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Show I i v . TURKEY SHOOT Another large turnout is expected for Bountiful Lions' Club annual Turkey Shoot Saturday and Sunday at the club's rifle range. Scores of turkeys and more than $2,000 in prizes will be awarded. Proceeds will go to the club's project of aiding the blind, deaf and needy. BOUNTIFUL - Four trap houses will be open this weekend, Nov. 20-21, at the Bountiful Lions Club Rifle Range to accommodate an expected ex-pected record crowd at the Lion's annual turkey shoot. PROCEEDS from the contest, con-test, one of the largest events of its kind in the state, will go to help the blind, deaf and needy and support the Bountiful Bounti-ful Lions Club's many charities char-ities and civic projects, according to Lions Club President Presi-dent Paul R. Allen. More than $2,000 in prizes, including a 19-inch color television tele-vision set, a Remington .30-06 rifle and 12 gauge shotgun, two sleeping bags, a two-burner stove, two double mantel propane lanterns, a hunting knife and a three-by-nine variable vari-able scope will be given away during the two-day turkey shoot and more than 900 turkeys tur-keys will be awarded as prizes to trap shooting contest win ners and splatterboard winners. win-ners. BOB McKENZIE, chairman of this year's turkey shoot, said he expects as many as 7,000 shooters and spectators at the Lions Club Range near the "B" east of the city "if the weather is good" and he said, "even if it snows, rains or hails - we'll hold the two-day contest." con-test." Trapshooters from as far away as Idaho and from Brigham City to Provo attend the contest each year. This year, in addition to trapshoot-ing, trapshoot-ing, the Lions Club will hold its traditional splatterboard contests, con-tests, "where people put their names on pie shapes on a round target and a shotgun is fired at the spinning wheel," McKenzie said. "SPLATTERBOARDS are fun, are strictly luck and are one of the most popular events at the two-day shoot." The Lake View Rifle and Pistol Association, which has its home at the Lions Club Range, will sponsor a host of other contests including black powder rifle and pistol shooting, shoot-ing, .22 rifle and pistol events, high powered rifle contests, centerfire pistol tests and a balloon bal-loon shoot. DAVE Dewey, a member of the rifle and pistol club, described de-scribed the balloon shoot. He said four balloons will be positioned posi-tioned on a board 25 feet from a shooter. "Each contestant will be working against the clock and have five targets to work on, the four balloons and a metal target. "Firing one at a time, contestants con-testants will start by pushing a button on a timer with their non-shooting hand to start the clock, then start shooting with their handgun at the balloons. Once all four balloons are broken the shooter blasts away at the metal target and when it is hit the time automatically stops." DEWEY said a good time is about five seconds. The secret, sec-ret, he said, is to "hit one balloon bal-loon at a time, don't go too fast and concentrate on aiming at your targets in sequence, from left to right." The Lake View club will man the rifle and pistol ranges at the Lions Club Range both days and have a variety of guns on hand for people to try out, including some muzzle loading rifles and pistols for those who have never tried black powder, club members said. McKENZIE said a novel twist to traditional trapshoot-ing trapshoot-ing will be the introduction of orange birds "every so often" and if they are hit, contestants will be rewarded with free soft drinks at the concession stand in the Lions Clubhouse. The Bountiful Lady Lions Club will be selling drinks, hamburgers, hot dogs and chili in the clubhouse to raise funds for charity. |