One St. Patrick’s day celebration in Leelanau County was sobering and a blast.
Sobering partially because no green beer or Jameson Irish whiskey was allowed at the seventh St. Pat’s Shoot-Out, which marks the opening of shotgunning at the Cedar Rod and Gun Club. But the event was also sobering in that the 65 or so participants relearned that oiling a double-barrel in the fall does not prevent shooting skills from rusting by spring, “It’s been quite a while,” acknowledged club member Gordie Shull from Traverse City on Saturday, March 16, after completing rounds of skeet and five-stand, in which eight throwers fling round, clay targets at 42 mph. “I shot OK, not as good as I like. For the first time shooting all year, it was all right.”
For some participants such as Dorie Yoder of Solon Township, it was learning for the first time.
