Land is cheap and mostly flat. Must be what breeds places like Indiana’s steel target Disneyland with targets from 25 to 1000 yards. They have many of the improvements we’ve talked about for the Boomershoot; speaking of the Boomershoot, I had my first Boomershoot dream Saturday and my first nightmare Sunday. The dream was a replay of another dream on the same topic: what if we had a much steeper backstop? The nightmare was around a fire getting started and causing a lot of problems. The great thing was that the fire was started by a car wreck; it had nothing to do with the shoot in general.
Archive for the 'Boomershoot' Category
Something in Indiana
20 August 2007Opening fireball
1 May 2007
Boomershoot 2007 wrapup
30 April 2007Kirkland departure: 2300 Friday. Kirkland arrival: 0100 Monday. In the interim: five boomers taken with the 50 BMG (two at entertainingly close range); at least thirty people who had never shot a 50 BMG now have; I got to put an M16 lower on one of my AR15 uppers and try some full-auto precision shooting; my fireball containment contraption fell in flaming splinters on the crowd. Sorry about the last one, folks; the sandbags did too good a job. Pictures and a 
short video are available. Sorry; no video of the cleanup. If anyone has some and would be willing to share for promotional purposes, please contant me or Joe.
How long until the tracer lights?
13 June 2006See for yourself:
Video from the shoot
2 May 2006Spokesman-Review’s reporter has a video up. Here’s the blog entry. Here’s the newspaper article - we were front and center on page A1.
what is the Taj Mahal?
16 October 2003The Taj Mahal is the codename for the new explosives magazine I designed and Joe had built for the Boomershoot. It’s a little gold plated in terms of features, but the cost of doing it alone was very high. It turned out steel was faster and cheaper than cement, and we ended up with a very nice building. There are pictures over on pix, so check them out. Soon it will be white and enclosed.
Taj Mahal pictures
8 October 2003I took some pictures of the Taj Mahal today, give them a look. We’ll be picking it up around 0830 Friday and installing it - have to be back in town by 1500 to pick up the kids, so it will be tight. In other news, the transfer case was working - all the time. The guys at Palouse Country Transmission unhooked the TCM (transfer case monitor) and all is OK. I’m going to have Hacker fix it next week. I picked up a gallon of DTM to paint the Taj with - $50 a gallon! holy crap! I need to get some thinner to remove the grease pencil and the like, but it should look schweet once it’s done. Now I need to get a plaque for the door. Mundy’s pointed out we didn’t put a handle on the door - duh. So that’s another item on the list.
