Bowling Ball Mortar

Filed under: Have Gun, Will Travel, Kewel!, Boomershoot — Davidwhitewolf at 1:40 pm on Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Somebody at Boomershoot this year was wistfully recalling the fellow with the Bowling Ball Mortar who used to fire it off at lunchtime. He hasn’t shown up for several years.

Thus, I was intrigued by this discussion on Calguns.net. 

There is a good shortcut for bowling ball mortars. By mysterious
mechanical serendipity,
1) A standard bowling ball fits perfectly into a half of one of the
standard high-pressure gas cylinders. Buy a used cylinder and cut
it.
2) A forged steel 2 5/16″ trailer ball can be threaded into the
former top of the gas cylinder after some machine work.
3) The standard US Army mortar base from a while back uses
a 2 5/16 socket, so the bowling ball mortar drops right in.

CAUTION! CAUTION! Range is measured in miles.
CAUTION! CAUTION! Pressure wave from this device will pulverize
all automobile windows within 100 feet. It is not good for ears,
eyes, light bulbs and similar stuff.

The Boomershoot Bowling Ball Mortar didn’t have a range measured in miles. Perhaps it was a reduced charge or different design?

I’ve met her

Filed under: Have Gun, Will Travel, Kewel!, Boomershoot — Davidwhitewolf at 10:40 am on Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The utterly awesome Laurel’s featured in another excellent gun-rights image by Oleg Volk. Click through to see it.

Laurel’s Boomershoot AAR (with more pics by Oleg, like the one below) is here.

I noticed K__d__T___ is nosing about RNS these days; welcome!  You might enjoy this pic of Laurel. She also shows up in Barron’s excellent Boomershoot 2010 video.

Almost Recovered

Filed under: Kewel!, Boomershoot — Davidwhitewolf at 6:46 pm on Saturday, May 1, 2010

Still haven’t unpacked the trailer — that’s for tomorrow — but the wife casually announced that “next year I’m flying in” to Boomershoot. THAT MEANS SHE’S COMING BACK!!! I knew I’d hooked her, and she admitted it, but that’s the proof right there.

Makes me feel like cranking this — BoA’s Energetic:

The thund’rous drums are a pale echo of the boomers, but the energy level was easily that high for us the whole week. Best Boomershoot Ever.

AWESOME Boomershoot 2010 video

Filed under: Boomershoot — Davidwhitewolf at 2:43 pm on Thursday, April 29, 2010

Barron Barnett did a great job on this video. He included a bunch of folks (including the famous Laurel) shooting Sweetheart, my .308 pistol. Go see.

RNS Quote of the Day, 04/27/10

Filed under: Heroes, Comrades and Brothers, Have Gun, Will Travel, Kewel!, Boomershoot — Davidwhitewolf at 3:15 pm on Tuesday, April 27, 2010
BTW, got my appetite whetted for long-range handgunning again…no good can come from that!

–Michael Bane, on his Boomershoot experience

I haven’t brought a long-range rifle to Boomershoot since I began shooting specialty pistols. Now I spread the specialty-pistols gospel as much as possible, which is why I bring a wide selection of them to every Boomershoot, and I always spend a good portion of Boomershoot Day itself helping interested folks shoot a specialty pistol for the first time.

This year Michael Bane shot the .308 Win. Encore I named Sweetheart, and I think he liked it! I’ll move the Good Turn coin from one pocket to another.

Bane himself was as he was when I met him at SHOT — effusively friendly, flat-out aggressive on firearms civil rights, and a sharp cookie. I noticed he and his crew (including the famed John Carter) frequently were able to record a segment in one or two takes; that’s impressive. They’re all quick on the draw, but it takes a quick mind and amazing stage presence to be able to say what you want to say the instant the camera starts recording. Michael did it over and over at Boomershoot 2010.

Boomershoot 2010 AAR

Filed under: Boomershoot — Phil at 2:18 pm on Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Now that I’m mostly rested, or at least rested enough to retell the tale, here is my AAR for Boomershoot 2010. All pics can be enlarged by clicking on them.

First, the rest of the crew from the RNS firing position.

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From left to right, you have the lovely Ms. David, Rolf, my ugly mug and David. Photo by Dave from Michigan.

Boomershoot sits atop the Clearwater River valley outside of Orofino, ID. This is a shot only about 1/3 of the way up to the site.

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Photo by Dave from Michigan

And this is some of the scenery from almost the top of the palouse.

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Photo by Rolf

On Friday, once we were on site and got the tents set up, we got to sighting in. Also, my fellow residents of the RNS position were introduced to my “surprise”.

As you can see, I brought a couch.

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Photo by Rolf

Boomershoot does not have to equal being uncomfortable.

David and Ms. David spent Friday attending Gene Econ’s long range precision rifle class. Even though it was her first time shooting a rifle at any distance, it was not too long after that Ms. David became very dangerous to Boomers along the 385yd line with my Ruger 77 MKI in .22-250 Rem.

