Detailed Schedule

Thursday through Sunday — participants, staff, and special events

Thursday

Bloggers & Media

The Thursday schedule runs only if there is sufficient interest. Some people will show up for dinner at the Ponderosa in Orofino regardless.

  • 0900   Blogger/Media orientation (meet at the shooting line)
  • 0915   Boomershoot history
  • 1000   Tour of Boomershoot site
  • 1030   Target manufacturing setup
  • 1100   Safety briefing
  • 1115   Sample target construction
  • 1145   Manufacturing area cleanup
  • 1200   Target demo
  • 1215   Lunch (bring your own!)
  • 1245   Chemistry of explosives
  • 1300   Theory of fireball construction
  • 1315   Explosives effects
  • 1400   Blogger/media target construction
  • 1445   Manufacturing area cleanup
  • 1500   Blogger/media target disposal
  • 1800   Optional: Informal dinner at the Ponderosa

Staff

  • 0900   Shooting line preparation
  • 1000   Hillside target stake placement (no stakes at the tree-line!)
  • 1200   Lunch (bring your own!)
  • 1300   Hillside target stake placement (no stakes at the tree-line!)
  • 1530   (On arrival of Eugene and crew) Precision Rifle Clinic steel placement
  • 1700   Done for the day
  • 1800   Optional: Informal dinner at the Ponderosa

Friday

Precision Rifle Clinic

  • 0800   Sign in for those wanting coaching (arrive no later than 0830). Field Fire shooters may sign in any time.
  • 0900   Class and demonstration for those wanting coaching
  • 1000   Shooting
  • 1200   Cease fire for lunch
  • 1300   Shooting
  • 1500   Placement of one large and two small boomers per shooter
  • 1530   Shoot your boomers!
  • 1630   On-site AAR
  • 1700   Done for the day

Staff

  • 0900   Target production
  • 1145   Manufacturing area cleanup
  • 1200   Lunch (bring your own!)
  • 1300   Target production
  • 1500   Boomer placement for Precision Rifle Clinic (Joe and three others)
  • 1645   Manufacturing area cleanup
  • 1645   Boomer placement for High Intensity Boomershoot
  • 1700   High Intensity Event (check in and Range Officer duty)
  • 1730   Private Fireball setup
  • 1800   Done for the day

High Intensity Participants

  • 1700   High Intensity check in (at the tree-line)
  • 1715   High Intensity Boomershoot

Private Fireball Participants

  • 1745   Private Fireball check in (at the tree-line)
  • 1845   Done for the day

Saturday

Precision Rifle Clinic

  • 0800   Sign in for those wanting coaching (arrive no later than 0830). Field Fire shooters may sign in any time.
  • 0900   Class and demonstration for those wanting coaching
  • 1030   Shooting
  • 1200   Cease fire for lunch
  • 1300   Shooting
  • 1500   Placement of one large and two small boomers per shooter
  • 1530   Shoot your boomers!
  • 1630   On-site AAR
  • 1700   Done for the day

Staff

  • 0900   Target production
  • 1145   Manufacturing area cleanup
  • 1200   Lunch
  • 1300   Target production
  • 1500   Boomer placement for Precision Rifle Clinic (Joe and three others)
  • 1645   Manufacturing area cleanup
  • 1645   Boomer placement for High Intensity Boomershoot
  • 1700   High Intensity Event (check in and Range Officer duty)
  • 1700   Dinner staff prep for badge distribution

High Intensity Participants

  • 1700   High Intensity check in (at the tree-line)
  • 1715   High Intensity Boomershoot

Dinner Participants

  • 1800   Social hour at dinner location; optionally pick up badges and recite rules
  • 1900   Dinner and speaker

Sunday

Staff

  • 0700   Explosives handlers begin target placement
  • 0800   Badge crew prepares for check-in
  • 0900   Open check-in and verification of participants’ understanding of rules
  • 0950   Shooters meeting (Joe); Range Officers prepare
  • 0955   Fireball demo (Joe)
  • 1000   Shooting begins
  • 1130   Target adjustment people begin lunch
  • 1200   Target adjustment begins; Range Officers begin lunch
  • 1315   Range Officers begin duties
  • 1600   Packing of shooting line equipment and other cleanup begins
  • 1630   Leftover target disposal

Participants

  • 0900   Check in, recite rules, receive badge, begin equipment setup (if not already completed the previous evening)
  • 0950   Attend shooters meeting
  • 0955   Fireball demo
  • 1000   Shooting begins
  • 1200   Lunch
  • 1300   Gun cleaning period
  • 1315   Shooting resumes
  • 1600   Boomershoot ends (guns must be put away promptly so staff can begin downrange cleanup)

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