Overall this has been a pretty good day. Last night Brent mentioned going up to start the Finlandia ski race this morning and said he'd be in his old time gear, so I jumped at the chance to go.
Got up early this morning (to find that it had snowed quite a bit) and headed up to Buena Vista. I arrived about 8:30 only to find that I was early and that it was colder than I had expected. Brent got there about quarter after 9 and introduced me to Tom and his son, whose name eludes me at this time.
I took a few pictures and we found out that the races were delayed until 10 am for some reason or another. We went up to the logging shack and had some coffee before we went back and they got thier guns out of Tom's van.
We headed down to the starting line where they got set up and started 4 races with thier black powder rifles. It was a great time, and I got free coffee out of the deal. That kind of cool stuff makes me want to get into the old time thing more. Brent mentioned a southwestern sytle thing they have at thier rendezvous which really interested me, given my passion for old cartridge rounds.
After that I came home and tried to call back home to IL, only to discover my long distance calling had been supsended until my phone payment reached them. What a bunch of pricks; I just got the bill 2 days ago.
So anyway, I went out shooting with my .44 and my .22 after lunch. I punched groups (or what should have been groups) with a couple of different loads in my .44. I was kind of disappointed with my shooting, but shit happens,eh? Oh yeah, I heard a coyote bay super close to me... I had the gun off my shouder and cocked in about half a second. I know it had to be within 50 yards of me, but I never saw it.
Came back home after that and took a nap, woke up and ate dinner. Been kind of a boring night, decided to upload the new pics and do an update.
That's my day in a nutshell. |
