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The Shooting Event at ''Hausmann;s Hidden Hollow in Pa. ''IS ON''.
June 4-5-6- 2026, with the help of all the guys on this site, Fox Site and Parker Site,
we can help make the June event bigger and better like it used to be. There will be a lot of Vendors, shooting events,
food and all the ''FUN '' You can can take. Come to see old friends, and make new friends, bring a lot of ''CASH'' to spend.
Spread the word around, and We can make this a lot of fun. Even bring a few guys or gals with you. Lets keep this tread
going till June 4, and RST will be their with a lot of shells.

Dirty Harry

Good to hear. I had a fun time shooting Hausmann's SxS shoot for the first time this year. Looking forward to returning in 2026.

319 Views and only one Pro Comment, than you guys complain about the ''Shoots'' Low Attendance.
If you guys don't start putting out some positive comments, there won't be any ''Shoots to talk about.

Dirty Harry

I would love to attend a shoot like this and others in the eastern part of the country, but unfortunately, it's not in the cards for me at this time. Between the travel costs and timeline involved, it's just not feasible for me to travel from Colorado just to attend a single event like this.

I do wish I could be there though.

I don’t think side-by-side shoots fall into the category of if you build it, they will come.

Around here, and I’m going back a few years, the club managers, co-marketed events. Sharing the wealth amongst themselves.

I always say watch what they do, not what they say.

The side-by-side crew are very price sensitive, and they want to get in and get out as fast as possible, for the lowest possible cost.

It doesn’t leave a lot of room in the marketplace for more elaborate upscale events.

Weather permitting and if nothing else gets in the way that weekend, I'm planning on attending.

That sounds like a lot of fun. There are a lot of pictures and information on their Facebook page. Looks like a great place.

IT is a Great Place, and with some help from the shooting public, it will even be ''Better''

Dirty Harry

Been going for several years. Fun place to shoot. If you have some mobility issues rent a golf cart. If you don't want to rent a cart you can still shoot 5 stand and Mad Jack. The actual sporting clays courses are wonderful imo. They will have a food vendor there and they have multiple vintage shotgun vendors. Its not nearly the size of the Southern, but its still fun. The Fox Collectors Association will have multiple events set up including a trap event and the Boo Whoop event. Ernie does it right.

I mentioned it to Karl and we might come over.
I mean, who doesn’t want a Primanti brothers sandwich?
I just need to find that Airbnb. I stayed at the last time I went over there.

Instead of watching the up coming super bowl, use the money you will waste on it, and go to ''Hausmann's''

Dirty Harry

Well a few guys say they may be going to Hausmann's, what about ''ALL'' the rest of you guys ?
You guys claim to be pro ''Double Gun'' , but lack of pro comments prove other wise.We are
over 1239 views as of now.

Dirty Harry

What’s with the tone?

Do you actually think people are going to spend a couple grand to visit your club because you shame them into it?

People shoot double guns because it’s fun. It’s nostalgic. It gives them a look at an earlier time.
Have a look around. The side-by-side shooters are old. Most of them are on fixed income. They are very price sensitive. They don’t like cold weather. They don’t shoot in the rain.


Pro shooters buy a modern built for purpose side-by-side and go to clubs to win prizes.

I’m not getting the impression you actually know much about the side-by-side shooting community.

Just remember, it’s not the bride that does the asking.

Pennsylvania, for a three day weekend, at the sweet spot of the Minnesota fishing season, is a bridge too far for me. I’m in the middle of clearing my mothers estate, life happens at the damndest moments, and still working, which, leaves little bandwidth for events.

2026 ain’t going to work.

Sorry.

Best,
Ted

Don't Forget, June 4-5-6 2026 , mark those dates down, come to Hausmann's Hidden Hollow in Pa.
have a lot of ''FUN'', and maybe even come home with a ''New Girl''.

Dirty Harry

For those of us who don’t know anything about your shoot, tell and show us why we should want to go there. Show some pictures and describe the facility. Let us know why you think it is good and what connection you have with it.

