2006 Grand National

[tjwatty]

Went to Sparta yesterday (Thurs) to see just what all the hubub was about and I was impressed. I had never been to Ohio and this was my first chance at the Grand and it was really cool. Without seeing for yourselves it's hard to describe 3 1/2 mile long shooting line, 100 vendor TENTS, 3 giant vendor buildings, a shell house with all brands stacked 6ft high and all 7 1/2's. They have about 5 or 6 trolley wagons pulled by little JD tractors with different colored ribbons to designate where they are going. East, West, camp ground etc.
I think the camp ground was the most impressive though, 1,000 camp sites, that is hard to imagine in it's self, now imagine if you have a large 5th wheel trailer and your the smallest in the lot. I have never seen so many large,bus style, motor homes in one spot. I even saw one that was a Freightliner semi pulling a 55ft trailer/camper.
Ok, now lets talk guns. More HIGH DOLLAR single barreled QUALITY guns in one spot than you can believe. Perrazzi, Kriegoff,Ludig,Berretta, Browning, Guerrini and one I hadn't heard of Silver Seitz (s/p) each had their own vendor type store and right next door was their company gun smith. Pretty darn coo;.
I saw fabs new gun set at the Perrazzi store, a 4 gun set for only $435,000 bucks. I'm sorry to say I didn't think they were that good, then again I don't think anythig should be that expensive just to break a few clay targets.
I could talk for ever about this place and can't wait till next year when the skeet ranges (20) and the 2 100 bird sporting clays courses will be up and running. (did I mention the 3 fishing lakes)
If you can at all possibly come try, it's really neat.