Category Archives: Boomershoot

Sporting Rifle Match 2013 – Raton NM

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Dave RNS Photographer

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

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Dave RNS Photographer

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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It’s Been A Week

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Davidwhitewolf

The kind of week that time in the parlor with the wife, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in our ears, a glass of Highland Park 18-year-old in one hand, Roosevelt’s African Game Trails in the other, and clouds from a Prensado Maduro … Continue reading →

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No Boomershoot for Me Either

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Davidwhitewolf

I am sad to announce that as with Phil and Scott, I too will not be attending Boomershoot, for the first time since 2007. That leaves RNS Staff Photographer Dave from Michigan as the lone Random Nuclear Strikes representative. However, … Continue reading →

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Rifle Surgery

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Davidwhitewolf

Some years ago, Jim Rawles casually mentioned that he’d had the muzzles on all of his bolt-action centerfire rifles threaded to accept flash hiders like the Vortex design. I made a mental note that someday, whenever I stopped playing with … Continue reading →

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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Davidwhitewolf

We’re enjoying an excellent rendition of the above tune –with ukelele! — by an excellent band. We joined some friends for beer, wine, and tapas at Blacksmith Square in Livermore. John Madden’s boys took some old aluminum-siding industrial buildings, bricked … Continue reading →

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ESS Discount Code

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Scott

So I tried what I thought was the discount code that ESS set up for those at Boomershoot. Maybe I am misremembering it. If anyone has it, please email me at scotty927@gmail.com

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Impressionist High Intensity

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Davidwhitewolf

From Boomershoot 2012. This is what happens when you leave the camera on the macro setting. Oops. For what it’s worth, this is almost exactly the way the world looks to me without glasses or contact lenses. Shelley Rae and … Continue reading →

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Boomershoot 2012 . . .It’s All Good

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Dave RNS Photographer

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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A different sort of “Boomershoot Prep”

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Phil

Read. I tend to think of Boomershoot as “prep” to extend my endurance so that I may further limit tyrants. I only call it a vacation so that the folks I know IRL don’t get twitchy. Yet another successful “vacation”.

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