Blogorado update 3…

And for the final act…


Matt and JPG rolled in about 0400, so they parked at the restaurant to wait on us. Not being fools, we called them rather than knocking on the car window… 🙂

I never cease to be amazed at the twists, turns, tangents and flat out weird segues conversations take with this bunch… We covered a bunch of ‘random’ subjects at breakfast, starting with the Internet, sliding into newspapers, with a tangent into porn, wrapping back around to blogs, and into a discussion on the fairness doctrine. And this was in about 30 minutes…

At the range, we repainted, refaced, and everybody was back on the line as soon as they could get there. I heard a lot of, “oh, I want to shoot THAT one again.” And people were shooting much better today (or more were shooting at the same targets), because we were having to stop and reset a LOT. Christina LMT brought some coke cans (full ones) to get a more reactive target, and of course those became the prime targets. Matt and JPG jumped in with a vengeance to make up for lost time, and Matt embarrassed us all by taking out his snub nose and knocking down the plates with it…

We had one popper than just would NOT go down, until Lawdog got ticked and used Stingray’s 44 magnum on it. It didn’t fall per se, but he knocked it over on it’s side, so I guess that counted!

Farm Dad had set up a couple of longer range targets, one at 500 and one at 950 yards, so after everybody got warmed up on the rifles, Breda tried an M-14; JPG and Matt were going from AR to AR, trying the different sights and burying the 50 yard target. Stingray was also plinking the target with his M-1. Snarky and Christina LMT were both trying various rifles too! Ad and Katy Beth were shooting some of the clays and Katy Beth busted every one of them with her Cricket!

We went cold and reset to shoot some real long range stuff…

Meanwhile, Matt, JPG and Lawdog were shooting at the 500 yard barrel with PISTOLS just for fun (I swear they hit it, but we didn’t find any holes)…

The 950 yard target was a bit of a tester, as we had a 10-15 kt gusting wind that was a quartering tailwind.

After a couple of ranging shots, I got the M-24 on the barrel, shot a couple of rounds, and then we started putting folks on the gun. Breda 2 of 5, Rita 2 of 5, AD 2 of 5, JPG 3 of 4, and the winner was Farm Girl, she hit 5 of 5!!!

EDIT- Breda was 4 of 5, not 2 of 5 as she rather POINTEDLY reminded me, also I missed Christina completely, she got 3 of 5.


EDIT 2- STINGRAY was 4 of 5 also…

My list of people NOT to get pissed at me just got a LOT longer!!!

After a pick up/clean up session, we started back to town for dinner. About half way there, I see cars stopped on the road, so we pull over to find that AD had gotten a deer, only problem was he did it with a perfect 65mph trajectory with the truck…

We’re thinking the truck is toast, but it appears to be repairable fairly quickly, and the damage is not a serious as originally thought.

Nobody was hurt, except the deer, so we piled out pistols and flashlights in hand and started looking for the deer. We found it about 50 yards out in the field next to the road, and it had expired. It was a BIG 4 point (western count) or 8 point (eastern count) buck and weighed about 300 lbs. We drug it back to the road (with a couple of breaks), and waited for the authorities to show up. While we were waiting a guy from DNR drove up and told us we could keep the deer but NOT the head. AD was NOT happy…

The first on scene were the paramedics, and the female paramedic dissed AD’s deer, calling it a baby, saying she’d killed a bigger one last week!

And then the fight started… 🙂

We literally got out the tape and measured the rack, finally getting the female paramedic to admit, that yeah, this ‘probably’ was a 150 deer.

After refusing transport, they departed and this being a rural area, and us being bored, the head got duly removed from the carcass, and mounted on the hood of the truck, hat on it’s head, and cigarette in it’s mouth. About this time the Sheriff’s Deputy came on scene.

Have you ever seen someone do a triple take? This poor officer literally stopped dead in his tracks looked at the deer, looked at us, and was probably thinking oh @#^& what in hell have I walked into NOW???


Of course we are laughing, talking, taking pictures (the above pic is from Snarky) and, oh by the way, most of us are open carrying pistols…

The Deputy gets the info he required, and told us about a 40 minute wait for CSP to show up. The DNR guy came back by and took the head, and since he’d told us we could have the deer, AD took his frustrations out on the sucker, dressing him out and we bagged the shoulders, loins, and backstraps.

Matt invented a new dance, the Deer Dressing Twister- You put your hand behind your back grab a front hoof, you put your right foot on the pelvis to help spread it, and hang on while the slicing and dicing continued!

