NOT JUST FOR VETS AND SUPER VETS! NOT JUST FOR VINTAGE GUNS!
Northbrook Sports Club, Hainesville , IL presents the "National Classic Shotgun Festival", May 18-20th with a new twist...the "NSCA U.S. Veteran's Open".
The National Classic combines casual Sporting Clays and trap events using classic Side by Sides, Over-Unders and Pump guns, with the NSSA Vintage Skeet National Championship...and now the US Vets Open. Additional events include preliminary 5-stand and Sporting courses on Friday and a 100 target Main event that can be shot Saturday or Sunday or both. Most participants plan on shooting the National Classic events repeatedly with different gauges or action styles, and awards will be offered in all events.
The club's lush country setting boasts ten Skeet and Trap layouts, two 5 Stands set for Hunter and Competition skill levels and a Sporting Clays layout spanning hundreds of acres of woods, fields and variable terrain.
The" NSCA US Vets Open" features a 100 target prelim Friday and a 200 target main event Saturday and Sunday, and is limited to 250 shooters. Registered 5-stand events will be held with a prelim on Friday and a main event on Saturday or Sunday. These events will be shot on separate courses from the National Classic double and pump gun events.
When it comes to Sporting Clays targets, Northbrook has built a solid reputation for challenge and quality. Southern Illinois' Master class shooter Gary Fitzjarrell Jr. will be setting the "U.S. Vet's" targets over some virgin ground. Anyone who as had the pleasure of shooting Gary 's targets will not want to miss this shoot!
While the US Vets Open offers NSCA registered Vets and Super Vets an opportunity to compete for up to $20,000* in added money, every NSCA member regardless of age is welcome to match their ability against three challenging competition sporting courses. All NSCA shooters are eligible for Back to Class, Lewis and all options; in fact, we are excited to announce the addition of $2,000 in added money for non-Veteran and non-Super- Veteran NSCA shooters!
In 2006, the National Classic Shotgun Festival drew 285 competitors and more than 2,000 spectators to view the fun and ogle the wares of over 20 World-Class purveyors of fine guns, shooting apparel and sporting collectables. A three day weekend festival in "Game Fair" tradition featuring the finest in classic double guns from noted makers such as Holland & Holland, A&S Famars and Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing, as well as the latest in modern Sporting, Skeet and Trap technology from B&P, Popovich Fine Guns, Browning, and the gun fitting services of Bob James of Montana Long Guns, Paul Hillmer, and Brian Bilinski.
So what is the National Classic Shotgun Festival really? It's anything you want it to be...it's a Game Fair, a Fine Arms Show, a Classic Sporting Gun event, a World Vintage Skeet Championship, and the first Veterans and Super Veterans Sporting Clays tournament in the country. Hope you'll plan to attend May 18-20th, 2007.
*Based on 250 competitors
For additional information and Entry Forms please visit:
http://northbrooksportsclub.org and follow the links
