Mississippi Lead Fling

[jdupre']

We're back, and boy, did we sling some lead! Lotsa pellet shooting, a fair bit of 22 LR and even a few centerfire rounds went downrange. We had quite an array of rifles, carbines and pistols.

Just about enough to keep five geezers occupied.

Bearridge was our unofficial range master. He made sure the targets were EXACTLY at the right distance. That's him with the wheelie, measurey thingy.

This is a shot down range from the big porch of the camp. Keith the boatbuilder on the left and Keith the violin maker on the right killing a few cans.

That last picture had to be early the first day, because there was NEVER a time after the dutch ovens came out that there wasn't something good cooking!



I'll fill in more later and let some of the others chime in.

Joey

 

[jdupre']

I have to extend a hearty "Thank You" to Pete who graciously let us use his camp for these few wonderful days. Pete is a great guy with an ecclectic bunch of interests like most of the geezers in our group. Five minutes after meeting him, I felt I had known him most of my life.

Joey

 

[mike]

Very cool trip, Joey! It looks like a lot of fun for everyone.

Thanks for the report and I hope to see lots more pictures.

Mike

 

[islandpiper]

I'll second everything Jdupre' said and double it. We had a great time. Bearridge is doing well and enjoying life, and helped us all to become better shooters. Keith and Seedtick seemed to have a good time, eating, sleeping, splitting wood, shooting and sharing in the campfire talk. Pete, our host, is a great guy and provided us with a great camp to meet at. THANKS PETE!! I had fun shooting and cooking. My dutch oven has just about earned it's citizenship after this trip. We had a couple days of fresh, hot baked white bread, damper bread, pineapple upside down cake, baked potatoes, fried potatoes and bacon.....or with sausage......or with the other sausage.......and more bacon,cornbread, a mixed berry coffee cake, chili and other things.

Personally, i learned a lot about shooting air guns, and a few new things about constitutional law and American History. Good times, 100%. I'll post some pictures when my big lonely cat moves and lets me reach my camera.

piper

 

[oldsparkey]

Not to interrupt the post but from looking at all those weapons did anyone have a Benjamin Nitro Piston Air Rifle there and if so how did it shoot , accuracy , recoil , etc.......

Chuck.

 

[jdupre']

Didn't see one of those, Chuck. Unless it got lost in the shuffle.

 

[Kayak Jack]

Good to see you guys out there enjoying yourselves. And, you got Br' Bear's most photogenic side!

 

[jdupre']

This is Ole Dead Eye Piper, taking a bead with the Slavia.

Piper was really puttin' them in there, which is amazing considering the trouble he has actually seeing the sights. That Slavia is a sweet shooting, mild-mannered springer. While maybe not up to hunting power, it is a great target shooter.

We learned the "geezer" method of pumping a multpump rifle from Bearridge.

And this is the Gang. Hard to get a picture with all the shooting and eating going on.

This was the temperature Sunday morning about 8:00. We figure it was below 20 degrees right before sun up. Mighty cool for the 3 of us that slept in our hammocks.


Joey

 

[islandpiper]

Sausage, potatoes and onions, breakfast of champion geezers

Now, you boys just sit there and mind that Dutch Oven, ya hear?

We had cell service, but no room service.

On a foggy early mornin'...

As I predicted we were buzzed and observed by a BLACK HELICOPTER, but it had it's cloaking-system on and didn't show up very well in the photo.

 

[Kayak Jack]

You non-aviators may not be able to see that black-ops chopper, but I do. I'll be that Yakus Opticus can see it too.

 

[jdupre']

No more pics from the other guys, so I'll add a few.

Grandma Doyle's soda bread with raisins. Excellent

We invented a new sport-- tag team bagpiping.

I tried it myself. Piper must have one hellava set of lungs! Imagine blowing up really strong balloons one after the other as fast as you can. Wow!


We had a situation that could have gotten ugly in a hurry. Piper was baking bread in his Dutch oven on a bed of coals laid on the ground. Bearridge saw flames around piper's truck and we all commenced to stomp, scrape, drown and slap the flames before they disappeared under his truck's gas tank. Whew! The chairs didn't fare too well.

Sunset. Our view from the camp porch every night.

Dang, fellas, I'm ready to go back.

Joey

 

[islandpiper]

Thanks Joey. Especially for reminding me how stupid I was to turn my back on "just a small charcoal fire". Yup, Bearridge gets the blue ribbon for hollaring "Fire!!! OMG it's under your gas tank!!!" Having my suburban explode on the first day could have changed our entire camping experience.

piper

 

[rpecot]

We had a situation that could have gotten ugly in a hurry. Piper was baking bread in his Dutch oven on a bed of coals laid on the ground. Bearridge saw flames around piper's truck and we all commenced to stomp, scrape, drown and slap the flames before they disappeared under his truck's gas tank. Whew! The chairs didn't fare too well.

I seem to recall relaying a very similar story at our freezing-camp-out-on-the-bayou trip in December. It ended with my son saying "You mean we can't burn the chairs in the campfire?"
:lol:

 

[Kayak Jack]

I'm glad you guys were able to beat that fire to the punch.