{"id":74163,"date":"2025-05-29T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=74163"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:54:16","slug":"32nd-annual-blackfly-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/32nd-annual-blackfly-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"32\u2019nd Annual Blackfly Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-07.53.12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74164\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-07.53.12-600x254.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-07.53.12-600x254.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-07.53.12-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-07.53.12-768x325.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-07.53.12-1536x650.png 1536w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-29-at-07.53.12.png 1938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Michipicoten Rod and Gun Club hosted shooters and guests from across the Algoma region at the 32\u2019nd annual Blackfly Shoot on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This friendly competition is held with 5 person teams shooting rimfire and centrefire rifles, handguns and shotguns over a series of challenging targets.\u00a0 Five teams from Thessalon, St. Joseph Island, Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa participated in perfect weather and without any of the namesake insects for which the shoot is named after.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great gathering of old and new friends\u201d said this year\u2019s competition coordinator Charlie Todesco.\u00a0 \u201cSome of these competitors have been attending this event for over 20 years, and always enjoy their trip and stay in Wawa, and every year we have new shooters joining us. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A barbecue lunch took place after the shooting had completed thanks to the generosity of Wawa Canadian Tire with the donation of a new barbecue and a financial donation by Alamos Gold Incorporated for the food.\u00a0 A big thank you to our corporate sponsors for their support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Michipicoten Rod and Gun Club hosted shooters and guests from across the Algoma region at the 32\u2019nd annual Blackfly Shoot on Sunday. &nbsp; This friendly competition is held &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 02:59:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74165,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74163\/revisions\/74165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}