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Photo by Rolf

They weren’t the first to demand I let them purchase the rifle, and I doubt they’ll be the last.

I spent some time knocking the steel around on both Friday and Saturday. At the end of each day, Joe would put on the “High Intensity” events (previously known as “Entertainingly Close” and “Clean Up”).

Essentially, Boomers are staked at the 385yd berm and we are invited to bring our “looks menacing to Chuck Schumer” equipment down to within 30 feet or so and enjoy the shockwave.

Here I am with my XM

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Photo by Dave from Michigan

And here is David and Ms. David. He with his SAR-8 and she with the Kel-Tec rifle.

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Photo by Dave from Michigan

Here is a photo of the “River o’ Boomers”. From our position, the top of the berm ranged 683yds and the bottom was around 580yds.

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Photo by Dave from Michigan

From a different perspective

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Photo by Rolf

Sunday afternoon was not a good day for me. I apparently only brought my “Bring It” on Friday and the very windy Saturday. But I spent Sunday afternoon making 8in circles around 7in targets. I wanted to know if it was me or my rifle or my ammo so I had Rolf step out from behind the spotting scope and give the trigger a squeeze. His first shot on a boomer I’d sent ten rounds towards hit the bastard and set it off. There was no doubt left. It was me.

My fellow Boomershooters were apparently having the same problems because there were still lots of undetonated Boomers up on the hill. I did hear some folks saying that they were hitting them but that they weren’t going off. However, I only witnessed a handful that actually had holes in the corners, so I’m chalking most of those up to lack of proper caliber for that distance.

Michael Bane showed up on Sunday with his film crew to get some footage and interviews in for his show. I believe he stated the broadcast won’t be until next January, but he did say he’d give us all plenty of notice of the actual air date. When it does air, if you tune in, one of the folks you’ll see is our very own David.

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Photo by Dave from Michigan

Rolf spent Friday and Saturday helping build Boomers with Joe and the Crew, and he got a few special privileges, such as walking the “River o’ Boomers” with his AR and setting a few of the undetonated ones off (aka: Boomerhunting).

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Photo by Rolf

There are plenty more stories to go along with these, though a lack of photographic evidence makes them more difficult to relate to folks who weren’t along for the ride. I’m sure that when David gets rested up he’ll have his own tales to tell.

But for now, just put it into your head that you must attend next year. Because Boomershoot is something that every gunnie should take part in. There are excuses as to why you haven’t attended, but none of them are very good.

See you there next year!

We’re Back!

Filed under: Boomershoot — Phil at 7:11 pm on Monday, April 26, 2010

With all our fingers and toes still attached, and cramps in our smiling muscles. You should have been there.

Here a few pix for now just before I collapse onto the mattress. They are all “clicken to embiggen” and taken by Dave from Michigan.

Myself ringing steel with The Hun Bastard

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And then David with his row of T/C and Weatherby pistols (and that’s not even all of them).

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Dave from Michigan with his black powder Remington Rolling Block 45-70 whacking steel at 683yds

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That isn’t even the tip of the iceberg, but I’ve got a couple of hundred pics from two different photographers to go through, so I’ll be back with more on Tuesday.

You really should have been there.

The Return of Kirk

Filed under: Have Gun, Will Travel, Boomershoot — Davidwhitewolf at 12:48 pm on Monday, April 19, 2010

Barney the Pink Rifle appears still capable of Boomershoot levels of accuracy. Yet Kirk won’t be there this year. Ah well, at least he’s blogging.

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    Keek-Ahhs

    Filed under: Kewel!, Boomershoot — Phil at 11:33 am on Monday, April 19, 2010

    Like Joe, I am also in Boomershoot mode. Hence the no bloggy.

    I have a surprise for my neighbors on the line. I’m picking it up tomorrow morning.

    It’s one of those wild ideas I’m just running with.

    I barely caught myself last night almost cursing Joe for naming the Boomershoot storage and manufacturing magazine “The Taj Mahal” because I think this surprise will set our section of the line miles ahead of everyone else and will be worthy of the title.

    If you’re going to be there, stop on by. If you’re not going to be there, well, it sucks to be you. We’ll take pictures.

    Ballistics Bleg

    Filed under: Have Gun, Will Travel, Boomershoot — Davidwhitewolf at 2:06 pm on Friday, April 16, 2010

    If you have a Black Hills .308 cartridge with a 175-grain bullet leaving your muzzle at, say, 2351 feet per second, and you THINK your gun is still zeroed at 400 yards from last Boomershoot but would like to verify this, and you aim at a 100-yard target without changing the scope settings, what is the impact point (height above point of aim) of the bullet at 100 yards that would indicate a 400-yard zero? A 600-yard zero?

    (My local range only has 25-yard and 100-yard targets.)

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