International Lawn Steel shooting

[sticknsteel]

A couple of questions:
FYB is pretty well known and referenced in the ILSA rules, but can you further explain how MOCK plays into the sudden death shoot out?
Also, when we draw the scramble slips, do we keep those to ourselves until such time that we call and hit one of the targets on a slip? In other words our slips are kept secret?
Lastly, do you want the tournament announcement distributed on the group text?

[gunarea]

Sure. The MOCK reference indicates that a missed target of the first party will be the intended target for the second party in sudden death. Being a commemorative type function, the award list will be large and many ties are expected.
It is best and advisable to keep scramble slips unknown to others. Rat ******** will take those targets as an option to eliminate and therefore lower the overall total of successful scramble slips. These seasoned competitors have memories like a steel trap, unfortunately the steel has severely corroded over time and the memory portion will also be a part of the actual play. This is not a team sport!
Please let all know about the upcoming tournament.
A side note is Gary McLoud(RIP) was the author of the "NUMBERS" version of Lawnsteel, the game.
Thanks. Roy

[B1GB1RD]

Oh this is going to be a blast, beware the evil backstabbing that will occur..... BE THERE!!!!!!!!!

[Pee Wee]

Wwwwwwwwwwwhat?????????????

[Pee Wee]

Another beautiful day shooting lawnsteel. We had 11 people B1GB1RD and I had a good day
We almost had a perfect game in game 2 for me and game 3 for him. I missed one shot and he missed one shot. A great time was had by all.

[Pee Wee]

Another beautiful day for lawnsteel. We had 14 shooters today, B1GB1RD and I shot beside each other today on line 3 and he made an incredible shot today, on the rams there is a hole in the horn twice the size of a golf ball laterally and just small enough vertically to hold a golf, and B1GB1RD called the golf ball said he would leave the ram standing and hit it dead center and left the ram standing. That is a great shot. No nickel tho. We as a whole had a line of good shooters. Some really good fuzzy butt shots were made. Nancy shot on the line of 4 and 2 were visitors and she took her line to the cleaners and took home a boat load of nickels. A good time was had by all.

[Pee Wee]

Another beautiful day for lawnsteel. We had 14 shooters today, B1GB1RD and I shot beside each other today on line 3 and he made an incredible shot today, on the rams there is a hole in the horn twice the size of a golf ball laterally and just small enough vertically to mold a golf, and B1GB1RD called the golf ball said would leave the ram standing and hit it dead center and left the ram standing. That is a great shot. No nickel tho. We as a whole had a line of good shooters. Some really good fuzzy but shots were made. Nancy shot on the line of 4 and 2 were visitors and she took her line to the cleaners and took home a boat load of nickels. A good time was had by all.

[gunarea]

Holy Crap!!!
Captain Happy has come up with yet another tournament format unique to the shooting world. A combination Easter egg hunt, numbers game and scavenger hunt thrown together with range transient's, gypsies, homeless shopping cart people moving about, semi capable. Now our benevolent, humble, unassuming Rangemaster will allow ignorant guideline infractions, rampant rules violations and outright cheating transgressions to be forgiven. Oh, the humanity!! Near capacity pre registration indicates a true passion for deviant behavior. There will be a light lunch provided by a small group of our beloved members. A big thank you goes out to them and for all the volunteer work done to make this a memorable tournament.


This is 38 caliber fun at distances, unbelievable to the masses, intimidating to the rookies and laugh out loud funny to regular folks shooting Lawnsteel. Skin so thick that verbal attacks are less annoying than mosquitoes. Some of us can't see, some can't walk, most can't count to six, some can't count to one! Yet here we are playing the same game, in the original design as given some thirty years ago. The only firearm shooting sport that as of this writing, employs 100% home cast projectiles and home loaded ammunition. CAST BOOLITS, yer still about ten years behind us. WOO HOO, I love this game.
Roy

[Pee Wee]

Tribute tournament to Gary McCloud: Our dear friend who passed last month and author of the numbers game. So in his honor all three games played were the numbers game.


Holy Crap, what a funtastic game, I’ve never had so much fun and with a gun. I am so privileged to know these wonderful people. We had 18 shooters show up for the tournament but Randy couldn’t shoot due to the arthritis in is shooting hand so he spectated. Each shooter drew 10 target slips which a random target assigned on it, 3 games 1 at each station, the one with the most hit targets drawn wins, ties would be sent to a FUB shoot off. As it turns out I won out right with 8 targets out of the 10 accomplished. There was a sudden death shoot off for 2nd-9th place with Rusty taking 2nd and Tallen in 3rd. A good time was had by all, good food and great Fellowship.

