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Our Vigil Had a Decent Turn Out
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 23:33And it was in the middle of a field in the middle of no where.
There is a long list of different people who did something over at Weer’d’s place.
2011 Boomershoot Fireball Stills
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 12:54This fireball was epic, it has created a flurry of traffic. Rolf was kind enough to send me the pictures he took and I have uploaded them into my photo gallery. The fireball stills start here (look at the bottom). I’m posting the best images though in this post.
Moment of ignition.
Convection starting.
Mushroom forming.
Boomershoot 2011
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 10:33Here is a quick post on some of the more broad points of Boomershoot 2011. I was out there Thursday-Sunday, and camped Friday and Saturday night. I must say, from now on I’m camping out there, it greatly simplified things even though I only live about an hour and twenty minutes away.
This post is going to focus on Sunday, I’ll make one that covers Friday and Saturday later.
Sunday kicked off with a wonderful fireball created by Ry.
21 Days of Boomershoot–Day 15(2011)
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 03:00Joe says that he doesn’t get that close, but some time’s he does. He just he selectively forgets about it.
This was the fireball from my first Boomershoot in 2008. He winged the gas can and needed to detonate a little bit quicker.
More on Confetti, Charcoal, Creamer, Steel, and Boomerite
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 13:21I just finished wrapping up the video from the testing.
I got an email from Ry last night and it appears from that last experiment of the day something quite interesting happened.
Confetti, Non-Dairy Creamer, Charcoal, Steel, and Explosives
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 21:45Joe, Ry, and I headed out to the Boomershoot site today to do some testing with Chalk Dispenser V3.0. We had previously tested the chalk dispenser and it did quite well. The main problems we found weren’t with the design, but with the material being dispensed. This time we were going to try glitter, Mylar confetti. At the last second we also added non-dairy creamer and match light charcoal.
Good news and Bad news
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 23:33First the good news, Guess who’s coming for Boomershoot this year and staying at my place?
Now for the bad news. My goal this year was to manage at least one blog post every day. This was to hopefully improve my ability and to decrease the amount of time it takes me to make a post; practice that’s how it’s done. However I may end up blogging a little more on home projects or quick links than thought out posts. The reason being is I have a couple projects that I figured would be handy for Oleg that have now been confirmed as being something that would be helpful. Thus for the next many weekends the project for above ground storage in the garage, as well as reorganizing and storage of stuff in the shop. The goal is to have everything in the shop properly stored, and everything in the garage cleared out by end of March. This also includes moving all my shop tools currently living in my garage. Due to conflicting schedules though most of this work is going to be relegated to the weekends. I don’t run power tools at home by myself, it’s a great way to end up dead.
In the mean time here’s a couple pictures that Oleg took last year at Boomershoot. If you think my face looks pink, you should have seen it the next morning. I had second degree burns all over my face.
Royally late new shooter report
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 22:43In August a family friend got a pistol for her birthday. The only thing was though she had never learned to shoot. Her father is by no means opposed to firearms, however her mother hates them with a passion.
I immediately got back to her, she was extremely busy with work for the next couple weekends but she could make it out to my place for dinner one night. She came over brought her new pistol. Went over the four rules, dos and don'ts, as well how to operate her particular weapon as well as a slew of others.
She finally had a day off so we could take her out. I prefer to avoid ranges I’m unfamiliar with when I have a new shooter. I don’t like having to pay attention to other people around me possibly being unsafe while also watching a new shooter.
After talking to Laurel, Corina, and Dan I found a place that would work really well. Only trick would be finding it, I knew approximately where it was. Rolled in as the sun was getting lower in the sky, perfect photography lighting, nice and warm.
Hey, That’s Me!
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 17:59Chalk Dispenser 3.0 Testing
Submitted by Barron Barnett on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 15:41Joe, Ry, and I braved the cold yesterday to go out to the Boomershoot site and do some testing.
We did numerous different tests trying to get different information. While we learned a lot, we also discovered that many ideas we had to try and learn the information weren’t going to work as expected. We learned things we weren’t setting out to learn
Here’s the full test video along with pictures and different things we learned.
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