Nevada Cast Boolit Shoot 2005

[ben1025]

Bruce B: I'm sorry to say again this year I won't be able to attend. I'm in a apartment till my house gets rebuilt. Hopefully by the middle of July they will be finished. They are doing the plumbing, electrical and roof now. At noon we are going to finalize choosing the floor coverings, tile, cabinets, paint and appliances. What a pain in the butt this process has been. After my house is finished I plan on going to Tahoe. Will stop by for my wax and a visit. If the wax is in your way you can mail it to me. Between now and then I'm going to the East coast to visit my son and family. I would fly but have a bunch of ammo to bring him. Too heavy to ship. Say hello to Karen and Kim and all the guys for me. ben1025

[NVcurmudgeon]

Ben, Sorry you can't make the shoot. On you way to Tahoe look up William Lose (me) in the phone book. You will be passing very close to my place.

[ammohead]

Just a quick update. Looks like Friday night at the pig for me. I get off at 3:30 pm. Where I will be when I get off and how far from home I don't know yet. If I finish the day in Reno I have a 1.5 hr drive to get home with a very optimistic 8:00pm eta in Winnemucca.

I have been casting and loading up a storm. 45-70, 348, 30-06, 338-06, 257 Roberts AI, 357, 44mag, and 45 colt. HeHaw I'm ready! See you at the pig.

ammohead

[45nut]

As Usual,I have a lot more guns and gear than I have room. I have plenty of ammo but the pistols outnumber the rifles and I plain don't have room for my Krag. Once the gear and guns went in the car I have the barely room in the front seat for myself and my clothes. See you guys at the Griddle,I should get into Winne just about the right time barring any difficulties.
Hey Bruce,you have a tarp we can attach to the Schuetzenwagen on case it drizzles?
A portable lean to type thing for quick cover just in case???
45nut

[NVcurmudgeon]

Good idea, Ken. I'll bring a 10' x 20' and ask duke to bring his.

[BruceB]

Yep, good idea on those tarps! Some sort of poles would be nice, but ???? Maybe I should get some 8' 2x2s ripped at the local yard just in case. Tieing the edges to vehicles would work if we have some poles to prop up the middle, like a ridgeline.

We had a monster thunderstorm mosey through here around 1pm, but the outlook for Saturday (at least) is pretty good according to the TV weatherman. Sunday may be not so hot.

I am TIRED of handloading. Started up with the rifle ammo several days ago, and now can hardly see the benchtop for boxes of LOADED ammo. I just finally quit a few minutes ago, and I have HAD IT. I didn't total them up, but I'd guess well over 700 rounds in the last few days, most with dacron of course.

See y'all tomorrow. I hope Buckshot and Al didn't get flash-flooded on the way over from Cedarville.

[sundog]

Bruce, 700 hundreds rounds, with dacron, huh? And some ole lady coulda had a nice pillow. And here you are just burning the stuff up. Are they gonna make any more of it?

Pictures for castpics, fellers. We need pictures. Y'all have a good time! sundog

[ammohead]

A little bit of rain....People in Monterey payin big bucks to live in weather just like this!

Sundog, I will take my old timey camera and have some digitals made. I know that there are lots of folks would like to attend this here shindig. It sure is a good time. But in retrospect everytime I get ready for this I think of all the people I have met on this board, and how many more I won't get to meet anytime soon.

The curse of the internet. It provides a place for us like minded folk to all get together like we were right nextdoor. But at the same time it is kind of a bummer that you can't shake hands with every last one. You, Felix, Jumptrap, beagle, waksupi, carpetman (even if he is a cowboy fan) the list is near endless. I haven't been around much till lately but I have been talking to this crew since 1999. I can't think of any thing that I have been a part of that affords me the same level of belonging that this group does.

After surviving my divorce, and the dark ages that follow, to find that this group is still hanging and getting bigger when other forums come and go does my heart and health good. No flaming, no picking, just sharing a worldwide wealth of knowledge and good cheer. I couldn't be happier to be amongst my friends again and look forward to any chance to meet you all in person.

pardon my blab
ammohead

[45nut]

Well,I thought I had seen and heard of some pretty un-usual happenings but the story I am about to tell may just take the cake.

As Quite a few of us have lately.I have also been loading ammo and plucking it from the cabinets and shelves in the reloading room and such. Well Yesterday I found a box of 454 ammo in there and quite happily set it in the stack to make the trip. Well apparently I had overlooked it while packing the car today. Just a few minutes ago I heard a lil crash back in the loading room and went in to see what could have happened,,,it seems that box of 454 ammo DID NOT want to be left home and very astutely set itself on the edge of a low shelf and while I was close enough to hear just slid over the edge and laid it's contents very nicely piled up to be collected and brought along. Now most likely I could have in-advertently set it too close earlier but the odds it would have been forgotten and left behind were not as powerful as the call from Winnemuca to be placed in the steel and wood and paper of Nevada and not here in Orygun.
BTW,,,these 454's were cast of cull boolits I melted from commercial Western Nevada boolits.
Who da' thunk it?
See you gents soon !
As for the Rest of the Cast Booliteers across the Globe...WISH YOU WERE COMING TOO!