I went a few years ago, but come here in. I’m looking forward to putting people together with their faces. I’ll have a badge on. I wish there were more vendors. I enjoy that as much as As just practice shooting looking forward to it.

Other than the fact that I like double guns, and all ways had fun at Hausemann's Hidden Hollow, I have ''NO'' connection with it.
Just look it up on the internet and all year other questions will be answered.

Dirty Harry

P.S. It's not my shoot, I am just one of the guys that show up there.

Since I’m a computer Luddite how about telling us the location of the place?

1051 Flynn Road, Friendsville, Pa. 18818

Ok thanks.

742 miles my home and it appears that the best places to stay are in New York. I’ll need to really think about this.

New York has some nutso regulations on guns having to be locked up at all times in a hard case with combination lock or pad lock and line of sight at all times. Least that's what I remember. A fair number of folks for that reason stay in Pa. Skyline hotel in Tunkhannock is popular. Clean and certainly not 5 star but not priced like a 5 star. Good (not great) eating places nearby.

I stayed at an Airbnb not far from there that was just right.
You may wish to look there for more comfortable closer lodging.

Realistically, the best way to go there and enjoy the thing, is to try to elicit some friendship on this website, and see if the locals and regulars can’t work together to make it more possible for an out-of-towner to go there and enjoy themselves.

That’s just one example of one of the things that’s lacking.

Don't go their wearing a pro-Biden hat and you won't have a problem, but just to be fair, I have been their many times and wearing a ''Pro Trump Hat''
and have been verbally attacked by some Parker gun union members, You see they think anti gun Democrats don't want their double guns, but they are mistaken.

I'll pass on wearing any political hats thanks.

Morons need to politicize everything......

Harry,
You are doing their club no great service.

Running shoots is the entertainment business. Nothing more.

For the club to have a successful shoot, they have to cast the broadest net. And that means that all are welcome.

Once the shoot starts to pick teams and take sides on politics or religion or money or any number of other things, all that does is make the potential catch of the net smaller.

So which is it you want? To go to a shoot where nobody talks politics and you have 250 shooters, and the club makes a years worth of thei capital Improvement budget off of their visiting guest? Or do you want to go to a shoot where it’s the same group of grumpy old men standing around wondering how they can chisel the 26th target off the skeet field?

Again, running shoots is the entertainment business. Every club should do everything they can to make sure that it is easy for their guests to come to their club, spend money, and enjoy themselves.

I’ve been to shoots where visiting guests were given a button that said visitor with a big smile on it, so that everybody on their grounds knew that this person doesn’t even know where the bathroom is.

Clubs that are embracing of visitors do well, clubs that are cold toward visitors generally don’t.

Dirty Harry, It's interesting that you were verbally attacked by some of the Parker Gun guys for simply exercising your right to wear a Trump hat. Of course it sounds like Princess Stevie considers you a moron for doing so:


That all runs counter to the lecture you got from Clapper Zapper. As you can see, the Liberal Left thinks is OK to attack, insult, or criticize you. But if you do anything to offend them or expose their support of anti-gunners, then you are being divisive, and need to just shut-up.

The Kumbaya Crap he is selling doesn't tell the whole story at all. He's just pushing the same old bullshit about the importance of gun owners all being in some Big Tent where we are supposedly stronger together than we are divided by political differences.

The problem is, this is not the 1960's, where a number of Democrat politicians actually defended and respected the 2nd Amendment. In CZ's home state of Michigan, Democrat Senator John Dingell was actually an NRA Board Member. Unfortunately, his daughter Debbie is a current Democrat Senator, and like most Democrat politicians, she doesn't respect our gun rights at all. Sadly, most gun owners know this, and some still continue to support and vote for the anti-gunners who work diligently to pass gun and ammunition bans and restrictions. And you never hear them say that they even try to urge their anti-gun Democrats to stop infringing on our rights. If these guys were on our side, they would be working to fire the anti-gunners... not re-elect them.

