ESS Eye Pro for Shooting Sports – Boomershoot 5

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Joe

This is the fifth in the series of ESS Boomershoot videos.

The first four, and my comments, are here:

I agree with Ari in this video. The design of their “suppressor” eye protection is a great improvement in comfort and getting a good seal around your ears when wearing hearing protection. They gave me a pair and I am very pleased with them.

Barron has his comments about this video here.

The Setup: Explosions Don’t Just Happen, You Create Them – Boomershoot

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Joe

This is the fourth in the series of ESS Boomershoot videos.

The first three, and my comments, are here:

This one features me doing a lot of talking. I’m so pleased they edited out all the “umm”s and “ahhh”s.

There is also Rolf juggling the targets, scenes from our target/explosives production facility (Mecca), bowling ball mortars, anvil launch, Ry‘s fireball, both long range and High Intensity events, and people pounding stakes and putting targets on the stakes.

As I have said before ESS makes good stuff. They gave me a couple pair of their glasses and I use them whenever I need eye protection or even sunglasses.

I expect Barron will have something up with this video soon as well.

There are still 16 Boomershoot positions open. Sign up and be a part of Boomershoot 2013 here.

Shelley Rae: On Target with ESS Boomershoot Vol. 3

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Joe

This is the third in the series of ESS Boomershoot videos. At about 1:30 in the video watch the trace from the bullet arc into the boomer for a detonation. Very cool.

From the YouTube page for this video:

Boomershoot: In the high Palouse of northern Idaho for one long weekend in April, the ground heaves with explosions and precision rifle and AR enthusiasts put their aim to the test.

That’s a good description. Perhaps “rumbles with explosions” or “vibrates with explosions” would be better than “heaves” but there is some ground heaving too.

There is also Volume 1 and Volume 2 in the series.

As I have said before ESS makes good stuff. They gave me a couple pair of their glasses and I use them whenever I need eye protection or even sunglasses.

Barron also has some comments on the video.

30 Cal Gal, Precision Rifle – Boomershoot 2012, Volume 2

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Joe

Another video from ESS:

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Boomershoot brings out the smiles.

Did you see the smiles after connecting with the 650 yard boomer? I am of the opinion Boomershoot is a valid treatment for depression and should be covered by most health insurance.

Boomershoot video from ESS

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Joe

ESS attended Boomershoot 2012 and spent a lot of time recording video. They released another video, Volume 1 (Volume 5 was released earlier for some reason):

See also the ESS blog post about the Boomershoot videos where they say:

Commemorating our adoption by the shooting sports community and as a fun forward-step in working together with civilian as well as military shooters, ESS is proud to announce the release of its new video series, Boomershoot!

Filmed at the near-legendary, totally-incendiary shooting event in northern Idaho, ESS shooter, U.S. National Rifle Team (Palma Division) member, and “30 Cal Gal” Anette Wachter together with friend Shelley Rae (Western Shooting Journal /gun blogger) were among the many in attendance. In this exclusive video series, Annette and Shelley demonstrate their passion for shooting while having an explosive time, and in doing illustrate quite nicely that ESS eye pro fits women as well as it fits men.

Video installments in this series will show high-powered guns in action, exploding targets, behind-the-scenes footage, and more.

ESS makes good stuff. They gave me a couple pair of their glasses and I use them whenever I need eye protection or even sunglasses.

H/T to Barron.

ESS Boomershoot video

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Joe

Via Barron:

I highly recommend ESS products.

Boomershoot 2012 stats

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Joe

I’m about to update the software on the Boomershoot entry web site and reset all the data so I captured the data from the statistics page before all the information is deleted.

	Total	Average per position taken	Average per total positions
Positions Taken	71	–	0.93
Participants	152	2.14	2.00
Shooters	140	1.97	1.84
Spotters	12	0.17	0.16
Friday High Intensity participants	23	0.32	0.30
Saturday High Intensity participants	27	0.38	0.36
Dinner participants	112	1.58	1.47
Media/Bloggers	11	0.15	0.14
ATF Approved	15	0.21	0.20
Staff	26	0.37	0.34

The final numbers were probably a little different because of some last minute changes that didn’t get reflected on the web site but they are very close.

Boomershoot 2012 fireball video

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Joe

Video from Ry:

We are working on making the fireball for Boomershoot 2013 even better.

Life’s little tradeoffs

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Joe

30 Cal Gal sent me an email this morning with a picture of the Western Shooting Journal cover for June (supposedly on newsstands now):

The article was written by Shelley (thank you Shelley!).

I showed it to Ry and his response was, “I’m glad I got it in one shot!”

Yeah. Had it taken four or five shots (it’s happened to me) the teaser line would have been a little embarrassing. Of course at near contact distance with the flame front misses are less likely and having your hair burned could be embarrassing too. Life is full of tradeoffs.

Unique Boomershoot 2012 picture

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Joe

I’ll bet there was only one person looking in this direction when the fireball went up.

I heart fireballs.

I’m on the right with the bullhorn. Ry is on the left near the fireball.

Bowling ball mortar

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Joe

We have a couple people that have been bringing a bowling ball mortar to Boomershoot the last couple years. Here is a picture of one of them in action (thanks to Dion for the picture):

The fireball is the result of adding gasoline.

Very cool.