[B1GB1RD]

And I will say it here, my wife Mary (AKA B!GS CHICK) came out in 4th after the shootout, yes, 2 spots a head of me in 6th, so to say I am proud of her is an understatement, great shooting, great fun, great people, great day!!!!!!!!!

[B1GB1RD]

Regular Tuesday morning shoot in the AM, suppose to be mid 60s to start and mid 70s to end, going to be great! Lets try for that perfect game tomorrow PeeWee!!!!!!!

[Pee Wee]

Well no perfect game. But still had a blast. New terminology made up buy B1GB1RD and Kenney, we now have BroJoe, I’ll explain it if you want to know what it is let me know. We had 12 shooters and Randy spectated due to his sore thumb, Paul and Greg out. A good time was had by all.

[Pee Wee]

Another beautiful day at the lawnsteel range. We had 13 shooters today so we broke into 3 lines of 4,4,and 5, I was on the line with 5 and the first game we shot really good. We finished our game in 12 rounds. There were only 7 missed shots. Typically a game is 18 to 20 shots. We basically traded nickels, 2nd 3rd and 4th games were also low shot games. Total of 56 rounds for all 4 games. Best 4 games for me in a while. Some incredible fuzzy But shots were made thu out the four games. I had a great time, as always. On to next Tuesday.

[B1GB1RD]

Havent posted in a while, soooooo, great Tuesday for shooting, mid 80s partly cloudy and 12 ILSA shooters. PeeWee and I on the same line, and sitting next to each other, well, we cause a bit of calamity to say the least....lol ,Great day, great peeps!

[Pee Wee]

We had 7 shooters yesterday, but one (Kevin) went to cut down a pine tree for us on the new rifle range we are building then Tim dropped out after the first game as he forgot to bring extra ammunition. So for the next 2 games we had 5 as Kevin was still working on the tree. About halfway Thur game 4 the sky opened up and let loose a gully washer so we called it and headed home. But a good time was had by all.

[B1GB1RD]

SAD NEWS:
Gary met Keith and I on here and was trying to come shoot with us, we had talked and while he was down he was going to come shoot, last time we spoke he said he wasnt feeling to great but still had planned on joining us on a shoot. Prayers for his family!

Greetings:

My name is Chris and I'm Gary's (GPIdaho) Son In Law. I wanted to let you all know that Gary passed away in the early A.M. hours of 3-15-2024.

At age 24 I taught Gary how to load his own ammo, this would have been in the year 1994. He was extremely interested and very quickly picked it up after being shown some of how certain tools did certain things and why. Within a 3 year period he had everything related to reloading you could imagine! He not only liked the precision and cost savings but also felt a deep responsibility to protect his and others rights concerning responsible firearm ownership, operation and especially the joys of the shooting sports!

In 2013 Gary had his first encounter with cancer. It was then during a very long and painful recovery that he was mostly confined to his home but luckily had internet and found out about lead casting and started his studies in it. This is what brought him to Cast Boolits in 2014. He was incredibly motivated by what he was learning on his own but especially what this site and all of the helpful members were sharing with him and amongst others!

I simply cannot come close to how many times I heard things like "I learned a really cool trick on Cast Boolits today" or "In swapping and selling I got a great deal on, or sold a ..." He was a very dedicated individual who taught me the joys of how nice powder coated boolits worked out! We enjoyed many years of shooting together when we could. Gary could make something out of very little and it would most always be of large significance. His laughter and sense of joy for life and family was indeed tremendous!

He never fully recovered from the damage of the extreme doses of radiation and chemo he was given. Sometimes I would notice that even though he felt happy his huge smile took a little more effort once in awhile. Gary had a huge belly laugh that could fully radiate an otherwise mostly dark room. He stayed the course and later in life enjoyed his Winter months in Florida and never gave up his love for firearms and fishing and was cancer free!

Late in 2023 the cancer came back and was without mercy. I want to thank everyone here that he dealt with for ABSOLUTELY prolonging his life throughout the years and that is meant in no small way at all!!

He would not like me yammering away about all of this so I'll just borrow some of his own words that I heard many times throughout the years. "Alright, enough of this kind of stuff, lets go do something fun like shooting or fishing or maybe both!!"

My memories of him will always include his huge laugh and smile but now my smile is MUCH larger knowing his no longer takes any extra effort at all!

Thanks so much to you all for what you did for Gary and the sport!
Chris