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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
SHOOTING
THE BREEZE
Lady Pros lose a nail-biter
Identifying marks
Grant Union ends
season with 1-point loss
to Stanfield
I
f there is someone out there who
has absolutely never scoped them-
self, I’m dying to hear from you.
Aside from the obvious bloody cut,
usually on your eyebrow or occasion-
ally the bridge of your nose, the real
wound is mental. Then if that isn’t
bad enough, your friends and acquain-
tances who recognize the scar for what
it is will humiliate you at least until
it’s healed. Longer if
there are photos or a
scar. How does this
happen?
Humiliatingly
enough, I too have
had this happen to
Dale Valade
me. Three separate
occasions I have been
scoped, although to be fair, only once
was it with my own rifle. The other
two times were when shooting some-
one else’s gun. Years ago, a family
friend wanted to borrow my father’s
then-newest rifle, a custom-stocked
8mm Remington Magnum. A cartridge
which was truly worthy of the Mag-
num moniker, my father’s 220-grain
handloads took it a step further leav-
ing a jet stream across the sky wher-
ever they flew and the flames from the
muzzle blast always exceeding 30 feet
in length. Our friend, unaccustomed to
shooting a rifle that was setup for my
father, leaned in close attempting to get
the perfect sight picture in the Leupold
scope. At the shot, not only was he
scoped and bleeding, but the scope had
actually broken the man’s glasses.
Proper eye relief is critical to good
shooting as well as avoiding scars.
Shooters are almost always taken by
surprise either by shooting a gun with
either a bad stock fit or the wrong eye
relief. And once in a while, a gun just
kicks way too much, and that’s another
way to end up with bleeding eyebrows.
Another one I’ve seen, especially with
cheechakos or ladies — yes, ladies —
is not putting the butt of the rifle on
their shoulder. I’ve seen it improperly
placed under the shoulder, in the arm-
pit squeezed between the arm and the
rib cage, rested on the bicep or my per-
sonal favorite faux pas, setting the toe
of the butt pad on top of the shoulder.
Any of these aforementioned could be
considered the express lane of getting
a scope cut as any rifle that kicks much
more than a .22 will not be hesitant in
stamping a scar in your
favorite face.
The shame, however, is arguably
the true scar that one retains with scope
cuts. From double a social distance
away or sometimes farther, somebody
will spot your cut, know what it is and
pick you apart. The only hope you
have is that the wound heals faster than
your ego; luckily mine did in all three
cases. I do know a handful of men —
yes, all men — for whom the cut was
so bad that they bear a permanent scar
to this day. Suffice it to say, it wasn’t
only their egos that were bruised in the
process.
They say ladies love scars, but
I’m practically sure that if they knew
where your scope cut came from they
may see you less as John Wayne and
more as Don Knotts. Bottom line, keep
that properly setup gun on your shoul-
der and you’ll likely get through life
without any identifying marks!
Have you ever been scope cut?
Write to us at shootingthebreezebme@
gmail.com!
Dale Valade is a local country gent
with a love for the outdoors, handload-
ing, hunting and shooting.
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
After winning their first game
of the season June 10, defeating
Weston-McEwen 38-30, the Lady
Pros dropped their last game of
the season on June 15 to Stanfield,
losing 28-27, finishing their short-
ened season 1-5 overall.
Junior Paige Gerry said it was
a “weird season” with COVID-
19. She said some players went
straight from softball right into
basketball.
“Some of us only had one
practice,” she said. “Some of us
had zero practice before our first
game.”
Gerry said, from her first game
to the last, it was evident how
much the team improved.
She said the win over
Weston-McEwen was a big con-
fidence booster — as was their
game against Joseph, where the
team lost 56-51.
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Grant Union’s Paige Weaver, a junior, attempts a free throw during the
game against Stanfield.
Grant Union’s Riley Robertson
fends off two Stanfield defenders
during the June 15 game.
through,” she said. “We were just
playing our hearts out.”
Weaver said most of the team
plays all three sports together
(softball, basketball and volley-
ball). She said they play with the
mentality that you leave every-
thing out on the field or the court
— as if it were their last game.
Gerry said it was “really awe-
some” for Jason Miller to step into
the role of head coach this year.
She said the team did not know
who their coach was going to be
until their first basketball meeting.
Miller is Grant Union’s head
football coach.
“I really liked him as a coach,”
Weaver said. “I’m excited for next
year.”
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Junior Paige Weaver concurred.
“All of us played really well,”
she said. “It’s just sometimes you
have other girls on the other team
that played just as well.”
Gerry said the team was tired
from their game with Joseph,
considering how high the scor-
ing was.
“I think most of us pushed
Prospectors did not go down without a fight in final game
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Prospectors
did not go down without a fight
in their final game of the season
on June 15, losing to Stanfield
58-51.
Grant Union boys basket-
ball head coach RC Huerta said
after a challenging game against
Joseph, where the team lost by
30 points, they could have eas-
ily “thrown in the towel” in their
final game of the season.
Instead, Huerta said, the Pros-
pectors came out of the gate
swinging.
Everyone got into the action.
Senior Jordan Hall drained
five 3-pointers and scored a total
of 21 points. Upperclassman
Devon Stokes hit three shots
from downtown, scoring a total
of 9 points, while Eli Wright
came in with 5 points and 12
rebounds.
“They gave 100%, and they
really battled,” Huerta said. “I
thought that was impressive for
such a short season.”
Stokes said the team came in
with a “win the quarter” versus a
“win the game” mindset. He said
the focus was on fundamentals.
“We had our ups and downs,”
he said. “They got up. We got up,
It was a well-fought game.”
CJ Glimpse said the team
shot better than they had all sea-
son. Especially Hall, he said.
“The last six, seven years, I
wouldn’t have spent it with any-
one else,” Glimpse said.
Huerta said, with five gradu-
ating seniors, next year’s team is
going to be a younger team.
“We have a lot of young
players and an excellent young
core,” he said. “And they’re just
a hard-working, tenacious group
of young men, and they’re very
coachable.”
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The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
Grant Union senior Quaid Brandon comes down with rebound in the Prospectors’ June 15 game against Stan-
field.
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
Jordan Hall goes up for a layup June 15 in the Prospectors’
game against Stanfield.
Grant Union’s Jordan Hall goes up for a shot
against Stanfield.
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