Soldiers Angels donation

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Joe

I just made the payment to Soldiers Angels from the Saturday Boomershoot dinner and raffle:

Payee	Reference #	Send On	Deliver By	Amount
Soldiers Angels	5B6BDQOG	05/02/2012	05/09/2012	$1,981.00

For those of you that were at the dinner and remember the exact numbers Bruce said $1645 was raised for Soldier Angels. That does not match with the amount I sent. The envelope Bruce gave me actually contained $1651. Then two people quietly shoved money in my hands as they left the dinner. That brought this year’s total to $1981.

Previous posts about Boomershoot donations are here: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

Quote of the day—Shelley Rae

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Joe

I can’t call it “Boomershoot“, that’s not right at all. It has to be “BOOMERSHOOT!” There was too much awesome in the space of one weekend for it to be anything less.

Shelley Rae
April 30, 2012
BOOMERSHOOT!
[She “almost fell over from the heat and shockwave of the explosion” but I think she liked it anyway.—Joe]

Burning hair

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Joe

Ry says he smelled burning hair after taking this shot:

As I have commented elsewhere I’m glad I had Ry move the opening fireball back about 20 feet further from where he wanted it. There is a fine line between thrilling and calling for an ambulance. Ry was right on the ragged edge of that line.

Quote of the day—Dave B.

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Joe

ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou ThankYou!

Awesome event, as always. Please accept my thanks and pass them on to all your volunteers and family.

This was my tenth year and I’m already planning for the 11th…

Dave B.
April 30, 2012
Via email regarding Boomershoot 2012.
[In my opinion Boomershoot 2012 was very nearly perfect. I’ll say more later when I have more time but from my view point things went very well this year.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Charles

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Joe

I had no idea.

Next year we are coming back with all our friends.

Charles
Spouse of 30 Cal Gal
April 29, 2012
[This was in regards to the awesomeness of Boomershoot where his wife and Shelley were shooting.—Joe]

Quote of the day–Tony Finley

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Joe

Boomershoot makes them put up or shut up.

Tony Finley
April 28, 2012
[After the Boomershoot dinner and raffle were over Tony came over to me and said so many nice things about me and Boomershoot that I wondered if perhaps we should have closed the bar earlier. But he did say the above that I certainly agree with.–Joe]

Quote of the day—Matthew Jensen

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Joe

This is boring. I just keep hitting the same spot.

Matthew Jensen
April 27, 2012
[He was shooting my “Spud Gun” at a 700 yard steel target. He was hitting the same spot on the target…

I love my Spud Gun. He did have an excellent coach in one of Gene Econ’s staff, but still the gun, ammo and shooter had to be doing their job too.—Joe]

A very wet Boomershoot prep

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Joe

Today Scott, Tim, and I got soaking wet as we put the 500+ stakes in the hillside for Boomershoot. And it was cold.

Tomorrow is forecast as 100% chance of precipitation until 8:00 PM when it drops to 90%

The generator didn’t work for a while this morning. I think the electrical system was wet. I covered it with a tarp and let the engine run and it started working again. Tim is bringing his generator as a backup for tomorrow.

antitango got stuck trying to turn around near Mecca.

I realized I didn’t have the scope rings required to put a scope on the rifle Sarah was going to use. I did get the rifle Ry is going to use scoped but it was so cold and wet I didn’t go out to zero it in.

Scott then got a flat tire trying to make it to Mecca. That makes the third tire to die while making the trip to Mecca since last September. Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times…

Am I having fun yet? Actually I really enjoyed having dinner with Boomershoot friends and bloggers at the Ponderosa tonight.

Eye Safety Systems at Boomershoot

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Joe

Last February I was contacted by Eye Safety Systems (ESS) out of Sun Valley Idaho. They make high end eye protection glasses. They wanted to participate in Boomershoot and to make a long story short that is how Boomershoot ended up with 30 Cal Gal and Shelley Rae signed up for Boomershoot this year.

ESS also sent me three pair of their glasses. They are very nice glasses. One thing that I despise about nearly all safety glasses is something that isn’t that hard to do right and ESS did it right. When most glasses are folded up the tip of the ear piece touches the inside of the lens. This scuffs the plastic and you end up with a partially blind spot in one or both eyes. The ESS glasses I have been using don’t do that. The ear piece will not touch the inside of the lens. I have been carrying a pair around in my coat pocket (inside the cloth pouch provided) for almost two months now and the glasses are still scuff free. They are comfortable to wear and give me a great field of view and wrap around protection.

Here is more of what ESS has to say about their glasses and their attendance at Boomershoot:

Idaho-based company ESS (Eye Safety Systems) will be present at this weekend’s Boomershoot events. ESS manufactures the sole issued eyewear of the United States Marine Corps and is a leading supplier to the U.S. Army & all branches of the U.S. Department of Defense. Their military-grade eye protection is gaining in popularity and is highly-regarded amongst those in the know in the commercial shooting market.

ESS will be offering free demos of select shooting-specific models of its MIL-SPEC, ANSI Z87.1+ protective eyewear, including the Crossbow Suppressor which is the only eyewear completely engineered for optimal function under ear cup style hearing protection. Inquire at the ESS tent on site and/or with ESS employees regarding their demos and event specials. Visit www.esseyepro.com to learn more.

Amazon also has them.

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