3 Boxes of BS

Okay folks…I’ve heard from quite a few of you but still need to touch base with a few more. If you have not received an email with the club location, definitely let me know.

Also please let me know the final count as much as possible. I need to purchase the hamburgers, hotdogs and buns soon

So far the responses have been mixed. Heard from a few folks (mostly people I missed in the email) and have a few confirmations.

Paul K and guest

The Redneck Engineer, Joanna and 5 to 10 guests

Nick the Blogless

DanielS – Among the Leaves

William Brown – Where there’s a William   and guest Mike; offered to bring bottled water and iced tea.

Greg Tag and guest — Watermelon or Potato Salad.

Cormac and possibly “a handful of people”

Daddy Hawk, his Queen and M&M –  and possibly a friend or two – Tentative willing to bring either Mac & Cheese or Chili

 Southern Belle & KX59 with 3 Kids in Tow

John Dickson and Son — bringing “Hot Corn Casserole”

OrbitUp and Mrs from Subject To Change

And that is the blogging side of the invitation list — 20 confirmed
On the family/friends side; I have Son Troy and his wife Ash (3 kids non-shooters), Daughter Carolyn, Rich and his daughter, Julie & Bradly (2 kids), Randy & Carol, Samantha & Jason, Cliff & Gretchen (2 kids, possibly shooting) Lindsey & boyfriend, Bill, Scott, Ann & Don, Paul & Aliya and 2 others, Kelli& Alan (1 kid possibly shooting), Raquel, Vanessa & Rebekah, Jason & Patty = 34 39
(bold indicates owns firearms and will bring them)

From the Board of Directors/Club
I have Matt & Sandi (possibly), Byron, Frank, Gary, Jack — another 6.

So that is 65 people by my count confirmed and another 10-15 or more possible. Everyone is welcome but please let me know as soon as possible so we can coordinate food.

Please spread the word about the blog shoot; it is open to all bloggers, readers, commentators, etc. I just have to know who is coming to provide directions.

So am I missing anyone from the list?

An email went out today, if you didn’t get it please let me know so I can add you to the distribution list.

Thanks

Okay folks we are less than 30 days away from Dallas Area Blog Shoot III; so I need to start getting my stuff together, I hope you’ll help.

I really need to know who is planning on attending and how many you are bringing with you.
This is open to all readers, bloggers, commentators, etc; I just need to collect names and email addresses. The email addresses are needed to provide directions or the address to the Super Secret Shooting Club.

I’ll update the list here as we go along.

Second, please consider what you might want to bring as an entree, side dish or desert. I plan on providing the hamburgers, hot dogs and fixings. We have available a full kitchen – not sure if their is an oven, I’ll check- with electricity. We have a freezer and refrigerator and no worries about ice.

This is also going to be a little different as far as attendees; I’ve invited quite a few** of my friends and family to attend and it looks like many of them have accepted. I have invited many of the Club Board of Directors to attend and help out. This is quite a good thing as we will be setting up some steel targets normally used for matches.

She Who Lets Me Make Her Coffee Every Morning will be there along with my son TR, our Daughter in Love Ash and their 3 young’uns — so please invite along family also.

So — who’s in for sure and when you comment, please make sure to use the email address where you want to receive information.

Thanks and I’m really looking forward to this.

** As in total estimate of family, friends, bloggers, commentators, etc was around 50 to 75 people **

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 ** Added up to 17 confirmed and many still tentative. Let’s keep going folks !
And as far as Ammo goes; well bring what guns you have and we’ll see if we can’t scrounge up something to run through them, eh.

Paul K and guest

The Redneck Engineer, Joanna and 5 to 10 guests

Nick the Blogless

DanielS – Among the Leaves

William Brown – Where there’s a William   and guest Mike; offered to bring bottled water and iced tea.

Greg Tag and guest — Watermelon or Potato Salad.

Cormac and possibly “a handful of people”

Daddy Hawk, his Queen and M&M – Tentative willing to bring either Mac & Cheese or Chili

 Southern Belle & KX59 with 3 Kids in Tow

John Dickson and Son — bringing “Hot Corn Casserole”

Found out that Orbitup from Subject to Change is a local Dallas Area Blogger.

He has some great videos up from a recent shoot – the Texas Gun Talk shoot.

Of course, as soon as I found out, I invited him to attend the Memorial Day Dallas Area Blog Shoot III.

If there are any other bloggers who want to attend, please let me know. If you know of any local bloggers who haven’t been invited; please let me know. Guest list is growing quiet large but the party should be worth it.

Getting down to about 6 weeks or so before the big event. As the recent need to renew my Concealed Handgun License proves, it is going by fast.

Stock up and get ready for a great time folks.

Redefining Win- getting to the sports store 10 minutes before they open and walking out with one box of .45 acp.

No 9 mil, no 5.56, no .380 acp.
And one box per caliber limit.

Guess I’ll put that box away for the blogshoot.

So…..in order to keep up interest and spread the word, I thought I would talk about some of the planning for Dallas Area Blogshoot III.

Who can attend.

Please spread the word that readers, commenters,  and bloggers are welcome. If anyone wants to attend, there is a $5 per person (for those over 18) guest shooter fee. If people don’t shoot, no fee. Kids are welcome to attend — if they want to shoot great. If they want to be on the ranges, great as long as the parents keep an eye on them. We will have the pavilion for people to rest in or to play games away from the ranges.

Anyone who plans on attending will need to email me at 3_Boxesofbs_@_gmail_._com (remove underscores) to RSVP. I’ll provide directions to the Super Secret Shooting Club and we will need to keep track out how many are planning on attending– see below.

Since it is a special day for me, I will also have friends and family attending. I also am recruiting club members to join and help out.

Ammunition.
No ammunition is sold at the Super Secret Shooting Club so bring your own – if you can find any. I’m starting to set some aside just for the occasion. If nothing else, I have most of a spam can of 7.62x54r that we can run through

Along that lines some calibers are prohibited at the range — .50 BMG and .416 — anything in that range. We do have a 200 yard range so we can get some long distance practice in.

Food.

She Who Lets Me Make Her Coffee Every Morning and I are planning on providing hamburgers and/or hot dogs for everyone. I hope it isn’t too much to ask people to bring a bag of chips or side dish or desert. The meeting room for the club has a full kitchen; including microwave, freezer and refrigerator.  Water is available but it is well water so bring your own drinks.

Now for the  fun stuff — let’s get inventive (but not too inventive, do you hear me The Redneck Engineer???) with targets. This is the list from the rule book.

So you see the club isn’t completely stodgy about targets just almost most completely. There will be one match using steel targets going on that day — falling plates but there will be another rack available for us to use.

I know this is a little far out but I’m trying to get the word out there. We had 30 people show up for D.A.B. II and it was a great time, despite the weather. Please help spread the word and let the area bloggers know about this get together. I would like this to be a great family event.