What an absolute BLAST I had these past few days.
Flew out on Thursday morning and arrive at JFK about 11.00am. Rented a car and headed upstate to Cross River NY where my friend has a house and then went to his golf club and played a round. Really nice little country style country club, small but had everything the big ones have and the course was in incredible shape.
Had a great dinner with my friend's family and then we sacked out.
Next day we headed over to Dover Furnace Shooting Club where the competition was being held and we shot in the Ronald McDonald Charity shoot.
After a great lunch we went to my buddy's farm briefly and I used the time to pack up a bunch of golf stuff I had ordered to his place for a tournament I am organising next month. Then we headed to the polo club and I watched my friend play a pick-up game with his team. That is one sport I'll never play.
Afterwards I was treated to a home cooked meal with everything either coming from his farm or his father's (the beef).
In the morning we were back at Dover Furnace for the Ducks Unlimited sporting clay shoot. I had to keep a close eye on the time because I had a flight to catch a 5.15pm and I was 2 hours north of the airport. But, I was able to finish the shoot and gobble down a quick sandwich before heading back to the airport to get the plane home, arriving in the house about 9.00pm.
Here's a couple of videos of the DU shoot. You have to watch it full screen and crank up the resolution to at least 720p otherwise you can't really see squat.
We were shooting either 6 or 8 shots per shooter in pairs at each station and "on report" (there were a number of newbies shooting (like me) so they didn't do any simos.
I set the camera on a bench behind the station for this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOagz11j1wIThis one was interesting, called "the rabbit", first clay goes out almost straight out, which is relatively easy, but the second comes trickling out across the ground from left to right, bouncing along and simulating a rabbit. The first day I missed all 3 rabbits, it was harder than it looks, but day two I "almost" got all 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqIAK3pYFVkReally good fun, good people and the chance to support two great charities.
