2010 nevada cast bullet shoot

[MT Gianni]

Slight correction, My son Matt, won the 400 yd rifle with my rifle a 98 Mauser with a 26" Shilen bbl, receiver sight and thumbhole stock. Load was a 311466 modified to a TC by Badgeredd over 57 gr of WC860.
Jezebel, NV Curmudgeons rifle won for his son Jeramy the 100 yard score which I don't recall but it was 46 or 47. Jezebel has won this event several times in the hands of shooters not named NV Curmudgeon. Cold spring day put a damper on our groups but not on the social end. Great bunch of people showed up.

[MT Gianni]

NV Walt won the pistol group, score and 50 yard group the last winning him a NOE mold certificate. MattG won the 100 yard group winning the other certificate. Thanks Swede for your sponsership.

[BruceB]

Recovering consciousness this morning at 0630, I thought , "Good grief, I'd better get going on a report to the Board!"

Fortunately, I found that by the time I was zonked last night, Stew was busy doing the reporting I should have done. Thanks, Stew.

Yes, this will be the year that we'll look back on and say "Remember the year in the hail/snow?" It was rotten, as far as the weather went. However, there seemed to be NO effect on the spirits of the shooters! Smiles and jokes were just as prevalent as they ever were in previous Shoots in good weather. It was great testimony to the will and determination of our people to enjoy themselves, regardless of outside conditions. There were MANY to whom I spoke about the environment, and all of them said that weather is weather, it's gonna do whatever it's gonna do, and we will enjoy ourselves no matter what comes over the mountain. That's exactly how it turned out.

On Day Two, conditions worsened rapidly in early afternoon, so I figured we'd best get the Team Rifle match underway.....it's normally the last event of the weekend. We ended up firing the match in HEAVY hail. In the few minutes that she observed the match, wearing a borrowed straw cowboy hat, my wife reported that over a half-inch of hail accumulated in the crown of the hat. Everything was covered, rifles, ammo, tables and shooters, and we STILL were having fun. It was danged near inspirational, lemme tell you.

The only concession to the weather gods was that we wrapped up the Shoot a bit earlier than normal. Apart from that, it was business as usual and a fine old time for all concerned.

Quite a few new faces were on-scene, and they quickly fit right into the gang just as in years past. It's not hard to find things to discuss, especially when we all "know" each other from our correspondence here on the Board.

Unfortunately, and also as usual, some of us had to depart a bit early for the long haul home. This means missing the closing dinner, of course. Others are meeting once more for breakfast at 0830 this morning to continue the event as long as possible.

We'll have more details on scores etc. soon. Right now, I want to give a huge "THANK YOU" to Swede Nelson at Night Owl Enterprises, who sent two gift certificates for presentation at this Shoot. We decided in advance at the Rools Kommittee dinner that the winners of the two Rifle Grouping matches (iron sights and scope divisions) would receive these certificates, and the winners were NVWalt and MattG. The certificates are for a group-buy mould of the winner's choice, and carry a maximum value of $125 each. Let me tell you right now, based on my personal experience with a pair of NOE 4-cavity moulds, that $125 will buy one HELL of a mould! My 4-cavity jobs cost less than $100 each, so $125 would buy....pretty near anything one's casting heart could desire. Our thanks to you, Al.

More later, but I'm happy and relieved to tell y'all that the weekend was a huge success.

[Matt_G]

Well, I rolled up to the house about 2 hours ago.
First thing, I had a blast! Hopefully I'll be able to make it out next year. These guys have already inspired me to buy a couple of toys.
I now want a lever action, not sure on caliber yet. I was already wanting one but these guys sealed the deal so to speak.
Second, I want to get my hands on a decent military rifle and put peep sights on it.
I wasn't able to use my rifle for a lot of things due to the fact it wears a scope. (Rem. 700 .270 Win)
I still can't believe my 2.11" group won the 100 yard scope group competition and a mould from NOE!! Definitely not my best shooting but hey, shooting in the wind and rain isn't conducive to good groups! (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)

Anyone who's close enough to go to one of these, you really need to do it. What a great group this is. I felt right at home from the git go.
The FEAST Karen B put on Saturday night was unbelievable. So a big THANK YOU goes out to her.
Sure wish I could have stayed for the dinner last night at Ormachea's.
There was no way I could do it though. Had 865 miles to drive and MUST be at work tomorrow.

