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brianidaho · July 30, 2001, 11:30 PM

Welcome to Idaho DS. I'm another WNY refugee, Lockport area, was kind of a birth defect. I'm in Coeur d'Alene now, looking to move up a little closer to Sandpoint in the next year or so. Hope you like the area as well as I do (granted that you are 450 or so miles away!). Ain't the west great. At least you got out when Chuck and Hillary took over PRNY.

Where in NY are you from?

Bri

DCR · July 31, 2001, 03:39 PM

Welcome!

The North End is easily escaped by traveling three other directions, so don't worry too much about them; with their backs against the foothills, we've got them surrounded.

You'll enjoy Shooting World (lucky me - just North of my neighborhood!!) and Shapels; depending on what you're into, there are buys to be had at a number of gun/pawn shops as well. I'd just located Buckhorn Pawn on Ustick - looks like a good selection of classic, straight-vanilla guns; didn't look at prices, though.

To all:

Let's at least talk about meeting sometime, if not for a camp trip, perhaps a shoot, or coffee or lunch or beers - whatever tickles your twinkie; I'd like to put some faces to the aliases and clever posts.

- - - Don

EricM · July 31, 2001, 04:30 PM

Quote:

You'll enjoy Shooting World (lucky me - just North of my neighborhood!!) and Shapels; depending on what you're into, there are buys to be had at a number of gun/pawn shops as well. I'd just located Buckhorn Pawn on Ustick - looks like a good selection of classic, straight-vanilla guns; didn't look at prices, though.

I found Shooting World to be expensive and very loud

, but for an indoor range, it's set up pretty well. Buckhorn Pawn is a 1/4 mile from my house or less. An amazing selection of guns, but prices out of this world. I still think that Bill Williams, the owner, just likes to collect guns

.

Jay Baker · July 31, 2001, 05:48 PM

Yep, the prices are high at Buckhorn, but I've found that they'll "play." I do like their selection. For new stuff, Shapel's, Sportsmen's Warehouse and Intermountain Sports. Also great selection of all kinds of outdoor gear at both S.W. & I.M.S. Take a look at Cliff's Reloading on Five Mile. Good stuff there with a fine selection of parts for reloading tools, etc. Also a dealer for Dillion.

Into Dutch Oven cooking?? Gotta take a look at the selection of "those old black pots" at Sportsmen's Warehouse, and their D.O. videos!

Like to shoot submachine guns?? Shooting World rents them. Want to buy a submachine gun, machine gun, or automatic rifle?? Contact the Idaho Automatic Weapons Collectors Assoc.

Idaho suits me right down to the ground.

J.B.

Kaylee · August 1, 2001, 01:20 AM

Alright, as suggested, this is now cross-posted to Live Fire Excercises:

Boise, ID meet and shoot

Black's Creek (or vicinity), Sat 25 (probably) 10 AM
Perhaps other logistical comments on the meet be moved there, so that we can use this spot for congratulating ds on his successful foray under the wire.

See you all there, I hope!

-K

Shooting world lets you play with autos hrmm? Cool, learn som'n new every day. Might have to visit and see...

(edited to add in the link.. it's late, I'm addled, g'night)

Dave R · August 1, 2001, 10:43 AM

Kaylee, I was at Shooting World one night when a guy was shooting tracers out of a Thompson, full auto.

Lit up the whole place when he fired.

Thanks for putting together the details on the 25th!

EricM · August 1, 2001, 02:38 PM

No MP-5 rental though

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ds1973 · August 1, 2001, 09:05 PM

Wow, I forgot how quickly things get posted around here. Glad to hear from all my friendly neighbors in Idaho! Kaylee, I sent you my dates but then noticed you had already posted a day so just ignore my e-mail. Oh if you could send me directions to Black Creek that would be great!

Dave R, I gotta rent a machine gun. The first time I heard one was when I was at shooting world. I had just finished off a mag and heard. First in semi: blam. blam. blam. Then full auto rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat! It was a Tommy gun. Sorry to get so excited about this. I DID move here from PRNYS you know.

Oh brianidaho, I'm originally from Cicero (north of Syracuse) and went to college in Potsdam NY (ice world) and grad school in Buffalo NY.

Sorry to not post more, but it's dinner time!

P99 · August 1, 2001, 09:23 PM

Welcome to Idaho! I live, well will live again in Meridian, just 7 miles west of Boise. Right now I'm homeless. We sold our home and are waiting for our new one to get finished up. Should be next week.

I'd like to join all of you on the 25th, but I shoot IDPA competition out in Parma, and we have a shoot that day. Would any of you like to come out and try it? My real name is Devin and sometimes I R.O. the matches. We'd love to have you all come out.
Go to:
http://www.geocities.com/parmarng/

and check it out.

If you can't make it, maybe some other day we can set up another Idaho shoot, so I can come meet you all too.

P99

Kaylee · August 1, 2001, 11:12 PM

No problem with the email DS.. I'll post the directions to the range in the Live fire excercises thread.

No MP5's? Ah maaan..... why isn't there a pouty-faced smiley?
Thompson sounds neat.. think we could get 'em to add one of those nifty plastic "M-41 pulse rifle" body shells to it? Now that sounds neat...

Anyhow, hope to see you all soon.

P99, the IDPA thing sounds neat.. I'd been kinda interested in that myself, but..um.... got distracted with this rifle thing you see...

later, all!

-K

EricM · August 1, 2001, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Oh if you could send me directions to Black Creek that would be great

I-84 East towards Twin Falls. About 5 miles outside of Boise get off at the Blacks Creek exit. Turn right at the stop sign, and follow the road all the way to the range. The range is about 5 miles (or so) from the stop sign on the right hand side of the road. The main "informal" range is on the right hand side after you go over the railroad tracks before you get to the BC range. You'll see some rutted trails off to the right heading towards a hill back stop.

I was thinking of asking the local Land Cruiser club if they want to spend a day cleaning up this area of debris, but I don't think they'd be up for it.

P99 · August 2, 2001, 06:43 AM

Kaylee,

We've got rifle shoots going on at the same time. You can do boht if you want to. I usually do. Most of the time the rifle courses are set up for a carbine (AR, Ak etc work best) once in a while we do some long range shooting, that a good tactical rifle is needed. And then every once in a while they have a shotgun course mixed in.

Lots of fun.

P99

private_idaho · August 2, 2001, 12:58 PM

Clean-up: (see Eric's post above): That area, and the area across the road from the range, are sorely in need of a clean-up. As much as I am glad that Idaho has many shooting enthusiasts, I am embarrassed by the apparent inability or unwillingness of many of them to pick up cases/targets/garbage, etc. It would be less fun than a group-shoot, but really if a group of shooters is interested in creating a more positive public attitude towards shooters, they should have a clean-up day and get all that trash out of there.

EricM · August 2, 2001, 03:04 PM

p_i, I'm up for a day of cleaning up if we can gather a few folks to do it. We'd have to scare off the shooters for a day

. It would take a lot of rakes to clean up all the brass and glass laying around there.

July 30, 2001, 11:30 PM	#26
brianidaho Senior Member Join Date: August 29, 2000 Location: Coeur d'Alene, ID Posts: 446	Welcome to Idaho DS. I'm another WNY refugee, Lockport area, was kind of a birth defect. I'm in Coeur d'Alene now, looking to move up a little closer to Sandpoint in the next year or so. Hope you like the area as well as I do (granted that you are 450 or so miles away!). Ain't the west great. At least you got out when Chuck and Hillary took over PRNY. Where in NY are you from? Bri __________________ I need ammo....lots of ammo. Ever since I got my FAL!

July 31, 2001, 03:39 PM	#27
DCR Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 1999 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 178	Welcome! The North End is easily escaped by traveling three other directions, so don't worry too much about them; with their backs against the foothills, we've got them surrounded. You'll enjoy Shooting World (lucky me - just North of my neighborhood!!) and Shapels; depending on what you're into, there are buys to be had at a number of gun/pawn shops as well. I'd just located Buckhorn Pawn on Ustick - looks like a good selection of classic, straight-vanilla guns; didn't look at prices, though. To all: Let's at least talk about meeting sometime, if not for a camp trip, perhaps a shoot, or coffee or lunch or beers - whatever tickles your twinkie; I'd like to put some faces to the aliases and clever posts. - - - Don __________________ I drink, therefore I am.

August 1, 2001, 10:43 AM	#31
Dave R Senior Member Join Date: January 7, 2000 Location: Idaho Posts: 6,073	Kaylee, I was at Shooting World one night when a guy was shooting tracers out of a Thompson, full auto. Lit up the whole place when he fired. Thanks for putting together the details on the 25th! __________________ I am Pro-Rights (on gun issues).

August 1, 2001, 09:05 PM	#33
ds1973 Senior Member Join Date: March 1, 2000 Location: Grand Island, NY Posts: 545	wow! Wow, I forgot how quickly things get posted around here. Glad to hear from all my friendly neighbors in Idaho! Kaylee, I sent you my dates but then noticed you had already posted a day so just ignore my e-mail. Oh if you could send me directions to Black Creek that would be great! Dave R, I gotta rent a machine gun. The first time I heard one was when I was at shooting world. I had just finished off a mag and heard. First in semi: blam. blam. blam. Then full auto rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat! It was a Tommy gun. Sorry to get so excited about this. I DID move here from PRNYS you know. Oh brianidaho, I'm originally from Cicero (north of Syracuse) and went to college in Potsdam NY (ice world) and grad school in Buffalo NY. Sorry to not post more, but it's dinner time! __________________ The first step is registration, the second step is confiscation, the final step is subjugation.

