3 Boxes of BS

Getting friends, family, bloggers, readers together for a blog shoot; not so much.If I thought I had a chance, I would demand more money for the job.

{{ This is just for me, a chance to kvetch, so no one else read this. If you are one of the people I invited through Facebook and asked you to send an EMAIL ADDRESS to me and let me know how many people are going to be attending; DON’T JUST LIKE THE FRAKKIN’ POST, actually send me an email address!!!!!!}}
/Rant

Okay folks, getting down to the wire and I hope that I’ve gotten in touch with everyone. Still waiting to hear back from a few folks about attendance so please contact me as soon as possible.

Would anyone be willing to step up and bring the following:

A. Paper plates for about 80
B. one or more of the fixings for hamburgers; lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles
C. Ketchup, Mayo, Mustard

If you haven’t received an email from me with the address of the blogshoot, please let me know (3boxesofbs_AT_gmail_Dot_Com) and I’ll make sure you have it.

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

Starting to see more signs of recovery; 9 mil on the shelves at less than “not so minor body part” prices.

Picked up 3 boxes in the last 3 days. And I will neither confirm nor deny that this morning someone circumvented Academy’s ’1 box per caliber per person’ limit by giving a stranger cash to buy a box of 9 mm. Although I will admit that I had a great conversation with a stranger while waiting in line.

At least 1 day a month, I can make it over to Academy as they open at 8 a.m. (Allergy shots don’t start till 9) on a weekday.

Words of advice to those seeking ammo; be patient and be consistent in your efforts.

So how is everyone else doing in stocking up?

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”

Okay, figured out a way to load a few pictures. Unfortunately due to many issues, I didn’t stay all day at the event. I took far fewer pictures this year then ever before, I didn’t get any decent shots of the kids shooting skeet or trap.  But I think you’ll get the idea

As usual, the Youth Day event is well attended.

Click all pictures to enlarge if you want.

We start off with a safety briefing that the kids actually heed; as in years past, I heard no reports of injuries.

I think the estimated 213 kids is pretty accurate. I just wish we could get all the adults in the picture. There were about 2 or 3 dozen youth group adults that would not join in the group shot.

The kids are broken up into groups and rotate through each of the stations. This weekend it really hit home how bad the ammo shortage is; the kids were limited to 1 shot of the muzzle loaders and 2 shots from the metallic black powder and 5 or 10 shots on each of the .22 disciplines.

We had kids shooting the Rimfire Bench Rest discipline using club members’ rifles. These rifles aren’t off the rack .22′s either.

We had kids shooting silhouettes at various distances.

We had something new this year; wrist rockets. Of course for economic & safety reasons, the ammo was a little different – dried lima beans.

I’m not sure who had more fun out there Saturday; the kids or the adult volunteers.

I think one of the volunteers put more lima beans down range then all the kids combined.

And the Usual Suspects showed up in costume, I mean Period Attire.

I want to thank all the club volunteers who showed up and the club members in general. Dozens of people worked behind the scenes and on the ranges to make this possible. And more importantly we put on this event year after year without complaint from the club members. They support the event by accepting we will close the range for most of the day and lay out a considerable amount of money.