Thanks for putting on a great shoot Bruce.
I enjoyed meeting everyone who was there.
I'm already looking forward to next year!

[9.3X62AL]

Awright, just got home an hour ago, and Rick/Buckshot should be home in about 90 minutes or so. We skirted bad weather all the way home, and the trip was beautiful--and unremarkable from the standpoint of conditions. Just another fine day in Northern NV!

The weather might have been a little raspy this year, but the warmth and friendliness of the company was unabated. Karen and Kim did their SUPERB job on Saturday's dinner that just outdoes the previous year's engagement every year. The Cast Boolit Flag waved proudly alongside the DON'T TREAD ON ME banner at the Humboldt County Public Range, and given the shooting conditions this year--some excellent scores were fired.

Thanks to all who attended, contributed to the meeting through fellowship, shooting of the breeze and of firearms, and generally being some great people to meet with each May. SPECIAL THANKS to the Bannister Family for having the gumption to take on this Shoot and produce such an enjoyable experience that I and many others look forward to with great anticipation.

[NVWalt]

Finally got back to my fort here in Ruth and wanted to thank everyone involved at NCBS this year and especially Bruce and Karen and her daughter Kim for an incredable feast and all the leg work and time it takes to basically put this great shoot together for the clan of cast boolit shooters. NVCurmudgeon for all he does in making up those very coveted Golden Wheelweight Awards and Mac for having the names engraved on the plaques and the picture we will recieve.
Although the weather was pretty darn cold and breezy Jane and I had more fun than one should be allowed to have. On Sunday I just had to get back to the motel and get warm as these blood thinners I am on have made me very aware of the cold and I just had to leave and miss the team rifle shoot. So goes life.
Every one there were as usual a great group of ladies and gents as any would want to meet.
I sent a PM to Swede thanking him for his support and the gift certifcates and would encourage all who attended this years festivities to do the same. Thanks Swede Nelson.
I really missed Onceabull , Ammohead and a few others I have met there, but sometimes things get in the way of fun.
Of all of you that did miss this years NCBS I hope to see you there next year.
I believe that Jane will be ready to go and shoot with the ladies and maybe we will all get are butts cleaned by those women if we screw up as bad as some of us did this year.
Good shooting to all,
Walt and Jane

[NVcurmudgeon]

My thanks to all those who helped to make NCBS #11 a great success. Host family Bruce, Kim, and Karen, Mac the fastest camera in the west, though I think AZ Stew is also planning to be a contributor there, Brown's for again providing the tables and chairs, Humboldt County for a beautiful range, all those who work so hard keeping the range beautiful, NOE for the generous contribution of mould gift cetificatesl, and especially all the CB brothers and sisters who were undaunted by the Nevada spring weather. Looking forward to seeing you all for # 12, Bill

[mike in co]

i want to thank everyone that went this year.......your suffering in the cold wet rain snow hail well what ever should ensure that the rest of can come out and enjoy decent weather for the next couple of years.....


mike in co

[crabo]

Where are all the pictures?

[Matt_G]

Where are all the pictures?

I know that AZ-Stew was going to post his pics and even try and get a video posted. It may be a while though.
He left NCBS and is visiting friends in Salt Lake City right now. Not sure when he's planning on being back home...

[Buckshot]

This is from Saturday, with a fair number of the folks milling around the line. Most of the ladies hadn't shown up yet.



