2014 Boomershoot

Late post, but no reason not to get to it eventually.

Went to Boomershoot this year with 3 other fine fellows, and had an excellent time.  It works much better when you've got a shooting team for spotting.

I shot like gangbusters on Friday, shooting my three boomers in four shots.  Saturday, things started getting sloppy, and I couldn't figure out why until I went to make ascope adjustment and it flopped around.  I had shot the scope loose.  A little loctite will take care of that.

We had some cover over our shooting position for a couple days until the wind picked up and bent the legs.  Next year: stiffer legs.

Someone at Boomershoot discovered that one of my compatriots was a Proper English Gentleman, so they brought him some milk so he could make some Proper English Tea.  Oleg Volk partook of this, and I got a picture of him doing so, and thus I count coup.

 High Intensity lived up to its name.  I collected a panorama of the line before we blew it all up.

First pass at a color fill

With a little model enamel, enamel thinner, shop towels and some toothpicks, I've done my first coat of a color fill on the roll marks of my new lower.

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Patience of a saint

I may not have any other quality of a saint, but patience I certainly have.

It's been a long time coming, but here's the new Boomershoot gun.

Savage 10 BA, .308 Winchester

I tried to get two different scopes in the door, but I finally had to go with something that was definitely in stock and otherwise met the design criteria I was looking for: high magnification, front focal plane, super complicated reticle, et ceteras. Ultimately, this was a Leupold Mark 8 3.5-25x56mm riflescope with illuminated H-58 reticle. I went with a one piece scope mount, and added to it a Flat Line Ops level and angle indicator.

More turrets than a fairy princess castle.

Everything is properly levels, tightened and torqued, so now it's time to get out to the range and sight it in.

Every time you build an AR-15, a guardian angel gets its wings

Wally of York Arms was kind enough to fit me into his production schedule to make a custom AR-15 lower that I will stick a Tac-Con 3 mode trigger package in. Appropriately, there are three labels on the safety selector on this Monster Hunter International themed lower.

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