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Day two: Preperation

Date: 04/28/2007 Owner: Gallery Administrator Size: 10 items
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Just under 1000 lbs of explosives in the magazine. The most we've ever used for a single day of shooting.

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Clean up!

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Durring the last bit of the Precision Rifle Clinic that goes on for two days before the actual shoot, we set up reactive targets at the closest target line and the shooters get a taste of the actual event.

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Tim stands guard to be sure none of the non certified shooters handle any of the explosives.

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Joe Huffman (The guy who makes all this possible) helps out setting up some stakes.

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Eugene Econ who puts on the rifle clinic, talks with a couple of his students.

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Joe.

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After the clinic over, we set up some stakes. These will all have reactive targets on them, and will all be detonated by mid morning the next day.

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There is lime in the back of the smaller targets. The lime bonds to the lead and prevents too much lead getting into the water table of the area. You can also see the blast pattern of the targets here on the ground in the lime.

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This is what a single 4 inch target will do to an untouched patch of grass. For scale, that stake is probably two inches wide.

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