See a very cool video of shooting Boomers through the scope on a windy day: Boomershoot Clinic day #2 – makeitgoboom.
This is from a different day at 636 yards instead of 375 yards:
It appears the targets are significantly thinner near the steel than to the right. I suspect people used the larger steel targets to get their range and windage adjustments. Then they moved to the closest boomers for a more reactive confirmation.
An overall view of what it looks like near the start of the long-distance event:
This is later in the morning when most of the closer targets have released their nitrogen:
Boomershoot is not just all clanging steel, earth shaking, chest thumping explosions, and clouds of smoke. There were a surprising number of children there this year. One eight-year-old learned to shoot a rifle on one day and claimed more boomers than most adults the next. Of course, his instructor was a long-range national champion. Another six-year-old, shooting rifles since he was two, and has a 1,500 -> 2,000-yard shooter for a father. He hit something like seven out of eleven boomers he shot at the 375-yard line.
Then there was this girl:
Boomershoot is for everyone.
No doubt about it. I have to get off my duff and out of Commie-fornia long enough to make a pilgrimage to Boomershoot.
My college-aged nephew is much closer than I am; I wonder if I could persuade him to participate, too.