Having tried to blog about this shoot a couple of times only to be beaten by my connection, it’s a bit hard now to remember all the feelings from last week… and one will understand why: we are now at the end of the PA State shoot, after a week of Elysburg.

But I digress; this is really about Hamilton and Arthemis shoot. As the name shows – it is the Greek’s club and anybody with some knowledge about Mediterranean culture will know upfront that the shoot was more fun than anything. So we ambushed the Greeks in our golden T-shirts and decided to have fun. Except for Phil who was on call and was checking his blackberry between rounds 🙂

We squadded, and we went to our usual school practice trap to wait for the actual shoot to start – we’ve been advised it’s going to be in ‘about an hour’. Oddly enough the round went pretty fast and in almost no time at all, we were all together with yummy souvlaki and even yummier pastry. What does one do when he’s done shooting? He/she shoots some more! Back we went to the school’s trap and practiced some more. Which was very good, because we kept everyone there… why? Well, it turned out that both the LearnTrapshooting’s Juniors (Chloe and Matthew) were in a shoot-off! Imagine young Matthew, barely 10 years old, at his first-ever competition, ending in the shoot-off. Guns got out of their packs & cars, shells in the pocket, vests on – and what do we need to do in a shoot off? Nothing special – we keep doing the same as we do every day: we look to see the target, we move smoothly to it and we smoke one target.

Both Chloe and Matthew were amazing: smoking target after target, with dedication and a huge smile on their face. Now our young students have their first trophy to brag about: Junior Champion at Arthemis shoot!

And so our day went: sunny and full of laughter, with yummy food (thank you, Arthemis!), with happy people and our great team.

Thank you, Artemis, for having us – we had a wonderful day!