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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
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Rally For a Cure Tournament raises awareness for breast cancer
$3,000 raised for Blue Mountain Healthcare Foundation
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
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Golfers release balloons Oct. 3 during the Rally For a Cure Golf Tournament at the John Day Golf Course.
John Day Golf Course hosted its
annual Rally For a Cure Golf Tour-
nament, raising nearly $3,000 for the
Blue Mountain Healthcare Foundation
to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness
Month.
Tournament organizer Kathleen
Lee said the 36 golfers and nine teams
from as far as Prineville, Pendleton
and Burns came to support support the
cause as many of them do every year.
“All in all, it was a fun-filled day,”
Lee said.
Outside of the clubhouse, to give
the event a “festive flair,” organizers
set up a dart board game with prizes
and a popcorn machine inside, Lee
said.
Before teeing off, she said, there
was a champagne toast to remember
those who have lost their battle to can-
cer and the survivors as well.
Lee said golfers at the fourth hole,
which sits on a pond, enjoyed compli-
mentary hot dogs, karaoke and a 50/50
raffle.
At the ribbon, she said the partici-
pants held a balloon ceremony, releas-
ing them to the sky with a brief prayer
to remember cancer victims, those
fighting the battle and the survivors.
Two teams from Harney County
tied for the top spot.
“They showed up with winning on
their mind and showed us how it’s
done,” Lee said. “Plus, had a great
time.”
The two teams were Mandi Dowell,
Terri Smith, Stacey Radinovich and
Vickie Clemens, and Vicki Johnson,
Cat Nonnenmacher, Debbie Raney and
Debbie Bentz.
Cat Nonnenmacher won the closest
to pin chip-up contest.
Lee said the tournament is held
annually on the first Saturday of
October.
SHOOTING THE BREEZE
The .25-06 Remington ... again
I
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Bailey McCracken took the best average time in barrel racing
over the weekend at the Oregon High School Rodeo in Condon.
McCracken finishes out
fall rodeo season on top
Blue Mountain Eagle
A Grant Union High
School student continued to
dominate in barrel racing this
weekend at the Oregon High
School Rodeo in Condon.
Bailey McCracken, a
freshman, took first in aver-
age time in barrel racing. She
finished with an 18.30 in her
first go-round and a 17.99 in
her second.
McCracken is ranked
third in the girls rookie cate-
gory in her first season with
an average score of 27.
Her
brother,
Sam
McCracken, competes in fall
cutting Oct. 17-18 in North
Powder at the Williams
Ranch.
Sam McCracken brought
home the state title in cow
cutting at the Oregon State
High School Rodeo State
Finals in Prineville in June
and took third in reined cow
at the National High School
Finals Rodeo in Guthrie,
Oklahoma.
The fall cutting competi-
tion wraps up the fall rodeo
season. In total, three Grant
Union High School students
participated in a season mod-
ified and cut short by the
pandemic.
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The .25-06 with lightweight bullets is great for varmint hunting at close range.
omy priced factory load for
use with varmints. I’ve not
gotten to try the 75-grain
Hornady V-Max nor the
90-grain Sierra Blitzking, but
I have no doubt they deliver.
The detractors of such
business cry that the rela-
tively low ballistic coeffi-
cient of such bullets arbi-
trarily precludes them from
employ as long-range any-
thing bullets. And I sup-
pose I will concede that if
you shoot out past 500 yards
more often than not, they
have a point. Lightweight
bullets lose velocity fast at
longer ranges, but for the
lion’s share of the aforemen-
tioned varmints that I’ve
taken, most without a doubt
were inside of 200 yards.
I’m not trying to pontifi-
cate what distances you do
or should choose to consider
ethical for flinging lead, just
that not everyone needs a
rifle and setup capable of
shooting 1,000-plus yards to
be a successful hunter. Fre-
quently coyotes are spied on
the move so there isn’t time
for rangefinders, deploying
bipod legs, dialing eleva-
tion and windage nor kissing
the bullet for good luck. For
shooting at a time-sensitive
target at a vaguely guessed
distance you want something
shooting fast and flat. That,
folks, is the .25-06 with
lightweight bullets.
Everyone’s tastes differ
,but in the end, anything that
gets us out to go shooting is
a worthy endeavor. What’s
your favorite varmint rifle?
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Dale Valade is a local
country gent with a love for
the outdoors, handloading,
hunting and shooting.
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know what you’re think-
ing. Didn’t he already
write about this one?
Truth be told: Yes I did, but
more of an overview lean-
ing toward the merits of this
fast .25 as a deer and antelope
rifle. The .25-06 Remington,
like so many other .24- and
.25-caliber rifles, is also an
excellent varmint round in its
own right.
Now when I say varmint,
that could
mean many
things to
many peo-
ple. If set-
ting up on
a bipod or
bench rest
Dale Valade
and blast-
ing several
hundred ground squirrels in
a sitting comes to your mind,
this is not the round for that.
If you were to attempt such a
quinella, you would be going
to the gunsmith in short
order for a new barrel. No,
what I mean here with “var-
mints” is the garden vari-
ety coyotes, badgers, skunks,
rockchucks and the like. A
rifle for such critters that, as
my late friend Frank Cecil
put it, “shoots for a mile”
is what the .25-06 loaded
with lightweight bullets does
perfectly.
Of course it comes with a
cost: greater recoil and muz-
zle blast than a .223 or .22-
250 but yet greater power
and reach in the trade off.
And who doesn’t love ver-
satility? A rifle that can be
loaded with 75-90-grain bul-
lets for coyote hunting that
can be rezeroed with 115-
120-grain bullets for deer
hunting in the fall.
Among my favorite bul-
lets in the lighter range are
the 85-grain Nosler Ballistic
Tip and the 87-grain Sierra
Varminter. Winchester’s
90-grain Positive Expanding
Point is my favorite econ-
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