Boomershoot Travel

A big part of Boomershoot for me is spending a week or more driving through gorgeous country, from Cali to Idaho and back.

On I-5 there’s this one exit that seemed apropos:

Boomershoot takes place way up in the hills where those clouds are. From Orofino, where this photo was taken, they can actually hear the thunder.

And it’s gorgeous up top as well:

The drive south through Idaho is stunning, but I’ve not yet had the camera to do it justice. However, I did find this one spot between Orovada and Winnemucca that I could definitely retire to. Yes, I like a whole lot of nothin,’ preferably with big mountain views and long fields of fire.

Click to go to my flickr and embiggen any of the above.

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One Big Room, Full of Bad Bitches

One of the great things about Boomershoot is the cross-cultural exposure. It really is a tremendously diverse crowd if you keep an open mind, and every year I come back having been introduced to new obsessions. Like Kreayshawn, late of the White Girl Mob, purveyors of Swag Rap par excellence.

Then there’s V-Nasty….
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I got that!

Here is my vid of the Boomershoot 2014 opening fireball.

It is shot in slo-mo and takes about 30 seconds to get to the part you want to see.

Watch for the smoking clumps of mud!

No sound, because slo-mo. If there were sound, you’d hear me yell out an enthusiastic “Thank You!” near the end of the vid.

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I nearly forgot

One of the pics at David’s link to the Boomershoot pics is one of me with the Encore .357 rifle I built this Winter.

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I barely got the ammo loaded in time to travel to Boomershoot. I loaded five loads starting at 19gr of Winchester 296 powder to 21gr in half grain increments. The loading data I found for the 21gr load put it at a muzzle velocity of 2340fps out of a 20″ bbl Marlin lever gun. I am guessing that with my 24″ bbl, I am running right up to 2400 fps with a 125gr projectile.

I do not recommend this load for handguns of any type. There was a decent increase in recoil from anything you can buy off the shelf. If your pistol/revolver does survive this load once, it might not for the second one. So don’t waste your time.

That being said, I had it sighted in for 100yds using factory Winchester White Box 110gr ammo. It was about 10′ short @ the 385yd line. I dialed in some elevation, and then some more elevation, and after that it was ringing the steel silhouette repeatedly until I got bored of doing so. I was thinking of trying the large bowling pin shaped steel target @ 600+yds, but figured that might waste too much time and went to spot for Dave and David.

Judging from what I gauged to be a lack of authority with which it hit the 385yd steel, I have serious doubts that it would ignite a boomer at that range. If I ever get a chronograph, I may have to test both the muzzle and the 400yd velocity theories.

But this is definitely one interesting rifle and load. In fact, I have already named this particular tool. I have given it my old Greek name:

Testicles (pronounced “test-ik-lees”)

Because it has balls.

FYI: If I ever get to build a .416 Barret rifle, this will be changed to Testicles Jr.

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Boomershoot 2014 Private Fireballs

They were awesome. Click below the fold to see.

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Boomershoot 2014 Photos

About a third of my photos are uploaded here. More coming later.

And here’s a video of the opening fireball. Sorry for the blurriness. You can see that Ry presciently stopped and dropped before the shot, so he only had to roll.

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Back to the Grind

With Boomershoot 2014 over and done with, there is little else to do besides wait for the announcement of next year’s dates and try to remember the cool ideas we had for next years event.

Oh, and show off some of the pics (all are “click to enlarge”, if you want them larger).

To get it out of the way, yes, it rained on us this year. This is the first time in the nine years since I first went that the weather for the day of the event wasn’t perfect. Personally, I’ll take those odds any day.

And now you get to see David improvise

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Never let it be said that he isn’t a die hard shooter. I had even given up by then.

Here is an entry side view of our spots at The Boomeragio

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We rolled out the red carpet for folks.

And here is a boomer-side view of the Boomeragio.

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Dave the RNS Photographer is on the left side of the image, with David in the middle and I’m on the right with my new bench. When I get the truck unloaded I will be setting up the bench for some photos which I’ll feature here in the near future (hopefully by this weekend). Let me just say now that this prototype worked beyond my expectations and that with a couple of easy refinements, it will ready for manufacture.

Dave and David will be along shortly, I have no doubt, with their tales and photo evidence. David is still working his way back south to Cali and Dave is heading back to Michigan via Colorado (to visit some family). Give them a couple days and you’ll be anticipating Boomershoot 2015 as much as we are.

I got in yesterday @ 1700 and have to be back at school this morning @ 0700. So please excuse the brevity, but I really need to get some shut-eye before I go play with fire.

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Gone Shootin’ : Day 4

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Gone Shootin’ : Day 3

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Gone Shootin’ : Day 2

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