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Sporting Rifle Match 2013 – Raton NM

Greetings from finally sunny Michigan. When last I posted about the annual Great Western Pilgrimage to Idaho and beyond and down to Raton, NM, I was in the Estes Park, Colorado vicinity with 15 inches of freshly fallen snow and … Continue reading

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Boomershoot 2013: Felt A Bit Out of Sync This Year

Greetings from Michigan (actually, greetings from Estes Park, Colorado area as I write this). Well, Boomershoot 2013 is in the bag and it was a bit different this year as the usual suspects were not all in attendance. The planet … Continue reading

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Man, This Thing I Just Can’t Grasp . . .

I know there’s a good reason I didn’t excel in calculus or chemistry. Plus these dudes worked on this for 10 freakin’ years!  My golden retriever has a longer attention span than I do. Still, this here is pretty neat … Continue reading

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I’m Blaming This One on David . . .

  Greetings from Michigan. It’s still Winter  . . . .     Back in early January, David posted about his shotgun class and showed a picture of a Mossy 930. Unbeknownst to me, a little seed found some fertile … Continue reading

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Do Dogs Have Aspirations?

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Not the Cathedral

Last week Phil posted about the newest addition to his family. The crew here at RNS seem to have our animal events takes place coincidentally. We all lost a dog last year and now two of us have added back. … Continue reading

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The Firearm Odyssey Continues . . . After Action Report (sort of)

Well, the 2012 Sporting Rifle Match is complete for me (the locals shoot it once a month from February to September) and I’m freshly showered and sitting in the same restaurant as last night drinking a white russian (the dude … Continue reading

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The Firearm Odyssey Continues . . . . . . . .

While David likes to relax in a hot tub with a good drink, a cigar and his lovely wife enjoying the view high above Reno after Boomershoot, I somehow ended up in the high desert of New Mexico to continue … Continue reading

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Boomershoot 2012 . . .It’s All Good

David brought his Millennium Falcon shooting rest for his pistols:           Phil brought another couch to reinforce his motto: “Just because one is in the middle of nowhere in a wheatfield in Idaho is no reason … Continue reading

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More Boomershoot 2012

My other highlight of the weekend was shooting my Sharps .45-70 and banging metal on the hill. The 535 gr. bullets won’t set off the boomers as the velocity at the muzzle is around 1100-1200 fps. By the time it … Continue reading

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