Part of the motivation for this comment to me was what was happening with his niece. No, I did not have any unsupervised time with her. But the environment I helped create did have a “corrupting” influence on her. She not only helped make the targets, but she was also popping boomers and having a great time. This was pretty awesome to watch. I did not get any pictures of her smile when she hit one. I also missed capturing the scowl when someone else popped the boomer she was working on. But you can get a clue of her intensity here:
But my favorite corrupting of the youth Boomershoot 2025 story is about this 14-year-old first generation American of Persian ancestry:
Can you guess what she is about to do?
Here is a clue. She is about to put on a very, very, happy face.
Watch for it and turn up the volume to hear what she has to say about it:
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.
Boomershoot is this coming weekend. If you are there, you will be shooting at 4″ square targets at 375 yards. You can also shoot at 7″ square targets at 700 yards. This is good practice for a golf ball at 300 yards.
If you can’t participate this year, you should know that spectators are welcome.
This is from 711 yards away. This is almost exactly the range to the most distant targets at Boomershoot. Of course, at Boomershoot it is not just a PING. The BOOM makes the earth shake.
We don’t have any Boomershoot target point of view videos. That would be very cool to have.
The next Boomershoot is coming up soon on May 2nd -> 4th. Sign up here.
That is why it is important to keep improving and expanding our gun culture. Take someone to the range and teach them to shoot. Bring a newbie or even a non-gun person to Boomershoot this year.
Registration opens for Boomershoot 2024 participants on Thursday 12/26/2024 at 6:00 PM Pacific time. Registration opens for everyone on Monday 12/30/2024 at 6:00:00 PM Pacific time.
The video from KING5 Evening Magazine was nominated for an Emmy
The Outdoor Channel
KLEW TV
Newsweek
Outside Magazine
Idaho Magazine
the Spokesman Review
Lewiston Morning Tribune
Chicago Reader
The Missoulian
You could watch videos about Boomershoot on YouTube for hours. But all the words, all the pictures, and all the videos cannot do it justice. It has to be experienced in person. People come from all over north America to participate or sometimes just watch. We have had people come all the way from England and, last year, Scotland to participate.
