Quote Originally Posted by Craig-P View Post
One of the most enjoyable bashes I’ve attended.
A truly great day out spent laughing with friends, some of whom I’ve not seen in four years - and making new acquaintances (great to meet you, Paul - I’ll be in touch soon).
The bucket certainly took some punishment today, great shooting by all - well done.
As always, it passes too soon and now we have the longest wait until next spring.
But just remember:
Chalk targets are tremendous.
Camp site tea is tremendous.
A twisted sense of humour is tremendous.
Guns of all kinds, bog standard, modded, re-engineered, or just plain interesting are all tremendous.
And turning up just in time to hear breaking news on the radio that we get to keep our, ‘devil dog’, just put the icing on the cake. Im made up.
Didn’t touch my brakes all the way home, cleaned the guns off and just watching King Kong with my lad and glass of red.
A memorable day indeed.
Thanks as always to Neil and Tina for your sterling efforts. Hugely appreciated.

If you make a New Year’s resolution in 2024 and haven’t visited the bash yet - let that be on your list. I guarantee you’ll love it and you’ll make some great mates.

Very best to all my bash mates, Craig
I was going to post something along these lines in a separate thread but you've summed it up perfectly, Craig.

This was my first Bash today after a few years of 'threatening' to come along. Sadly only for the day but I'll be back next year and plan better for the full weekend. It was bloody brilliant.

I'll be honest, I was a bit apprehensive as I don't do 'crowds' well (even small ones) so wondered if, after ten years of the Bash, there might be a bit of a clique. I needn't have worried- it's one of the friendliest, most welcoming events I've been to, anywhere.

It was so good to put some faces to bbs names after all these years. Great to try some different rifles and lovely to hear some positive comments about mine. I think I might be a new addict to bell target, too. A low powered, high quality rifle with diopter sights is now on 'ze list'...

Thanks to TonyL for the last minute advice, thanks to all I met for the friendly welcome (and whose rifles I tried) and to Neil for putting it on.

As I said earlier, just bloody brilliant.