Whats a wad cutter?


Never mind, got the answer in chat from ya. :D

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Mine started life as a Gew98, manufactured at Obendorf 1898 at the earliest, 1917 at the latest. It was modified to K98 standard for WW2, went to Israel as war reparations, modified to 7.62 by Browning and probably saw action (again) in '67.

Sold off cheaply as obsolete and surplus to requirements, bought by me in '85.

She's had a long life.

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Well, tonight it's that time again. :) Tonight we will see how the gods of chance feel about us this year. :wish:

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Well??????

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Well,......... as you may have guessed by now, we did zip.:( The event was very much in tone with the times. They were lucky if there was 500 attendees. You can see from the large tumbler behind the 4-wheeler grand prize in pic 341.jpg that ticket sales were slow. Normally drum is truly full to the top. I have seen years where they honestly had to stuff them in.

Each year they have an attractive young lady running around selling 50/50 raffle tickets. Most years the winner's half is $1500-2000. This year the pot was $780. That says it all. We came to the conclusion that the odds just weren't high enough against us to win any more than a cap and 'The Deer Hunters Guide' DVD door prize.;)


Here are some pics of the main prizes that brings everyone to this annual event. (325, 326.jpg)

The door prize table and some of the 32 'silent auction' items. (329, 327.jpg)

I like to give you pics of one of us holding a good prize but this year I can only show you pics of some of the limited chance items. LOL (331-334.jpg)


They did do one thing this year that was different and interesting. A live auction for a 10 week old Brittany Spaniel bird dog as auctioned off. They set $100 as opening bid and got $600. (338, 340.jpg)


It was still a lot of fun and a very good meal as banquet dinners go. :D

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww cute puppy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

338-340, 3 puppies?

Looks like you maybe had fun, PF! Might have been smaller than in the past, but stll looked like a pretty good turn out. :thumbs: