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A steel challenge match from the eyes of the shooter

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I participated in a Steel Challenge match today. I used my new video glasses (I have Sportsman Eyewear model 465 ) and then edited out most of the boring stuff. Here is the result:





I learned some things. When obtaining video I should move my head less. When asked, “Are you ready?” I should keep my head still instead of nodding.


The electronics must have some automatic gain control on the audio. The first string of fire you can hear the R.O. and first shot well. Then it gets much quieter and you can barely hear the R.O. and the shots are muffled some.


The frame rate is supposed to be about 35 fps. This is really too slow to capture what I see when shooting. In the video it seems to go much faster than when I am actually shooting. I see far more than what you can see in the video.


Still, I like what I see and plan to do this again taking into account the lessons learned.


Fellow shooters had other applications for the glasses too. The first one I heard today, “This will revolutionize the home porn industry.” Yeah, I had thought of that too. Don’t expect to see any of that on this blog.


Another suggestion was to get about $5000 in cash and go through TSA while wearing the glasses to capture them hassling you. “What would that accomplish?”, I asked. “Maybe you could get someone fired.” “But I want them ALL fired.”, I replied.


Just anytime you are interacting with authority they could be a great asset.


And in specific, from John Hardin, in the comment here came what I thought was the best suggestion. Use them when open carrying. Great idea!

The view from my driveway

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While at the NRA annual meeting I bought a pair of glasses with lenses for sunglasses or safety glasses. The also have a camera (still or video with microphone) built in. The main reason for getting them is for shooting. I expect to be able to get feedback for training (pistol matches) and for shooting explosives.


The results are suprisingly good. Here is the view from my driveway (scaled down from 1080 x 1024 to 600 x 480)–The View From North Central Idaho:



Tomorrow I have a Steel Challenge match I am going to. I’m really looking forward to the video.

Tactical pants

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I didn’t see them on the exhibit floor but Say Uncle told a few of us that he saw some neat tactical pants there.


Via email from Jeanette we now have The Ultimate Guide to Tactical Pants.

Censorship

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While at the NRA Annual Meeting on Saturday I wore this shirt:



It got a lot of compliments while on the exhibit floor but something happened that night while at the blogger dinner. I’ve been told that I might have to burn that shirt. I would have never worn that shirt to work and figured as long as I stayed away for places like that I would be okay. But censors are sometimes where you least expect them. Yes, the heavy hand of censorship is threatening me because of that shirt.


On the night in question there were about 20 or 30 bloggers at this bar having dinner, drinking a few, and trying to talk to each other (it was very loud). Alan Gura had expressed, rather forcefully, that it was too loud and wanted to go someplace else so we could talk easier. I was up moving around and trying to shepherd people in the general direction of the door and to a nearby outdoor plaza with a quiet fountain and seating. From a nearby table filled with college students two young women approached me and said they really liked my shirt and they wanted a picture of one of them with me and the shirt. I obliged them.


I later told Say Uncle about it and he quipped, “I’ll bet you never thought you could use that shirt to pick up chicks, did you?” I laughed and said, “No.” That would have been the end of it had I not opened my big mouth later. Later that evening as I was talking to wife Barbara and she asked how my day had gone I told her of the event and Say Uncle’s joke. In the silence that followed I blissfully babbled on and told her of another funny thing that happened. This probably sealed the fate of that shirt.


As everyone was saying goodnight someone said how wonderful it was to meet and hang out with the celebrities like Michael Bane, Alan Gottlieb, and god of gods Alan Gura. I agreed and added something like, and pointing at Mike W, “But you said I was a celebrity.” Mike protested, “But you are a celebrity. You are the Boomershoot guy!” Dixie was standing just to the right of me and said, “You are the Boomershoot guy?” and stretched her arms out with fingers straight, palms flat, and bowed to me.


Barb hasn’t actually said it in words but I’m pretty good at reading the silence.