Note to self, a Sawz-all make a GREAT addition to the ability to dress out a deer in a hurry…

Now the Deputy is still on scene, waiting for CSP, so he’s walking back and forth, looking at us, etc… He finally allows as how we are an “interesting” group of individuals…

The CSP officer finally comes on scene as we are finishing up the deer butchering, and the paperwork gets wrapped up about the same time the deer gets wrapped up.

Stingray and Labrat towed AD’s busted truck over to Farm Dad’s and Farm Dad and AD will get on it tomorrow am.

We all finally rolled back into town about 2030, minimally cleaned up and headed over for dinner (much delayed, but much needed).

As we were relaxing and laughing over the incident, AD pulled out the deer’s testicles, swearing he’s going to mount them on his rifle like Stingray has done with the 20 sided fuzzy dice…

Matt finally says, “You know, if I’d run up on us, acting the way we were, I’d have been lining everybody up for a breathalyzer; figuring I’d have caught a bunch of drunks…”

Since people are departing early am tomorrow, we said out good-bys, thanked the Farm Family for hosting a VERY interesting event, and headed off to bed.

I’m sure there will be numerous posts, with pictures of all this; but I’m telling ya, somebody is going to have to go a LONG way to top this weekend… Old friends, new friends, good fun, LOTS of trigger time, and smiles all around.

It just doesn’t get any better than this… Sigh…

Now I’ve gotta go back to reality…

Comments

Blogorado update 3… — 17 Comments

  1. I don’t wanna go home!!

    I’ve had so much fun with you all, and shooting was a total blast. I’m totally hooked. And that’s a very good thing.

  2. sounds like a LOT OF FUN … but yep, i’m surprised no one got breathalyzed.

    Just one thing, i’m confused at the number of people that turned up because AD hit a deer! AFAIK if you hit a kanga here you just keep driving (if you can or call a tow truck).

  3. Ahem….

    Why do you think Americans are the stupidest creatures in the industrialized world? Why do you think we are the laughingstock of the entire planet? One of the reasons for this sad little situation is the fact that the Americans – just like the citizens of the former Soviet Union or any other people living under the thumbs of despots – have been lied to by their broadcast media.

    When they did away with the Fairness Doctrine thirty years ago, within a small matter of time the American people became a race of blithering Ditto heads. Nine years ago, a whole hell of a lot of us thought that sending a disgusting, half-witted frat boy named George W. Bush to the White House was a really neat idea.

    We’ve become a nation of idiots.

    http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

    Tom Degan
    Goshen, NY

  4. I can kind of understand why DNR officer,a group of folks with a Barney Fife chip on their shoulder, wouldn’t want you to keep the head.

    However, if the deer is dead I just don’t it really matters at that point, rules or no rule on the matter. And that common sense should prevail over bureaucracy and self-esteem issues.

  5. Christina- It was a good weekend!

    Julie- Different country, different rules, and the PCification of the US had mandated things like this now days.

    Gia- yep…

    Tom- point!

    CS- Agreed it should, however… sigh…

    Jay/New- Next year! 🙂

  6. Heh, heh! Only a pilot would make a remark like this…

    “The 950 yard target was a bit of a tester, as we had a 10-15 kt gusting wind that was a quartering tailwind.”

    Glad y’all had fun. That pic of the deer head is definitely a keeper.

  7. Darn it, next year I better see an invite. With plenty of notice so I can make the drive 😛
    (that is, if Yankees are allowed in King Arthur’s court, that is)

  8. Crucis- what can I say 🙂

    DiMY- Wish you had, we were short of 50cals…

    EL- I would, but I’m only the note taker! Farm Girl was in charge!

  9. “When they did away with the Fairness Doctrine thirty years ago, within a small matter of time the American people became a race of blithering Ditto heads.”

    Apparently, the real flaming liberals lose their sense of time shortly after losing their grasp on reality, as seen here.

    On a more reasonable front, glad you guys had a good time!

  10. NFO you were so much more than a note taker. Thank you so much for all the help you and AEpilotjim provided. If Blogorado was a success it was due to the effort of several people, including you. Next year will be even better with more people working on it.

  11. You had entirely too much fun.
    Pelosi & Reid are going to redistribute it and make you share.

    Skul

  12. Yeah, returning to reality was no fun. I was still riding the fun high of the weekend when I walked into class and didn’t pay a bit of attention, until the very end when I was informed that this information will be on a test next week.

    Oops.

    Man, I can’t wait until the next time I get a chance to go and see all ya’ll once more. Would there be any way to sweet talk you into transportation again? 😀

  13. RWL- We did, matter of fact, I had a GREAT time! 🙂

    Farmmom- Y’all did the work, all we did was play! thank you so much!

    Skul- NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 🙂

    Snarky- We’ll see what shakes out.