Fifty years ago my friend Richard Davis created a new gun sport, bowling pin shooting. Half a century later I am writing this midway through the last one, the de facto national championship of this sport known appropriately as The Pin Shoot. (www.pinshoot.com)
If you’ve followed this blog for a while you know that of the countless shooting matches in which I’ve participated, this one is my favorite. New shooters are welcomed by a sort of family who’ve been meeting for this event in Central Lake, Michigan for a very long time.
“All good things must come to an end.” Like most cliches, that one has some truth to it. We are mourning fellow shooters who are no longer with us. It’s a bittersweet time, with memories a stronger ingredient in the good times than usual, leavened with sadness that this will be the last one.