I think I’m going to have to burn the shirt.

Socializing at the NRA annual meeting

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I had planned to walk the exhibit floor today but other than attend the debate between Gura and Helmke I spent nearly the entire time socializing. Mostly it was with bloggers but I did spend probably an hour of pretty intense face to face time with NRA Board of directors member Scott Bach (and here).


Scott told us a little bit of some of the behind the scenes stuff at the NRA and how he thinks things will shake down after the McDonald case comes down. Since he lives in New Jersey there was a particular emphasis on his home state. The application of the McDonald case will be particularly interesting there and in California. There is tremendous opportunity to gain ground but there are lots of things that can go wrong too.


I was pleased to meet some gun bloggers I have read for the first time and see others again. I screwed up and did not get a picture of Rick even though we met and talked quite a bit this morning and throughout the day. I will try to remedy that error tomorrow.



I met Breda for the first time. For some reason I expected someone much smaller.
Alan also took some pictures of Breda at dinner but she said she would kill him if he posted them.
Honest, it had nothing to do with Say Uncle making a comparison to a porn star. That was much earlier in the day.


 
I have five pictures of Jay G. These two suck the least. He also posted on the afternoon and evening activities.
This was my first time meeting him. But I have talked to him when I was on Vicious Circle and listened to him even more.



This was the first time I have met Weer’d Beard. He is a frequent commenter here and on daughter Xenia’s LJ.



I first met Denise and Yosemite Sam at the NRA meeting in 2008.
I got in trouble with Barb for not attending Sarah Palin’s speech so maybe Denise’s post can get me almost back in good graces at home.



I first met Alan at Boomershoot 2009 where he helped make the targets as well as shoot them.
He also is the ringleader of Vicious Circle.



I first met Mike W. at the NRA meeting in 2008. He is also a frequent commenter here.
He says I’m a celebrity so I need to keep reminding Barb that she sleeps with one.


Say Uncle and Alan decided they had to expose Breda and me to southern food. A group of ten of us went out to dinner. Say Uncle recommended the shrimp and grits which I did enjoy. Breda liked the greens and said, “I could eat these forever!”


After dinner was over, about 22:30, I was just coming alive and ready to talk until 2:00 or 3:00 but everyone else was a wimp (and mostly on east coast time instead of west coast like me) and said they were headed back to their hotels for the night.


Tomorrow, I really will get out on the exhibit floor and take a bunch of pictures.

Registration day at the NRA annual meeting

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The weather is just a little on the warm side of what I am comfortable with and the humidity is pretty high but it’s still well within tolerable limits.




There is lots of press coverage. Below is a picture of the mobile units from a couple local television stations. I later saw a “talking head” standing around in front of a camera wait for their time to say a few sentences.



In the picture below the three people on the left are NRA staff. On the right are Sebastian and Bitter. In between are the media badges.



Below is the view of the exhibit floor from the Press Office.



At ~17:30 a few bloggers and some NRA staff went to a bar for drinks and to talk. Say Uncle showed up not too much later.


At ~19:30 a few of the bloggers went to a restaurant at the Westin Hotel where we had very small tasty meals which were very expensive and very pretty.


At ~20:30 we moved to a bar in the Westin where Dave Kopel and other high powered legal types hung out with us and kept us enthralled with stories from behind the scenes and what may and may not be possible for the right to keep and bear arms in the future. I also met George after years of occasional correspondence. 


At ~12:45 the last of the bloggers and one of the legal minds retired. Two lawyers went off to smoke. One a cigar and the other a pipe.


Tomorrow I will spend most of the day on the exhibit floor.

They treat us so nice

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I’m at the NRA annual meeting in the Press Office. I have press credentials, free wireless Internet, and free food and drink:



I haven’t seen anyone I know yet. Currently I’m alone in the Press Office with my two Windows Phone 7 devices.

