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Wanna do Boomershoot, bloggers? Here’s your chance!Admission to the actual blowing-stuff-up portion of Boomershoot (April 26th) is FREE with registration and participation in the Blogger-specific portion of this event. I’m going. It’s settled, now. I’m filling out the ATF paperwork right now, in fact. How about you? Pass the word around! 13 comments to Wanna do Boomershoot, bloggers? Here’s your chance! |
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Yeah, of course I want to, it’s that whole “damn, it costs a lot of money to get there” thing that makes it kind of not feasible.
Yeah, I’m going to try to save for it over the school year, because, as usual, I’m going to be using my school loans for actual living expenses, but if I don’t travel and do fun stuff now, I fear I won’t be able to later. So I’m going. :-)
Expedia won’t quite let you reserve tickets for the Boomershoot dates just yet, but as an example on nearby dates I see round-trips from, say, Tampa (just to pick an entirely random city) to Spokane are just over $400 and from Tampa to Lewiston it’s mid-$500s. If Spokane, you could rent a car to drive to Orofino. If Lewiston, you could rent a car or if yer really hard up an obliging blogger might drive out to pick y’all up. Consider that if you want you can camp in a tent on the Boomershoot site, and it’s pretty cheap for what you get.
Nice motel rooms in Orofino are on the order of $50.00/night. Food (except for Saturday night dinner–grumble, grumble) is fairly cheap too.
There are lots of people driving up and down the hill from/to Orofino so finding a ride shouldn’t be hard.
I pretty much run a taxi service from Orofino to the shoot all weekend.
BTW, I talked to the guy that owns the hotel across from the place that has the dinner. He said the guy that owns the ponderosa is his brother-in-law; he also said when they had the family reunion there, they got about a $2 a head break on dinner.
I think the Boomershoot is the biggest thing in Orofino every year.
David, Tampa is my home so thanks for doing the work for me ;)
Actually, my problem is more than just airfare. I don’t have any glass for my rifle, I have no sort of tent or shelter, no bipod, and being from Tampa, the warmest thing I have is a windbreaker. If it were just the airfare, I’d be golden, but it’s the bajillion other things that I’d have to get (and trust me, I’d have to get them ;)
Robb, the city choice wasn’t that random.
Rifle glass: if you have to go cheap, the $45 Barska jobbies I mention here will get you out to the 385-yard line at least (unless you’re shooting some sort of magnum monster, in which case the scope might break lol): http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=4999
Bipod: Sportsmans Guide again is your friend. A cheap one is better than nothing. And you might be able to convince me to let you borrow a Harris off of one of my pistols.
Tent/shelter: if you’re really hard up you could sleep under the Random Nuclear Strikes three-position canopy. Or maybe on a cot in the great room at Trib’s for a reduced rate (Dave’s son did that in 2007). That way you’d get the famous Trib’s gourmet breakfast that lasts you all day ’till dinner.
Cold-weather gear: if you don’t mind ’80s-era puffy down parkas and Phil Mahre-style ski jackets, I’ve got ya covered there. Plus, I bring the sun from California every year I attend. (The snow this year was a whimsical temporary aberration to amuse myself, you see.)
I love how David is like the travel agent/spokesperson for Boomershoot. Are you sure Joe isn’t paying you, David?
I’m in. I’ve been wanting to get up to Boomershoot for years now, and this is the perfect reason to go.
Now which rifle… Hmm.
BTW, does anyone know how the Spokane airport is on flying with guns? I’m out of DFW and that’s no problem, but I’ve never flown a firearm into or out of Washington before.
Nah, Squeaky, I’m just an enthusiast.
Alan, I’m sure Spokane is just fine. It has to be better than Oakland and San Francisco, and I’ve flown out of those with no real problems.
I wish I could find some land down here in the Sunshine state to hold Boomershoot South.
How many square miles do you think I should look for? :0)
Robb,
I think last time we (Joe and I) looked into it, the fee structure for bringing the Boomershoot to a random US site was about $25,000. If you want it to happen, you know how to get in contact.
Ry
Ry, I bugged Joe already.
Seeeeerrriously wouldn’t mind thinking hard about this.