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Saturday we celebrated my 40th shooting Sporting Clays at the Waunakee Gun Club. I got a shooting vest as a gift which is great. I’ve only ever shot shotguns 4 times in my life and each time I like it more and more. I’m considering getting one which is not making Anke too happy.

Networking socially away from the business day and while not in business attire. Is a key activity and I find that the stranger the mix, the more casual the attire, the better the results. I think this is because people get more of a sense for one another.

The group was a good mix. An interesting mix of close personal friends and local business contacts who are becoming close friends. I mean, the business contact that came are the type I call at the end of the to BS with and to “keep me company on the ride home.”

Not that I orchestrated the group (because you never know who can make such things), but at the Gun Club we had a Northwestern Mutual Life rep; the top Schwab rep in the country (number 1 out of 1,300); the VP of Client Relations for a company that provides online tools to manage people; a home inspector; the President of a company that aligns, calibrates and certifies laser targeting systems for hospitals and clinics; the summer school administrator for the local school district; a 14 year old; a stay at home dad; and a Health Coach.

Out of 50, I got 32, good enough for 2nd place. Rich Rodriguez got 38 and two or three others each got 31. We shared two shotguns amongst the group and interestingly the gun owners had the lowest scores. Hmmm.