Boomershoot staff hard at work

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In my post last night I outlined some of the work the staff does for Boomershoot after the main event is over. I said the sound in the video doesn’t do it justice.

In Jason’s video the sound is a much better but it still doesn’t capture the THUMP that you feel throughout your body but it does hint a little better at it and give you some more clues as to what it means for Rolf to be Entertainingly Close:

Nifty!

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This would be something useful for my aging eyes and preference for sights that don’t require batteries.


Via email from Rich R. in NH.

By the numbers–Take two

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If you have been following along in the comments at Say Uncle you will know that my assumptions about the cartridge used in my simulation here were off a bit. I assumed a 300 grain bullet with a BC of 0.785 and a MV of 2750 fps. According to Mu the correct bullet is a 250 grain leaving the muzzle at 3070 fps with (according to SteveA) a BC of 0.587. This changes things some.


The sight angle for no hold-over is 127.8 MOA instead of 122 MOA.


The time of flight is 5.2 S instead of 4.9 S.


The velocity of the bullet at the target is about 924 fps instead of 1043 fps. This results in PF of 231 instead of 313.


The number three shot groups required to get one that was less than or equal to 1 MOA is, on the average, 4.3 instead of 4.9 (initally my program showed 83 but now it shows 4.9, I suspect some sort a caching error in Modern Ballistics). But those numbers are identical given the margins of error used in the assumptions that generated them.


Both Modern Ballistics data files for the simulations are here.


See also the comments at Tam’s.

2707 yard shot in Afghanistan by the numbers

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I think I first saw it at Ry’s place. But others have mentioned it too. People at work have been asking about it too. It’s time I made a blog post about it.

According to the news reports a British sniper made three consecutive shots which were measured, via GPS, to be at a range 8120 feet. This is about 2707 yards which is the number I used with Modern Ballistics. I have uploaded the data file here if you want to tweak a few numbers and see what happens for yourself.

I used a high end 300 grain bullet with a BC of 0.785, a muzzle velocity of 2750 ft/sec, a muzzle velocity standard deviation of 10 fps and the inherent accuracy of the cartridge, gun, and shooter was 0.25 MOA. I assumed zero wind at 10,000 feet above sea level, and a temperature of 59 F. All are a bit on the optimistic, but plausible, side of “excellent” conditions.

The first thing that struck me about the situation was that with a 32-power, mil-dot reticle, scope the target was quite visible (the rectangle target is 18″ x 24″):

Even a 16-power scope gives a usable sight picture:

The sight angle to not require hold-over is 122 MOA. For best results a no hold-over shot is required.

Long range Leopold scopes give 70 MOA of adjustment so a shim of 52 MOA would be required for a no hold-over shot. This is not likely.

Some Nightforce scopes have 110 MOA of adjustment which would require a shim of 12 MOA. This would result in the closest range the rifle could be zeroed at under standard conditions to be about 460 yards. This seems plausible.

The articles claim a three second time to target but I come up with 4.9 seconds. My guess is whoever did the calculation assumed the bullet did not lose any velocity on it’s way to the target. Working backward we come up with about 2700 fps for a muzzle velocity.

The velocity of the bullet at the target is about 1043 fps. With a 300 grain bullet this corresponds to an IPSC “Power Factor” of 313. A 124 grain 9mm bullet at the muzzle is in the neighborhood of a PF of 135 so the sniper still had a lot of “stopping power” at this range.

On the average you would have to shoot 83 (the correct number is 4.9, apparently something hadn’t been updated properly in my simulation when I pulled the 83 off) three-shot groups to get one which was less than or equal to 1 MOA (about 30 inches). Only about 30% of the shots will hit a 18″ x 24″ target (1000 shot simulation):

My conclusion is there was some luck involved but it is plausible the event took place essentially as reported.

Update: I have rerun some of the simulations with what is believed to be the cartridge used by the British.

Quote of the day–Michael Bane

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Boomershoot is the most interesting precision rifle event in the entire world.


