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Allright!  I was just reading some old  Airgun World Magazines, and there on
page 23 of the September 1991 issue is a description of these very blocks
(their debut in fact) for the State California  Championship, of which I was
the match director.    I had thrown in a "Joker" in that match as I said any
ties would be awarded the shooter that shot the most shots offhand .... the
top three shooters werent taking any chances, taking 90% of the shots
offhand, while  ole Steve Gibbons, he took 'em ALL sitting, as he wasnt
shooting to WIN, just do the best he could! A couple pages later is a
picture of me congratulating Steve Gibbons,  the winner.   Gofigure?   ld
Jim Henry wrote:
> Hey LD, I just wanted to thank you for the suggestion of the capping
> blocks (or are they called topping blocks) to mount Field targets on.
> We've decided to go in that direction and the prototypes look and
> work great.  It's also a very inexpensive solution.  Whilew the blocks
> themselves are costing us 90cents each, the block and hardware combo
> works out to just $3.12 per unit.  We've bought our first 25 and when we
> get them done we'll get 25 more.
>
> This solution will allow us to vary the distance to targets much more
> easily than we can now and it will also allow us to quick change them.
> We will still be keeping the targets out year round but we'll constantly
> rotate them into the shop for maintenance.  I know you said they could
> be drilled in the field with acordless drill, but we're going to use the
> club's machine shop and drill press to do them all at once - should be
> quicker.
>
> Watch the scores this year - we'll see if it makes a difference!
> Jim
>
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>  (Jim Henry)
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