The Blogshoot

Saturday Morning the bloggers all gathered at the range to have at it.

As usual Murphy's Law had organized a great event and we had a great turnout of some of the finest people around.

Since I was helping RSO the event, I didn't get to take a lot of pictures, but I did get a few.

Keads running the pin shoot:

He worked hard at it and made it a rip-roaring success. It was a great idea and very well executed.

Nancy stole the show with her Brown Bess:

Hayden with the M-60:

I let various bloggers run the Uzi and they all had fun with it.

Everyone was safe and lots of money was turned into noise for a good cause.

Afterwards we adjourned to a restaurant offering some fine prime rib and other good eats and there was much good conversation:

Old NFO was on hand to autograph and personalize copies of his latest novel, and you know I picked one up and will review once I've finished it.

Then Keads announced the standings in the pin shoot and prizes for the pin shoot were handed out, as well as prizes for the most interesting firearm and longest distance traveled to the shoot.

And another great blogshoot, that raised $800 for charity, was done.

Blog Shoot In T-34 Days and Counting

Yes, Virginia, in West Virginia, there really is a blog shoot.

And it's all for both fun and charity.

On November 1st in Jefferson County West Virginia to be precise.

Expect to run into a lot of the great bloggers from the area at the shoot, all of whom are a bunch of darn nice folks (and heavily armed to boot).

Check in with Murphy's Law at MartiniHenryWV@gmail.com for more details.

If you're closer to West Virginia than southeastern Michigan, then distance is not an excuse to miss it....

West Virginia Blogshoot Report

Saturday bright and early we rolled out of the Lair and headed to the range.

The blogshoot was organized not just as a meet-n-greet-n-shoot, but also to raise money for a worthy cause:

After paying the range fees, we kicked in our donations to the Wounded Warrior Project. Then the range staff held a safety briefing and we got to the shooting.

20 bloggers and blog commenters attended.

It is certainly fun to meet bloggers and blog commenters that you only know from their blog personas. Some are exactly as you pictured them, some quite different.

I met Old NFO in person, and he graciously let me try his FN SCAR. We were shooting at 400 yards and with the gun and ACOG scope mounted on it I was hitting the steel very easily indeed. Awesome gun.

He then even more graciously assisted me in sighting in the new ACOG I had mounted on my AR-15 and in a few shots with his help I was hitting steel cosnsistently at 400 yards. A true gentleman and I've aded him to my blogroll accordingly.

I also met Keads in person, and much as is revealed in his writing, he is also a true gentleman. Not only did he shoot, he also volunteered as a spotter for other shooters on the 400 yard line.

Proud Hillbilly was there, and it was good to put a face to a name and to see my old M1 Carbine being used so well.

I also met AZ.mrmacs, a gregarious and humorous fellow who brought some wonderful toys to the range - an MSAR and a FAL:

Murphy's Law has a great and more detailed report of the shoot. After all, I'm busily typing this on his computer -- but he gets to use my pictures so its a fair trade. Some other great writeups of the event include New Jovian Thunderbolt's account, My Muse shanked me, with an excellent video of my UZI in action, In Search of the Tempestuous Sea, Keads, and Old NFO's, of course.

We raised $1,100.00 for a very worthy cause, and had fun and met some new friends doing so.

Off To The Blogshoot

Off to the blogshoot this morning.

Thanks to Abby for the motivational picture, complete with ear protection:

After shoot report to follow.