Michael Bane
Down Range Radio #158
April 27, 2010
[My ego is probably blocking thoughts of something far more interesting but at the moment I am inclined to agree with him.–Joe]

Update on Free Washington State IDPA Championship entry

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Earlier this month I posted about a free entry for the Washington State IDPA Championship. There was an error in that post. It should have said it was open to Marksmen classification or higher instead of Master. I have updated the post.


Sorry about the error.

USPSA match results

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I shot in a USPSA pistol match yesterday. I knew I did quit well in two of the stages (I thought I probably had won both but I only won one of them). But I figured I messed up some of the other stages bad enough to drop me down to fourth or fifth place overall.


It turns out I came in second overall–a close second to Master class shooter Adam who was having a really bad day:


Place Name     USPSA  Class Division     PF Lady Mil Law For Age         Points   Stg %
   1 ADAM     A42720   M   Limited     Major N   N   N   N              269.0633 100.00%
   2 JOE      TY29386  B   Limited     Major N   N   N   N              255.2261  94.86%
   3 KW       L2847    C   Limited 10  Major N   N   N   N Senior       254.4007  94.55%
   4 KEVIN    L2544    C   Open        Major N   N   N   N              250.8631  93.24%
   5 MIKE     A39993   A   Limited 10  Major N   N   N   N              245.9446  91.41%
   6 DON      TY25213  A   Limited     Major N   N   N   N Senior       217.3348  80.77%
   7 Roger             U   Revolver    Major N   N   N   N              207.5478  77.14%
   8 Robert   A67563   U   Limited 10  Major N   N   N   N              185.8986  69.09%
   9 John     A65903   D   Limited     Minor N   N   N   N              174.7153  64.93%
  10 Roger             U   Limited 10  Major N   N   N   N Senior       165.1802  61.39%
  11 Richard           U   Limited 10  Major N   N   N   N              154.8904  57.57%
  12 ADAM     REENTRY  A   Revolver    Major N   N   N   N              142.7239  53.04%
  13 DON      REENTRY  U   Production  Minor N   N   N   N Senior       132.5499  49.26%
  14 Bill     A67422   U   Limited     Minor N   N   N   N              118.3946  44.00%
  15 Trent             U   Limited     Minor N   N   N   N              110.4684  41.06%


Individual stage results were:


