Scruffy's Big Adventures - Ipswich

Hi, its Daffy here again. Scruffy is still away, he will be back either next Tuesday or Friday, and as he was not here I went with mum to the Ipswich shoot. Mr Wrinkles tagged along but it was left up to me to write the story.

We didn't have to be at the range till 10am on the Saturday and as we weren't sure of exactly where we had to go mum decided to leave extra early to make sure we were there in plenty of time. On the way out of town we stopped at the mail box to post the mail for mums work and as she hopped back into the car the door swung shut jamming her fingers, luckily it missed her trigger finger.

Anyway the trip out was easy as mum did remember where to go, but she said she had forgotten that there was a huge big school on the corner of the road you turned down last. We had plenty of time b4 we shot so as we were walking down to the little girl/boys rooms Uncle 2Bob leant out the range window to say gidday and while we were all talking 2Bob noticed that Uncle Thud had a new ute.

Mum had to go off and shoot air first up. There was only 5 of them so it didn't take too long to get through the whole match, and seeing as mum and one other only had to shoot 40 shots it took even less time for them to be finished. During the match mum had a bit of a break and went to see what was happening next door, only to find a dumb gorilla watching the people shoot. When she went back to the air range she saw the dumb gorilla standing on its head. Just goes to show that Scruffy and the rest of us must be a really big threat to some people, when they have to get body guards that can't even sit up right.

Later on we when no-one was around we wandered down to have a look at Uncle Thud's new vehicle. We let mum come with us but when she turned around to talk to someone we took off to go and visit Uncle Nod and Aunty Carol. There was no-one home so we went in and made ourselves comfortable.

Mum went off to shoot again and had to put up with a couple of the trouble making Stanthorpian's. She really got them talking when after firing her first 5 scoring shots they found out that there was a 50 on the target. Not to be outdone the Stanthorpian who would not wear his club shirt decided that the men could not be out done so he had to shoot a 50 as well. After every one had finished having each other on the match was completed and mum wandered down to find Aunty Carol. Unforntually she caught me eating some chips and Mr W and Aunty Carol having a snooze. They all went up to have a cuppa and left us alone, they may regret that.

Mum had to leave early as she had to go to a birthday party tonight so she wandered off and we stayed hidden so we could stay at the range and camp out with the humans from Warwick. We tried to liven the place up during the night but Uncle 2Bob seemed to get upset so we ended up being locked up in a cupboard. Is that not cruelty to animals?

Anyway the morning soon arrived and mum came to the range early and rescued us. When she finally got us out of the cupboard we took off and hid in the car for the rest of the day. All I can say is watch out Uncle 2Bob we will get you at some time.

A little later we over heard Uncle Stewart (a Stanthorpian) talking to mum and the Judge man about having arranged for Uncle Jim to have his Free Pistol selected for the random trigger test. Yes I hear you ask, we know you don't have a free pistol trigger tested, but it really got Jim going. Well worth the effort I feel.

We met a new family this weekend. Uncle Detergent, sorry Soapy (Rod) his son Bubbles (Brendon) and his wife Francis, who as yet does not shoot, but we are working on that one. The only problem they have is that they are members of the Stanthoripan club and are learning really bad habits from that hopeless member Terrance.

There were many of the normal faces missing this weekend and we found that suprising especially as this shoot was very close to the homes of those missing. It was a shame that you weren't there as you missed a good shoot and mum really does need the competition. Also it was a shame that more didn't stay for the prize giving. Its always seems a bit disappointing for the host club members who have worked extremely hard on orgasing the shoot for you humans to not have many people left at the prize giving at the end of the day. Sometimes it can't be avoided and you have to go, but do have a think about the local members and if you live close then do try and stay.

With that bit of growl I will leave you and you will hear from Scruffy after the next shoot.