Well done. That's a history to look back on with pride!!

 

I didn't start shooting competitively until I was in my early 30's. Then it was all .22RF in adult smallbore, and Bullseye 2400 matches using 3 pistols for the 3 stages. I worked my way up from beginner to Master over about 2.5 years, and loved shooting. During that time I won medals, plaques, trophies for various matches with the team, and individual matches. Most the ribbon medals are in a box, and plaques or trophies are hanging out in a corner of our finished basement in the entertainment center. Along with car trophies I've wont for hotrods I've built.
My favorite trophy is winning the Roadster Show here in the "Nostalgia Hotrod Class" for my old Austin Gasser. But a close 2nd I didn't even win! It's a trophy dated June 1918 for first place at the Denver Rifle Club with the name "L.G. Pridy" and the rest the info on the cup. It came to me along with his cased Ballard 3 barrel set with his name on the case also. It sits front center on top of my gun safe where I see it often.

 

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Very impressive! Most folks who have never had the opportunity to shoot in formal matches really don't know the work involved. I only did it for three years. I was active duty Army assigned to an Army National Guard unit and organized a Rifle Team. We were lucky to have a former Air Force Grand Master in the unit that I managed to convince to be our Team Coach. Loads of work and lots of great fun. We all did very well in formal Small Bore Rifle and Service Rifle matches.

 

My dad tried getting me into it but to many dam squirrels running around with shiny things on their tails. I chased every one of them.


Very Nice display you have. I'm kind of jealous.

Going to a sporting clay shoot this weekend. I bought a Winchester SX3 and took the plug out so I can load it all the way up.

 

That is a very nice display of shooting awards. You've done well and I'm sure that you have great memories of shooting with some fine marksmen.

Like you, age and declining vision has me AWOL from formal shooting now, but I still enjoy all other aspect of shooting, from weekly skeet at the base club to African safaris.

Here are some of my shooting awards while shooting with military and police shooting teams. I kind of liked getting paid to travel and shoot. It was great while it lasted. A couple of wars kept me from it all the time. I sure enjoyed the experience when we weren't deployed, and we had the time for it.

Class A army dress uniform pocket flap.

DCM (now the CMP) National level bronze, silver, and gold Leg medals and some police badges as well. There are a few more in a drawer somewhere.

Washington State service rifle Bronze, Silver, and Gold distinguished badges.

 

Here are some of my shooting awards while shooting with military and police shooting teams.

That's a very nice display also. When you look at that, it should bring back some great memories.

 

The only ones I have left are when I shot Trap. We all agreed to do away with the tall trophies and opted for silver coins instead.

I had a dozen or more of the belt buckles, but eventually we got them to stop passing them out; I never did use them on my belt.

I still have a shoebox full of the coins, although I doubt the dollar value is that much, I'll wait and give them to my grandkids once they get older.