[45nut]

I will be taking two digital camera for stills and my digital video camera for this years festivities. I will do my level best to take a number of pics. If it can be done I will burn a CD and send it to Sundog with as much info as I can provide as well as the rest of the fine folks attending.

[wills]

I will be taking two digital camera for stills and my digital video camera for this years festivities. I will do my level best to take a number of pics. If it can be done I will burn a CD and send it to Sundog with as much info as I can provide as well as the rest of the fine folks attending.

You know the problem with taking pictures of people shooting is nobody wants to stand in front of the shooters to take the pictures, so you get a bunch of pictures of fat middle aged guys’ backsides.

Now here is an idea, too late for this year, but maybe some of the technologically astute may manage it for next year. You know those X10 video cameras that used to run the hated pop up ads everywhere? Well get one of those and put it downrange. Supposedly you can control them remotely, and instead of the backsides you could record the august visages of the group members as they launch precision cast boolits on an unerring flight to the X ring. Convert the video images into stills and put them on Castpics.

Should the X10 absorb a boolit, well, the thing has a warranty doesn’t it?

[BruceB]

.............We've ended up our first day of shooting, and I hope get everyone to add a little blurb about any high points they may have had during the day. First off I guess since I'm here at the machine I'll say I had the 50 yard small group title for maybe a couple hours until Curmudgeon's son beat my 1.05" group with a 1.00" group. I WILL add that that group I shot was with the new, never fired (by me) 1917 Remington. Shoots GOOD!

I'd like to add that these are some of the finest people that a person could know. It's more like a familiy reunion then anything else. I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. You guys who weren't able to attend missed something a bit more then merely a bunch of guys shooting cast lead boolits. I was blessed again.

..............Buckshot

45nut here,
Another day of powder stained hands and mucho' powder consumed in the Nevada High Desert,My 3rd NCBS and not my last. Launched the first round today with a powder puff load in the 500 A-Square. Shot my 357 Maximum with great effect on the steel clanger and had great fun with the old model 10 smith as well. Had Buckshot take a few shots with the 458 Win Mag and Powderburner as well.
Met BDoyle ,and drooled over a few of his guns! A Man with taste,Lots of PISTOLS !
KarenB came out and delivered the most outstanding chili for lunch ! Oh My,,after the sprinlkes and rushing to get the machined steel and wood under cover,to SMELL the chili from down the line was MOST welcome. And Oh Boy it was excellent,Salad was awesome as well...Wow,,,now for more "B" hospitality and vittles...
Great fun,report more later.........45nut


ammohead checking in
Had to pry myself away from the kitchen. KarenB is outdoing herself again, lots of munchies, finger food, etc. grills are heating up outside. cold beer. Oh yeah, we went shooting today!

BruceB checking in...

Yeah, and ammohead wept and wailed and done me out of a mega bunch
of .45 Colt goodies...he's making out like a bandit but we all enjoyed the horsetrading. Got my Marlin .32 Special on the benchrest today (finally, after MANY months) with a complete set of decent sights, namely a good Lyman receiver sight and a 17A target-type front sight with interchangeable inserts. I fired a group at 100 yards that appeared to be around the 1.5" mark or less, but in the whirl of events I forgot to recover the target. Tomorrow, I shoot for all the iron-sight "honors" from FIFTY yards....watch this space!

Seems like everyone's having the usual fine time. It's funny to call the range "hot" after a target change, and then have ten minutes or more elapse before the first shot is fired...because everyone's busy socializing! That's what it's all about, though. More later...

NVcurmudgeon reporting in. I am fo two minds about my stepson Jaremy. I have to hogtie him and throw him inthe turck to get him to the range. despite limited practice he beats me with my own rifles. In this case old age and treachery is of little use against keen 21 year old eyes. seriously, I am very proud of this kid because he is respectful, respected, and fits in well with all us geezers. And that is another small point about the mix of people who attend these clambakes. Friendships are formed that transcend all our differences. As someone said above, socialization is the first priority, with shooting a long way second.

Deputy Al is in the house. Having a right fine time with some excellent company and great shooters. As NV Curmudgeon stated, the shooting takes a distant back seat to the meeting and conversation and socializing. That said, I did manage as pretty decent group with the 243 this afternoon--and with the wind alibi and hangover handicap in full force, I am real happy with that outcome.

Buckshot and I did our usual varmint strafing prior to the meeting. The hunting was VERY good, and cast boolits figured in the mix like last year. The 243 did good work on the rats, and 22 LR's and j-words in the 223 did the rest of the job.

