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Uncle Miltie

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Shooting over a log (chunk) as done in the southern highlands is pretty well known these days, but shooting this way from a bench as was done in the north eastern US is not. We have chunk shoots and table shoots: wouldn't it be nice to shoot like this? Here is a painting done in the 1870's showing a shoot at Saratoga Springs NY. I think it's pretty cool.
 

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Still doing the chunk gun shoots and over the log shoots (prone) as well as variations of the table/ plank shoots here in the midwest. Several are local events and others have a more national participation. Think of the Bevel Brothers match or the Alvin York matches.
 
I don't have an actual painting or photo, but I do have an image in my head of a beef shoot. Sargent York shooting that turkey behind the log when York gobbled and got it to expose its head for a clean shot!
 
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