Stage: 1  3-V
Place Name         Class Division    Pts  Pen Time   Hit Fact Stg Pts  Stg %
    1 ADAM          M   Limited      64   0   8.72   7.3394  70.0000 100.00%
    2 JOE           B   Limited      60   0   9.61   6.2435  59.5478  85.07%
    3 MIKE          A   Limited 10   67  20   9.94   4.7284  45.0974  64.42%
    4 Robert        U   Limited 10   66   0  14.26   4.6283  44.1427  63.06%
    5 KW            C   Limited 10   62  20   9.94   4.2254  40.3000  57.57%
   R6 DON           U   Production   66   0  16.46   4.0097  38.2428  54.63%
    7 John          D   Limited      68   0  17.26   3.9397  37.5751  53.68%
    8 Roger         U   Revolver     66   0  18.09   3.6484  34.7968  49.71%
    9 KEVIN         C   Open         64  20  12.34   3.5656  34.0071  48.58%
   10 Roger         U   Limited 10   64   0  18.18   3.5204  33.5760  47.97%
   11 DON           A   Limited      60  10  14.53   3.4412  32.8207  46.89%
   12 Bill          U   Limited      54   0  17.33   3.1160  29.7191  42.46%
  R13 ADAM          A   Revolver     61  10  17.00   3.0000  28.6127  40.88%
   14 Richard       U   Limited 10   70   0  24.37   2.8724  27.3957  39.14%
   15 Trent         U   Limited      31  30  15.31   0.0653   0.6228   0.89%
Stage: 2  Paper Poppers
Place Name         Class Division    Pts  Pen Time   Hit Fact Stg Pts  Stg %
    1 JOE           B   Limited      47   0   6.90   6.8116  50.0000 100.00%
    2 MIKE          A   Limited 10   49   0   7.31   6.7031  49.2036  98.41%
    3 KEVIN         C   Open         50   0   7.51   6.6578  48.8710  97.74%
    4 DON           A   Limited      49   0   8.44   5.8057  42.6163  85.23%
    5 Roger         U   Limited 10   49   0   9.21   5.3203  39.0532  78.11%
    6 KW            C   Limited 10   44   0   9.71   4.5314  33.2624  66.52%
    7 ADAM          M   Limited      39  10   6.52   4.4479  32.6495  65.30%
    8 Trent         U   Limited      44   0  10.44   4.2146  30.9369  61.87%
    9 Roger         U   Revolver     46   0  11.06   4.1591  30.5295  61.06%
   10 Bill          U   Limited      44   0  11.71   3.7575  27.5816  55.16%
   11 Robert        U   Limited 10   47   0  12.65   3.7154  27.2726  54.55%
   12 John          D   Limited      46   0  12.66   3.6335  26.6714  53.34%
  R13 ADAM          A   Revolver     50   0  14.69   3.4037  24.9846  49.97%
   14 Richard       U   Limited 10   50   0  16.77   2.9815  21.8855  43.77%
Stage: 3  Madness
Place Name         Class Division    Pts  Pen Time   Hit Fact Stg Pts  Stg %
    1 KEVIN         C   Open         69   0  11.96   5.7692  70.0000 100.00%
    2 JOE           B   Limited      66  10   9.98   5.6112  68.0829  97.26%
    3 DON           A   Limited      65   0  12.45   5.2209  63.3473  90.50%
    4 Bill          U   Limited      64   0  14.10   4.5390  55.0735  78.68%
    5 Robert        U   Limited 10   67   0  16.43   4.0779  49.4788  70.68%
   R6 DON           U   Production   62  10  13.66   3.8067  46.1882  65.98%
   R7 ADAM          A   Revolver     64   0  17.03   3.7581  45.5985  65.14%
    8 ADAM          M   Limited      62  20  11.27   3.7267  45.2175  64.60%
    9 MIKE          A   Limited 10   59  20  11.66   3.3448  40.5838  57.98%
   10 John          D   Limited      56  10  13.87   3.3165  40.2404  57.49%
   11 Roger         U   Revolver     68   0  22.68   2.9982  36.3784  51.97%
   12 KW            C   Limited 10   58  20  13.49   2.8169  34.1786  48.83%
   13 Trent         U   Limited      59  20  14.44   2.7008  32.7699  46.81%
   14 Richard       U   Limited 10   68   0  25.98   2.6174  31.7580  45.37%
   15 Roger         U   Limited 10   62  30  18.76   1.7058  20.6972  29.57%
Stage: 4  Fluffy’s Revenge 1
Place Name         Class Division    Pts  Pen Time   Hit Fact Stg Pts  Stg %
    1 ADAM         M   Limited      38   0   3.26  11.6564  40.0000 100.00%
    2 KEVIN        C   Open         40   0   4.73   8.4567  29.0199  72.55%
    3 KW           C   Limited 10   39   0   5.02   7.7689  26.6597  66.65%
    4 Roger        U   Limited 10   38   0   5.21   7.2937  25.0290  62.57%
    5 MIKE         A   Limited 10   37   0   5.18   7.1429  24.5115  61.28%
    6 John         D   Limited      34   0   6.38   5.3292  18.2876  45.72%
   R7 DON          U   Production   36   0   7.38   4.8780  16.7393  41.85%
    8 Roger        U   Revolver     40   0   8.80   4.5455  15.5983  39.00%
    9 Trent        U   Limited      38  10   6.74   4.1543  14.2559  35.64%
   10 DON          A   Limited      34  20   4.96   2.8226   9.6860  24.22%
   11 JOE          B   Limited      32  20   4.27   2.8103   9.6438  24.11%
   12 Richard      U   Limited 10   34  20   6.87   2.0378   6.9929  17.48%
   13 Bill         U   Limited      31  20   6.27   1.7544   6.0204  15.05%
   14 Robert       U   Limited 10   39  10  18.84   1.5393   5.2822  13.21%
  R15 ADAM         A   Revolver     33  20   9.97   1.3039   4.4745  11.19%
Stage: 5  4 Bill Drill
Place Name        Class Division    Pts  Pen Time   Hit Fact Stg Pts  Stg %
    1 KW           C   Limited 10  105   0  30.37   3.4574 120.0000 100.00%
    2 Roger        U   Revolver    100   0  38.46   2.6001  90.2447  75.20%
    3 MIKE         A   Limited 10   88  20  27.27   2.4936  86.5483  72.12%
    4 ADAM         M   Limited      81  30  21.80   2.3394  81.1963  67.66%
    5 KEVIN        C   Open        112  60  26.17   1.9870  68.9651  57.47%
    6 DON          A   Limited      80  30  25.20   1.9841  68.8645  57.39%
    7 JOE          B   Limited      82  30  26.56   1.9578  67.9516  56.63%
    8 Richard      U   Limited 10  100  20  41.53   1.9263  66.8583  55.72%
    9 Robert       U   Limited 10   60   0  34.87   1.7207  59.7223  49.77%
   10 John         D   Limited      82  20  41.43   1.4965  51.9408  43.28%
   11 Roger        U   Limited 10   71  30  30.39   1.3491  46.8248  39.02%
  R12 ADAM         A   Revolver     72  40  28.44   1.1252  39.0536  32.54%
   13 Trent        U   Limited      59  30  31.57   0.9186  31.8829  26.57%
  R14 DON          U   Production   76  40  39.82   0.9041  31.3796  26.15%
   15 Bill         U   Limited      33  90  31.01   0.0000   0.0000   0.00%


