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So my schedule for yesterday did a big fat change Friday night.  Instead of the Palouse car show we decided to help Joe with a private Boomershoot party.  We drove the truck for simplicity sake and got out there a little bit late.  Late enough that everyone was at the Taj by the time we got there.

As I arrived I saw a set of tracks running through the field next to the berm down at 380.  Figured ok passage should be good.  I eventually get in a ways and see a small mud hole that doesn’t look too bad.  This thing was deep enough and wet enough it could have been used as a runaway truck ramp because that’s exactly how it behaved.  I hit it at about 20 to 25 and immediately stated slowing down I got to just the other side but the rear end was mired in.  I Tried backing up cutting to one side to try and get another run, big freaking mistake.  My front end sunk in absolutely no time flat.  When I got out this is what it looked like.

The weight of the diesel block is what did me in cause notice how the front wheels sunk.

We tried to pull it out initially by Joe doing a snatch with his Escape.  It didn’t work, I then tried to use the come along and with his rig as the anchor with the truck trying to pull out.  The Escape just started sliding towards the truck. 

We then proceeded to just move the bare minimum gear up there and were going to get the truck out after the party.  After the depressing failure of the fireball we went and grabbed the Cat.  Hooked it up to the back and pulled her right out.

The ruts tell the story of how bad it really was.

I have now joined the limited group of Boomershoot staff that goes out there so often that they have finally gotten stuck.

When I stopped to chat with some friends from work last night I was reminded of one very important thing.  No matter what, it could always be worse.  How much worse you ask?

That is a Steiger Quadtrac 4WD tractor that sunk in the Palouse mud out here near Pullman.  How sunk you ask?  Well normally they look like the following and they have been known to pull stuck dozers out of the mud.

Decided to do another panoramic today using pictures from out front.

Yeah the winters out here suck most of the time.  Spring and summer out here though is gorgeous.  The ground is pretty bland in the fall after harvest.  Tomorrow I’m going to try and take some panoramic shots from the top of the 700 yard line out at the Boomershoot site. 

Rolf dumped some more pictures last night.  I have added them to my gallery under Boomershoot 2011.

Here’s some of the highlights I saw in the new batch.

Joe’s daughter taking a much deserved break.

The RNS crew with Rolf and someone else who I am not familiar with.

And it wouldn’t be right without at least one picture that somewhat qualifies as gun porn.

That’s Tango shooting his R700 in .308.

In other news my trip to the car show has been canceled to return us to our regularly scheduled program.  Guns, Gas, Flares, and Explosives.  More tomorrow night and probably Sunday.

One of Dave’s babies chambered in .223.

The One Legged Maniac gets introduced to shooting rifle caliber pistols.  It is addicting.

For some reason I just can’t get any flow tonight and I’m not sure how well it’s going to work this weekend.  Sunday I will probably have something up.  In the mean time here’s what I saw out my front window last summer on a frequent basis.

We’re moving into June now and I’ll start seeing and hearing them more often.  They are an absolute blast to watch in action.  Those guys are seriously nuts. 

This is one of the upsides to living in BFE in the middle of farm country.  You never see this in the city.

So Ry told me about the Microsoft Image Composite Editor and I finally got around to playing with it and created this from some pictures I shot a year ago.

I’m headed to a car show this weekend and I’ll probably do some playing there and see what I can create. 

Woman cuts off penis of attacker.