August 2, 2001, 06:43 AM	#37
P99 Senior Member Join Date: July 20, 2001 Location: Idaho Posts: 350	Kaylee, We've got rifle shoots going on at the same time. You can do boht if you want to. I usually do. Most of the time the rifle courses are set up for a carbine (AR, Ak etc work best) once in a while we do some long range shooting, that a good tactical rifle is needed. And then every once in a while they have a shotgun course mixed in. Lots of fun. P99 __________________ I like Walther's....'nuff said

July 31, 2001, 05:48 PM	#29
Jay Baker Senior Member Join Date: March 26, 2000 Location: S.W. Idaho Posts: 1,294	Yep, the prices are high at Buckhorn, but I've found that they'll "play." I do like their selection. For new stuff, Shapel's, Sportsmen's Warehouse and Intermountain Sports. Also great selection of all kinds of outdoor gear at both S.W. & I.M.S. Take a look at Cliff's Reloading on Five Mile. Good stuff there with a fine selection of parts for reloading tools, etc. Also a dealer for Dillion. Into Dutch Oven cooking?? Gotta take a look at the selection of "those old black pots" at Sportsmen's Warehouse, and their D.O. videos! Like to shoot submachine guns?? Shooting World rents them. Want to buy a submachine gun, machine gun, or automatic rifle?? Contact the Idaho Automatic Weapons Collectors Assoc. Idaho suits me right down to the ground. J.B.

August 1, 2001, 01:20 AM	#30
Kaylee Senior Member Join Date: June 14, 2000 Location: The Last Homely House Posts: 1,677	Alright, as suggested, this is now cross-posted to Live Fire Excercises: Boise, ID meet and shoot Black's Creek (or vicinity), Sat 25 (probably) 10 AM Perhaps other logistical comments on the meet be moved there, so that we can use this spot for congratulating ds on his successful foray under the wire. See you all there, I hope! -K Shooting world lets you play with autos hrmm? Cool, learn som'n new every day. Might have to visit and see... (edited to add in the link.. it's late, I'm addled, g'night)

August 1, 2001, 02:38 PM	#32
EricM Senior Member Join Date: April 28, 2000 Location: Idaho Posts: 1,060	No MP-5 rental though .

August 1, 2001, 09:23 PM	#34
P99 Senior Member Join Date: July 20, 2001 Location: Idaho Posts: 350	Welcome to Idaho! I live, well will live again in Meridian, just 7 miles west of Boise. Right now I'm homeless. We sold our home and are waiting for our new one to get finished up. Should be next week. I'd like to join all of you on the 25th, but I shoot IDPA competition out in Parma, and we have a shoot that day. Would any of you like to come out and try it? My real name is Devin and sometimes I R.O. the matches. We'd love to have you all come out. Go to: http://www.geocities.com/parmarng/ and check it out. If you can't make it, maybe some other day we can set up another Idaho shoot, so I can come meet you all too. P99

August 1, 2001, 11:12 PM	#35
Kaylee Senior Member Join Date: June 14, 2000 Location: The Last Homely House Posts: 1,677	No problem with the email DS.. I'll post the directions to the range in the Live fire excercises thread. No MP5's? Ah maaan..... why isn't there a pouty-faced smiley? Thompson sounds neat.. think we could get 'em to add one of those nifty plastic "M-41 pulse rifle" body shells to it? Now that sounds neat... Anyhow, hope to see you all soon. P99, the IDPA thing sounds neat.. I'd been kinda interested in that myself, but..um.... got distracted with this rifle thing you see... later, all! -K

August 2, 2001, 12:58 PM	#38
private_idaho Senior Member Join Date: January 23, 2001 Posts: 166	Clean-up: (see Eric's post above): That area, and the area across the road from the range, are sorely in need of a clean-up. As much as I am glad that Idaho has many shooting enthusiasts, I am embarrassed by the apparent inability or unwillingness of many of them to pick up cases/targets/garbage, etc. It would be less fun than a group-shoot, but really if a group of shooters is interested in creating a more positive public attitude towards shooters, they should have a clean-up day and get all that trash out of there.

August 2, 2001, 03:04 PM	#39
EricM Senior Member Join Date: April 28, 2000 Location: Idaho Posts: 1,060	p_i, I'm up for a day of cleaning up if we can gather a few folks to do it. We'd have to scare off the shooters for a day . It would take a lot of rakes to clean up all the brass and glass laying around there.