IPSCDRL Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Clay pigeon shooter goes out with a bang April 27, 2004 DUBLIN, April 27 (Reuters) - Friends of a champion Irish clay pigeon shooter have fulfilled his dying wish by packing his ashes into shotgun cartridges and blasting his remains over firing ranges around the world. Shooting enthusiast Tony Mullan made the request before he died at Easter aged 63 after a year-long illness. "Tony said 'I want to go out with a bang and it's up to you guys to help me,"' said Willie Hughes, Mullan's best friend and shooting partner of 20 years. "So I took the lead out of 50 cartridges, put Tony's ashes into them and recrimped them, and now every ground I go to I fire one off," he added. "Tony would have done the same for me," he told Reuters. Mullan, from Dundalk near the Irish border with Northern Ireland, represented Ireland twice at the sport's World Cup in New Zealand and Australia. Hughes, from the Northern Irish county of Armagh, said some of the ashes would also be incorporated into clay pigeons that Mullan's friends and family would use at a remembrance shoot later in the year. The rest of the remains were buried with Mullan's parents in Dundalk. REUTERS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistolJim Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 I want to be shot out of a .38 Supercomp when I die If theres not enough room in there put me in a .40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn jones Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 a buddy of mine had his ashes spread over his favorite ipsc shooting ranges. our's was one. http://www.memphis-ssa.com lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hey QuicksDraw! Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 I think I'd like my ashes reloaded and shot in three gun style.... many many years from now that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 I guess that is better than having to look at them on the mantle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 How about carry the ashes as a stage prop...procedurals apply to any shooter that drops the ashes. (That might be a good shooting distraction. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Carrying someone's ashes is a bit creepy for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywalker Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 How about carry the ashes as a stage prop...procedurals apply to any shooter that drops the ashes. No procedurals here... ...just state in the written stage briefing whoever drops and scatters the ashes has to pick them up again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 EVERY man would like to get his ashes hauled just one more time..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 I spread my best friend's ashes, Rondy Neil, by his favorite Saguaro cactus, near the top of the mountain that is the backstop at the Rio Salado range in East Mesa. (It's a little left of the top, on a little flat spot.) It's a truly grand cactus, a classic southwestern icon. Virtually every time we were at the range, at some point he'd either nod or gesture toward the cactus. He just loved that cactus, and spending time at the range. After he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, he asked me to spread his ashes by his favorite cactus in the world. So one night when it felt right, I hiked up there and did so. Now every year when the range is closed on Easter I hike up and hang out for a while. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPSCDRL Posted May 6, 2004 Author Share Posted May 6, 2004 Great story Brian. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted May 14, 2004 Share Posted May 14, 2004 Your welcome. And noticing your avatar, you and Rondy would been buds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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