Overall, it's nice to leave urban southern California and visit the United States at least once a year. That the trip gets spent in the fine company of board members really polishes the experience.

More to come.

[Urny]

Just a short note to thank everyone, especially the BruceB family, for the grand time at the shoot. Wonderful shooting, food, drink, and especially comradeship. Karen and Kim outdid themselves with the eats and hospitality, and Bruce's organization was spot on, as it always is. Now if he could just organize the rain to a different weekend, all would be peachy. Met some new friends, missed some old ones, and I wish we could do it more than once a year. That might be a little tough on the B family, though.

I wish I had stayed the whole day Sunday, 'cause when safely home and out of the shower, herself called me to come into Elko town to rescue her from a leaking tire, not yet flat, but getting there. Rescued her, came home, and my boss showed up at the door. Compressor problems at the Smith mine, and we didn't get home until 0230 this morn. If I had stayed for the closeout ceremonies, he would have had to handle that without my interference, er, assistance. One more error among many.

I would like to say that 45nut likes those carnivorous handguns mighty well. His 458 Magnum had thumb-of-Ernie for breakfast Sunday.

You guys and gals are the greatest! See you all next year.

[BruceB]

It's Monday morning and the Nevada Schuetzenfest and Shivaree is over for another year.

I'll bet that this one will go into our memories as "the year it rained". The weather settled into a pattern which is very unusual for this area and time of year. Saturday we had a lot of occasional short showers which made us get our gear under cover for a few minutes each time, maybe up to a half-hour once or twice. Sunday we were sufficiently clairvoyant to shoot both team matches (rifle and handgun) in the morning, because in the afternoon it set in to rain in earnest. We still had enough breaks in the rain to do a lot of shooting, but eventually called it a day around 3 pm and moved our deliberations to a handy saloon.

We'd rigged a 10x20 tarp to TimB's truck camper and built an assembly of 2x2s to support the outer edge of the tarp, and the crew spent considerable enjoyable time chewing the fat under the dry shelter. As mentioned in Saturday night's post, a good part of the real fun lies in BSing with everyone.

We saw some good shooting in spite of the weather. Curmudgeon has my result sheet, but the scoreboard is out in the van and ....it's STILL raining. Anyway, Deputy Al won the scoped-rifle event, fired from the bench at 100 yards. His group was measured at 1.020", which is excellent. The interesting thing is that he beat out both Curmudgeon and C's son Jaremy, who BOTH shot 1.05" groups! Didn't I say that there was some good shooting? I'll post more results later.

Tim and LoriB set up a Cowboy Action stage, which required two single-action revolvers, a rifle and a shotgun. They brought along enough guns and leather to equip anyone who wanted to try the game, and the rapid-fire clang of lead-on-steel was heard frequently from the right side of the firing line.

Team matches were shot with just two teams, seven shooters each, which meant that elapsed-time was meaningless. The first team to clear their targets won, and that was that.

In team rifle we fired at thirty clay targets per team. The clays were predrilled for those electrical ties, and they were suspended from a plastic mesh. Range was seventy yards or thereabouts, and a clay is VERY small when using iron sights from offhand at that distance. Team 1 won this match, finishing up while Team 2 still had 11 targets remaing. Curmudgeon was firing on Team 2, but helped us'ns on Team 1 along by breaking five of OUR targets. (He's claiming advanced geezerdom is to blame, but I think he looked at the sorry assemblage that made up Team 1 and decided to give us a hand.) Note that the actual outcome wouldn't have changed even if he HAD broken his targets for Team 2 instead. I reckon our group weren't all that "sorry" after all.

Results in the pistol team match were reversed, and Team 2 drubbed us rather decisively. This event was shot using balloon targets on the same mesh we'd used for the clays. When the last balloon on Team 2's side broke, I believe we still had four or five left on our side. Seems like most of us fired around thirty rounds or more, judging from comments overheard following the cease-fire.

It seemed like I spent a lot of time on Der Schuetzenwagen's benchrest doing things that SHOULD have been done long before (zeroing, load testing, switching scopes, etc etc), but I still really enjoyed just being with the gang and shooting with friends. Had a couple puzzlers arise, too. In one case, I was firing my new Savage .338 with 338320s and had four rounds INSIDE the x-ring from 100 yards (x-ring is about 1.1", so the four were in about 0.75") when the fifth shot was called good and landed four inches out. I was surprised. I fired one more and it was almost six inches from the point of aim, also called good. Hmmm....new barrel, let's clean it and see if that helps. Nope. The first round from the clean barrel I fired into the berm on purpose, but the first round on paper was still a good six inches from POA and the next one was worse. All screws are tight, the scope is a good Leupold, and I never did figure it out. A thought comes to me now...could fouling in the muzzle-brake be touching the bullets on exit??? I'll have to check that.

