At my place of employ, when a particularly good practical joke between the drivers or an evil “solution to a customer issue” happens, I have begun awarding the “Dirty Sanchez Prize” to the purveyor.
This, however, will be the first one I’ve awarded here at RNS.
Ry Jones, not to be confused with either Bob Jones or Cleopatra Jones, has been pitching evil ideas to Joe Huffman for future Boomershoots. And because they are evil, I am awarding him the Dirty Sanchez Prize today.
I say that they are evil because they will be sapping my wallet. They are in fact so evil, that I am beginning to question my sanity in thinking of attempting at least one of them.
I’ll let Joe explain two of the ideas:
1: We dispose of the farce known as “cleanup” where people shoot the “leftover” targets from 25 yards away. In actuality I hold back 150 to 200 targets just so people get a chance to do that. Instead we do that in a more formal manner on a different day and give people more targets especially for that.
2: We do a 1000 yard event for the few, the arrogant, those that say the existing Boomershoot is too easy. Utilizing the existing targets, four and seven inches square boxes, we separate the “men from the boys” by separating the targets from the shooters by 1000 yards. We do this on a different day and perhaps a different location. It could be called 1000 yard Monday or some such thing.
While both ideas are, in and of themselves, great, that I will need to register for them seperately, as well as pay a separate fee, is evil.
Not that I think that charging extra for them is wrong. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a dozen times: I’d pay two or three times the current rate just to attend Boomershoot as the event currently stands. I spoke to other folks on the 29th who did’t feel that way, and I wondered what they must do in their everyday lives that makes shooting Boomers at 600 & 700 yards so mundane to them.
I don’t know if Joe makes a single penny on Boomershoot, but he should make some decent wampum for his time and effort (at least enough to take Barb out to a few fancy outings between events). He deserves more than to just break even each year.
I would absolutely pay to attend idea #1. I don’t know how much the cost is to manufacture each Boomer, but I’d easily pay $5 per. If they were $10 each, I’d have to hold myself to 10 Boomers or so.
I would also absolutely pay to attend idea #2. How much, I don’t know just yet.
As some of you know, I built Barak specifically for Boomershoot 2005. I realized only too late that it was Joe’s Evil Plan to have me, and others, do so (and for that he also gets a belated Dirty Sanchez Award). If I were to attend the 1000yd event, I would have to build another rifle as I don’t believe that my 168gr load has enough ooomph to set off the Boomers at that distance. I might be able to get away with it with a hyped up 155gr load, but I’m not sure I could justify the money on a seperate entry fee just to test out that theory.
Now, I do have a rifle chambered in .338 Lapua partially built by the same guy who built Barak, and I know that it would have the ooomph. But with the inflow of cash what it is, I’ve had to put the brakes on that project for now (because I’m a mutant, the stock alone will be over $700, before having it fit and bedded to the barrelled action; and then we still have optics to think about).
And since we’re on the subject of dirty things from south of the border, I’d just like to mention that, just like a Tijuana Donkey Show, I’d pay $10 bucks just to stand around and watch the 1000yd shooters.
What say ye? (about Ry’s ideas, not the donkey show)
