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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