Shooting the 5R at Boomershoot 2008

What could be more fun than long range shooting? Long range shooting where the targets explode when you hit them!


This was my first trip to Boomershoot (www.boomershoot.org). I'm not able to shoot past 200 yards at my local range, so I was really looking forward to shooting at 1 MOA (or smaller) reactive targets from 400-700 yards. It was a great trip, but very challenging for me for several reasons:

Temperatures ranged from 35 to 75 degrees, the wind fluxuated at around 5mph, changed directions, and then died down, and finally, I simply did not have enough time to accomplish what I wanted.

That said, it was TONS of fun. My highlights were blowing up a boomer (obviously), but I think what I enjoyed even more was having three successive shots hit a steel target center mass at 600 yards. Watching the bullet impact the steel, seeing the mark of the bullet on the white paint, and then hearing the ping of the shot, almost 4 seconds later, was too cool.

I was not able to shoot at paper, which I would love to do at distance soon, but hey, watching a 75 pound anvil launched 150 feet in the air with black powder was awesome.