Charlie Hosking memorial Shoot

Saturday 8th of July  is going to be the Inurgreial  .303 Shoot up at the Quorn Range ! Thing is I've just finnished 17nights out of 18 & I'm all shot out ! I really should make a apperiance but I'm buggered ! 765 rnds of .223 & 25-303 ,600ltrs of Desiel ,3 tyres & 743 Roos latter I hope to be home for a while ! I'll just have to see how I feel  Saturday morning I think !

     Dave

Man Dave, you must have a callus on your shootin shoulder.
         &nbs p;         &nbs p; The"white Rhino"

Eric if you ever make it over here ! I'll gladly take you out for a night .Belive it or not ,I compare my Job with working in a mobile slaughter house . I've been shooting proffestionaly for near 40yrs now & to me it's just another day (or night in the Office)

   I've had a callus on my shoulder for more years than I would care to remember & the scars of  a number of encounters with nasties that went Horribly wrong through miss fires & stupidity on my part!

  Every shot I miss is costing me money ! It's very rarely I take a shot over 200mtrs  (180 yrds ) There are a lot of young blokes in theTrade who shoot  way out to around 500mtrs ! I'm Buggered if I can even see that  far these days

   On the upside I'm my own Boss& am not limited to the hours I work or more importantly ,I have a Free hand to shoot where I want on any of the Properties I shoot on !

     Dave

Someday I plan on making it to Australia.  It may have to wait until I get my dream vacation out of the way though.  I want to take about 1-2 months to follow the path that my grandfather took in WWII. From storming the beaches at Fedala N. Africa, to the final shots in Germany.  The wife wasn't real excited about it, but once I told her we could stop and shop along the way, well, let's just say she's MUCH more excited about it now!

Eric

They landed all across the northern coast.  It just depends on which division went where.  I know the 3rd ID landed at Fedala, not only from what my grandfather told me, but I also have the first pulication (1947 I think) of "The Third Infantry Division in WWII" printed by the military press. 

Here's a site that has a quickie note on the 3rd ID in WWII.

http://www.lonesentry.com/usdivisions/history/infantry/divis ion/3rd_infantry_division.html

Look under "Combat Chronicle" it gives a quick synopsis.

Another more in-depth read: http://www.lonesentry.com/gi_stories_booklets/3rdinfantry/in dex.html

Eric

Edited by Eric - July 07 2006 at 7:02am

All I know so far is that he was in the 15 infantry regmt. of the 3rd infantry div. I'm still reading up on what all he did. I know he was wounded 3 times and never received a PH. That in itself kinda pi$$es me off with John Kerry and his lame-a$$ excuse for PH's! He received a few medals, but he unfortunately died about 4 months after he started telling me about his service. 

I am making a trip up to washington this month to visit my grandmother and get some of my grandfathers military memorabilia. He died 3 years ago and left anything military related to me. I was the only one EVER interested in his service.  I would call him and every other vet in my family and say thanks on veterans day, as well as always telling him hhow much he meant to me on a regular occasion. I couldn't bring myself to get the stuff he left me because I didn't want to take anything from my grandma. I talked to her on my birthday in May and she wanted to know when I was going to finally take all the "crap" that grandpa left me!! It was at that point I realized that just maybe it meant more to me than to grandma!!  So, I'll get it this month.

Eric

Hey Eric - my Grandma was the same way.When my Grandfather died, she TOSSED all his military related items, including his papers.
He served between the wars - but nonetheless served.(He woulda bin there if the crap hit the fan.)
Had a bitch of a time getting his service #'s etc out of DND records.Said they'd bin destroyed.(That cant be true - cause it's against federal law to destroy Canadian federal historic documents.) Even the Legion was havin a hard time, on my behalf.(& no-one @ his regiment had records that far back - Simcoe-Greys)
The break came when my father noticed that our correspondance was with the dept @ Tunney's Pasture, in Ottawa.Well, Grandpa was Chief @ station there! (Stationary engineer of plant). He was there for 8 or more years till he was little over 70.(Those jobs are only filled by ex-service people).He missed "service" in WWII cause he was sailing.(Good thing, too.Cause I might not be here now, talkin @ ya!!)
All I have now, is a picture (that Gramma tore-& I "fixed", & copied) of him with his platoon @ Sarawak Camp, after they won some kind of cup/award. What a shame.(But he looks happy in the picture!)
Hoadie

hoadie wrote: WOW!! Callouses on yer shoulder, trigger finger, cheek & WHERE else? Thats a hell of alot of shootin! (I promise NOT to show me mum that part bout the # of 'roos - she'd be comin to pay you a visit fer SURE!War paint & all!!! ) Was this the Red 'roos you was talkin to me about, earlier? (the one's you had to clean up on your ticket?) Hoadie

 Yeah Mate sure was ! Hey tell Mum to take a Number ! I'm on that many Hate lists I get someone else to start my car of a morning & any parcels that turn up for me I send straight to the Bomb squad ! I fire up to 15000 shots a year through work alone  which amounts to a average of roughly 13000 roos per year  (when my dear friends in the Dept of National Parks & wild life issue me with enough Tags ) The last couple of years have been hard as they only issue me with 700 tags at a time! Due to a 30% reduction  in quotas  due to the drought ! They figure it's better to let Roos die of thirst & starvation rather than let their Numbers be culled !  I know people will look at these numbers & think that I'm into full scale massicare  but in reality  I shoot over several thousand square Kms  on about 20 Properties & stations  (ranches ) & work long hours  to reach my quotas !  ( I work on 1.2 tonne per night )

     Dave