We shot the main event with my good friend Kevin Weber and his Dad, Greg. We also shot the other two events (sub-gauge and 5-stand) with them. They are in some of the pictures below, along with my Dad and brother.
The main event was shot on Sunday and we also shot two events on Saturday. We began Saturday with shooting the sub-gauge event. I ended up winning that event as well with a 89/100. Then we shot the 5-stand event on Saturday afternoon and I shot pretty terribly in that, hitting 79/100 and got 4th place overall. I had won the State 5-stand event 5 out of the past 5 times I had entered it, so basically every year since 2004 except for 2008 when they scheduled the state 5-stand shoot during the U.S. Open. Since I shot the U.S. Open I ended up missing it that year.
My Dad and my brother didn't end up doing as well as they could. My Dad shot decent in the sub-gauge event and ended up getting second place. However, for the main event there is a 3-man team trophy and my Dad, Chad, and I formed a team to win that by only 3 targets! So it was a close battle for that trophy.
Overall, it was a fun weekend. The targets we kind of weird and there were tons of true pairs so that was kind of different. We also ended up getting hit by shot from another station one time but I had my shooting glasses on so I wasn't hurt. My Dad ended up getting hit in the shoulder but it didn't come in too fast to hurt him either. The attendance was way down this year, probably because when it was in Bismarck in 2006 the shoot was a huge fiasco so a lot of people who would have normally attended the State shoot didn't end up going to it because it was in Bismarck.
I flew back to Chicago on Tuesday and I'm going to be staying here for a while and getting in tons of poker. I've played a decent amount today and am up about 3 buy-ins but I'm not running that well at all so hopefully that changes for the better.
In other news, I'm totally pumped that the Blackhawks were able to sign Marty Turco. This is a huge signing for them, in my opinion, because Turco is actually way better than Niemi anyways so I am betting that Turco is one of the best goalies in the league this upcoming season due to such a solid team and defense in front of him. Hopefully the Hawks are able to defend the Cup!!!
Here are some pictures from the state shoot:
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