When I arrived around lunch time on Saturday, Mom and I had a fun time "eating lunch with Dad" by following him around holding food for him (Mom) and taking pictures (me). Boomershoot is a very busy time for Dad and he's lucky to get any sleep or food during the week leading up to it. This Saturday, there was a unique cause for a cease-fire...this little person was over yonder in the sky sort-of-kind-of near the target area...
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I'm pretty much just including this shot because I look as tall as my sister. But she's kind of slouching and I was on a hill. This was towards the end of the day when all the workers were tired...except for me because there was so little for me to do on Saturday. Mom and I mostly hung out in her jeep reading and eating Panda Puffs. Photo taken by my mom.
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I did try to pretend like I was working at some point by taking landscape photos. The day before it had been snowing. Yaaay Idaho weather.
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The Boomershoot dinner that night included a raffle wherein a large amount of money was donated to Soldier's Angels, which is an organization that helped my cousin out a LOT when he lost his arm in Iraq.
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The next day started bright and early with a huge amount of people participating this year.
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But before the event begins, Dad always holds a shooters' meeting to explain safety and the cease fire rules. Photo taken by Kim.
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The opening fireball...photo taken by Kim.
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And as shot from my perspective. There were some technical difficulties involving this year's fireball and Dad had to shoot at it a bunch for some smaller "fireballs" rather than a huge one.
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Yaaay telephoto lens.
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Meeeee. The only picture you get of me on the actual Boomershoot day. Photo taken by Kim.
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Now on to what shooters pay to do at Boomershoot...shoot boomers!
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These guys again...they spend all year training for Boomershoot. They also put on the dinner and organized the raffle.
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Awww, my adorable older sister. She complained to me after the dinner that all the pictures they showed of her on the slideshow of past Boomershoots were terribly unflattering.
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At lunch time my grandparents came by to check up on things. My grandfather is the one that actually owns the land Boomershoot is held on.
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.18These photos make me laugh. It's like some lord of the realm is overseeing his land...in the most pompous and arrogant way possible. (I love you, Daddy)
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Annual anvil launching. This was when it was still on its way up.
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This is my cousin Brad in a TRACTOR. I called it a combine and my dad was so embarrassed that I didn't know the difference between a tractor and a combine. Whoops. I'm not embarrassed at all, though, because I know I have embarrassed myself in a lot more terrible ways before.
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We blew up a toilet this year.
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And it set the berm on fire. But luckily a local firefighter swung by at lunch time and wanted to participate in the shooting. HOW CONVENIENT. Photo taken by Kim.
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Photo taken by Kim.
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These little old guys drove all the way out from one nowhere-town in Idaho to another nowhere-place in Idaho just to watch Boomershoot. Photo taken by Kim.
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Mom and I drove down to Orofino to take care of some things a bit after the toilet blew up and on our way back we came across a "slow moving deer" as Mom called it.
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Almost immediately after we got back to the Boomershoot site, it was time for "clean up."
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And I took pictures of flowers.
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Aside from never remembering to schedule the time off and register and all that, I only have one rifle that could potentially do the job and I never get to practice with it at longer ranges.