Unfortunately, it isn't just about showing up with a branded shotgun and shooting a good score. Mark Conrad, Tom Archer, and Bill Kempfler spend hundreds of hours in planning, rule writing, trophy designing, mailing, calling, emailing, you name it, to prepare for the 500 bird final. Another roadblock is the fact that just the eliminations for two teams takes pretty near all of a four day weekend and uses about 115% of the capabilities of the Deep River 5 stand, to the dismay of hundreds of people who would like to use it to practice for the sporting clays events at the Southern. I don't know what the answer is. I would like to compete with a Fox or a Lindner or an Ithaca, but I don't know what venue could support the match. Brand competitions are part of many vintage gun events, but not in a match format. I must admit, the match format is a fantastic event, worlds above just checking a scoreboard at the Vintagers to see if your brand is ahead.