Still Saturday, and team 1 & 2 shooting the "Team Pistol Event". I'd dropped my digital camera a couple weeks back and it hasn't been the same since, so about half of the pics I took didn't turn out very well, and some never did achieve a good focus. This picture was also taken too far away and doesn't do justice to all the Javalina lube smoke that was present. I did take a walk behind the line while they were still industriously slinging lead downrange trying to cut their board's in half and I was tasteing Javalina most the rest of the afternoon!



This was Sunday. That's Urny on the left mugging for the camera, with 9.3x62's back is to the lens. That's BruceB on his Arctic Cat, just back from a rescue mission having helped someone who'd gotten lost in the snow on their way back to the line from the 100 yard targets



LEFT: Looking down the 400 yard line. As mentioned my camera wasn't focusing well so the target is BARELY visible as a black spec at the extreme left end of the berm. RIGHT: This is MTGianni's son MT Matt, in his match winning position as he punishes the 400 yard steel plate. I forget the boolit weight but I believe MTGianni said they had 57.0grs of surplus WC860 stuff in the 30-'06 case. EVERYONE who shot at the plate shot a 30-'06 of some description except for 7's & 8's who shot, well ................ a 7x57 and 8x57 in two attempts Your present scribe managed to make 4 hits, but missing on the 5th



This is what the front side of MT Matt looks like. A few seconds before a really good hailstorm started and was slowly advancing toward us, so I took the shot. We'd been peppered by the windblown advance, bit in the mid-distance you can see the much thicker 'line' being laid down by the serious part of the advancing front.

The guys out there at the 100 yard lline are hanging the clay birds for the "Team Rifle" event which wrapped up Sunday and the weekend's event's.

BTW, I must add that this year there were 2 "Ladies" event's. One pistol and one rifle, I believe it was. The gal shooting the pistol event had NEVER shot before, and she shot a 49-3X !!!!!!!!!!!

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

[AZ-Stew]

I'm borrowing my friend's computer here in Salt Lake just so I can comment on the photos. They will be forthcoming, but probably not until late this coming weekend. I still have a 2-day drive back to Phoenix and I'm not leaving until Thursday morning. Then I can sit down at my home computer and get some proper photo editing done. As Matt said, I took a video of the first relay of the Team Pistol shoot and as soon as I find a (free) program that will help me compress the file size, I'll post a link to it. I just don't think our readers who use dial-up want to download the 280 megabyte raw video file. I'll let you know how it works out.

And an appolgy to MT Gianni and Matt. I was sure Bill had said Matt won the match with his rifle. Musta been the table wine. Regardless, it was a fine demonstration of shooting! Good job, Matt.

Regards,

Stew

[onceabull]

CobbMtMac,Sis & Mom should be exiting the great state of Ada in about an hour,as they are 15 minutes gone from our driveway. They are staying in Nv. tonight,Home Thursday PM, he says some photo posting on Friday,but I cut him some slack in the post title..Thx to Buckshot for sending out a peek or five... Onceabull

[ghh3rd]

I'm sitting here in Florida in shorts and short sleeves thinking of how strangely everyone is dressed in those pics

[MT Gianni]

2nd pic to the right of pic one, I am the red hat blue sweatshirt, Matt in the red checkered one and NV Walt walking up. Darren's son Chris is far left.
Load is listed in post 101.

[45nut]

Anyone get pics of the flags waving in the breeze?

[MT Gianni]

Anyone get pics of the flags waving in the breeze?

I have one Ken but Holly has claimed her camera back. I will see what I can find tonight.

[PatMarlin]

I knever understud these Cast Boolet Fotografers only getting the peoples backs?

Little friendly fire never hurt..

[MT Gianni]

Sat AM nice weather

no good pics of the girl, story of my life

Winning pistol team NVWalt, Gianni, Darren [CobbMTMac's son] Cindy? Obsessed1968's better half, Buckshot
Winning pistol time to break the stake was 4 min 2 seconds faster than 2nd place team

Winning rifle team Jeramy, MattG, Buckshot, ?, Urny, OopsBoom?, Gianni, CobbMT Mac, AZStew, 9.3x62 AL

[PatMarlin]

... Now thars some good lookin' folks ...