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The Winners Box

Congratulations to the following Shooters

Tal Seger: Infinity & Beretta 682 with DeVault custom stock by Devault 

Iowa non-resident handicap 3^rd place

98x 100

Iowa Non-Resident State Singles Championship 200 x 200 Shoot-off

499 x 500

George Sills: Mach-One In State Iowa Class Singles Champion 198 x 200

Al Stichter: Kreighoff Trap Special with DeVault Custom stock Class Doubles Championship non-resident Finished 3^rd.

100 x 100 Shoot-off 99 x 100

Fred Berson: Mach-One League at Oak Tree in California Class AA champion 49 x 50 & 50 x 50 also took HOA in the league.

Bruce Bennet: Beretta 682 custom DeVault Stock - Winchester AA Handicap Non-Resident Runner-up

93 x 100

Need to hear from more shooters so we can post your results.

Events & Highlights

Results from the Minnesota State Shoot. Who bought the Infinity Shotgun? How much did they raise for the youth program.

I e-mailed Mark Zarhar (MTA) President about the Infinity auction and he let me know that Craig Hart and Pete Martin purchased the Infinity for $ 7,500.00. All the proceeds went to support the Minnesota youth program. I would like to say thank you to Craig and Pete from all of us at DeVault Industries LLC for their support. I hope that they shoot the gun well.

The Auction for the 2008 Special Addition Gun is over and the gun sold for over $14,000.00 and went to a person in New York. At the buyers discretion we will not list their name or the exact amount paid for the gun. Thank you to all that looked at the gun and turned in your bids.
We will begin production for another model for 2009 and it will be in the Infinity Ultra configuration. A new twist for next year the gun will come with both triggers and the buyer can come here to be custom fitted and pick their own wood.

Remember to visit our web site about the Infinity raffle in Kentucky for next year. The program for next year we will really be supporting the SCTP teams and a total of 12 junior and sub-junior shooters will be eligible to win

$ 1,000.00 cash each at this shoot. Help the youth program and purchase a ticket

Up Coming Events that we will be attending

The Cardinal Classic will be the next shoot that I will be attending this year. It is the week following the Grand in Sparta and it looks like it will be a great shoot. Stop by and say hello if you are attending.

Dennis

You can contact me by phone

330-456-6070

Fax

330-456-5742

Cell # 330-936-5102

E-mail

dennisdevault@sbcglobal.net

on the web

http://www.devaultind.com/

Starting in September I will be teaming up with Dean DeBow for shooting clinics and stock fitting seminars.

Dean DeBow Profile:

Co- Rookie of the year 1985

Made 27 yd. Line in 9 months

Quickest ever to break first grand slam (3) yrs. Has 3 grand slams currently

Grand slam # 62 in the record book

Highest High all-around average ever recorded in Kentucky 97.57

Three highest state doubles average 98.35 – 98.26 – 98.05 concurrent years

Two highest ever state handicap averages 95.30 – 95.20 concurrent years

2005 inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame

Lifetime averages as of 2006

Singles 50,150 targets 98.11

Handicap 54,275 targets 93.22

Doubles 35,650 targets 96.51

Lifetime all around average 95.95

15^th 500 squad in ATA history

The world according to Me, Dennis DeVault

Well, another month has passed and I had the opportunity to call my old friend Red Hill in Florida. I am happy to report that Red is out of the hospital and he is feeling fine. It was good to hear his voice again and when time permits I would like to have Red come here or I am going to take a trip to Florida an spend a few days with Red. I regard Red as the smartest shooting coach that I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. This will be a great opportunity for me to pick his brain in regards to shooting. The more information that I can receive from Red the more it helps me to understand the game and be a better stock fitter. The more knowledge that I can obtain the better I can become in helping other people shoot. Today I see a lot of shooters that will end up with shortened shooting careers because of poor technique and awful gun fit. There are always those gifted shooters that do well despite proper fit but they are few and far between. Red and I had about an hour conversation on cross firing and it was quite interesting about his views on the subject. This has been a very popular subject on TS.com lately and Red agrees with some of the information that was written but contends that most of the info was misguided. As I speak with Red at greater length I will talk about the subject in a future letter.

 I have received a lot of e-mail concerning 1-1/8oz. Verses 1oz loads. It has been argued that the 1-1/8 oz load breaks more targets and is a better choice. Let’s look at this. In 1959 I read a gunsmithing article written about the bore of a 12 ga. shotgun. At the old spec. the internal size of a 12 ga shotgun measured .729diameter. the most optimum load according to the article was 1 oz. The article stated that the 1oz in that bore was the most efficient for the amount of pellets available. All the shot was not jammed in the forcing cone and it cut down on pellet deformation with 1oz. Less deformation decreases flyers in the pattern. I had the opportunity to pattern 1oz shells and found in my testing that the faster a 1oz load was pushed the tighter it patterned, this was the exact opposite in the 1-1/8oz shell. In 1995 I had the opportunity to view and experiment with high-speed photography and was fortunate enough to see the shot string in a 3-dimensional view. All of us are normally able to see a pattern in a flat piece of paper that is a 2-dimensional view. The 1oz shell has a greatly reduced length of shot string. This allows more pellets to arrive at the point of impact than in a shell with a longer shot string. The pattern may not look as dense on a pattern sheet but this is very misleading information. The other item that I hear is “I want the longer shot string so when I shoot in front of a target the shot string will break the target. That is a good one, considering that 99% of all targets missed are low and behind. Winchester had published data years ago that took a shotgun and electronically tested the shot string theory. According to the data a target moving at 45 MPH and a shell with a 12ft. long shot string traveling at 1200 FPS. From the time the first pellets arrive at the impact point until the last pellet in the string gets to the target the object will have moved 18 inches in flight. It only takes 3 one hundreds of a second for a target to pass through a 30” circle. If the shot is in a string the 30” area is not available. This is why viewing a pattern on a flat 2-D paper does not give the entire picture. If I were given a choice between a short shot string with 40 or more pellets arriving at the point of impact or a long shot string with 10 to 15 pellets arriving at the same time my choice will be for the more pellets at the time of impact. In a 1-1/8 oz load of 7-1/2 size shot, there are 394 pellets; in a 1 oz load there are 350 pellets. Not a great difference and no matter how much shot you have if the target is not pointed correctly it is still a missed target and the zero on the score pad still remains the same size.

Dean DeBow and myself will do the shooting clinics. The cost for a two-day clinic is $ 350.00. We will only take up to 10 participants but need a minimum of 5 participants. The class will include pattern work, video work when

shooting, and some stock adjustments within the adjustability of the gun and understanding gun fit and its importance. Anyone wanting to host a clinic please contact Dean at 270-348-2223 or contact me at 330-456-6070 or my cell @ 330-936-5102.

Here at DeVault Industries we are always working to help our customers and folks that are not yet customers but may become customers in the future. We are working on a proto-type over-under design. I hope to test fire this model by the end of the year. If it works as planed it will offer an In-line Strikers like the Infinity. The receiver will be the smallest size in the industry. If possible it will look like a sub-gauge frame shotgun. The adjustable and interchangeable rib will be a standard feature. The stock will not have a bolthole and will hook-up in the back the same way that the Infinity does now. This design will insure that we will be able to fit anyone. Performance outside the box is what we are trying to achieve. When the over/under is finished we will turn the gun into a combo set. That will complete what I started to do almost 17 years ago. It has been a long time coming. As the saying goes; Rome wasn’t built in a day, maybe two but not one.

Until next month Dennis DeVault (AKA Rodeo Man Out)