The
only
time we could squeeze in an Eagle
campout that was canceled a few
months ago was Mother’s Day weekend. So, we made
it a Friday night and
Saturday event. We
planned
to be home by 4 PM Saturday so we
would not impact
Mother’s Day festivities.
The
original
plan was for a day shooting “Sporting
Clays,” a shotgun game that is very
similar to real bird
hunting. We
had
planned to go to Deep River Sporting
Clays Club for the event (near Sanford).
Eagle
Scout
Mike B. planned the outing and set it
up for us to camp at the
family property south of Pittsboro. It was a
nice location in the country.
The camp site was about a
quarter mile from the road so we had
to carry the gear and supplies in. Mr. B had a
Quad there and
he shuttled some of the gear in and
out.
When
we
got there we set-up camp and then did
some .22 rifle target shooting.
That went on for about an
hour and a half.
At
that point we gathered around the fire
ring with the intent to start
dinner.
Mike
had
planned for us to cook dinner at the
camp site on Friday night.
We were using Dutch ovens
to cook apple cobbler and hamburgers. Unfortunately
the grub master
didn’t bring charcoal.
So,
we used a bag that was in someone’s
garage. The
bad news was that it was OLD match
light charcoal that we just could not
get to light. We
eventually got it lit, but we
didn’t get to eat until about 10 PM.
There
were
the usual campfire conversations and
kidding around. We
were down for the night
about 11 PM.
Saturday
we
got up for breakfast at 7 AM.
Several
of the Eagles were working on the Pope
Pius XII Catholic religious
award and they required a retreat. So, Saturday
morning Todd Ellis, their
training leader, came out to run the
morning retreat.
There were a couple of Scouts
who were
not Eagles, but part of the religious
award team and so they were
invited to attend the event too. So,
I guess you could say we had a dual
purpose outing.
The
Scouts
not involved in the religious award
spent the morning shooting
.22 rifles. After
the
morning activities, we had lunch,
packed up camp and headed out to
Deep River Sporting Clays for our
afternoon shoot.
There
were
9 of use who were shooting and we were
assigned a target puller to
host our “team.”
We walked about a mile in a
large loop
that contained about 13 shooting
stations. Each
person shot about 50 shots on the
course. The
target
“birds” came from the left, from the
right, were
close in and far out, came over our
heads outbound, flu outbound from
the right and left, bounced over the
ground like a rabbit and much
more. It was a difficult day of
shooting, but a fun day was had by
all. Brian
D. had the high
score for the day.
After
shooting
we all headed home.
Another
successful Eagle outing.
Bob
De
Contreras
Scoutmaster
Troop
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