Ever hear of the Second Chance Bowling Pin Shoot?\u00a0 Back in the mid-70s, Richard Davis \u2013 the armed citizen who won a three-against-one shootout with armed robbers, and invented the soft, concealable body armor that saved thousands of cops in the decades since \u2013 created a competition shooting format in which whoever shot an array of bowling pins off a table fastest, won.\u00a0 It sounded at first like plinking tin cans off the back fence, only with bigger guns and bullets and targets, but it turned out to have great spectator appeal with instant feedback.<\/p>\n
The match grew, drawing hundreds of shooters and hundreds of spectators. It encompassed great free food, and a carnival atmosphere in which the midway was all live-fire outdoor shooting galleries with different games for pistol and revolver, rifle, and shotguns loaded with buckshot for pins and slugs for heavy steel knockover plates out to a hundred yards.<\/p>\n
I shot that match 23 or 24 years in a row, until Life went on.\u00a0 Richard stopped the match, sold his sponsoring Second Chance Body Armor company, and retired. We gun folk missed that iconic match, where many friendships had been made.\u00a0 I always said that if shooting matches were rock concerts, that one would have been Woodstock.\u00a0 It was A Happening. It was\u2026groovy.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s that you say? The \u201870s called and wants its terminology back? Maybe\u2026but the 21st<\/sup> Century called and said it wanted this great old match back, too.\u00a0 Richard\u2019s son Matt Davis carried on the family tradition, creating the Armor Express brand that\u2019s now one of the biggest in the body armor industry, and he and his dad have brought The Pin Shoot back!<\/em><\/p>\n It will be in its traditional location, the family vacation land of Central Lake, Michigan, near Traverse City.\u00a0 Awards will be traditional, too:\u00a0 guns, guns, and more guns.\u00a0 Entry fee ain\u2019t cheap, but the prize table is good, and deep.\u00a0 For info on what is now known simply as The Pin Shoot. Dates are June 9-16, 2017.<\/a> You don\u2019t have to be there the whole time to shoot, and win.<\/p>\n For us old gunnies here (Randy and Ken, you listening?) it\u2019ll be like a high school reunion with guns. I\u2019ve rearranged my schedule to be there.\u00a0 Hope to see some of you there, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever hear of the Second Chance Bowling Pin Shoot?\u00a0 Back in the mid-70s, Richard Davis \u2013 the armed citizen who won a three-against-one shootout with armed robbers, and invented the soft, concealable body armor that saved thousands of cops in the decades since \u2013 created a competition shooting format in which whoever shot an array […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}