Ahhh, the trite old phrase: "what a difference a year makes". But in the case of the Carolina Region's 2003 Homecoming shoot, it's trite and true with a vengance! Certainly the indescribable improvement in the weather helped participation and attitudes alike, but the greater maturity and experience of the entire region served to pull all the elements together into a doggone great skirmish.

In the participation department, we went from last year's five Musket teams (several of them shooting short) to seven full Musket teams this year. The seven Revolver teams from 2003 sure beat last year's no Revolver match at all, and this year's Individual matches were a whopping four times the size of last year's.

And how did the Buncombe Rifles do through all of this? Well...

A Tale of Two Targets:
"...It was the best of ties... it was the worst of ties..."

Shane and Mike(rometer) Parris each put a 10 and four 9's in their respective 50 yard Musket targets in what, at first glance, appeared to be two mirror image groups! Well, being as they were tied for 2nd place, there was nothing to do but measure the groups. Shane won the tie by, get this: 0.011". Yes, that's eleven-thousandths of an inch!

Congratulations to all of our Individual Medal Winners!

With a total of nine Carbine shooters, we handily fielded an 'A' and 'B' team, and it was to be first place for both. The 'A' Team produced some fairly eye-popping results: out of the last 4 years of stats, these are our best Pigeon Board and Hanging Pigeon events shot by a full Bunny A team!