Anyway, the Sixth Edition of the Nevada Shoot is in the books. We had another fine wind-up dinner at our traditional Basque restaurant, and then struggled out to visit for a while at Curmudgeon's digs at the motel....naturally still called "Duke's Room"....us shooters love our traditions, don't we? I expect that some other attendees will flesh out this report from their angles, too.

We had a few local shooters drop by, and will work on getting some of them more involved. Bdoyle was welcomed into the group this year, and as usual it was nice to be able to put a face to one of our Internet friends.

I think Skeeter nailed it in his book title: "Good Friends, Good Guns, Good Whiskey"....although the 'whiskey' part is just a small factor in our proceedings. Thanks to all who attended, and we hope to see some more new faces next year.

[bdoyle]

First off all I would like to thank Bruce and his family for putting up with the invasion. They put a lot of work into this shoot. Secondly I would like to say I am sorry for bringing the rain. Some one has to do it so I will take responsiblity. With all that said, it was a Great weekend with Great company. I must admit I was 'almost' tired of shooting by the end of the day. I think the rain breaks allowed me to revitalize some.
Glad to meet everyone (and in the back of my mind plans are formulating for next year)

Brian

[powderburnerr]

A BIG THANK YOU TO BRUCE AND FAMILY FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK IN PUTTING ON A GREAT SHOOT. It was nice seeing you all and shooting with you................ Dean

[NVcurmudgeon]

Oops, sorry Bruce. I have your official results sheet before me, so I'll post
the results and save you a trip in the rain. Driving home this morning, the rain seemed to be hanging over Winnemucca. That this many events were gotten in during breaks in the weather, along with the two team shoots, is due to the organizing talents of rangemaster BruceB. Rumor has it that one confused old geezer thought he was standing in a different place than was actually the case, but that's not Bruce's fault. Running those team events was similar to herding cats! It has not escaped the notice of NCBS attendees that Bruce, Karen, and Kim, good shots all,do not shoot a lot at these shoots. They are too busy organizing, rangemastering, and producing gourmet meals to look to their own shooting. Thank you all very much.

Iron sight rifle score: Ammohead and curmudgeon tied (47-1X)
Iron sight rifle group: Ammohead and Jaremy tied (1.00") Note:
Ammohead shot an 1895 Marlin .45/70
Scope sight rifle group: Deputy Al (1.020") Note: Deputy Al shot a Remington 788 .243 Winchester.
Scope sight rifle score: curmudgeon (46)
Iron sight pistol group: ammohead (3.5")
Scope sight pistol group:
Long range iron sight rifle offhand: Deputy Al (4/5) Because of range limitations, this event was at 100 yds on a smaller gong than in previous years. Deputy Al shot a Savage 99 250/3000, another fine performance with a notoriously lead boolit unfriendly smalll bore rifle. There seems to be a pattern here.

Lost and found: Ammohead's hat got left behind at the Duke's room party. Now You'll have to drop in on one of your commutes.

It it too soon to start casting for next year?

[NVcurmudgeon]

Addenda et errata: Scope sight pistol group: 45 nut, a tiny 1.45". Sorry Ken, in my absence my wife switched in a new computer keyboard, and I disappeared half of your line in the previous post.

[45nut]

Made it home safe a couple hours ago now. What a great respite from the "work" grind.

Fun Shootin',Food and Friends= NCBS

As metioned it sprinkled some,not real rain like I grew up with in SE Alaska mind you though. If it comes straight down and plops you in the head it's just a sprinkle.
If it comes at you sideways and slams ya upside your head than it's rain.

We would have had to take a few breaks to BS anyway,so it really was not wasted time. Meeting more familiar names and a couple of new ones was most Excellent.
BDoyle in particular really had me going with his Rugers. Matching Bisley 45's in nickle and another pair in blue. Nice Stuff. Hard to get me jealous much anymore but at NCBS I am always going home with a new case of "I NEED"S"
Since either I missed it and skimmed to fast ,or someone hadn't mentioned it yet.... WOW, Ammoheads Elk was Simply Awesome Saturday night at the Bar-B-Q.
I need some downtime from the road and will get pics up soon.......
Another Awesome NCBS capably, graciously and Well Hosted by the "B's"
Thanks so much.
PS:Ernie...I had lots of ammo left and will make sure you get a chance to shoot a box full next year. :P

[9.3X62AL]

Just got in a little while ago, and MANY thanks to Bruce B and Family for another fine time in north central Nevada. What a great time!

Also to Buckshot--kudos to a fine hunting partner. Anyone that can share space with my ragged a-- for a full week and keep smiling the whole time has the patience of Job and the kind heart of St. Francis. Thanks a bunch, senor.

He and I will be shooting tomorrow at the weekly Burrito clambake, too. Are we BENT, or what?