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[No Powder]

No wonder you can't see if you hit the target. Had our second shoot of the year yesterday. As you can see by the dress, it was cold and also windy. Aggregate score was fine. Shooting score was pathetic. But had a good time and great food with a bunch of good people. [ Invalid Attachment ]

[KDubs]

Good thing the smoke comes after you pull the trigger.
 Our club shoot is this coming Sunday but I believe the temperature will be in the 70s
 Nice purse ya got there 
I often wonder why folks carry such large shooting bags.
 What ya got in there ??
Kevin
 

[Bigsmoke]

Kevin,  I think the answer is "Everything".
Once years ago, I was heading back to Friendship and I planned on doing some shooting while there.  I had one of the October Country Traveler bags which is a big bag.  I had in it 2 boxes of .530 ball, a can of Ffg powder, a pint bottle of bore solvent, a couple of tins of caps and whatever other stuff I figured I might need.
Frankly, I have never cared for shooting boxes and don't own one.  I figure I can get everything I might need in a bag, and if I don't get it to fit, I don't need it.
Of course, after I got there I emptied it out.  I think it weighed about 32 pounds all told.  Much too heavy to carry around.
Tom, that's a great photo.  Only way it could have been better was if it was taken a millisecond faster and captured the fire in the pan or coming out of the vent.  Looks like it was a fun day.
John

[No Powder]

Thank you John. And you are correct by answering Everything. But I would like to add, TOO MUCH.
When I started to shoot with the group I'm a part of, an older gentleman kind of took me under his wing. He made and gave me a lot of hand crafted items that he made. The knife and sheath attached to the bag, and the bag were just two of those items. If you look closely at the back of the bag, he even personalized it.
If you look at one of the old TMA brochures, there is a picture of an elderly white haired man taking a shot off of a cliff. He is the person I'm referring too.
This bag and all of his gifts to me are priceless to me. [ Invalid Attachment ]  [ Invalid Attachment ]

[Bigsmoke]

Tom, You are very fortunate to have scored a mentor who took to you in such a kind way.
Many if not most of us had to figure stuff out for ourselves, me included.
But at the end of the day, we have all had an interesting and rewarding journey.
You have some neat stuff there, and I cannot help but agree that they are all keepers.
I had to chuckle when I looked at all the things in your pouch, at one time I bought one of those folding knives for my kit as well.  I thought it made my kit much more authentic, right along with the plastic bag I carried my patches in.  That's me, nothing but PC, doncha know.  Yeah right, I am hardly a model of PC, whether that stands for Politically Correct or Period Correct.  I fail in both categories.
John

[KDubs]

Wow you do have everything in there.
 Didn't mean to offend, hope I didn't.
 It is a nice set up.
 Kevin