Airport gun club ! Did you ever shoot there ?

Many times, why?

 

Marathons
I flipped a butt on the ground the first time there and Paul let me know about it in under 10 seconds. One hell of a guy. In 78 he was at the Grand in VANDALIA and said he wasn't going to be open the Sunday after the shoot was over.
So many people were asking that he left early to open. He didn't have to do that.

On the way back from shooting every target they threw for the week Shamus and I stopped and shot a hundred just to say we did it.

First class place that always looked terrific when Paul owned it. At least the times we shot there.

 

I used to drive by and watch people shoot ! Always thought it looked like a good time .five years ago i moved to Georgia, three years ago i shot my first trap at TomLowe near Atlanta. Now Iam hooked !Not good yet but working at it .

 

It sure didn't stay that way.

 

I was there that day Terry Z broke all 500 at one of Paul's marathons. We were half way through our last trap when Terry walked out to shoot his. Our squad stopped shooting and watched him shoot this 500.

 

Anybody ever shoot one of Paul's 1000 target marathons. I know people who did. I never had a chance to shoot one.

 

I did, I started shooting at Airport Gun Club in 1968, Paul could run a shoot, He and his wife Elsie were the best

GB.......................................DLS

 

Loved shooting there. Always got the best target setting and it was legal. Shot Paul’s Post Grand shoot several times. Good targets, good food, immaculate grounds always.

 

Was Paul still there when you saw these changes?

 

Frank was running it.

 

Back in the day when Paul owned and ran his Airport Gun Club the club was his pride and joy and the grounds were always very well kept and he put in the extra effort to throw the best targets possible.

Dave Berlet

 

BINGO, all fives!

What a hoot he was.

 

After Pauls heart attack in Florida, he said if he knew that pacemaker and hospital bill was that much, he wouldn't of had it done, He told me that, They had someone pull his Airstream back to the gun club from Florida, Paul passed away several years later, I will guess it sold about 10 years later to Gene Lanooza, not spelled correctly. It will NEVER Bring his asking price due to the Underground pipelines and the Airport Restrictions, it can be a Cornfield, but no commercial buildings or shopping center.

GB......................................DLS

 

If it was owned by Gene ??? then who was Frank? You shot there during his tenure and so did I and many others.

 

I think Gene was Frank's father?

 

YEP

GB................................DLS