TSCA Winter Series Report: Three BanditsTim Jewell earns top score of 95. Mike Redmond and Doc Plaxco slip one bird off the lead.2/19/05 The 2005 TSCA Winter Series, which is generously sponsored by Richard Patty of Shotgun Sports Supply, completed the fourth event of the series. Strong participation, good targets and a well-equipped gun club provided shooters an excellent day of clay target competition. While the event was great, the highlight of everyone’s day was seeing Tripp Wheeler smiling wide and in good spirits. The owner of Three Bandits Gun Club, Tripp is a true inspiration as he courageously fights a pitched battle with cancer. Tripp is man possessing boundless energy, hardly dampened by many months of chemotherapy. He returned home, from Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Cancer Institute, just to manage the shoot and assure everyone’s good time. Thank you, Tripp for being the personification of the indomitable human spirit. We all are praying for your swift and complete recovery. 
Founded only four years ago, Three Bandits remains a fairly new club. Located on Jack Pickle Lane near Lewisburg, TN, it is easily accessible from I-65. Only minutes away, Henry Horton State Park provides excellent lodging, camp grounds, golf, fishing and great buffet dining. Three Bandits offers a fully automated 14-station sporting clays course, skeet, 5-stand, crazy quail, fitasc and trap. As if that is not enough, Three Bandits also offers fully guided bird hunts for quail, pheasant, and chucker. If you like to shoot a shotgun, you will surely enjoy Three Bandits. The clubhouse is new and very comfortable. In fact, Tripp’s lovely wife was hard at work putting the final coat of paint on the clubhouse just a few days before the shoot. Meals are an important part of any shoot and Three Bandits did not disappoint. The hungriest shooters were quickly satiated by the delicious food. The targets were generally close and very hittable, which makes a miss all the more frustrating. The trap setter did require shooters to be consistent, if not technical, by including several 10-bird stations. 
The winner of the shoot was Kentucky’s Tim Jewell with an excellent score of 95. Close behind were Mike Redmond and Doc Plaxco with scores of 94 while junior shooter, Greg Jackson, claimed M3 with a 93. Congratulations to all the winners. The next shoot in the TSCA Winter Series will be on February 26th at Heritage Meadows Preserve near Tellico Plains, Tennessee. It is located near the North Carolina border, about an hour from Knoxville or Chattanooga. See you there! |
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