They think it doesn't matter, but it matters a lot. They have seen the outcome both here, and in many other countries like Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, as anti-gunners keep chipping away until things get far worse for all gun owners than just having a few disgruntled guys who hate Trump. They don't care. And they want to silence any and all discussions about the damage they do, even though the evidence is all over the world.

Some of them know that it might not be a good idea to stay in New York State, as mentioned earlier, because of the restrictive gun storage requirements. They know those laws were passed by anti-gun Democrats... but they still don't see any problem with supporting Democrats. It's crazy.

So we have to ask ourselves if it is worse to perhaps alienate some guys who stab us all in the back by supporting anti-gunners? Or should we pretend they are on our side, and wait until we see a Thread here announcing that Haussmann's is being sued, or closed forever due to anti-gun Democrats enacting more restrictive laws.

Then you will be forced to travel even farther to find such events... while you can... if you can...

Google search the number of shooting ranges that have been forced to shut down due to the efforts of anti-gunners. Will the few extra dollars you make by embracing these fools help when the range is bankrupted by a lawsuit over lead contamination? Quite a few ranges have been forced to restrict shooters to expensive steel and non-lead ammo. Well, there goes your vintage side-by-side shotgun event, because the majority of the old guns weren't made for steel. Meanwhile, they also work to ban your semi-autos, and your handguns, and your large cap magazines, and your ammunition, and eventually your shotguns and hunting rifles.

I say it's way past time for gun owners and shooters to stop falling for this Big Tent crap. It's a Big Lie, and accepting an enemy within has not made us stronger. It's as dumb as staying with a spouse that is cheating on you, or hiring Chinese spies to work in the Pentagon, or employing someone who is helping your competitors. The sooner we end this charade of embracing 2nd Amendment traitors, the better.

Keith, I only wear the hat at shoots to expose the ''Liberal's'', you see they all have ''TDS''
and are triggered in a instance, They can't keep their mouths shut, just like on here.

Dirty Harry

Almost true. But at least they are not as bad as the magaites.

Keith, or Harry, Have either of you actually been in contact with the Hausmann’s with respect to who you think should be welcome at their shoot? and who should not be?

For the life of me I can’t imagine a single manager of a gun club anywhere in the country attempting to run a shoot (with hoped for international attendance), openly promoting it as the two of you are.

As I said previously, you were doing the Hausmann’s no great service.

I’ve not read a single thing in this entire thread that would make me want to bother to show up over there.

Maybe you should put more effort into saying things like, “Oh, their small bore course is fantastic!”, or, “Man, they have this really cool long range target set up that people with the old duck guns really enjoy”, you know, sell it. Try to get people interested in it.

I’m sure, if at a generic $300 a person out of pocket that the Hausmann‘s lose after reading stuff in this thread, the two of you are probably costing them a few thousand dollars in lost revenue just for site fees.
And of course, the owner of RST who maintains a very large presence at that shoot is losing the cartridge orders that people make prior to the shoot, who then go there and pick them up, but because they know they’re really not welcome they won’t be going.
Vendors losing gun sale revenue? Well, you know, sometimes people go to these events to actually buy stuff.

Perhaps Ernie can pop in and share his ideas on this.

Clapper Zapper, you can stop trying to sell me on your Big Tent bullshit. I stopped believing guys like you were helping to keep the shooting sports, gun ownership, or the 2nd Amendment alive years ago.

My mission is to wake-up as many other gun owners to this fraud and BIG LIE as I possibly can.

You claim that what I propose is somehow harmful to Hausmann's. Yet you care nothing about the harm caused by the anti-gun Democrats that you, Princess Stevie, the Nutty Prof., and other Liberal Democrats support.

None of you care that many of us have donated a lot of money to the NRA to finance their mission of defending Gun Rights. None of you care that the NRA was sued by the Democrat New York Attorney General over some small alleged mis-spending, such as Wayne LaPierre buying some nice suits. None of you care that NRA had to move operations to Texas, and suffered financial and membership losses in an election year. Meanwhile, you and your Democrats are virtually silent about massive multi-billion dollar Medicaid, Welfare, Daycare, and other rampant frauds and money laundering.

None of you care one bit about Firearms Industry workers that have lost their jobs because their employers were bankrupted by frivolous lawsuits, or forced to relocate to other states where they were not threatened by anti-gun Democrats quite so much.

How about the thousands of FFL's that have been forced out of business, beginning in earnest during the anti-gun Democrat Bill Clinton administration. These guys lost income from full and part time businesses, and we lost access to thousands of dealers. This attack continued under Obama and Biden, with more FFL's forced to surrender licenses due to minor and inadvertent bookkeeping errors. Do you care? Hell no... you guys voted for this!

You don't care about the ammo shortages or hoarding and price increases that resulted from anti-gun Democrats passing or proposing new anti-gun legislation. You don't care about radical Democrat EPA regulations that have forced the shutdown of every lead smelter in the U.S. You don't care that lead smelting has been taken up by desperately poor people in countries without the same environmental protections we had.

You seem worried that RST might lose out on selling a few boxes of ammo. But you don't care a bit about all of the ammo makers and dealers who can no longer sell lead ammo anywhere in Liberal Democrat California.

Nor do you care about the shooters, especially kids and younger or low income shooters who can no longer go out shooting ground squirrels or plinking in California with a .22 LR, because ammo is unavailable or extremely expensive. You do not care that the Democrats you support are trying to ban lead ammo in many other places too.

You obviously do not give a crap about the shooting ranges that have already been shut down or restricted to costly non-lead ammo, all because of anti-gun Democrats. So don't lecture me about doing Hausmann's "no great service."

You obviously do not care that Hausmann's could be the next skeet or trap range where shooters are forced to use steel shot... making these vintage SxS shoots a thing of the past.

If you all cared about any of these things, there is no way you would vote or support anti-gun Democrats. But you do... so you are complicit and equally responsible. You are backstabbers and traitors who enable Democrat legislators to continue chipping away at our Gun Rights. You do nothing to stop them or even to try replacing them with politicians who respect our Constitutional Gun Rights.

And many of you do all you can to censor or shut down anyone who calls you out on this. You and your ilk also try to force those who think the same as me to leave or be banished from this Forum... so please spare me the crap about your fake concern for making everyone welcome. You phonies all make Three Dollar bills look legitimate.

Don't forget to make your plans for Hausmann's. June 4-5-6-2026

Dirty Harry

Hausmann's, Only 2 Months away. Did '' YOU '' Make your plans to attend ???

Dirty Harry

Nope, but im going to an RGS shoot at Game Unlimited near Hudson, WI.

Reservation made. I'll be there. Just hope the weather is decent. I've seen some big extremes over the years. Nothing like water flowing under the tents and the parking lot turning into a swamp. As I mentioned before, its got some great courses and is run well. Ernie does a nice job. That said, if you want more eye candy go to the Southern. Better shopping there, but better courses in Pa.

And a fun time is had by all. I don't think I have missed one of Ernie's shoots in a dozen years. The shooting is fun and challenging and there are several courses all in the woods or over a lake tailored to the gauge you are shooting or competing in. The lunch wagon is great. The tent is large and the guns for sale number in the many, many hundreds. There usually is also a display from Parker, Fox, LeFever and LC Smith. Walking through the tent is an experience and stopping by the displays and tables and talking with old friends and new ones could easily take up the major part of a day. Camaraderie with fellow shooters is high on my list and probably one of the reasons I go. Hanging out in the evening with friends, whether you camp in the grass parking area (huge) or outside on the grounds of the hotel you are staying often includes cigars and alcohol and if you forgot there usually is plenty available to share. G-d be willing, I will be there. Look for my name tag and say hello.

Jolly Bill is that You ? Glad to see you put down a like on builders Quote. I am glad to see you made the Winter , still alive,
and on this Site. See you at Hausmann's.

Dirty Harry

Weather permitting and no other surprises, I plan on going. Just have to decide which guns I'm bringing.