What to do with all your awards?
- Thread starter JoeBannon
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Pulled the litle tags off them (Regional 1st Place, etc) and glued them all on a series of plaques.
Kept some of the important ones, but they're all in boxes in the attic.
Some of the trophys were just insane. I won one for 8th place revolver in an IHMSA International match that was over 4 feet tall!
Where are you gonna put something like that?
John
Cape Canaveral
Kept some of the important ones, but they're all in boxes in the attic.
Some of the trophys were just insane. I won one for 8th place revolver in an IHMSA International match that was over 4 feet tall!
Where are you gonna put something like that?
John
Cape Canaveral
oldbillthundercheif
Moderator
I put a few of the nicest ones in a frame around an ancient photo of my rifle team holding a gargantuan trophy. The rest are in a big metal box in the garage.
Wildalaska
Moderator
I have this space on my wall devoted to them, its one inch square.
WildandthoseareformylastplacebutatleastyoutriedtrophiesAlaska
WildandthoseareformylastplacebutatleastyoutriedtrophiesAlaska
Heck Ken,
even I got a ribbon for being 3rd in C class. Let's see, that makes me 19th out of 23 shooters. Oh, I am SO proud, I think I'll hang it on the wall too!
Not!
Of course, I'm just getting started in IDPA, and most everyone else has been at it a considerable while. So I feel good just not being dead last.
Oh, wait. That's what your trophy is for. Oops!
even I got a ribbon for being 3rd in C class. Let's see, that makes me 19th out of 23 shooters. Oh, I am SO proud, I think I'll hang it on the wall too!
Not!
Of course, I'm just getting started in IDPA, and most everyone else has been at it a considerable while. So I feel good just not being dead last.
Oh, wait. That's what your trophy is for. Oops!
Lloyd Smale
Moderator
dont throw those trophys away!! I found they make real nice long range targets.
Jim Watson
New member
I keep my first place trophies on the mantel, there aren't many.
The also-ran ones I display for a while and trash when I run out of room.
If you check around, there might be a junior program that would appreciate trophies they could re-plaque for the kids.
The also-ran ones I display for a while and trash when I run out of room.
If you check around, there might be a junior program that would appreciate trophies they could re-plaque for the kids.
I used to have boxes of them and after close to 20 years of moves and banging around the regular trophy ones finally got tossed.
Now that I have got back into shooting the last couple of years I have considered putting some of them in a display.
It used to be mostly the trophy or plaque type but now it is all medals it seems. I have the medals laying about the house or in drawers. I think I will put them in one place as I come across them.
now I do plan on some type of display and the shadow box thing is the way to go for medals.
My Distinguished medals and the Eic ones I got during the chase I do plan on putting in a shadow box on the wall and then maybe the Eic medals after those in another one in the order with date and score after that that I can add to.
Thanks for reminding me as I have put that off for awhile.
Now that I have got back into shooting the last couple of years I have considered putting some of them in a display.
It used to be mostly the trophy or plaque type but now it is all medals it seems. I have the medals laying about the house or in drawers. I think I will put them in one place as I come across them.
now I do plan on some type of display and the shadow box thing is the way to go for medals.
My Distinguished medals and the Eic ones I got during the chase I do plan on putting in a shadow box on the wall and then maybe the Eic medals after those in another one in the order with date and score after that that I can add to.
Thanks for reminding me as I have put that off for awhile.
Lycanthrope
New member
I take them to the office. Great conversation starters.
71Commander
New member
Awards?
Rangefinder
New member
I eat them... My awards are a well stocked freezer--1st place every year.
71Commander
New member
Gotta win first.
I accept them but it seems the times have changed over the years.
When I shot a lot of matches back in the 80's and early 90's it seemed like you would get trophy's, plaques and medals at every match if you did well.
Now since I got back into it all I seem to get it cash. Only a few smaller matches give out medals. The only real medals I see anymore are for like state championships, Regional NRA championships and the national matches.
When I shot a lot of matches back in the 80's and early 90's it seemed like you would get trophy's, plaques and medals at every match if you did well.
Now since I got back into it all I seem to get it cash. Only a few smaller matches give out medals. The only real medals I see anymore are for like state championships, Regional NRA championships and the national matches.