the pictures of the benches before close together, 60 some wide bodys some skinny guys what a sight. When I shot Kelbly's in 1977 there were 40 benches corn on 3 sides and afternoon rain. Smelled like wet corn most the day. George said it smelled like money. I love the smell of wet corn and old Hoppes still remember those smells from Kelbly's Range 33 years later.
Food
How's the food Bill anything to eat for breakfast there yet. You guys still visit those nice steak places away from the Range. Hows the beer. Beers good, Breakast of Champions. (Bill) Gammon I am originally from Maine my family are Russkies and French Cannucks. I get my crazy side from the Canadians. My distant relatives lived between Maine and Quebec, they were bootleggers the best kind only the best. My Russkie side were Vodka drinkers, potato Vodka drinkers. My Russkies fled the Russian Revolution in 1917 and ended up in Maine. Me I'm a California kid since 1955. I left Maine when I was 5.
Any good potlucks there, Bill any open bbq, any killer Mexican food. What's cookin at the Super Shoot?
OK I'm done 1 AM here you at the Super Shoot are rolling in bed thinking about getting up.
Done
Stephen Perry
Angeles BR
