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10-30-2010, 03:50 PM
Golden Boolit Award--Bruce B
I would like to recommend our long-time member Bruce B for the Golden Boolit Award at the Cast Boolits site.
Bruce exemplifies what is best about the membership here--the freely given and generously shared knowledge base of MANY years' experience in widely-varying shooting venues. Talk about someone who has been there/done that........decades spent in Canada's Northwest Territories, wresting a living and recreational pursuits from a harsh and unforgiving environment. Service in Canada's Armed Forces. Representation of his home province in Canada's Winter Games in shooting venues. Subsistence and recreational hunting of large game animals in large numbers, enough to have valid real-time real-world opinions and conclusions as to what works (and what doesn't) in the game fields or under attack by aggressive species. I'll take ten minutes of Bruce B's advice over a lifetime of Facklerite Jello-Chilling and calculation, thank you very much. Polar bears don't read Fackler, and don't subscribe to Wound Ballistics Review.
That's just the foundation. Specific contributions by Bruce include his speed-casting regimen, which he has demonstrated in real time for onlookers at his Ragged-Ass Ranch. Do that bit with a 4- or 6-cavity mould, and you have a large pile of boolits in a very short time. It's not bad as an upper-body aerobic workout, either.
Another of Bruce's significant contributions to the site has been his adaptation and refinement of what has come to be called "The BruceB Softpoint Casting Method". This is a process that I have experimented with at some length since he posted the text, and it is my preferred method of creating rifle and handgun boolits specific to hunting venues for larger game. It requires no special tooling or equipment beyond what is already on hand for casting. It is a clever, effective, and affordable route to premium-level hunting boolits for our rifles and handguns.
On a more general note, Bruce's contributions are unfailingly courteous, and the deep foundation from which his texts are drawn is self-evident in their content. There is often humor included in his posts, poking good-natured fun at our hobby and the recreational pursuits allied with casting. His posts are unfailingly informative, enjoyable, and fun to read.
Last--and certainly not least--Bruce and his family (wife Karen and daughter Kim) have since 2001 annually hosted the Nevada Cast Boolit Shoot in and around their home in Winnemucca, NV. This annual meeting has braved searing heat--rain--cold--even snow--and continues to be a HUGE success, growing in size each year. The king blocks in this arch of ongoing success have been Bruce, Karen, and Kim. I'm sure all three will say that the people in attendance make the occasion, and I have no disagreement with that--but Bruce and his family have made the occasion GREAT.
To close, I have had the great privilege of sharing hunting fields, fishing boats, camps, bad weather, long drives, and perhaps a few too many adult beverages with Bruce. I have yet to meet a storyteller that can outdo Bruce as to quantity of tales or quality of content--that alone makes a meeting of NCBS worth the trip. I am proud to call Bruce a friend. In every respect, Bruce is deserving of this recognition.
Allen Paine
Ridgecrest, CA
I would like to recommend our long-time member Bruce B for the Golden Boolit Award at the Cast Boolits site.
Bruce exemplifies what is best about the membership here--the freely given and generously shared knowledge base of MANY years' experience in widely-varying shooting venues. Talk about someone who has been there/done that........decades spent in Canada's Northwest Territories, wresting a living and recreational pursuits from a harsh and unforgiving environment. Service in Canada's Armed Forces. Representation of his home province in Canada's Winter Games in shooting venues. Subsistence and recreational hunting of large game animals in large numbers, enough to have valid real-time real-world opinions and conclusions as to what works (and what doesn't) in the game fields or under attack by aggressive species. I'll take ten minutes of Bruce B's advice over a lifetime of Facklerite Jello-Chilling and calculation, thank you very much. Polar bears don't read Fackler, and don't subscribe to Wound Ballistics Review.
That's just the foundation. Specific contributions by Bruce include his speed-casting regimen, which he has demonstrated in real time for onlookers at his Ragged-Ass Ranch. Do that bit with a 4- or 6-cavity mould, and you have a large pile of boolits in a very short time. It's not bad as an upper-body aerobic workout, either.
Another of Bruce's significant contributions to the site has been his adaptation and refinement of what has come to be called "The BruceB Softpoint Casting Method". This is a process that I have experimented with at some length since he posted the text, and it is my preferred method of creating rifle and handgun boolits specific to hunting venues for larger game. It requires no special tooling or equipment beyond what is already on hand for casting. It is a clever, effective, and affordable route to premium-level hunting boolits for our rifles and handguns.
On a more general note, Bruce's contributions are unfailingly courteous, and the deep foundation from which his texts are drawn is self-evident in their content. There is often humor included in his posts, poking good-natured fun at our hobby and the recreational pursuits allied with casting. His posts are unfailingly informative, enjoyable, and fun to read.
Last--and certainly not least--Bruce and his family (wife Karen and daughter Kim) have since 2001 annually hosted the Nevada Cast Boolit Shoot in and around their home in Winnemucca, NV. This annual meeting has braved searing heat--rain--cold--even snow--and continues to be a HUGE success, growing in size each year. The king blocks in this arch of ongoing success have been Bruce, Karen, and Kim. I'm sure all three will say that the people in attendance make the occasion, and I have no disagreement with that--but Bruce and his family have made the occasion GREAT.
To close, I have had the great privilege of sharing hunting fields, fishing boats, camps, bad weather, long drives, and perhaps a few too many adult beverages with Bruce. I have yet to meet a storyteller that can outdo Bruce as to quantity of tales or quality of content--that alone makes a meeting of NCBS worth the trip. I am proud to call Bruce a friend. In every respect, Bruce is deserving of this recognition.
Allen Paine
Ridgecrest, CA