Update: I just realized that if you remove Kevin, who was shooting an Open Division gun, I did win two stages.


See also the official results on the USPSA website.

Quote of the day–Sam

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I’ve also known people who became pretty good shooters because they were motivated by fear. But, love always exceeds fear like light exceeds darkness.


Sam
July 31, 2009
A comment on the forum topic of Defining “Natural Athlete” vs. “Technical Athlete”
[This explains why we win in terms of membership in organizations like the NRA, SAF, CCRBA, JPFO, USPSA, IPDA, etc. (many millions) versus Brady Campaign, Violence Policy Center, etc. (a few hundred thousand if you squint at the numbers just right). And of course the same applies in the intellectual debate. We who have some love for the study of the topics know our stuff so much better than those who try to debate the issue end up making fools of themselves.–Joe]

Photo of the year?

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Linoge claims one of the pictures of private Boomershoot party for Ian is “photo of the year”.


I’m not entirely comfortable with that claim. But it is nice that he did say that.


It was a pretty ordinary day and event in a lot of ways. What of the days when we have 120 shooters connecting with 1 MOA reactive targets out to 700 yards? I think of those pictures as more awe inspiring to me and are probably PSH inspiring to the anti-gun people. And what of the other private parties such as this one with Shobana? (BTW, she is planning on attending another private party soon.) She is from a country that has just as restrictive laws, if not more so, than Canada. And also, the year is young still.


But it’s an opinion thing. Linoge’s opinion is probably just as good as mine in this case.


In any event I have uploaded the original, unedited, high resolution photo for your viewing pleasure here (just shy of 5 Mbytes).


Update: I added the link to his post. Sorry about forgetting that.

