Thanks to Mike Smith who filled in as photographer for the Tecumseh Kids shoot. Photos are now posted on the Photos/Social Events page.
While cleaning out an old box of IPPS (IPSC Committee) records, I came across this article from Practical Shooting International newsletter, the precursor to Front Sight magazine. [Note: this is an 11MB color PDF file, so it will take a while to download; I had to scan it in color to keep the gray-scale photos from disintegrating in a black-and-white scan.]
It's an article about one of the Golden Eagle matches held at Red Brush way before my time (late 70's to mid-80's, maybe?). Unfortunately, there's no indication of the year in the article.
For those who don't know, the Golden Eagle was a national level IPSC match held at Red Brush that attracted top-ranked shooters (a photo of a very young Jerry Barnhart shooting the match is in the article). Also check out the mocked up aircraft fuselage, complete with interior lighting and a ventilation system.
Thought you guys might to take a look at the article while the range is covered in snow.
Additional Info from Mike Smith (who was there):
Thank you for posting the article on the website. As I recall, the year was 1987. The Golden Eagle was held annually at Red Brush on Labor Day weekend.
We had a conflict with a big West Coast match and never drew the TOP shooters in the country. We always enjoyed a few Master class shooters (there was no GM back then) such as Barnhart, Rick Castelow, Bill Rogers (Roger's Holsters...Sold out to Safariland), Christy Rogers, Rosey Roselle, Tommy Campbell (S&W sponsored shooter), Bill Wilson, Ken Tapp, etc.......
These guys were big time shooters!
On a side note, we never could get Leatham, Enos and a few others...
They felt the $1000 per class 1st prize should be weighted for the pro shooters and less toward the amateurs. They simply "boycotted."
We paid every class 1k to win and we gave LOTS of guns away...Sometimes a deep as 7th or 8th would get a Springfield .45! We also gave away M1As for 2nd or 3rd in each class. The Eagle was a big match. The only match that gave away more guns was Second Chance bowling pin shoot.
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