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Wish I could make it brother but hopefully to Quemado.

Hey Ed, what's the direction of fire on the 200 yard prairie dog shoot?

Thanks,
Gunner

Damn! Now we are going to have Gene shooting at washers and bragging on how He would school you, if you had been there. I am sorry that you can't make it. miles

No problem there Miles, just make sure he uses 3/8" washers and a .45

Horizontal, slightly SW, range 200 yards.

One shot, cold bore, your choice of rifle, sights, caliber, and shooting position. Most shoot from a benchrest. Closest shot to the center of the orange dot on the PD silhouette wins. Ties will be decided by a shoot-off.

Part of the challenge is that there are three PD silhouettes per 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper. Two of the silhouettes are full body, one is half body. Shooters write their name in bold Sharpie next to their silhouette and then have to keep track of where it is among all the others.

Ed

Keith, I fully understand.

We will miss you!

Ed

I like the way you think.

Ed

Back when you were working, you could always get off if there was powder to be burned. Now, as a man of leisure, you ain't got time for us no more.

I came thru Welch last week and prairie dogs and doves were plentiful.

Hah! Just when you thought I was a man of leisure, I get a call. May be headed to Sponxx's neck of the woods south of the borders, so wouldn't be able to make it anyway. If I get the job.

If I let you win our shooting contest can we go shoot prairie dogs at Welch again? Chris is coming to visit again this summer.

Ed

Hi, Guys.
Have been a bit out of pocket but watching and anticipating the gathering in East Texas. It will probably be 110F, you know, so on the avaerage, we will be just right.

Seriously, I kept looking at the posts, and it seemed like I needed to do something, but couldn't figure what. Finally had an an idea last night - if we shoot metal plates at less that 50 yd, the general rule is lead bullets only to prevent the jackets rebounding at 180 degrees to the direction shot. This will cause a bunch of us to spill our sodas, not in a good way.

Have little experience here, so maybe somebody else has a different thought?

Regardless, really looking forward to seeing everybody again.

Propositions such as yours are handled by my agent, Miles.

With all these new jobs/positions that I seem to be coming up with, I think I might be working too cheap. I would up my fee, but I don't know what it is now. miles

Miles, I've always thought you were easy, just not cheap.

Let me know what the fee is going to be. Maybe some of Barbara'a famous Pecan Brownies?

Ed

Leonard, It's good to see you chime in. I was beginning to think you weren't interested.

I am fervently hoping it wont be above the normal 80F in the daytime, and no lower than the normal 55F at night. The way this year has been going so far, we're running about 5F above "normal", so it still shouldn't be too bad.

I have fired literally thousands of rounds of rifle, pistol, and shotgun at steel targets from 10 yards out past 500 yards. That includes jacketed rifle pistol and monometal shotgun slugs. The only time I ever had a ricochet was at 10 and 15 yards when firing FMJ pistol rounds and fragments came back. No puncture wounds, just sting. Everyone should be wearing safety glasses when shooting steel. That's a given.

We won't be shooting steel any closer than 25 yards, with most of it being 50 yards and farther. We also don't shoot perpendicular to the face of the steel, so bullets and fragments don't come back uprange.

Most of our targets will be paper or plastic.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Ed

Dang, wrote a smartass response and closed the browser!
Anyway, seems like we may be able to come, barring last minute emergencies. Adriana talks as if we are definitely doing it (much to her dismay, haha).
The kids don't know about it yet, but will be thrilled.
We'll tell them we we get back from Peru (flying this Friday and coming back on the 19th)

Thinking about the shooting and all the rigging going on, I think I will bring last year's "2nd place achieving" target and rent Miles to swap for this year's if I shoot a little stray.

David, where and when are you going?
I know some peeps with sweet intel on the doves

Pablo,

Dang, I could get into some of that pretty quick.

Not sure where other than Peru, but sometime next week is panic time. Yo pienso en la mina de oro, plata, o cobre, pero no se seguro. I'll let you know when I have something solid, when and where.

David

David. I have friends working en minas por todos lados. Travelling next week? I'll be there. Let me know

Will do.

We brainstormed and decided we should get a remote controlled car, mount a target holder on it, and use it for our charging dangerous game shoot.

Now, survivability of the vehicle may be problematic, is the only concern I have...

Have we started a list yet of who's bringing what?