Boomershoot 2010 T-shirt image

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Via our professional photographer daughter Xenia who took the picture at Boomershoot last year:



Notice the target rich enviornment in the distance? Each of those little white dots is another pound or two of high explosives. The white “smoke” is actually almost all water vapor from the explosions. Yes, we try to make Boomershoot a “green” event. The daffodils? Those were planted by my grandmother and her sisters about 90 years ago.


T-shirts, cups, etc. will be available at Cafepress in a day or three.

Free Washington State IDPA Championship entry

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Via email from Daniel:



Cheaper Than Dirt! has one free entry into the Northwest Practical Pistol Association sponsored 2010 Washington State IDPA Championship being held August 21st at the Renton Fish & Game Club in Renton, Washington.


Established in 1933, the Renton Fish & Game Club has been open and serving the community for more than 50 years. They are one of the oldest and the largest shooting ranges in King county. For over a half century the Renton Fish & Game Club has been providing a safe place to shoot as well as learn and practice the safe use of firearms through various training programs.


Cheaper Than Dirt! is looking for a blogger or person on Facebook or Twitter who would like to compete in the IDPA Championship and blog or tweet about their experience. Qualified individuals must be a current IDPA member with a Master Marksman classification or higher. Novice class shooters are not permitted to compete. Preference will be given to shooters with an existing blog or public Twitter or Facebook account.


If you don’t currently have an IDPA classification but are capable of obtaining one by the match date, we will consider those entries as well. Novice shooters will have difficulty making the classification by the deadline, so please limit entries to experienced shooters only.


If you meet the requirements and would like to compete in the 2010 Washington State IDPA Championship, send an email with your information and why you would like to attend to daniels@cheaperthandirt.com. We will select one person to receive a free entry to the match. Selection will be made by July 1st, so please send in your emails no later than midnight May 31st.

Private party for Ian

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As I have previously reported Ian is an intern at Microsoft from Canada. I took him shooting once and he enjoyed it a great deal.

 

Last Friday after work he and I left Redmond and headed east to Idaho where we could have some real fun. Idaho is less repressive in a number of ways than Washington. In particular the explosives law are a pain in Washington.

 

Saturday morning daughter Kim, Ian and I loaded up the van and went to the Boomershoot site. Barron, Janelle, and Ryan were already there when we arrived. We were going to put on a private party for Ian and do a few experiments to test out some ideas for a new target deployment method.

 

Some of the pictures are below see also the fireball demo pictures here.

 


Ian about to shoot his first boomer.

 


This was just after detonation. Notice the streak of something headed to the left in the tree.

 


Ian preparing for the blast of debris.

 


Ian realizing he is going to live.

 


Ian realizing that was fun (debris still falling).

 


Ian realizing that was really fun (debris still falling).

 


Ian, Ryan, and Janelle (only her shadow is visible on the far right) do a miniature High Intensity Event.

 


Ian shooting still more boomers.

 


Ian seems to like this too.

 


Ryan brought an old laptop in need of an Idaho Stress Test.

 


Ryan preparing to initiate the stress test.

 


The test is complete in a few microseconds.

 


Ryan was very happy with the test results even if he did have to pick up all the pieces.

 

Ian, Kim, and I took the scenic route back to Moscow, picked up Barb just as she got off from work and went to VJs BBQ (there was a reason for chosing this particular place) for dinner. They have a Gadsden flag and the Declaration of Independence on the wall if that gives you a hint.

 

What I wonder is what the anti-freedom people in this country have to offer interns who visit. It’s not like they have anti-gun ranges to go have fun at.

 

Update: Linoge linked to this post and claimed one of the pictures of Ian above is “Photo of the year“. In the interests of completeness I have uploaded the original, untouched, photo here.

Quote of the day–Joe Huffman

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Some forms of therapy are not covered under Obamacare.


Joe Huffman
March 27, 2010
[This is going to be the slogan on the Boomershoot 2010 t-shirts.


Photos by daughter Kim yesterday.


In the last picture, yes, it was raining debris from the explosion.–Joe]